Jon Dubovsky

@jond
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Bicycling programmer in mostly #embedded #c & #cpp & #python in off-grid #solar (and some #solarpunk). Into road, tour, gravel #bike and #cycling fun with friends; #hiking, #books, #machining, #community building, #ham radio, you name it. Living in the mountains of southwestern Virginia, USA. #fedi22 #nobot
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Jon Dubovsky1d ago
Cat Hicks1d ago

My dad: I'm buying your book

Me on the phone: I will just bring you a copy

My dad: YOU NEED A GUARANTEED SALE. I'M BUYING YOUR BOOK AND SO IS YOUR UNCLE

My uncle from the other room: you will sell two books don't turn this down

My dad: no one even buys books anymore don't turn this down

I stg 🥲🥲🥲

Jon Dubovsky3d ago
Undercat3d ago
Allow me to tell a happy little coming out story for Pride, because there’s too much doom on my feed and I’d like to post something nice. 1/4
Jon Dubovsky5d ago

I don't usually do #bike pose shots, but it turns out we were having so much fun yesterday that this is the only decent picture I made.   Lots of riding along a creek, turning and having to ride over the ridge to the next creek ... rinse and repeat!

Thanks to the Usual Suspects for hauling all over rural Bland County and beyond. I'd asked for a good #cycling adventure and that's what we got!

Jon DubovskyMay 29

Happy Valley is quite a happy place! Until you get to the last 700 m and it goes straight @$!&# up.

(Still a really lovely #bike ride, just a really slow one!) #cycling

Jon DubovskyMay 28
Jeremiah FieldhavenMay 28

So my systems recently updated to rsync 3.4.3, and as soon as that happened my backup system - which does incremental backups using multiple --compare-dest= arguments - started to fail on anything but a full backup.

Revert to 3.4.1 and it works.

So I go look at the source in GitHub to see what might have changed, because there doesn't seem to be anything relevant in the changelog.

Since 3.4.1, 36 commits by "tridge and claude"

Oh for fuck's sakes.

Jon DubovskyMay 27
L'égrégore André ꕭꕬMay 26
If you're struggling to sleep in this heatwave then I have a tip for you that never fails. Take a medium-sized towel. Put it in the freezer for an hour. Take the towel out of the freezer and then smother an oil tycoon with it.
Jon DubovskyMay 24
Show threadGabriele SveltoMay 24
I haven't read either site in ages but I can confidently say that you can stop reading both Tomshardware and Neowin. If they're willing to put out this kind of slop with blatant mistakes in it you can assume the rest of their reporting is also slop, and will likely be either misleading, confusing or flat out false.
Jon DubovskyMay 23
Show threadmhoyeMay 23
Anyway in conclusion computers are pretty great when people remember they're about people and when they're both sometimes difficult thanks for coming to my ted talk.
Jon DubovskyMay 17
Show threadFlorian WeschMay 17
@whitequark @zwol ah. The „Thank you for playing Wing Commander“ method of handling fatal errors :-)
Jon DubovskyMay 17

I missed out on last year's Tour de Floyd fund-raiser (a local #cycling event that disappeared here for a while but was just resurrected) but, this year, three friends came out and we rode it together under beautiful cool May skies with the red-winged blackbirds keeping us company.

Lots of tough hills but some really, really lovely roads and the most generous course volunteers I've seen in an age.