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jamesh

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Ubuntu Desktop developer at Canonical.

Living in Perth, Western Australia.

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decryption, to random
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i wonder if the image quality on mastodon is good enough so that people could determine which image came out of my iphone 13 pro vs my sony a6000

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jamesh,
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@decryption I'd guess the second is the Sony. Mostly based on the fact it appears to be shot with a wider aperture/shallower depth of field.

jamesh,
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@decryption If you were shooting with the same camera, the first image looks like what you'd get if you used a longer lens from further away.

popey, (edited ) to linux
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I have never seen this popup before this week. Now, after seeing it and clicking on it for the eleventy-billionth time, I never want to see it again.

jamesh,
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@popey For what it is worth, it is supposed to remember your decision if it can associate the application with a .desktop file. In that case, you can change the decision in the apps section of gnome-control-center.

So I see the dialogue once for GNOME Boxes, but I see it every time when using command line tools like virt-install.

jamesh,
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@popey This is the gnome-shell code deciding whether to save your decision: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/blob/main/js/ui/inhibitShortcutsDialog.js#L42-64

There's a number of ways it associates windows with apps, so not sure what would be the best thing for spice-gtk to do here.

decryption, to random
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underrated album

jamesh,
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@decryption Haven't listened to it in years, but remember some weird stuff after some silence in the last track.

jamesh,
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@decryption The "extra long final track with a bunch of silence after the song" ones were pretty easy to find. The ones where you had to play the first track and rewind into the pre-gap were less obvious. Not all CD players would even let you do that.

popey, to random
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Ok, now I see why TikTok needs to be banned! This hit hard. ⬇️

video/mp4

jamesh,
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@popey Is she wrong though?

decryption, to random
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bargain?

jamesh,
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@decryption Lightly soiled?

decryption, to random
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Any solutions for using a smartphone permanently plugged in without destroying the battery? e.g for use as a security camera, or a display

jamesh,
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@decryption Back when working on Ubuntu Phone, our QA lab had a few phones set up to run without a battery. The controller board was removed from the lithium cells, and powered directly from a fixed power supply. We also used it as a way to hard reset the phones remotely.

I can't find any docs on what we did, but this page seems to describe the same kind of thing: https://www.instructables.com/Power-an-Android-Phone-Without-Battery/

pid_eins, to random
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Even though Fedora probably is kinda popular among developers, it sometimes baffles me what is and what isn't packaged in Fedora.

I mean come on, how is it possible that there's no meson mode packaged for emacs on Fedora?

I mean, it's pretty obvious: if Fedora wants to be taken seriously as a developer platform, I think it's pretty obvious that this is a glaring omission, like no other! 🤓

jamesh,
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@pid_eins Maybe they assume you'll get it from MELPA?

jamesh,
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@pid_eins You'd need to enable the MELPA repository manually (MELPA is basically packages that aren't in the GNU-controlled ELPA repository for some reason).

There is sample config to enable it on https://melpa.org/#/getting-started

decryption, (edited ) to random
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oh cool, the first data from the National Audit of Mobile Coverage (first time govt has independently tried to map mobile coverage in Australia instead of relying on the telcos to self-report) is now live

https://d1zckiwudrcznp.cloudfront.net/

jamesh,
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@decryption It'd be nice if they separated Telstra and Telstra Wholesale. I'd kind of like to know what I'm giving up by going with a MVNO on the Telstra network.

jamesh,
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@decryption I didn't think Optus and Vodafone restricted MVNOs to a similar degree to Telstra.

Anyway, it's good to see that there's good Telstra and Optus coverage for Carnac Island off the coast of Perth: an island with no human settlements and populated by tiger snakes and seagulls.

shlee, to random
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NBN having 50mbit up max is killing home datacenters.

jamesh,
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@shlee If you can convince them to sell you an NBN Business plan, you can get better than that (up to 1000/400). I know of one person who managed that in a residential area, but needed to commit to a contract lasting a few years.

jamesh,
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@jpm @shlee I think there was an issue with hitting the maximum bandwidth of the local area equipment, and them not wanting to upgrade without a commitment.

