khm

khm, 3 months ago to random

folks, I'm moving instances, so if you want to keep following me:

a) reconsider that, why would you do that

and

b) follow @khm instead

kellyosullivan, 3 months ago to random

I could use stories of people who successfully didn’t get COVID when a spouse did. My husband had to travel cross country to help his mother in assisted living with various things. He came home sick (both masked and separated as much as possible on drive home from airport) he tested positive (first in this house) and isolated. We’re being good about masking and I’m washing my hands a lot after delivering food or tea but what other advice is there? I definitely do not want to catch it.

khm, 3 months ago to random

Microsoft really needs to come up with a different title than "Customer Success Account Manager." Having people put "CSAM" in their display name and email signature is ... disturbing

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/services-hub/unified/roles/services-admin-overview

postmarketOS, 4 months ago to random

It's time for another round of "who wants to maintain a Pine64 device"

on todays episode, the PineBook Pro. Currently a community category device, but it seems that won't be for much longer as it's now sans-maintainer.

Please do drop a comment if you're interested in keeping this port in Community, otherwise it will drop back to testing and no longer supported by postmarketOS stable releases.

https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merge_requests/4734

khm, 4 months ago to random

new theory: climate change is driven by Hollywood to normalize low visibility due to wildfire smoke, so they can turn down the render distance on CGI, making movies cheaper to produce

drewdevault, 4 months ago to random

NixOS 🤮

mntmn, 5 months ago to random

OK so this is the first MNT Reform Next prototype/functional mockup. The goal is to get a feeling for the new form factor and potential performance and to make progress on the iterative design process.

The bottom half is 3D-printed (multi jet fusion) while the top half didn't work out in print, so it's actually MNT Reforms top half! The keyboard, trackpad, display and hinges are real, but they connect to wires that go out of the back to a RK3588 development system.

tina (a small/medium sized black dog) checking out a corner of the MNT Reform Next
closeup of the bottom half of MNT Reform Next. the case is 3D-printed. the trackpad, mechanical keyboard and display are real functional parts.
overview of the whole MNT Reform Next prototype setup with external lab power supply, RK3588 dev board and mouse.

geerlingguy, 5 months ago to random

What do you want to know about the @mntmn Reform laptop? Besides the fact its trackball (yes, trackball) runs on a Raspberry Pi RP2040?

c20d, 5 months ago to random

Fellow Washingtonians: Despite passage 4yrs ago, the move to DST year-round has gone nowhere due to the need for Congressional approval. To avoid the approval step, a bill has been pre-filed for the next WA leg session to permanently adopt Standard Time in the state of Washington. If, like me, you think this is a fantastic idea, let your legislators know that you support the bill here: https://app.leg.wa.gov/pbc/bill/5795

Fingers crossed that it passes!

#WashingtonPolitics #EndDST #StopTimeChanges

khm, 5 months ago to random

9front is for when you're tired of falling off the shoulders of giants

khm, 5 months ago to random

QWERTY (which stands for “query, enter, write, erase, type”)

No it doesn't, Lenovo. No it doesn't.

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/glossary/keyboard-layout/

khm, 5 months ago to random

Someone posts a link to a web browser written by and for blind people.

Hacker News is mad there aren't any screenshots.

khm, 5 months ago to random

People explaining to me why they hate IRC always end up instead convincing me it would be awful to be in a chat room with them

like buddy I'm SUPER GLAD you can't dump images into my computer screen sorry

khm, 6 months ago to random

9FRONT “HUMANBIOLOGICS” RELEASED

• New qemu kernel for arm64
• New shared /sys/src/9/arm64 directory
• FPU in interrupt context for arm64 and amd64
• 32K IOUNIT
• Wifi and I²C support on the raspberry pi
• ethermultilink(8), allowing to switch transparently between wifi and ethernet
• Libmach and acid now support ARM THUMB
• The efi loader has been ported to arm64
• many games/doom improvements

AND MORE

http://9front.org/releases/2023/11/22/0/

khm, 6 months ago to random

thanks for letting me know

khm, 6 months ago to random

@mntmn any idea if the imx 95 soc from that forthcoming titan dev kit is pin-compatible with the reform? and when will the caseless 3.0 keyboards start to ship?

thanks!

prma, 6 months ago to random

I am surprisingly ok with this change:
https://element.io/blog/element-to-adopt-agplv3/

It seems fair.
Although I cannot say that I love the CLA stuff.

drewdevault, 6 months ago to random

I should implement something like uname(1) just so it's clear Ares is not Linux

clive, 6 months ago to random

“The Literary Style of Alt-Text”

For years, I didn’t add alt-text to my online images

But I’ve started doing it all the time now — being on Mastodon is what showed me how important it is!

Along the way, I’ve started noticing …

…. what an oddly literary activity it is

Here’s an image I wrote alt-text for when I blogged a few weeks ago, below

My essay on alt-texting: https://clivethompson.medium.com/the-literary-style-of-alt-text-9f1595cd8f0c

A free “friend” link in case you don’t subscribe to Medium: https://clivethompson.medium.com/the-literary-style-of-alt-text-9f1595cd8f0c?sk=1d9cd685997cb08d8909da687a2d03cf

A screenshot of a story written by the author, describing how he wrote alt-text for the attached photo. I reads: And at first I just wrote a simple description, something like "a cyclist going down the street." Then I added more details, including that the cyclist is in the center of the picture, and behind them are a bus stop and a brightly lit store, and that the cyclist is moving quickly. But as I was writing that last clause - "the cyclist is moving quickly" - I realized something curious about the composition of the photo: The cyclist is crisp, while the background is blurred. That's not an easy effect for the photographer to achieve! And it' precisely what gives the image its power. So I wound up writing the alt-text thusly ... “A cyclist going rapidly down a city street. The photo is taken from the side, and the cyclist is in the center of the image, heading towards our right. In behind the cyclist we see a bus stop and a brightly lit store. Interestingly, despite the fact that the cyclist is moving quickly, they are unblurred and crisp in the photo - while the background is blurred. The ultimate effect is curious: It's as if the store were moving quickly, while the cyclist was standing still” One could critique this alt-text for being too damn long. Fair enough! And there's something a bit narcissistic about me focusing on the internal experience I have while puzzling over how best to describe this image.

drewdevault, 6 months ago to random

I have written up a SourceHut CI configuration which:

• Builds Hare's backend (qbe)
• Builds the Hare compiler
• Builds the Hare toolchain and stdlib
• Cross-compiles the Hare test suite for Ares
• Builds the Ares kernel, driver framework, and minimal set of drivers
• Boots a qemu VM and runs the cross-compiled test suite

in 2 minutes

khm, 6 months ago to random

USA #1

Field artillery troops fire candy out of a vehicle-mounted HIMARS rocket launcher into a crowd of screaming children wearing halloween costumes

mattblaze, 6 months ago to random

"Mastodon is great because it gives you tools to curate your own experience without depending on any centralized authority. Also, everyone here needs to follow these 5000 rules I made for what and how they should post."