jannem

jannem, 3 days ago to random

Methinks the rainy season has started on #Okinawa .

jannem, 5 days ago to sweden

There's no post offices any longer? What's going on with this place? #sweden

jannem, 1 month ago to Blog

#Blog time: Keyboards!

I finished reading Shift Happens, and thought I'd rant in favor of spending a bit on your (yes, your!) keyboard, in the name of comfort and ergonomics.

Tl;dr: if you're spending real money on a desk chair or a good monitor, perhaps it's time to give your keyboard some love as well.

Also, the HHKB is objectively the best keyboard you can buy today, and I will not admit any argument to the contrary.

https://janneinosaka.blogspot.com/2024/03/keyboards.html

#keyboard #shifthappens #HHKB

jannem, 3 months ago to random

Got my copy of #shifthappens by @mwichary delivered here on Okinawa without a scratch.

And it's beautiful! 2½ volumes full of all you wanted to know about keyboards. It's like a slice of the very geekiest pre-social media internet condensed into book form, and I love it.

Shift happens, three volumes in a slipcase.

jannem, 4 months ago to GraphicsProgramming

@VileLasagna Has a blog post on the relative speed of different #GPU compute frameworks on the same hardware and driver.

Tl;dr: on an #Nvidia card, with Nvidia drivers, #CUDA is the slowest, by far. Fastest is our old stalwart #OpenCL - almost twice as fast when used only for compute. #Vulcan is good, and the least affected by using the card for your desktop at the same time. Read it - it's good.

#HPC #gpgpu #compute

https://vilelasagna.ddns.net/coding/if-you-want-performance-maybe-you-should-drop-cuda/

jannem, 4 months ago to Blog

Wrote my first new #blog post in almost a year!

It's basically a lament that the web is broken, and a resolution to start blogging again, and to stop taking it so seriously.

https://janneinosaka.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-web-is-broken.html

jannem, 5 months ago to music

I got a new "ti-ga-" (body belt) for my #sanshin . It's a traditional #Minsah textile from #yaeyama , handwoven on Ishigaki. An instrument that looks better also plays better!

The standard belt on the left, the minsah belt on the right.

#Okinawa #music #crafts

The body (drum) of a sanshin with an orange, red and white woven belt (called "ti-ga-") wrapped around the edge and tied at the top where the neck begins. The belt is handmade in a traditional Okinawan pattern.

jannem, 6 months ago to Ansible

We updated a certificate for an internal tool. It's a web app, deployed as a #Docker #container. To update the certificate we have to rebuild the container from scratch.

We also have a nice internal tool for changing user settings such as cluster access rights. It runs fine. But it's an #Ansible playbook run through a CI/CD pipeline that builds, runs, then destroys two containers for every user change.

"This container could have been a shell script" feels more true every day.

jannem, 6 months ago to tesla

All #Tesla maintenance personnel in Sweden - 130 people - are on #strike after Tesla has refused to sign an agreement with the #union. If they refuse (and they say they will fly in workers from abroad) this will spread to other areas; cars won't get unloaded in the harbors, parts won't be transported, and so on.

Toys R Us tried this 25 years ago. After a year they gave in and signed. But by then their reputation was so damaged the Swedish branches later closed.

https://www.aftonbladet.se/ledare/a/xg09MR/elon-musk-vill-komma-till-sverige-och-forstora

jannem, 6 months ago to random

The Japanese supreme court rules that requiring surgery to change your legal gender is unconstitutional.

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20231025/p2g/00m/0na/022000c

jannem, 7 months ago to Osaka

The tourists are back. Ebisu bridge in Doutonbori, Osaka. The Glico sign is a popular background for pictures.

#Osaka #Doutonbori #Japan #Photography

jannem, 8 months ago to steam

#ReturnToMonkeyIsland is on sale on #Steam ! Of course I bought it.

