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2026-08-24 12:17:42 UTC

JPEG XL! It's seriously very good: lossy or lossless; up to 32 bits per channel; support for HDR formats; much better compression than Jpeg, and more. And as it's sort of a superset of Jpeg you can losslessly reencode jpeg images to jpeg XL and get 20% better compression and support for alpha channel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_XL
#nevent1q…sqv7

2026-08-11 02:36:18 UTC

"Old people aren't tech savvy" (h/t @nprofile…atnr ) argues that old people are, but tech is letting them down. Good read.
My perspective at 56: I notice that my neophilia is disappearing. I've got enough experience with various tech generations that I can look at a new thing and see how this has been tried before, and how earlier attempts were better in some ways (often more reliable). My experience alone makes me less interested in engaging with the shiny new thing.
https://thomasrigby.com/posts/old-people-arent-tech-savvy/

2026-08-10 10:02:56 UTC

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@nprofile…50mt
What's the value of emu_fps?

2026-07-20 00:14:12 UTC

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@nprofile…ynd9
I miss bouldering ...

2026-07-06 07:21:25 UTC

It's a networking event.
#hokkaido #utoro
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2026-06-25 11:58:53 UTC

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@nprofile…t80x
As a guess, the top and bottom handles engage bolts going vertically up or down into the frame.

2026-06-07 06:28:07 UTC

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@nprofile…ynd9
Good news is, if you're anything like me, storage sizes have way outgrown my actual needs the past decade.
If I didn't have a big image library I could do just fine with a 250GB system disk - and the images could honestly live on an external 500G spinning disk without any real trouble.
I'd go for a smaller, affordable SSD now, and perhaps upgrade if or when you really need to. Hopefully prices are a bit better by then.

2026-06-07 06:23:14 UTC

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@nprofile…ynd9
Have you looked at RAM yet?

2026-06-03 14:12:47 UTC

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@nprofile…hj6n
CentOS rug pull basically.

2026-05-31 09:44:31 UTC

Should be prosecuted for crimes against typography. Capital punishment, probably.
#Tokyo #Typography
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2026-05-23 00:08:27 UTC

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@nprofile…v9vp
I realized that I might have done so by mistake, more than once. When I see a post that I really like I check if I'm following the person. And if I'm not I will typically follow them.
But if somebody removes me and then a good post flies by again three months later, I may follow again, never remembering that I already did it once.

2026-05-17 02:34:44 UTC

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@nprofile…ynd9
You can get a pretty good apartment that size in central Tokyo for that money.

2026-05-09 14:33:37 UTC

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@nprofile…mk4g
It's a blend! Name it after yourself.

2026-05-09 14:28:58 UTC

So, it thinks I'm in Tokyo. I'm using Firefox on Android. Fair enough.
It knows my screen size, touch screen with five touch points, the phone orientation and that I use english, swedish and japanese. I use dark mode. All are things a page can reasonably need for input and output.
It can set cookies, and thinks nobody else has set any. It thinks I switched away once for 5 seconds (I was gone for minutes).
This frankly doesn't look very concerning to me.
#nevent1q…nwu8

2026-05-09 12:08:54 UTC

Ok. If I, say, accidentally shorted a USB port on my desktop and the entire thing immediately died. Am I looking at getting a new motherboard?
Is it possible something failed safely and there's a way to reset and get it going again?
Conversely, could this have damaged something else?
#pc #computer #FediHelp #AskFedi

2026-05-02 07:59:14 UTC

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@nprofile…0zw6
Positive take: your papers are clear, complete and easy to read.

2026-04-20 10:10:19 UTC

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@nprofile…pfuj
Problem is if it also weeds out too many of the people with the abilities you need.

2026-04-16 12:58:21 UTC

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@nprofile…ynd9 @nprofile…canu
My feeling is, "blockchain" strongly implies it's a grift, not above-board.

2026-04-16 07:38:07 UTC

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@nprofile…ynd9
This fellow needs blingy reading glasses in a neck strap, a cardigan, a book of poetry, and a large mug of herbal tea.

