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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.

@mjr this happened in March, https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/02/libreoffice_online_deatticized/, which seems to have been a precursor to https://www.collaboraonline.com/blog/tdf-ejects-its-core-developers/. Also the EU just blessed a fork of an entirely different suite, I think

trying to catch up on the latest open source office news but I don't have anywhere NEAR enough popcorn

@metacosm I’ve been looking at the Microfreak but yeah same

@metacosm yep! Don’t use it as much as I’d like to. Korg minilogue xd

@metacosm i’m not yet making having use of my extra key, but I’ve got it mapped to “paste”

@metacosm sort of yeah. Mostly UK layout, but I switched the backspace key so I could put two keys there instead.

My new BS key is getting a lot of use
photo of my keyboard with BS key centered

Just spent ~30 mins evaluating some software that I am convinced nobody else has ever actually run, it had such immediately egregious bugs

jfc, 30k laid off at oracle, things are looking incredibly dire for it at the moment

Should I toot about ice-skating more? Is there an ice-skating Mastodon subculture?

That page is rendered totally broken for me on mobile, which may or may not be related

@elmiko exactly! Hehe

I “released” some containers last night. Several infrastructure bugs meant that I couldn’t attach any JIRAs to the release, so they’re not closed, and I can’t pull the containers from the registry. So if you can’t pull a container, is it really there?

@neil we could quibble on “you know me”, but the rest is fine.

Way back in the day a friend had to move an Apple Xserve across London to get it racked, and because massively rich South Africans are stingy with money he couldn't expense a cab so took it on the underground and someone looked at him, looked at the Xserve, looked back at him and said "That's a fucking big iPod"

Ender 3 v4 looks interesting

What are the odds of Apple unveiling a mini iPhone again this year? It’s been awhile.

The number of static site generators appears to be increasing faster than the number of blog posts

Finished “Robocop: rogue city” so I uninstalled it. Then I thought I’d check out the art book, but it’s “DLC”, so the steam client will only let me download it if I reinstall 30G of game first. (I’m fairly sure there’s some obscure runes to download the “depot” to work around this)

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