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.

I’ve been to Powells. An amazing place. https://bsky.app/profile/johnmoe.bsky.social/post/3m2drtku36224

I have a surplus tex shura with soldered cherry mx red switches. My new one came with ANSI legends. Hence the question!

If you were to buy a second-hand, iso-layout keyboard, which would be better: second hand iso (GB) keycaps or brand new ANSI keycaps (with the en_US/en_GB mismatches between labels and key codes)?

Working with the Amiga's RAM and RAD disks

https://www.datagubbe.se/ramdisk/

New blog post: Tron: Ares (soundtrack) https://jmtd.net/log/tron_ares/ #cratedigging #music
photograph of tron: ares soundtrack vinyl playing, with the packaging in the background

@jwildeboer @sherbang I’ve been planning something similar, but seeing if I can make my blog’s posts first-class objects in the Fediverse themselves, so I don’t need to write a separate toot. It might require too much server side machinery for my static site. Not sure

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

, except instead of threatening the contributor to close the PR, it threatens the maintainers that it will merge it. Obviously, since there are no remarks, it must be good!

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.

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