JordiGH
The other day I wanted to share a video.
YouTube wanted me to login, give them my real name, provide an email address (wouldn't take a throwaway for an answer) and a phone number to text me (I don't have a phone).
I went to a #Peertube instance instead. They accepted my throwaway email address and my video. Didn't ask for personal information. And the upload and video playback worked great.
True story.
So, thank you @Chocobozzz and everyone else who worked on Peertube.
Gergely Nagy π
@valerauko @galaxis I'm running my instance on a $20 host, along with a bunch of other stuff. Biggest issue so far is disk space. But this is a tiny instance, me & a few friends & bots. Mind you, most space is occupied by remote media, so I'm aggressively deleting media older than 3 days.
Gergely Nagy π
Just free'd up ~5Gb of space in over a hundred unused, obsolete packages.
Why do I install random crap all the time? *sigh*
it's a :ffxiv_brd: nock life
unforeseen benefit of fediverse:
you learn about how diverse TLDs are nowadays
KDE
KDE devs will soon be receiving the Librem 5 dev kits. Look forward to Plasma Mobile running on the hardware chosen for @Purism 's open and privacy-protecting mobile phone.
anarcat
RT @magit_emacs@twitter.com
The first beta release of Forge is finally out. "Work with Git forges, such as Github and Gitlab, from the comfort of Magit and the rest of Emacs." https://emacsair.me/2018/12/19/forge-0.1/
π¦π: https://twitter.com/magit_emacs/status/1075511285964570626
Gergely Nagy π
Looks like I haven't removed cached remote media in a while. ~30Gb freed up already, and still going strong.
Gergely Nagy π
"10 things you didn't know about #keyboard #firmware" or "10 things everyone misunderstands about keyboard firmware".
I'd be hard pressed to keep it down to 10 things... would be an educational blog post, though. Perhaps I should write it.
deβ«hipu
Dear web x.0 (I lost count) websites,
the fact that you geolocated my IP address as registered in a certain country does not mean that I speak that country's language. I have configured my browser to send to you the list of languages I speak (in order of preference) in every fucking request, so kindly please use that.
Sincerely, yours,
Gergely Nagy π
Does anyone here have an #Atreus with either a pre-2016 PCB with an A* MCU, or the legacy Teensy2 variant? Someone who'd be up for testing a #Kaleidoscope firmware port on it?
(I'm not 100% done with the port yet, need to wire up a few things to make the variant selectable, but that'll be done in a few hours.)
Gergely Nagy π
@pamela Oof. That slogan is irrationally tempting me to order a tassel with a picture of David Hassel(hoff). Just to "prove" them wrong. For science.
Gergely Nagy π
@thomasfuchs Looks like a serial cable?
Gergely Nagy π
Mr. 15 months old stood in his small bed, leaning on its frame (about 75cm high). Then he pulled himself up, and almost managed to pull himself out completely.
This was genuinely scary to watch.
Gergely Nagy π
@liw I can only recommend keyboards with open source firmware... Wait, actually... I can also advise against them! It's another endless rabbit hole that sucks you in, and you keep tweaking and tweaking your firmware.
Flee while you can!
Gergely Nagy π
Naming things is hard. Still.
Gergely Nagy π
Shaved off almost a hundred bytes from my #firmware, keeping functionality the same.
:flan_hacker: :flan_cleaver: :flan_guns: :flan_pats:
Gergely Nagy π
@liw Yeah... :/
Very similar indeed. Just like in the home router/wifi AP case, many of these firmwares will become abandoned in just a few years, with all their bugs and all.
Gergely Nagy π
Granted, to be able to port an existing firmware to your hardware, you need to have a rough understanding of how to do that. That's a bit of investment one has to make initially, while when writing your own, you can just start hacking on day one.
But by going on your own, you'll end up in the same traps as everyone else. You'll pay a much higher price later (and not much later, not later enough to be able to ignore it).
Gergely Nagy π
I'm looking at another #keyboard interest check saying it's using open source #firmware. Why do I have the sinking feeling it's yet another custom one?
There are cases where developing keyboard firmware from scratch makes sense. But those cases are rare. There's a reasonable variety already: TMK, QMK, KLL, Kaleidoscope. Why not work with them? You'd get a lot of good stuff for free.
Gergely Nagy π
Watching a movie (Kill the Irishman), there's a scene showing a court. The first thing I notice? The court reporter using a #steno machine.
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