Mastodawn

Val Packett 🧉21h ago

i heard you like firefox so we put a firefox in your firefox so you can fire when you fox

#gtk #gnome #casilda #wayland

Val Packett 🧉1d ago

ReindeR Rustema 3d ago

@notjustbikes about SUVs that are too dangerous.

In Orlando a lady in a huge monster truck drove her machine on top of a Lamborghini sports car in the parking lot of Crunch Fitness. Because she couldn't see the car.

Not fake, confirmed by journalists. https://www.nu.nl/325970/video/bestuurder-parkeert-pick-uptruck-op-peperdure-lamborghini-in-vs.html

Another angle: https://youtu.be/mR1ojA5tlSs?si=zT_HHZ2TA9WcIJKP

Val Packett 🧉1d ago

LMAO I was wondering what was up with the extruder temperature reading going haywire on my 3d printer (BIQU BX), if it was cold air entering from outside or the thermistor somehow going bad…

one reddit post said "it's the HDMI cable" (haha yes the print head is connected with that)

unplug, blow some air like it's a NES cartridge, plug, restart klipper

tada, perfectly stable reading. amazing

Val Packett 🧉1d ago

⛧-440729 [sophie raven]2d ago

tip: web requests should not be measured in Hz [hertz] as that is only used for periodic frequencies, which random events (like requests hitting a web server) are not!

measure them in Bq [becquerel] instead

Val Packett 🧉3d ago

In better news, a (very silly) source of excessive battery drain under Linux on Snapdragon #aarch64laptops was found, and it was totally external to the SoC: the superspeed retimers (Parade PS883x) were always on even with no USB3/DP devices plugged in, lol. And those little things are really energy-intensive!

Screen-on idle, min brightness: 3.8W → 2.5W

Screen-off idle: 2.5W → 1.3W

Now we're talking. There's still more to shave off but this was huge.

[PATCH] usb: typec: mux: ps883x: Power the retimer off when not in use - Konrad Dybcio

Val Packett 🧉3d ago

The #GitHub Slopocalypse is really real. I didn't even see the mangled merges thing, I was just typing a PR description yesterday and the text composer just went nuts!

The WORLD'S BIGGEST CODE FORGE is going absolutely DOWN THE TOILET in quality. Absolutely incredible accomplishment of the whole current "AI" phenomenon

Val Packett 🧉3d ago

Sebastian Wick 4d ago

Trying to answer a question no sane person ever had to ask: How Hard Is It, To Open a File?

This one is about the great POSIX idea of a filesystem, and why you could not play your games and open chrome for a few days.

https://blog.sebastianwick.net/posts/how-hard-is-it-to-open-a-file/

How Hard Is It To Open a File?

It’s a question I had to ask myself multiple times over the last few months. Depending on the context the answer can be: very simple, just call the standard library function extremely hard, don’t trust anything If you are an app developer, you’re lucky and it’s almost always the first answer. If you develop something with a security boundary which involves files in any way, the correct answer is very likely the second one.

swick's blog

Val Packett 🧉4d ago

Modal Collective 5d ago

We have a new blog post on the state of Reflection, our local-first collaborative note taking app 🪴✍️

https://modal.cx/blog/reflection-spring-update

A few highlights 🧵

Reflection Spring Update — Modal Collective

Developer Labs, p2panda GObject bindings, and experimental macOS builds

Modal Collective

Val Packett 🧉4d ago

ww 🩶4d ago

chat, human rights are slop

Val Packett 🧉5d ago

if david "not enough white people" railsson can get a free framedork 13 mega epic edition, can someone tell lenovo to send me a yoga slim 7x with the x2 elite?

i don't make silly prepackaged arch configs but i write device trees and land them in linux sooo

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