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dcz

@dcz@fosstodon.org

Greybeard but revolutionary. 80-char lines are good for museums.

My tech writing (hire me): https://dorotac.eu/
Open bike computer: https://jazda.org
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brettcannon, to random
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Does anyone know what it would cost to hire people to build a Linux browser? The folks behind Kagi are asking to potentially bring their Orion browser to Linux https://orionfeedback.org/d/6363-orion-for-linux/35

dcz,
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@brettcannon Not open, not interesting.

dcz, to keyboards
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THEM #Keyboards !

I'm desperate. Please help me and answer if you know

is the Enter key horizontal or vertical on #Czech and #Norwegian #laptop keyboards?

I will not buy one until I know.

#askfedi #askfediverse #internationalization #computers

anze3db, to random
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2_740 years is forever, right?

dcz,
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@anze3db On the timescales achieved by human civilizations... no, it isn't :P

btp, to random
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You ever get something to work, then forget that you got it to work, then break it again, and forget how to get it to work again?

dcz,
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@btp Source control helps a lot with that. Also, writing. Readmes, but especially writing blog posts.

yakkoj, to random
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The solution is to try to do as little as possible with the device you've been forced by some bullshit criterion to carry.

https://mastodon.social/@mysk/111904560841519563

dcz,
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@yakkoj Sure you can. Linux phones exist.

dcz, to Blog
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Have you missed my talk at #FOSDEM ?

Don't fret!

I published it in text form on my #blog .

"Input method on Wayland is broken and it's my fault" linked here:

https://dorotac.eu/posts/input_broken/

#fosdem2024 #fosdem24 #wayland #librem5 #linuxmobile

dcz, to linux
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For anyone who is too small-brained to develop , I started an unofficial Matrix channel to discuss the need for ergonomic alternative:

:chatwave.org

https://matrix.to/#/#libobscura:chatwave.org

chrishannah, to random
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I’m thinking of switching to a Windows machine (ThinkPad) at work, just for a bit of a fun, and also to annoy a few die-hard fanboys at work.

dcz,
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@chrishannah Weird definition of fun but everyone's tastes differ I guess :P

nurkiewicz, to random
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1 kb - 1000 bits
1 kB - 1000 bytes
1 KiB - 1024 bytes
1 KB - Kelvinbytes. Used when one byte of data on an SSD drive warms up by 1 Kelvin

dcz,
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@nurkiewicz to play devil's advocate, Ki is not a SI prefix, and bits and bytes are not SI units, so if we mix and match, we'll find no consistency.

So I propose your proposal to become a standard.

dcz, to Matrix
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Hello ! I'm leaving today. Anyone who wants to talk me there might catch me on (address in blog) or at my track talk on Saturday.

https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2972-wayland-s-input-method-is-broken-and-it-s-my-fault/

See you there!

dcz, to rust
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Anyone playing here?

I finally published a fast and fancy world map generator with cool cliff view and stuff.

I never expected how full of caves and passages underground would be!

Thanks to Jan Ole Zabel, who laid the groundwork!

https://gitlab.com/dcz_self/minehouse-worldmapper

Oh, and it's written in .

A river surrounded by cliffs, cliffs casting diffuse shadows on the water.
A mess of lines and blots displaying the underground of a Minetest map.

dcz, to Electronics
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I found half an old sound system on the street. It has a really cool equalizer .

My question: how to drive it? Is it LEDs? DC or AC input? What voltage?

Look at the glass piece in the corner - is this some sort of a lamp? (sorry for the blur)

dcz, to web
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I visited a store with random household items the other day.

Here are the digital cables! HDMI, lightning, lots of USB-mini, -C...
but not a single one with #USB 3.0.

Wild guess: the general public only needs high speeds between the TV and receiver box. The phone never gets connected to anything but a power supply, and laptops barely exit any longer.

How wrong am I? Do laptops still exist outside of work/school? Do they do anything but browse the web?

