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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.

@edward jealous of your fab train journey! I normally manage NCL->KGX and Eurostar to Brussels but this year (for stupid reasons) I've had to fly for the first time. Hope to catch you there.

@directhex @gnuplusmatt yeah, although bear in mind the KDE feature is at least 15 years old now.

Okay I'm a teacher so let me explain in simple terms what happens the second the US invades Greenland:

1. NATO dissolves.
This would literally be a founding member of NATO invading another member nation. This would be a gross violation of one of our longest held treaties in our history. NATO as it exists, would not, and could not, survive.

2. Instant war.
This triggers the defense clause of the post-WW2 agreement, a clause specifically written to trigger if this exact thing were to ever happen. We are instantly at war with (at bare minimum!) the other 11 founding nations: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, and the UK.

3. Financial ruin.
The EU is the largest holder of US foreign debt and it isn't even close. With every country now left defending itself, most of the EU decides that loaning money to a nation currently at war with them is a bad idea. They call in the debts, stop extending us credit, and within a week every US based business from Amazon to Walmart experiences an extinction level event.

4. We never, ever recover from this.
There is absolutely no way on God's green earth any nation ever trusts us ever again after this. How the fuck could they? Even if we get rid of Trump, even if we get rid of elected Republicans, even if we get rid of MAGA as an ideology itself, all we have proven in the end is that our friendship is capricious and can't be relied on because it could just as easily flip flop in another four years.

5. This isn't even including long term effects.
This is literally just what happens the very moment we send American troops to invade Denmark soil. We lose. That's what happens. We lose forever.

Partial success on adding a pistorm to my a500! I’ve realised my problems are partly from where I’m coming from. My Amiga a500 never had a HDD, so I always ran stuff from floppies, never ā€œinstalledā€ workbench and nothing newer than kickstart 1.3. I’m going to have to get used to all that stuff

@beasts @timbray I’ll vouch for Mythic. They’re well-regarded in the Debian UK community.

New blog post: Honest Jon's lightly-used Starships https://jmtd.net/log/no_mans_sky/ #games
Horizon Vector NX spaceship in No Man's Sky

Debating getting a pair of quiet comforts. I’ve lost my Sony ANCs to my daughter. I haven’t actually tried a modern QC pair though.

I posted this elsewhere today, and might as well share it here. Current status of my home office. Planning a renovation https://jmtd.net/log/study/2026/office.jpg

@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

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.

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