Ian Watson has died :( https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may/15/ian-watson-obituary
New blog post: iPad Mini (2013)
https://jmtd.net/log/ipad_mini/
In or around 2014 I bought an iPad Mini (2), and following the normal
lifecycle of iOS devices, a major OS update eventually killed it as
a useful, general-purpose device: operating it was just too sluggish.
It remained useful as a streaming media player for a little while
longer until eventually the big streamers (BBC iPlayer, Netflix, etc.)
stopped supporting the version of their app which the iPad could
install: the last offi...
https://jmtd.net/log/ipad_mini/
In or around 2014 I bought an iPad Mini (2), and following the normal
lifecycle of iOS devices, a major OS update eventually killed it as
a useful, general-purpose device: operating it was just too sluggish.
It remained useful as a streaming media player for a little while
longer until eventually the big streamers (BBC iPlayer, Netflix, etc.)
stopped supporting the version of their app which the iPad could
install: the last offi...
'b' beginning of current word. unless you're on the beginning already, in which case it's the beginning of the previous word. cries
maybe it's finally time I learn vim motions, they seem really elegant
reads motions.txt
oh god
@sxa in recent years, in Apple's cloud. There's a ~5 year period where I tried to sync to Google, and they're still there; older, I have ~138G sitting on my NAS. So a tremendous amount of de-duplicating is necessary.
one way that might work is: plan NOT to preserve the stream. Treat photos as ephemeral by default, so that they will disappear. And then treat photos to keep by exception.
Revisited one of my perrenially backburnered personal projects: revamp organising digital photos. Totally overwhelmed, no idea where to start.
“The InfoWars of old was only the prototype for the hell I know we can build together”
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 Most of the derived files will be out-of-date, but most of the originals are probably unchanged.
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