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Full Stack Clojure web app engineer
Joined Jul 2021
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@RandamuMaki @pluralistic Oh, we can do better than "just dead weight". Be the "indispensable linchpin" of a system or two, valiantly fighting against any and every change to it via malicious compliance and concern trolling.
Don't approve those PRs... unless, of course, you notice a hard-to-detect bug, then let it through with great regret and concern. When it ultimately blows up, tell everyone you told them so, and later use this event as evidence when you push back against change.
My old usbc charger stopped charging to 100%, only going to 95%. Then I got a new one, a GAN, and my completely depleted laptop recharged to 100% -- for a week or two. Now it is back to stopping at 95%. Charging it while it's off doesn't seem to help it get above 95%. What's going on, and why did it charge to 100% for a while? #charging #thinkpad #TwoBatteries
I use a massive org file to tangle my straigt.el emacs configuration. I just spent hours cleaning up a rampant `downcase-dwim`which was most certainly NOT `dwim`. I'm not sure when it happened, but somehow it got by my git commit screening and broke EVERYTHING. #emacs #LetterCasing
@shinmera thank you for the insight. I am not as you describe, but I know people who are. Thanks
In the past I've had winning help from #Mastodon. This time it came from #Reddit. And now my #keyboard is back in shape, thanks to the #BootMagic I didn't know I had! https://orys.us/wH
Help please: GU_OFF ?
I'm using an unmodified Planck dropshipped keyboard. It is mostly as represented here https://raw.githubusercontent.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/refs/heads/master/keyboards/planck/keymaps/default/keymap.c with the exception that the lowest-left key is 'shift' and not 'brite', although it would be nice if it were related to my keyboard backlight. See also https://config.qmk.fm/#/planck/rev7/LAYOUT_ortho_4x12, which seems to match except that both my spacebar buttons are, for now, really just space.
My toddler mashed some buttons for ten minutes before we realized where he was, and ever since then my GUI key is disabled. I have verified that it is, evidently, the GU_OFF command that was run, as it is strictly the GUI key that is disabled and even when I swap GUI and ALT (Meta) it remains the GUI key (even after it changes position) that simply does nothing. I have never installed my own firmware and mostly have just utilized the Dvorak layer. I really need my GUI key back. I've verified that it is the keyboard and not the system by using the keyboard on another, my Windows gaming box, and still there is no GUI key (there used to be, as it brought up the Windows start menu, which I used sometimes).
Any idea what could have disabled my GUI (Windows, Super) key on my Planck, and how I can get it back short of flashing the keyboard (I can't get to Flashing, but that's another post)?
Illustrating that os is struggling VS capitalism
https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/15/open-source-companies-that-go-proprietary-a-timeline/
@borkdude thank you for the introduction
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The Shepherd 1.0.0 released: the init system written in Scheme
https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/news/2024/12/the-shepherd-1.0.0-released/
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/news/2024/12/the-shepherd-1.0.0-released/
programming today: I thought I'd start with something little. Just get the latest General Conference talks in plain-text, as I've done for years.
Error: Syntax.
Error: my language version is too much older than some dependencies. Upgrade needed.
Error: my coding evironment is 30-version too old. Upgrade needed.
Error: my Java was too old, so upgraded.
Error: my system was missing a crucial tool (Pandoc. last time using this tool was on a different computer). Installed it, which also updated 22 system packages, including my printer stuff.
Status: my original web scraper is working beatifully. Fingers crossed that nothing else broke from the accidental updates...
@borkdude Great news! I don't know Eric or Oleksandr. What am I missing?
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Over the past few years, many people have unfortunately become more dependent on streaming media. But it's important to remember how streaming services can deprive you of important rights. Dis-services like Disney+ and Netflix mandate the use of a hardware-level backdoor called Widevine, giving them permanent access into deep components of your machine. Try video sites like the Blender Open Movies project instead.
@alcinnz I had this happen last night, with latex and a mysterious "b"
I want a usbc hub with two HDMI connections to be seen as two different displays, not as one oversize display. I have one old hub that manages this,but have had $ expense and frustration finding anything else with the same behavior. Insights please?
I spent 30 hours and a sick day debugging an issue I thought was my xorg setup when, in fact, it was a cruel #guix command combined with a bad version of the #LinuxKernel
@jwd630 it turns out it was an old piece of optimization borrowed from Doom emacs, where they had intentionally disabled garbage collection at the start and then intented to turn it back on later. I never turned it back on. Strange that this didn't come back to bite me until emacs 29
@javahippie ah hah! accessibility. I stand corrected!
@jwd630 @zrzz@emacs.ch it feels good to stop having that company popup, but I just had a crash when opening a browser link. Probably there is more going on here than I know. In any case, this emacs 29 is proving less stable than earlier, deprecated ones.
#CSS media queries are worth the time and effort to remove. Modern responsiveness doesn't require specific pixel values. Why did no one's code sense start tingling a warning that Media Queries were never a good idea? #ResponsiveDesign #DRY
Full Stack Clojure web app engineer
Joined Jul 2021