On one hand I'm happy I finally got around to getting the game. On the other, I was looking at it only yesterday thinking I should just get it already. Now it feels I cheated @grumpygamer out of some well earned income...

jannem, 8 months ago to denver

Finished our bookings for #SC23 today. First time we attend since the pandemic. Also looking forward to #Denver , my favourite conference city so far.

Not looking forward to the price level and the tipping culture though. It was bad before and is apparently way out of control now. At least there's always convenience stores and McDonald's.

jannem, 8 months ago to fediverse

#Fosstodon , the instance I'm on, is now invite only. The reason is to slow its growth and avoid becoming a huge server.

This is good! The point of the #Fediverse is to have lots of different instances, after all, not a couple of giant ones.

And yes, huge instance == huge problems. Problems with moderation, with funding, and with culture. Stay a reasonable size and it's still all manageable for a small team.

jannem, 8 months ago to random

Posting in English since Swedish is forbidden on #Fosstodon :

When Commodore VIC 20 was released, there were two books in Swedish on programming it in Basic and in assembler.

Does anyone have bibliographic information on those? Or links to the books?

They made me who I am far more than any later experiences and I would love to track them down.

Om någon kommer ihåg dom grå A4 böckerna om att programmera VIC20 kan ge mig titel, författare eller så.

jannem, 9 months ago to random

I'm having a "I'm over 50; I know what I like; and I eat what I want." lunch today.

Microwaved beans and rice with salad. Everything a (horizontally) growing body needs!

jannem, 9 months ago to music

Is there by any chance a piece of #Music software I could put on a #RaspberryPi that lets me:

• Connect a #Midi keyboard and use as an electric piano;

• Do simple sequencing and playback - not a full #DAW but just let me record and edit a piano sequence; then add another voice, or let me play live over that sequence.

• As a bonus, possibly let me record a live track, but that's not really needed.

Basically a tool to help me better learn #MusicTheory and practice a live #instrument .

jannem, 9 months ago to random

I'm looking for a new Mastodon server.

I've been very happy here on #Fosstodon . Well managed, good size, supports open source.

But it has an "English-only" rule for public posts. I'm not monolingual, my life is not monolingual, and this rule limits what I want to say far more than I thought it would.

So, I'm looking for a different server to join. Ideally similar to Fosstodon - stable, well managed, decent size, widely federated - but that allows any language. EU or Japan location a bonus.

jannem, 10 months ago to breakfast

I'm over 50. My parents are on a different continent. I get to eat whatever breakfast I want 😋

#icecream #breakfast

jannem, 10 months ago to Malaysia

#Malaysia and #kl question: To get from the KL #Monorail to KL Sentral you pass through Nu Sentral shopping mall.

Can anyone tell us if that walking route is open in the morning before the mall proper opens?

jannem, 10 months ago to Malaysia

#Ghostbird coffee roasters in #KL #Malaysia is really very good. The coffee is good and the store is cool and spacious.

A coffee bar with metal chairs.

jannem, 10 months ago to random

New studio #Ghibli movie from #Miyazaki Hayao released with no advance notice or promotion:

https://www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/articles/14957697

jannem, 10 months ago to Malaysia

Going to #malaysia on holiday, for the first time in 20 years. Dumb-sounding question: Do you need cash on a daily basis (fares, food etc)?

If not, is credit cards fine, or is there some other payment system that's better - and accessible to non-residents?

jannem, 10 months ago to internet

I'm not against #Meta launching their #Threads network here on the #Fediverse - I don't think the practical impact will be nearly as large as some people believe.

But I do want to gently note that they will not launch in the #EU due to the #privacy regulations there.

Which means they plan to use your private data in ways that would be blatantly illegal in the EU (and several other jurisdictions).

Keep that in mind when you consider whether to join it or not.

jannem, 10 months ago to Malaysia

We're going to #Kuala Lumpur in #Malaysia later this summer.

Any tips for places to go for #coffee ? Good local roasters, third-wave coffee places, perhaps a place to buy a #Flair #espresso machine?