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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.

Jonathan Dowland jmtd
@sol this works for synthesisers too!

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“The InfoWars of old was only the prototype for the hell I know we can build together”

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I'm going to be able to partially repair this by scripting the download of the matching *files.xml metadata files and then extracting the SHA1 sums. Most of the derived files will be out-of-date, but most of the originals are probably unchanged.

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I attempted to download all items in an archive.org collection via torrents (>255 items, >255 torrents). Theory being: potential to get some data from peers, lighten the load on IA; built-in checksumming and repair. I've come to the conclusion that sadly this doesn't work very well. My torrent daemon struggles with so many; lots are permanently at 99%; IA torrents don't include any metadata identifying original vs derived files

Mike Sheward SecureOwl@infosec.exchange

i was quite surprised to discover that no one had registered deleteduser [dot] com, and was curious to see how many emails i'd get if i registered it, assuming many orgs 'delete' logic probably just overwrote the email address with blahblah@deleteduser.com or similar.

The answer, is at least 3 different orgs in the hour that I've owned that domain and been listening for email.

And yes, all of those emails contain the actual PII of the person who has been 'deleted' :-D

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@lautreg @mdione I run my own nextcloud. This was files someone else was sharing to me, so they made the choice of onedrive, not me

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This is both slower and less reliable than my 1990s dialup modem

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Is OneDrive serious software used by actual people? I’ve been sent a share link to some files which aren’t numerous or especially large and it’s sending me ZIPs at about 10kiB/s which end up containing only half the files and an apologetic __all_errors.txt listing the missing ones. 🤡🤡🤡

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New synth acquired (right) #makingmusic
Photo of Korg minilogue xd desktop, to the right of regular minilogue xd

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A fantastically in-depth look at some visage remixes. I love this blog http://www.versioncrazy.com/2026/04/07/visage-fade-to-grey-1988-cd-single/ #music

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I’m possibly over thinking my new ice skates. Still undecided

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Has anyone tried the nextcloud "AIO" container image? A friend wants to use it but it gives me serious heebie jeebies / 🚨🚨🚨

Mythic Beasts beasts@social.mythic-beasts.com

bad news: we've updated pricing on lots of domains
good news: downwards

https://www.mythic-beasts.com/blog/2026/04/13/domain-price-reductions-2/

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It's 16:34 and Outlook finally let me log in

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and now they're bouncing around to Rob Zombie. That one is not my influence at least

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Eldest asked me to identify some music she was humming (ronda alla turca and william tell overture). Wife remarked I was "very knowledgeable"

Shall I admit it's my fondness for the Amiga Lemmings soundtrack to thank?

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@rjek this is the kind of corp subterfuge I get up for in the morning

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@rjek I love it. Is that their uptime or because you spin around and end up right where you started

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O365 is so unbelievably poor. I'm trying to picture the aggregate lost efficiency of a massive corp using it versus e.g. Gsuite , and I cannot comprehend such a large number

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@castaway it messed up too :( however I realised later that all my old gcode was sliced for a 0.4 nozzle and I’ve fitted a 0.6 now

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