2026-04-04 09:14:02 UTC

A few more Buenos Aires street pictures.
#photography #Buenos_aires
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/116/345/651/312/355/109/original/59042f6c4b540bda.jpeg
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/116/345/651/331/668/428/original/f123d1aae05c7645.jpeg
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/116/345/651/333/003/125/original/f7094f579fccb4e0.jpeg

2026-03-28 06:56:46 UTC

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@nprofile…pklk @nprofile…65q8
You know, I'm in my fifties. And over the past 40 years I've gone from a liberal centrist to a socialist radical, without changing my opinions.

2026-03-27 11:41:51 UTC

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@nprofile…pfuj
I think you could make a case for "it's discovered" and "it's embodied" at the same time.
The underlying structures of mathematics are all latently there. But we discover and use the ones that fit our cognition (which in turn is highly embodied and contextual) and overlook or reject the ones that don't.
There's any number of ways to represent multidimensional points and angles for instance, but we use the ones that make sense to us. A different creature may pick different ones.

2026-03-23 08:28:46 UTC

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@nprofile…ynd9
Welcome to any tech conference of any kind whatsoever :/

2026-03-01 09:40:38 UTC

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@nprofile…ynd9
Maybe according to your definition (and maybe not even then). We have an apartment in Ginowan, a city of about 100k, and directly connected to Urasoe, then Naha in the south; and Chatan and Okinawa City in the north.
To me this is still urban (if not the big city vibe of, say, Osaka or Tokyo). Many japanese consider Okinawa as a whole as the far-end of nowhere.

2026-03-01 09:27:07 UTC

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@nprofile…ynd9
Yep, different idea of "countryside" 😁

2026-03-01 09:20:41 UTC

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@nprofile…ynd9
Countryside, with an expat vibe, and great coffee. Let me gently doubt the existence of such a place - though your definition of "countryside" may be a lot more urban than mine.

2026-02-28 04:11:57 UTC

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@nprofile…z6pq hmm, tempting.

2026-02-28 04:06:41 UTC

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@nprofile…z6pq
That looks pretty usable. How did you get hold of 17? Is there a beta program?

2026-02-22 14:53:41 UTC

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@nprofile…ynd9
None of us is only our job or our hobbies. Our lives are full of different things, and we should be talking about them when we want to.
Also, I'm sure that disliking the climate of central or northern Europe is not going to come as a major shock to anybody who's spent more than ten minutes there...

2026-02-22 09:20:29 UTC

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@nprofile…pxgp @nprofile…8kn5
Två dörrar, en på varje sida. En kan du bara stoppa in grejer, en kan du bara ta ut.
Eller, hål mellan hall och kök, och kyl och frys i hålet. Stoppa in-dörren vetter mot hallen när man kommer hem med matkassarna. Ta ut-dörren i köket där man lagar.

2026-02-21 02:56:27 UTC

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@nprofile…6edx @nprofile…ds0l
Or, possibly, Amsterdam wasn't supposed to share data with a foreign, non-EU force, and is now denying it to cover it up.

2026-02-19 08:30:00 UTC

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@nprofile…3n63
If the project makes clear it's no longer maintained (or not interested in keeping itself patched) then no, no need to care.
I do think there's an obligation to make it clear though, for anyone considering using the project.

2026-02-19 03:48:10 UTC

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@nprofile…50mt
In my experience Ubuntu has become much better at keeping up than they used to. The LTS releases update drivers through hardware enablement kernel updates. And they keep the graphics and sound stacks fairly well updated these days.
I don't know how closely Mint tracks the Ubuntu LTS updates though.

2026-02-16 08:14:34 UTC

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@nprofile…84tm
Utan att ha tittat på dom här specifikt (men med en del erfarenhet av robotik i allmänhet) så känns konstruktionen vansinnigt instabil.
Varje led kommer ha en viss mängd extra ostabil rörelse som fortplantar sig nedåt, mer ju längre hela armen är. Och varje ny led lägger till mer skakning nedåt. De minsta fingrarna kommer ständigt skaka fram och åter många gånger deras egna längd.

