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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.

@gargle not on purpose. It looks pretty cool tho! Perhaps they were involved in running some of the drinks stalls on the weekend?

@kinnison Yeah perhaps club mate. I think I had one at some point. CERK INFO pointed me at https://cercle-informatique.be/ which is fascinating but possibly irrelevant

#FOSDEM ers, can anyone help me recall what "SUM UP CERKINFO CI DE" might be? €6.70 EUR. I'm guessing a coffee or something like that!

I’ve been enjoying hacking on Pandoc

Fully expecting Starmer to appoint Dominic Cummings now

I didn't think I necessarily had more to write about lavalamps but perhaps I do. I recently bought some new colours/bottles. And a friend sent me this interesting Techmoan video where he reviews some Mathmos ones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipFePT4Z270&pp=0gcJCZEKAYcqIYzv

Some people joke that you need a PhD to understand Haskell’s type system. I actually have one *substantially related to haskell* and I _still_ get stuck

I’ve been off my regular meds for about 2 weeks now (in order to take some antibiotics) and I don’t know if it’s psychosomatic but I generally feel more energetic and “with it”

@andrew_shadura oh nice. Nah the logo on the basic punter tee

@mcc also completely agree with you about the trilogy wow. What a time that was.

@mcc I think it’s just some screw up as the responsible publishers changed hands

@mcc hesitation marks has been deleted from *all* digital platforms at the moment

Is it just me or does this year’s FOSDEM t shirt glow in the dark?

I was thinking about how strange it is that the cupboard in a bathroom is called a "vanity unit", and then I got to thinking, what if all your furniture was named after the seven deadly sins?

* Bathroom cupboard = vanity unit
* Paid-work office = avarice unit
* Computer gaming station = anger unit
* Device running social media = envy unit
* Bed = lust unit
* Induction hob = gluttony unit
* Sofa = sloth unit

I wonder when the journal of functional programming is coming back…

I utterly utterly utterly HATE trails before bbc radio plays on smart speakers. Some variant on enshittification

@fraggle @bloody_albatross @scy I’ve seen it copied around a lot recently. You just be a proud comment-dad :)

Some interesting (to me) stats from

Talks about NFTs: 0.

Presentations about the Metaverse: None.

Cryptobros inviting me to a party in order to schill their coin: Zip.

Really enthusiastic LLM users describing how AI has improved their OSS codebase: Zilch.

People complaining about pronouns and codes of conduct: Nada.

"Ironic" hats saying "Make xyz Great Again": Conspicuous by their absence.

What did *you* think was missing from FOSDEM?

Folks selling Kindle books, you should know that Amazon now offers the option to allow EPUB and PDF downloads of DRM-free books.

The option is presented when adding new books to Kindle, but for existing titles you have to opt-in for each of them to allow these new file formats.

(Amazon isn’t great, but when a rare customer-friendly option arrives, please take advantage of it!)

https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/GDDXGH9VR22ACM8U

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