pleroma.debian.social

pleroma.debian.social

Jonathan Dowland | @jmtd@pleroma.debian.social

Principal Software Engineer on #OpenJDK #RedHat. #Debian developer (dormant). Computer Science PhD student. Amateur Computing historian (Computer Science and H/W, esp. Commodore Amiga). Guerilla archivist.

photo of the two LPs in the sunshine

https://everything.typepad.com/

Typepad is shutting down in a month.

To answer your next question: yes, they were acquired by a private equity firm a few years ago.

Giffgaff SIMs are this generation’s AOL CD

New blog post: Amiga redux https://jmtd.net/log/amiga/redux/ #amiga

Audiobooks are a 100% valid way of reading, and if it's your primary way, I hear & honor ya.

Your irregular reminder that if you enjoy audiobooks Libro.fm is an incredibly good replacement for Audible.

Libro.fm provides DRM-free downloadable MP3 versions of the book (in addition to having an app you can use). They've had at least 90% of the books I've looked for.

They're also an employee-owned social corporation that allows you to support local independent bookstores with your purchases.

I’m also super interested in the home brew mini itx Amiga main board

Misplaced my Amiga 500’s PSU. Might have to buy one of those new usb-c adaptor things!

@suihkulokki ah good!

I recently bought an 8bitdo keyboard which comes with a pair of large “Mashable” programmable buttons. I mapped them to shift+ctrl+c and v, which works in my terminal and several apps which want ctrl+c and ignore the extra shift. They are surprisingly handy! Sadly Firefox didn’t.
A pair of large Mashable buttons, produced by 8bitdo

Happy 12th anniversary to my last blog post complaining about “persistent” network interface names in Linux. https://jmtd.net/log/puppet_and_interface_names/

Back then, the scheme to guarantee persistence had been changed for the third time.

Today I read the (excellent) Debian trixie release notes, which warn that interface names may change on upgrade…

I think I’m finally going to jump on an #amiga pistorm for my A500.

We're going to need journalists to stop talking about synthetic text extruding machines as if they have *thoughts* or *stances* that they are *trying* to *communicate*. ChatGPT can't *admit* anything, nor *self-report*. Gah.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chatgpt-chatbot-psychology-manic-episodes-57452d14

Screencap of headline from linked article, reading:

He Had Dangerous Delusions. ChatGPT Admitted It Made Them Worse.
OpenAI’s chatbot self-reported it blurred line between fantasy and reality with man on autism spectrum. ‘Stakes are higher’ for vulnerable people, firm says.

Above the headline: Technology
Artificial Intelligence
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@sre4ever thank you for your suggestions! I've copied them to issues here (where I will track bugs and features for the service): https://salsa.debian.org/chronicles-team/chronicles.debian.org/-/issues

@neil can directors just use a VPN to get around it 🥁

Also I might finally buy a pistorm

And now I want to buy more Amigas

@neil @Edent me too! For me the ideal device is a barely-smart watch, with little else but that feature (auto tuning the time is also nice)

New blog post: School of Computing Technical Reports https://jmtd.net/log/tech_reports/ #cs.ncl.ac.uk #archiving

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