pleroma.debian.social

pleroma.debian.social

Jonathan Dowland | @jmtd@pleroma.debian.social

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

Argh iOS 26 is so jarring, I might cancel my iPhone order

@fred yes those ones. They could be for CI! Build fail, red lamp turns on

@fred true. I need to capture some video of it. There are some good animations on the mathmos website. I love the look of their new “safer” models, as well as their tea-light candle powered ones

New blog post: Lavalamps (things that spark joy) https://jmtd.net/log/lavalamps/

Oh it's Band T-Shirt Day. I forgot. I'll change into one later for ice skating

Not trying to be alarmist but I think someone has found a way around ikiwiki’s comment moderation.

Probably uses fewer system resources than slack or discord https://is-a.cat/@ameoverflow/115207737714331848

I have a display which does 4k@60 for displayport input but only 30Hz for HDMI input. How likely is it I can hack things somehow to get 60Hz for the HDMI inputs?

New blog to my reading list: Lowrentius: found whilst looking for headphone repair info. Blog covers solar-power, low-cost computing, right to repair, homelabs, etc.

https://louwrentius.com/pages/contact.html

@thomasadam @brettm “at will” employment means either party can terminate the contract at any time. I don’t know how many states are “at will”. I think New York State is; I think California isn’t.

photo of the two LPs in the sunshine

Giffgaff SIMs are this generation’s AOL CD

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

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.

@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

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