2026-02-12 08:43:14 UTC

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@nprofile…ynd9
Morning runs are great. Changing and getting started is a major pain, but once I'm out there it really feels wonderful.

2026-02-12 05:11:32 UTC

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@nprofile…atnr
I tend to do the same. My problem is with games that don't let you leave them.
Usually it's games that require you to keep the state in your head - what were you doing, who do you have to talk to, what does the map look like. I come back to the game and I have no idea what's going on or what I'm supposed to be doing

2026-02-04 14:08:40 UTC

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@nprofile…ctk3
It looks to me the top links is from an NPO that collects and promotes open data for Okinawa.
The bottom links are aggregators that collect such data from all over the country.
Public transport is all run by private companies here, so there's probably no single "official" collection point for an area anywhere.

2026-02-04 13:59:34 UTC

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@nprofile…ctk3
Here's a GTFS data site for Okinawa, Japan.
https://www.ottop.org/gtfs-opendata
And here's an API endpoint:
https://swagger.ottop.org/

2026-02-03 04:32:53 UTC

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@nprofile…fc2c
Is it sad to actually want one of these?

2026-01-24 10:25:29 UTC

Can I just gently point out that pot au feu is a criminally underrated winter food? Especially if you forget all about making a "real" or "traditional" pot, and put in whatever leftover winter veggies you got.
#food
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2026-01-19 21:50:50 UTC

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@nprofile…ynd9
NGL, I really miss this sometimes.

2026-01-14 08:16:55 UTC

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@nprofile…unzg
The past decade the ick wasn't exactly residual either.

2026-01-09 08:19:16 UTC

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@nprofile…3n63
Also, expect some habits to change - do you really need to do a big expensive container rebuild of everything with every single check in? Might there be more efficient ways to do this? Does CI have to be so very continuous?

2025-12-25 22:09:52 UTC

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@nprofile…4stm @nprofile…yur4
I do something similar by tiling separate browser windows when needed. Works pretty well, though of course built-in support can make it even smoother and faster.

2025-12-13 10:00:19 UTC

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@nprofile…dcm7 Same here. Back again on the 5th.

2025-10-18 23:37:40 UTC

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@nprofile…yy3f
At least Free Software is not really giving it away. You get permission to use it, but if you make changes or improvements you have to pay back in kind by releasing those changes in the same way, making it available to me.
It's almost more like a banqueting or reciprocal gifting system than any kind of selfless act.

2025-10-09 01:28:29 UTC

FYI: There's an ongoing spam campaign on the Fediverse with Russian disinfo bots that look sort of like news items, typically (but not always) with links to a telegram group.
We've been suspending a pile of them the last few days. If you see an account like that, please report it! As moderators we can't find them all on our own.
More info here:
https://hachyderm.io/@haubles/115340131111221075

2025-09-10 07:52:01 UTC

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@nprofile…cee8
It's not "cold ass", it's "tropically challenged"...

2025-09-04 14:59:45 UTC

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@nprofile…pp8p
They've got 110000 concurrent players on Steam in less than one hour of release (and many more not yet able to finish the purchase). I'd say the "so cheap it's an impulse buy" is going to work out just fine for them.

2025-08-18 10:08:52 UTC

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@nprofile…tsy4
When you reported it, that report went to the mas.to admins. They probably suspended the account.

2025-08-18 08:23:15 UTC

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@nprofile…tsy4
Can't be the instance then. But we block a lot of spam accounts; this could have been one of them.

2025-08-18 08:17:25 UTC

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@nprofile…tsy4
No bots so far. What instance did it come from? If we're already blocking the instance I may not ever get a reply.

2025-08-18 08:15:39 UTC

Just testing something here: #Finland .

2025-08-15 07:43:45 UTC

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@nprofile…cee8
"The location is exceptional – no traffic, no neighbors, no noise."
... no supermarkets, no jobs, no shops, no movie theaters, no hospital, no emergency services, nobody under 65 ...
When a property is cheap, it's generally for a good reason.