#mobile #smartphone #web #young #tv

pwaring, to golang
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Moving between Go and C a lot this week and they're in that awkward space of "so close in syntax but also subtly different", so I keep forgetting semi-colons in my C and adding them to my Go.

Also, I can't decide whether to use fixed-size integers in C. So far I'm being lazy and using int, because everything* is 64 bit now.

#C

dcz,
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@pwaring I keep typing "let" to declare variables when I write after too much .

dcz, to Futurology
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I have a which doesn't exist on the internet.

Can the Fediverse help me find a ?

It's marked as AM330, from the Chinese company Amicro Semiconductor. The website has no info, but it seems to be a for navigation.

Makes sense, I found it inside a , OEM model KK320.

I'd like to reprogram the robot, but I need to know at least the pinout. Help, Fedi!

dcz, to Electronics
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I wish commodity today had the and repairability of my .

I bought it in late '90s. The mechanism is still being manufactured and for sale:

https://www.uhrenwerkzeuge24.de/uhrwerke-135/quarzuhrwerk/citizen-miyota-2035-quarz-uhrwerk-fuer-armbanduhren.php

Oh, and when I bought it, the design was already nearly 20 years old.

If only toasters, fridges, vacuums, or any other computers would stay repairable that long.

deshipu, to Futurology
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    dcz,
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    @deshipu A machine emulating a human mind is an upload?

    A machine believing it's a human is a...?

    A machine that is alive is an animal?

    A machine that is built using organic molecules is ... an animal again?

    An autonomously operating machine is ... an animal yet again?

    A multiplying machine is a self-replicator.

    dcz,
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    @deshipu My questions are still (or even more) relevant for constructs :)

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    @deshipu I think anyone with a materialist point of view met all of those, except they were strictly a subset of animal, so far, so there was no need to name them... yet. AI is pushing hard to change that situation.

    Butjumping back to the past, here's a machine that is organic and alive in the biological sense, and it's called a biobot:

    https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/advs.202303575

    dcz,
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    @deshipu I've seen people say that animals are machines, so I think your definition isn't universal.

    But I think I cast my net too wide anyway. It's not materialism, it's the mechanistic world view.

    What would you call a non-biologial system that self-replicates, like a computer virus? Does the replication make it not a machine?

    dcz,
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    @deshipu To support my point about your definition being incomplete, authors of the paper I linked used the exact word "living constructs" right in the abstract.

    dcz,
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    @deshipu That's one way to see it. But my actual point is that we live in an era of disparate things merging - personhood with animals, computers with conversation partners, concepts with life.
    We need solid definitions to understand how things change. I was thinking you might have some, since you sounded rather confident.

    dcz,
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    @deshipu Come on, the article I linked to already blurs the line between the living and the manufactured.

    We simulate a complete worm brain: https://openworm.org/

    A computer virus adds a property of life - self-replication - to concepts.

    If viruses meet your definition of life, then humans have replicated a virus using a similar strategy as the virus itself uses, 20 years ago already: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1072266

    I don't think old definitions can survive all that and stay useful.

    stfn, to random
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    Have you ever thought about the fact that, when gold was used as currency, you could have a mine that literally excavated money?

    dcz,
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    @stfn Bitcoin miners might relate.

    scottsthoughts, to cycling
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    Two questions for you out there:

    1. If you only had one studded tire, would you put it front or back? Does anyone regularly run with just one studded tire?

    Somewhat relatedly
    2. I’ve got an old rear wheel for a 9-speed bike. What would I have to do to use it as a spare wheel for a single speed bike? do I have to rebuild the whole thing because the free hub is too wide to fit in the track dropouts?

    dcz,
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    @scottsthoughts 1, Front. Losing traction on the rear is easy to recover, front is not. Compare how long you can control the slide when you squeeze the rear brake and when you squeeze the front.

    1. The sprockets might be too tight together for the single-speed chain to fit. Otherwise I recommend measuring and checking.
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