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.

TIL, rsync with only one src/dst argument will just print out the source files. I discovered this by unhappy accident (well, it could have been worse: I typed rsync -a --remove-source-files ~). This might be useful in constrained environments e.g. in a container context which has rsync but not many other tools.

reading the local liveblog where they track the progress of the single snowflake as it descends toward the city. a guy called patrick with a drone is trying to get a shot for the socials - but the flake is very small. it looks like it's going to land between two highway maintenance storage sheds. teens hopping a barbed wire fence are arrested for trespass and attempted weather theft. the unmelted flake is recovered by authorities. microscopy reveals it is likely a fragment of a tesco carrier bag

@sil @Lukew @bkardell @dletorey @owa I think you’re right. My wife is on the 13 mini as well with nowhere to go. iOS 26 was the kiss of death for my 11 Pro

A couple of days ago I picked up a neovim/lua project I had started about a year ago, that I felt determined to finally finish. I can’t say I am enjoying the experience.

First day at work. Almost nobody else showed up ;) getting *some* stuff done

@jess that’s the best thing I’ve seen all day. Cheers!

@jess is the Bakelite handset a monitor for one of the turntables?

@fraggle I love that part of Italy. My honeymoon was in Sorrento and I’ve previously visited priano, positano etc along the amalfi coast. Fond of pompeii and Herculaneum too

Just seen moleskine notebooks referred to as “ink pads” and… yeah it tracks

@david_chisnall @bexelbie @neil I’ve witnessed that pattern in modern iOS games aimed at kids. The ads are also often *playable*. One of my kids played a particular game solely to access the playable ad for a game she preferred (but we hadn’t installed). These almost always have dark patterns to encourage you to start shady subscriptions

What do you use to track your Projects? (personal or otherwise?)

@geerlingguy @crazyeddie “meh” wins today’s award for “impossible to search for software”

@crazyeddie @geerlingguy fwiw @jwz has really good blog comments/Fediverse integration: https://www.jwz.org/hacks/mastodon-to-wp-comments.php however it’s WP specific. But as an example, it can be done.

@crazyeddie @geerlingguy fwiw @jwz has really good blog comments/Fediverse integration: https://www.jwz.org/hacks/mastodon-to-wp-comments.php however it’s WP specific. But as an example, it can be done.

The "No Liquids" sign at the airport in Animal Crossing New Horizons implies that Animal Crossing 9/11 happened.

A year ago I installed solar panels+batteries, and now have a year of electric bills to compare.

2024: $4,133.13
2025: $655.62!

The entire year was less than the previous year's July bill.

Also got an EV last year so that amount ALSO includes my "gas" costs from charging at home. (~$1500/year with my prev gas car.)

Hard to think of a pair of purchases I've been happier with!

@zhenech or when my 8-character homepage uri in my email sig becomes >8 *lines* of base64-style vomit

@zhenech laugh out loud funny when the result doesn’t work for some reason (1 time every 10?)

New blog post: Our study, 2025 https://jmtd.net/log/study/2025/

This talk on user interface design by Scott Jensen is excellent. https://youtu.be/1fZTOjd_bOQ?si=GPyZlEwHlpPCj1Rj

I’ve never paid attention to Ubuntu summit before. Perhaps I should!

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