2025-08-13 06:58:34 UTC

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@nprofile…lnu2
No problem then. The final image won't be as wide as the one you posted. I'd pick the left, with the same overall visual balance as the example you just showed.

2025-08-13 06:36:30 UTC

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@nprofile…lnu2
Standing up feels more appropriate. But you'd need to fill part of that space, perhaps (good place for a headline?).

2025-08-10 06:54:10 UTC

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@nprofile…7fj5
A minor thing I don't know if you have control over: by default I couldn't start it under Proton in Linux. I had to explicitly go into the settings and pick a particular Proton version. After which it works beautifully.
I wonder if there's some setting on the Steam backend you need to poke for it to run nicely under Proton from the start?

2025-08-07 13:18:01 UTC

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@nprofile…z3we
At least in principle you can embed links, other html, JavaScript... Without really good sanitizing it can probably be a risk.

2025-08-02 02:18:08 UTC

Old people aren't slow and confused. They're just preoccupied with keeping mental track of where they've put their eighteen pairs of glasses.

2025-08-01 23:55:57 UTC

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@nprofile…args @nprofile…jrjh
NY rainfall seems to be well over 1000mm per year. You do have plenty of fresh water.
Our average is over 2000mm per year, and we've still had years where the water supply is insufficient. But that's not because of supply - our main problem is getting rid of it all - but reservoir capacity, which hasn't kept up.
Using grey water for toilets and so on is a good idea and some places do that already. But it doesn't seem critical for you.

2025-08-01 08:23:11 UTC

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@nprofile…wcf0
På ett forum en del år sedan var en amerikansk professor upprörd över att kinesiska forskare i hans labb pratade kinesiska med varann - det var oartigt,han förstod dom inte, och dom borde prata engelska i USA.
Samma professor var också upprörd över hur oartiga ett japanskt labb hade varit när han var post-doc där: dom pratade japanska med varandra, inte engelska, så han förstod dom inte.
Hans slutsats var att asiater är oartiga. Det var ingen annans slutsats i tråden.

2025-07-30 02:22:59 UTC

Tsunami warning for the entire east coast of Japan right now, up to and including Okinawa, urging everyone to get out of the water and away from the seaside.
It doesn't seem too bad (they got 30 cm in Chiba), but better safe than sorry. And even 30cm of rapidly moving water with debris and stuff to tangle you up can trip you, drag you along, and potentially hurt you badly.

2025-07-30 02:07:41 UTC

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@nprofile…fef6
I assumed the building owner would have the rights to the art (presumably work for hire). But either way, you need a release for the artwork, right? Edit: sorry, I missed the first reply.
How does that work for grafitti or similar?

2025-07-30 01:33:58 UTC

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@nprofile…4d9x @nprofile…fax7
The book is available. The discount is not.

2025-07-30 01:33:16 UTC

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@nprofile…fef6
That's a nice one!
Do you (or your client) need to get a release form from the building owner if they wanted to use this for an ad or something like that?

2025-07-29 05:00:02 UTC

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@nprofile…fv4z
"The Forbidden Closet of Mystery" is probably a prop in a 1970's childrens TV show.

2025-07-28 21:07:15 UTC

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@nprofile…fax7
Not on Kobo (or at least, not when you shop from Japan)...

2025-07-26 00:11:26 UTC

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@nprofile…pp8p
Live a little!

2025-07-24 05:00:28 UTC

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@nprofile…t3wn @nprofile…d23x
But also multiply the increased per-unit cost by the number of people. There's a cost side to any cost-benefit calculation. You may have to cut back on something else (worse footwear? Fewer radios?) that ends up negating much of the benefit in the end.

