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.

What it took for me to reinstall Firefox mobile wasn’t for it to get better, but for safari to get worse.

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/

FOSDEM 2026: 31st January and 1st February https://fosdem.org/2026/news/2025-09-18-fosdem-2026/

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

I'm only now figuring out that today's npm attack is distinct from yesterday's npm attack.

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

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

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