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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.

@kinnison Great stuff! Love to see the blog/fediverse integration (something I aspire to)

I shouldn’t toot when I’m angry, but IMHO what little funding CAMHS get is wasted on them

@grifferz no thanks. I’d comfortably forgotten he existed until now.

@mcc I mentioned you in this blog post FYI

New blog post: Ye Gods https://jmtd.net/log/ye_gods/

Where I miss out on a Bandcamp code from the service GetMusic, but discover an album and artist I really like anyway, and buy all their stuff.

#music

Writing a talk. I always start the same way, and nothing has worked better for me: post-its on clean sheets of paper

I'll go further: If your code makes use of "AI" code generators, you shouldn't be describing it as "open source". Imagine a source-available game mod of Mario 64 or Ocarina of Time made by forking code stolen from Nintendo servers. That wouldn't actually be "open source".

OSS/Libre/Free Software is a project to build a commons based on consensual collaboration. You can't claim those labels when your project has, via "AI" scraping, contributors who are unknown, uncredited, and unconsenting.

A bandcamp discovery I liked so much I’ve gleefully bought the artist’s catalogue of ten albums https://yegods.bandcamp.com/album/the-arcane-paranormal-earth #music

Experimental electronic, a layer above ambient, maybe a bit new age. Does remind me a lot of bits of Coil. Leans to the dark. This album is part of a trilogy.

There’ll be a blogpost about this to come

@mdione good idea. Thanks

@grimmy sorry about this. There’s an (imho) misguided effort to push gtk2 out of Debian within the next release cycle. This will also remove 149 programs (including pidgin). But we are arguing internally about this. I personally think gtk2 should be packed in perpetuity.

Does Firefox expose to the user any info or tunables for its “inhibit” integration? It would be useful to know *which tab* was blocking suspend

Number of times my computer has suspended whilst I’m actively watching a video: 0.

Number of times Firefox has inhibited me suspending my desktop because a tab somewhere has a video in it I’m not watching: TOO MANY

come back EnterpriseFactoryFactory, all is forgiven

Send help :(

properties.spec.data.properties.mapping.properties.components.items.properties.pushSourceContainer.enum: true

@mjg59 I just got an oops from a WOL packet.

You can take my middle-click paste from my cold, dead hands

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.

@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

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