2025-07-24 03:07:58 UTC

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@nprofile…args
Tim Hunkin (not sure it counts as obscure though): https://m.youtube.com/@timhunkin1
Linus Åkesson: https://m.youtube.com/@lftkryo (though that's really more of a blog: https://www.linusakesson.net )

2025-07-24 00:03:19 UTC

Mastodon is going to start asking for donations. This is a good thing! A solid financial situation is critical for the project to work in the long run.
Also remember that your instance also costs money and time to run. And there's no advertising here to pay that cost. Donate to your instance if you can!
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/07/a-nudge-to-fund-our-future/

2025-07-20 10:51:45 UTC

This is big: #Spack has reached 1.0.
Spack is (effectively) a distro-indepenedent package manager specifically for #HPC clusters. We've been evaluating it for years and we're most likely going to use it for our next machine.
Really happy to see it reach stable status!
https://mast.hpc.social/@spack/114885155276285929

2025-07-16 07:19:11 UTC

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@nprofile…cee8
If you posted it, then "from:me whatever" will give you posts from yourself containing "whatever".

2025-07-15 12:37:03 UTC

#dogwalk from #blenderstudio is a heartwarming free and open source miniature open world game! It lasts for maybe 30-40 minutes in all, as you explore a small winter landscape as a big, fluffy dog. The graphics and animation really convey a sense of a bright, sunny winter day.
Get it on steam or itch.io for free. And you can get the #godot source and assets of you want to play with it. This is really fun!
https://studio.blender.org/projects/dogwalk/

2025-07-15 03:43:30 UTC

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@nprofile…0xuj
Every time I do a move, the entire playing field moves downward on the page.
Android phone, Firefox mobile browser.

2025-07-13 04:48:28 UTC

Anyone have tips for a #blog or other #indieweb resources for learning the #piano and music theory and similar?
I'm not looking for video (youtube is filled to the brim already) but written text. And preferably more towards theory and concepts rather than manual skills.
Trying to search for it just gives me pages full of paid video courses and AI slop.

2025-07-12 00:01:19 UTC

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@nprofile…w8us
Jet black, with two white stripes on the sides going from the forehead back down to the neck.

2025-07-10 03:14:34 UTC

Mastodon 4.4 is out - and the mobile web app is really *way* better than it used to be. Starting to wonder if I even need a separate app any longer.

2025-06-29 03:40:03 UTC

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@nprofile…pp8p 👍

2025-06-23 10:43:30 UTC

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@nprofile…cee8 @nprofile…a3lp
Exactly...

2025-06-23 08:06:06 UTC

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@nprofile…cee8
Housing prices have been increasing all over the world, with similar results.
Part of the issue is, everyone wants to live in the same few places. Because that's where everyone is. You can get a 10-room mansion in rural central or northern Sweden for the price of a car - but nobody wants to live there.
Humanity has been becoming more urban for a long time, and it seems the trend is accelerating.

2025-06-22 11:33:26 UTC

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@nprofile…c5n8
Pretty depressing place if they feel Falun is worth comparing to.

2025-06-21 01:59:57 UTC

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@nprofile…s6x2
I think it's for much the same reasons car interfaces are stable (or the qwerty layout is dominant): it's good enough, and the cost of retraining the world far exceeds the benefits of alternative interfaces.
We may well have new kinds of devices supplanting the PC in the future - the phone arguably already did, if only partially. But the PC (and the keyboard and the car and the phone) will keep its gestalt.

2025-06-21 01:12:50 UTC

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@nprofile…s6x2
The desktop computer matured as a platform by the late 90s to early 2000s and has been stable (stagnant) since. Much like the car driving experience stopped becoming fundamentally different once the user interfaces stabilized.
Smartphones have arguably stabilized in the same way since about 2012 or so, and is similarly unlikely to ever change significantly again.

2025-06-17 06:27:54 UTC

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@nprofile…cee8
If you have a second slot, that may be easier...

2025-06-15 09:12:50 UTC

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@nprofile…7wld @nprofile…lfze @nprofile…3awy
To be fair, they'll replace it with sudo. If it goes smoothly, no user should even notice that the implementation has changed.

2025-06-13 04:25:34 UTC

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@nprofile…pp8p
I wanted one so bad in 7th grade. I was a bit weird.

