khm

@khm@mastodon.sdf.org

"His personality is forceful but not objectionable" -- Tri-City Herald

computer nerd at a national lab.

I help out with 9front sometimes.

when I see nazis, conspiracy wingnuts, pedo apologists, or any other repugnant shit, I block the whole instance. no time for that or the people who enable it.

posts here self-destruct within a month or so.

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mntmn, to random
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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.

khm,

@mntmn is the trackpad the only pointing device in the cards for Reform Next?

khm, 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

geerlingguy, to random
@geerlingguy@mastodon.social avatar

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

khm,

@mntmn @geerlingguy @lina how do I accomplish this

khm, to random

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

khm, to random

onboarding is like waterboarding but with bad ideas instead of water

khm, 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

postmarketOS, 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,

@postmarketOS time to get rid of my pinebook pro, I guess

kellyosullivan, to random
@kellyosullivan@mastodon.sdf.org avatar

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,

@kellyosullivan @augieray @cwgrody this is what we did but we also got hold of paxlovid prescriptions, which helped a lot by reducing the symptoms (less coughing, less crud in the air).

final outcome was I gave it to my wife before we realized what was happening, but we managed to protect the kids at least.

khm, to random

I remember when the "traveling salesman problem" was a route-optimization exercise and not an actual salesman traveling to your town and causing route-optimization problems

https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/education/2023/08/10/jcps-bus-delays-district-says-its-fixing-issues-after-first-day-chaos/70566197007/

khm, to random

"Config-free text editor and IDE limited to VT100."

...and color support, I guess. Kids these days got no respect and/or idea what a vt100 was...

khm, 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

khm, 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

khm, to random

thanks for letting me know

khm, 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, 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, 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, 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

c20d, to random
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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!

khm,

@BruceMirken @c20d I went to school in a place so rural I had an hour and twenty minute commute each way, on multiple buses. Given extracirriculars I frequently would leave in the dark and get home in the dark. Not once did I decide the right answer was to dick with the clocks in order to make my life convenient.

On the other hand, not once did anyone give me any justification for starting school so goddamn early. People are trying to fix the wrong problem here.

khm,

@BruceMirken @c20d oh look, asshole drivers ruining everything for everyone case ,320

imagine murdering eight children and being like "this is the clock's fault. the president did this."

khm,

@BruceMirken haha "we tried dictating his lived experience to him, and we're all out of ideas!"

drewdevault, to random
@drewdevault@fosstodon.org avatar

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

khm,

@drewdevault no_uname

prma, to random
@prma@fosstodon.org avatar

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.

khm,

@cjk @prma there are terrible CLAs out there, but there are less terrible ones out there as well. The Apache CLA is a decent example of a CLA focused on preventing poison-pill contributions (i.e., a contributor later revoking license to their contributions, or a contributor providing code that violates their own patents, setting the org up for litigation).

Having to fine-tooth-comb a given CLA to decide if it's horrifying or not is a lot of work but in some environments it's worth it.

khm, 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!

khm,

@mntmn figures NXP would fumble that. just curious. same for the keyboard, no hurry, just idle curiosity!

imx8mq is still the best for me, since I've got 9front on nvme, 9front-compatible wifi, and a debian that boots from SD when I have to!

drewdevault, to random
@drewdevault@fosstodon.org avatar

NixOS 🤮

khm,

@drewdevault yes, this: I feel exactly about nixos as I do about git. cool tech, not my shit, pain in the ass to work with. see also attached image

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