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urusan

@urusan@fosstodon.org

Java developer by day, Julia developer by night.

Amateur philosopher

Sometimes funny...

Working Dad

Controversial things about me:
Everyone: transhumanist, into AI (art)
Right-wing: polyamorous (married), agnostic atheist, leftist, working class consciousness
Leftist: corporate drone by day, loyal citizen of the US (but a serious reformer), former libertarian

I hope you can look past all that though, we people need to stick together

Lives with: Wife, T (son), and A (daughter).

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mtomczak, to rust

I'm excited about the potential for in embedded automotive programming... But they really should've chosen a different language name for marketing reasons alone. ;)

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@colinsmatt11 @nicemicro @mtomczak Automobiles have had electric programming for over a century.

urusan,
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@colinsmatt11 @nicemicro @mtomczak Yes.

Admittedly, the switch count has historically been pretty low...

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This is a pretty interesting Rust stack:
https://youtu.be/luOgEhLE2sg

Tauri in particular seems like a much better solution than Electron:
https://tauri.app/
https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri

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Undertale is the enduring legacy of Homestuck

urusan,
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@steffo Well, what I'm thinking about is that Toby Fox was heavily influenced by Homestuck, but Undertale has had more cultural staying power and spin-offs.

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This kid's show, Blaze and the Monster Machines (about anthropomorphic monster trucks), seems to have the message that there's a technical solution to EVERYTHING.

urusan, to random
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As messy as kinetic sand is... it's still less messy than real sand...

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This is pretty funny and extraordinarily nerdy
https://youtu.be/Ae9EKCyI1xU

I also can't help but feel like there are some real practical implications hidden in this nominally silly pile of computer science.

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"Nobody cares about social media decentralization".

That sentence isn't new to me.

You know what? People have been telling me that for five years.

And for most of the time, they were right.

But I've been beating that drum non-stop, and haven't let up.

Now 16,656 follow me on Mastodon because they care enough about social media decentralization.

I'm not going to stop talking about it until the entire Internet cares about social media decentralization!

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@FediThing @atomicpoet My wife was listening to a podcast about the top 10 US cities in population decline.

The first 8 were all suffering from a lack of good job opportunities as well as high crime rates, mostly rust belt cities that are still hurting even today from historical events.

The top 2, however, were Jackson, Mississippi and Flint, Michigan. The narrator even mentioned that Jackson looked like a pretty good city from a city statistics standpoint.

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@FediThing @atomicpoet Yup
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_water_crisis

Here's a YouTube video summarizing the situation in Jackson https://youtu.be/xOdF7A1ry7E

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Hey Fedi, any suggestions for organizing good code reviews on a sizable team?

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I'm curious, why does kdenlive have the "Shutdown computer after renderings" option? Is that something people might commonly want?

I guess if you're leaving it on to render overnight, but don't want to be wasting power, or something like that?

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@benjaminhollon I was surprised when I recently tested how much energy my computers used when idle.

The more powerful desktop computers were especially power hungry.

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@benjaminhollon I forget the exact numbers, but most of my computers were in the tens of watts range while not doing anything and wouldn't go to sleep automatically.

At the low end is my server, which is a small machine and I remember that it only pulls 8W when idle.

At the high end was a new high end desktop which draws 60W while idle. With the GPU, that goes up to 400W, regardless of what the GPU is doing. Max GPU and GPU idle are the same. The overall draw can go higher with high CPU loads.

urusan,
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@benjaminhollon I was pretty shocked to find this out as well. I was originally going to use it as an always on server but decided against spending all that electricity.

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@benjaminhollon I used a Kill-a-Watt, it measures at the AC wall socket.

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Fun fact: Since fruit is still alive in your kitchen, whenever you cut up an apple, millions have fallen to your blade.

urusan,
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@benjaminhollon That doesn't really change much about the situation...

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A thing that's a big frustration to me is Microsoft bought my favorite Android keyboard (SwiftKey) awhile back, and roughly the moment they bought it they stopped ALL feature work on it. So I've got some minor but persistent UI complaints about SwiftKey, like you can't enable a language's accents without enabling its autocomplete, or you can't (since Microsoft bought it) disable Flow. These fixes will never happen, no matter how many people request it. https://support.swiftkey.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/115002583005-Disable-flow-AND-gesture-

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@mcc Don't forget option 3: at least one open source alternative gets so good that it becomes the standard...leading to the company that owns the proprietary product to shut it down (or base their product on the open source version).

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@mcc Also, alas, all of this only applies to consumer software.

Industry-specific software can stay proprietary for decades with no real open source competition. Most industry-specific software is 90% open source under the hood, but that last 10% is the difference between a working product and a mere framework for a working product.

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