About death
I’m on a train again. This time I’m going home from Hudiksvall after a
grueling weekend.
I went from Malmö on Thursday morning and worked the entire day on
trains. I arrived in Ljusdal after close to nine hours. I checked in
at the only hotel in town again and, after a quick meal and glass of
wine, went over to a very sad dad with a bottle of Macallan. We didn’t
empty it but we sure tried. I got back to the hotel pretty late.
Wasn’t able to sleep much.
The day after it was my dad’s wife’s funeral. Met up at dad’s … ⌘ Read more
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I wrote up a lab report on my daily to-do tracking “system”, mostly so I could stop thinking about it. The report is at http://a.9srv.net/reports/daily.pdf and the referenced code is at http://txtpunk.com/daily/index.html.
Stop calling everything AI ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.8.1 Release
The Ignite Realtime Community is pleased to announce the release of Openfire 4.8.1. This release addresses a number of issues found with the major 4.8.0 release a few months back.
Interested in getting started? You can download installers of Openfire here. Our documentation contains an [upgrade guide](https://download.igniterealtime … ⌘ Read more
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https://blog.arpinux.org/posts/2024/2024-03-02-nakedeb-sway-tutorial.html un setup #sway #debian aux petits oignons
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Self Hosted vs. NBN Co
🌐 Self Hosted vs. NBN CoTL;DR: How I (James) and my neighbour (Mike) fought NBN Co for ~10 years to get Fibre to the Premises rolled out in our local area. Many said “good luck”, and “NBN will never budge”, etc, but we stuck to our guns and often responded “just watch us”. Here we are a decade later, finally with Fibre to the Premises. Fibre is sooo great. 😊 We now experience a guaranteed reliability of 99.95% SLA instead of the daily drop-outs and barely making one 9’s of relia … ⌘ Read more
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Isode: Cobalt 1.5 – New Capabilities
OverviewThis release adds new functionality and features to Cobalt, our web based role and user provisioning tool. You can find out more about Cobalt here.
Multiple Cobalt ServersThis enhancement enables multiple Cobalt servers to be run against a single directory. There are two reasons for this.
- In a distributed … ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: ejabberd 23.04
This new ejabberd 23.04 release includes many improvements and bug fixes, as well as some new features.
- Many SQL database improvements
mod_mamsupport for XEP-0425: Message Moderation
- New
mod_muc_rtbl, Real-Time Block List for MUC rooms
- Binaries useErlang/OTP 25.3, and changes in containers
A more detailed explanatio … ⌘ Read more
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Status 2024-02-25
Status report again!
Sitting in front of the wood stove in my country cottage. It’s nice
and quiet. Meanwhile it seems NordicFuzzCon is going on in Malmö.
4,000 furries. I had no idea! That seems fun!
On the other hand I just read that at least 10,000 were protesting in
Malmö today against the Israel-Palestine conflict. I’ve seen the much
smaller protest … ⌘ Read more
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https://github.com/aalmkainzi/htmc a library for creating html document in c #clang
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Presentation at Sundsgymnasiet school
I was invited by Mats, a teacher at the Sundsgymnasiet school in
Vellinge, to give a talk to his students, all three years of the
Technical Programme. Sundsgymnasiet is an upper secondary school,
probably what in the US would be called senior highschool, with
students normally starting in the year they turn 16 and finishing
at 19.
I didn’t know what to expect, really. Mats told me I could talk about
whatever I wanted, so of course I talked about … ⌘ Read more
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Keyboard layouts
I’ve updated my article about keyboard layouts with XKB after 13
years!
https://hack.org/mc/writings/xkb.html
I’ve edited it so the focus is on the layouts if you just want to grab
them and don’t need any handholding. Also added Thinkpad layouts along
with the original HHKB layouts.
It now also includes instructions for use with the River and Sway
Wayland compositors as well as X11.
I will probably update it soon with some images of different Thinkpad
keyboards. ⌘ Read more
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Det er selvfølgelig åben sovs, og det er kun ca 100 linjer typescript og html.
https://gitlab.com/pyjam.as/cube
…men man skal have en GAN smartcube (eller komme på besøg hos mig) for at bruge det. ¯\_ (ツ) _/¯ ⌘ Read more
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@prologic@twtxt.net pretty nothing berger. The “blowout” was pretty tame coming from Linus kill yourself now. The world will be a better place” Torvold.
The issue was a dev making a “fix” that didn’t have a documented problem. They reused some specific low level functions they did not understand the reason they were made.
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