2025-06-10 06:26:58 UTC

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@nprofile…cee8 @nprofile…gfyr
To be fair, I get the impression a typical Dutch government couldn't confirm what to have for lunch before they fall.

2025-06-08 11:56:26 UTC

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@nprofile…4j76
I like to think that the messed up electrical system here - 100v, 50 or 60hz - that's unique to Japan, in a small way helped the electric and electronic export industry early on.
Since it was so unique to Japan, and since you had to deal with two frequencies even inside Japan, it made creating universal appliances that could be used the world over more feasible.
Had Japan had the same system as, say, US, it would have been easy for companies to aim at just that market.

2025-06-05 07:29:23 UTC

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@nprofile…sqcg @nprofile…gyrf
Now that's an interesting take!
Most "bespoke", semi-custom or server-side software is distributed in source form, or in an architecture independent language.
Software that is still distributed as actual system binaries are mostly for desktops (games is the big one I can come up with). And they target old architectures to maximize the potential install base. We won't see this as minimum target for upwards of a decade. And by then it probably won't make a difference.

2025-06-05 04:59:41 UTC

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@nprofile…cee8
The solution is simple, and involves only two post-it notes:
1. Put one post-it note on this counter and call it "cat bed".
2. Put another post-it note on the cat bed and call it "kitchen counter".
3. move all things from the former counter to the former cat bed.
The cat and the kitchen stuff is now all in their right place!

2025-06-02 10:09:41 UTC

My employer #OIST ( @nprofile…f7vt ) is opening a special grad student application round for students currently studying at US universities.
The application period begins now and is only two weeks, but if accepted you may be able to start already in September.
Please reshare to get the word out.
https://www.oist.jp/admissions/special-application-deadline-students-accepted-or-studying-united-states
#USA #University #gradschool #Japan

2025-05-28 09:40:16 UTC

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@nprofile…cee8
Storage reliability is important. If an SSD is acting up it doesn't matter if it seems mostly ok. Toss it (or use for some throwaway project) and get a new one.

2025-05-27 05:00:30 UTC

Any #Linux #kernel ,
#graphics or #GPU people out there?
I'm trying to understand the relationship between the #amgdpu driver shipped with the kernel; and the "andgpu-dkms" driver that comes with #ROCm .
Specifically, with a recent enough kernel, do we really need to install the ROCm version of the driver? Does the ROCm version contain stuff the general driver does not? Or is the ROCm stack (esp. libhsa) tightly tied to a very specific version of the driver?

2025-05-27 00:12:51 UTC

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@nprofile…evfq @nprofile…args
The Baltic sea has a lot (relatively speaking) of amber washing up on the shores. There's a tradition of picking amber and creating amber jewellery in societies around the sea.
But for inexpensive tourist merchandise it's probably cheaper to import.

2025-05-22 00:32:08 UTC

So my car got hit by the whammy bar of an electric guitar. It's OK though. It was just a Fender bender.

2025-05-17 08:00:05 UTC

If you're a student and you want to have a future paying career, this is for you:
When a beginner uses an #LLM - or asks a friend - to solve a problem, the answer is the end of the process. They lack the expertise to take it further.
When an expert uses an LLM - or asks a colleague, or checks the literature - the answers are a jumping-off point for further exploration. The final result is likely quite different from those initial answers. The LLM was the *start* of a process, not the end.
1/3

2025-05-14 08:15:31 UTC

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@nprofile…h94j
Should keep a roof over your head.

2025-05-13 05:51:41 UTC

FYI, if you live in #Japan you may want to know that #Elecom has a policy of stating that their Ethernet cables are complaint with a given specification, even when they don't actually comply and don't meet the requirements.
Maybe skip Elecom the next time you buy Ethernet or USB cables, or anything else that needs to follow a specification to work well. It's perhaps not a coincidence their Bluetooth mice seem unable to maintain a stable connection, for instance.
https://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/spv/2505/12/news125.html

2025-05-10 00:52:44 UTC

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@nprofile…rnmx
Any way to switch back? Light-on-dark is hard to read with bad eyesight.