This might be less of an issue now that they're pushing gigabit plans more widely.

decryption, to random
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remember these handheld scanner things? fuck they were shit

jamesh,
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@decryption There's a few up on eBay if you want to check that they were as bad as you remember. e.g. https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/285823470898

glyph, to random
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"not sure I have a big enough uninterrupted stretch of time to get anything big done this week" I think to myself, "I know, I'll do something 'simple' and debug an intermittent failure that occurs only in CI and only 1 out of 4 tries" and now I feel like I'm driving myself insane on purpose; starting to wonder if I secretly hate myself

jamesh,
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@glyph Does the mobile site show you the cog menu in the top right corner with a "view raw logs" option? That should give you an easily searchable plain text version.

pid_eins, to random
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8️⃣ Here's the 8th installment of my series of posts highlighting key new features of the upcoming v256 release of systemd.

You might be aware of systemd-homed, a small service in systemd which can manage encrypted, portable home directories for you. It supports multiple storage backends, but the most relevant maintains a per-user LUKS disk image for each home directory, and ties the encryption of it to your user's authentication credentials. It supports FIDO2 and PKCS11 (in addition…

jamesh,
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@Hikari @pid_eins sshd does use PAM for authentication. The problem is that if you bypass password auth, then the module that unlocks your home directory can't use that password to access the disk encryption key.

jamesh,
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@pid_eins Is there any chance of bypassing all this if the systemd-homed managed home directory isn't actually encrypted (i.e. using --storage=directory)?

I had looked at homed a while back as a possible replacement for a system where we wanted to manage users separate from the base operating system image. It was using full disk encryption, so separately encrypting the home directory was less important.

decryption, to random
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tell me again how toyota not going 100% into EVs is a mistake - they're selling more cars then ever! I love EVs, have been driving one for 5 years, but EVs are not the answer for a large portion of motorists yet and hybrid/ICE engines have a long life ahead of them (20+ years imho)

jamesh,
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@Simbera @decryption I remember seeing a segment on BBC World where the presenter was on a junket to Japan looking at Toyota's hydrogen vehicles.

When it got to the point to talk about where the hydrogen came from, the answer was "it arrives in big ships from Australia". So almost certainly not green hydrogen.

jamesh,
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@decryption @Simbera Toyota has 2024 models of their Hydrogen cars. For example: https://www.toyota.com/mirai/

jamesh,
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@decryption @Simbera Looking at the Australian website, it says they are available in limited numbers to lease: https://www.toyota.com.au/electrified/hydrogen-electric

It also seems to suggest there is only one place in Australia to refuel them though, so probably not a good choice if you live outside of Victoria.

jaffathecake, to random
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We use self-closing syntax in HTML where it doesn't do anything. People see it and assume it does something.

Why do we keep doing this to ourselves?

https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1cceb03/i_thought_i_knew_html_until_i_saw_this/

jamesh,
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@jaffathecake @keul @sil does the JSX syntax used by React require that syntax for empty elements? Maybe they cargo cult that into the actual HTML.

decryption, to random
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it has come to my attention that people need help returning to piracy after years of paying for streaming services! i wrote a nice introductory blog post on how to set up an automated piracy machine

https://blog.decryption.net.au/t/a-fully-automated-usenet-piracy-machine-with-plex-sabnzbd-and-sonarr/130

jamesh,
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@decryption I settled on Flexget, which takes an RSS feed and selectively adds downloads to a torrent client.

It's generally smart enough not to download the same episode twice, and you can do things like tell it you want a particular quality download but to fall back to lower quality if nothing shows up in a day.

swearyanthony, to random
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Don't feed Gremlins after midnight. Ok sure but what about timezones and daylight savings? Does Gizmo even have access to NTP? What about leap seconds?

jamesh,
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@swearyanthony I guess there's two options: the Gremlin needs to know it is after midnight when getting fed, so it'll follow whatever the local clocks are set to. Alternatively, Gremlins are precise time keeping devices that can be used as a replacement for atomic clocks.

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