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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.

@mcc lol it must be someone else then. Sorry about that. Perhaps I've serendipitously introduced you to something interesting to you, perhaps not!

@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.

We spent three hours looking at how and hold out for a family member who's intending to move pictures from Mac Photos to a NAS-hosted utility.

Is there something good (or bad) you can say about either program which might help in making an informed decision?

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 :(

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Hello everyone I moved to a new self-hosted blog thing and here is my first post on why "PC Compatible" is a social construct https://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/blog/p/what-is-a-pc-compatible/

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

6 Technologies That Are Destined to Disappear
Maximum PC - April 2011
https://archive.org/details/maximum-pc-2011-06_202501/MaximumPC%202011%2004/page/14/mode/2up

The List: 6 Technologies That Are Destined to Disappear...

6. Handheld Gaming Consoles
5. Pre-Recorded Physical Media
4. Consumer-Level Hard Drives
3. Stereoscopic 3D TVs - with Glasses
2. Ebook Reader
1. Keys ...and 6 Technologies That Will Stick Around

6. Media Players
5. Landline Telephone
4. Internal Combustion Engine
3, 2, 1. The PC, Keyboard, and Mouse

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

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