Michal @michal@kottman.xyz
Father, software engineer and DIY tinkerer
Joined May 2018
Trying to do something on Windows: "Windows is so slow that it took me 90 minutes to accomplish 5 minutes worth of work."
https://gavinhoward.com/2022/09/windows-will-die-90-minutes-to-do-5-minutes-of-work/
That's my experience too. I dread the time whenever I have to use Windows to do something, since I boot it rarely. And then it realizes "oooh, oooh, a chance to download and apply *all the updates*! It's now or never!"
And then the "disk activity" graph stays at 100% for at least half an hour even on an SSD...
Sometimes even a traffic jam can be a pleasant experience, giving time to experience the beauty...
Fullscreen Matrix green code rain
https://rezmason.github.io/matrix/
The Github page has a few more modes: https://github.com/Rezmason/matrix
When you let developers create UI
Found in [1] via web archive [2].
[1] https://blog.codinghorror.com/this-is-what-happens-when-you-let-developers-create-ui/
[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20160430022051/http://okcancel.com/comic/4.html
I just learned that the Odroid M1 has both a SATA and M.2 port, *and* comes with Petitboot, which makes installing an OS super convenient - it can be done directly on the device by adding storage and connecting to a network.
From their website max power draw is ~5W at max load, I wonder if it works with JBM585 M.2 -> SATA adapter and could serve as the basis of a DIY NAS.
@unfa I've been playing around with IPFS few years ago, but I've hit the same availability issues. For example IPNS (which allows mutability/updates) would take forever to resolve, defeating its purpose. I haven't tried recently.
Overall I like the idea of "permalink network filesystem" but IMHO the team's focus on "web3" distracts from making the project perform better.
If you are using Luvit [1] (Lua Node.js) with the coro-spawn [2] package to execute thousands of subprocesses (e.g. batch file processing), and need to capture stsou/stderr, make sure to pass `stdio={nil,true,true}` to *not* open stdin.
Otherwise you will quickly run out of file descriptors: `EMFILE: too many open files`.
[1] https://luvit.io
[2] https://github.com/luvit/lit/blob/master/deps/coro-spawn.lua
@hacknorris Emulation? Yes, it supports quite a number of platforms, Gameboy included.
That said, it's discontinued, but I'm looking forward to ODROID-Go Ultra: https://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=45143 if I can't get my hands on a Steamdeck.
Headway - a self-hostable maps + geocoder + routing stack based on OpenStreetMap + Docker
Mushroom is a reproductive organ of an organism called fungus.
Bon apetit.
@fribbledom I suggest watching "Civilizations at the End of Time" series by Isaac Arthur: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIIOUpOge0LvHsTP5fm8oxB1qPS54sTMk
(and generally everything else from that chsnnel too :)
From a man page:
Bugs
The man page is longer than the program.
It's like watching the countdown for a rocket launch - I've got nothing to do with it, but it's curiously fascinating to wait for *thing* to happen.
@rompe Posted too early, the chips are still imported. Maybe some day... https://youtu.be/IS5ycm7VfXg
#Android feature request - mlock() the default camera app to memory, so that when I launch it, it doesn't take an eternity to get to a usable state. I need to take the photo *now*
My safety matches are so safe they won't even light up on purpose.
