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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.

Another stand out ye gods track https://yegods.bandcamp.com/track/guide

@RogerBW it’s to avoid people mistakenly believing I’ve used an LLM for anything I write, not to prevent LLMs consuming my content. I appreciate that, assuming a large enough collection of humans stop using em dashes, LLMs will stop too. Eventually

I used to routinely use em-dashes in my writing (memorised the X compose sequence to generate them) but they’re now considered to be a sign of LLM content so I’m sadly retiring them.

(disclaimer: this opinion could perhaps have spent more time in the oven)

Over time the aspect of #Debian that has mattered to me most is the community, and how welcoming and awesome some of it is. This is something to be treasured.

On the other hand, this stands in stark contrast to the subtext of just about any intra-project communication I see now. We are not civil, kind, or patient with each other.

I think this is a serious problem. More so than most technical matters du jour.

@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.

Frodo: I wish so much unbelievably stupid shit had not happened in my time

Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. This is all exceptionally stupid, though

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

that you can rip an audio CD in just by opening it in dolphin and copying out the folder named for the format you want it in.

These are a set of virtual folders that represent the formats supported by your system to rip them into.

How cool is that?

list of virtual format folders OGG OPUS MP3 FLAC etc

🐹 I built an MMO RPG where live Gopherspace itself is the game world.

You can:

🗺️ explore real Gopher servers
🔍 discover files → get loot 💎
💬 leave comments on files, like on my RFC (pic)
⚔️ attack players and steal their loot

▶️ Play instantly (web):
https://gopher.someodd.zip/1/gateway/games/grpg/look/

▶️ Native Gopher link:
gopher://gopher.someodd.zip/1/gateway/games/grpg/look/

📄 The game is a README file.
The README *is* the executable.
https://github.com/someodd/grpg

GRPG on my RFC soon to be released to the world. someone suiciding in grpg

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 “installed” workbench and nothing newer than kickstart 1.3. I’m going to have to get used to all that stuff

Last night on stage , I announced my resignation from the Infinite Monkey Cage - here is my statement

@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

Any recommandation for a static website generator tailored for ?

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

Right. So my mail archive dates back to 2004. There are 7 (SEVEN) mails with an "X-Google-Group-Id" header that are not spam. All from the same group (that I am not subscribed to anymore).

if exists "X-Google-Group-Id" {
fileinto "INBOX.spam";
}

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