james

@james@jvalleroy.me

I contribute to free and open source software projects such as FreedomBox and Debian. I also play games on Steam Deck.
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@james@jvalleroy.me

I visited Michigan Central Station in Detroit today for a free self-guided tour, then I stopped by the food trucks nearby and had an excellent sandwich.

Bridge with potted flowering plants and overhead lights leading to the Michigan Central Station building in the distance.

Alt...Bridge with potted flowering plants and overhead lights leading to the Michigan Central Station building in the distance.

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Debian » 🤖
@debian@framapiaf.org

New Debian Developers and Maintainers (May and June 2024) bits.debian.org/2024/07/new-de

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Cory Doctorow »
@pluralistic@mamot.fr

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: The true, tactical significance of Project 2025; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2024/07/14/fra

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An X-ray of a broken femur. On either side of the fracture is a elephant (cropped from a medieval illumination) facing one another, in the livery of the GOP logo.

Alt...An X-ray of a broken femur. On either side of the fracture is a elephant (cropped from a medieval illumination) facing one another, in the livery of the GOP logo.

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james »
@james@jvalleroy.me

Upgraded my table to one that's big enough for board games.

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FreedomBox »
@freedomboxfndn@mastodon.social

FreedomBox 24.14 has been released! This one adds a new "Automatic repair" option to the Diagnostics page. When enabled, it will attempt to fix some issues that cause diagnostics to fail.

discuss.freedombox.org/t/freed

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james »
@james@jvalleroy.me

I signed up for a pickleball beginner's class in a few weeks. Hope it's a little easier than tennis!

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james »
@james@jvalleroy.me

devtool is like gbp pq, but for yocto.

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james »
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Hardware bring-up is really hard. Especially when there's no docs, and no one wants to share information.

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FreedomBox »
@freedomboxfndn@mastodon.social

FreedomBox 24.6 released to Debian (unstable) with several fixes related to the setup, uninstall, and backup/restore for Wordpress and Zoph apps.

discuss.freedombox.org/t/freed

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james »
@james@jvalleroy.me

Took my bike to the park. There was a big paved trail, but some small hills make it quite difficult. Or I'm just out of shape.

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james »
@james@jvalleroy.me

Started playing through Shadowrun Returns, been doing a couple missions a day. You can tell it's a bit low-budget because you can't backtrack to previous areas. Still pretty fun though, and there are usually a few different ways to get past each obstacle.

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james »
@james@jvalleroy.me

TIL: If your "serial port" data is garbled, it might be due to bitrate / parity / etc. Or it could be due to mismatched voltage!

"Serial" can refer to either RS232 or TTL (and possibly others). And in my case, none of the documentation bothered to specify which one to use.

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james »
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According to my city council, we can't add density because traffic concerns. Car-dependency has become a perceived limit to city growth.

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james »
@james@jvalleroy.me

Always try to do something the "dumb" way before you try to do it the "smart" way. You can work toward a better design after you have something working.


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james »
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Interesting that How to Design Programs uses "first" and "rest" instead of the usual "car" and "cdr". They are synonyms of course, but it seems like a good decision for teaching the concepts, without needing to bring up historical context for otherwise meaningless names.

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james »
@james@jvalleroy.me

I've been trying to follow kickboxing workout videos on youtube. Now I am very sore.

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james »
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Making some small changes to the shaarli package in Debian to improve install process and tests.

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james »
@james@jvalleroy.me

I tried to make something like drunken noodles. Except I was missing some of the ingredients. Turned out pretty good though.

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james »
@james@jvalleroy.me

I've been listening to this song a lot recently:
https://iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=f1QGnq9jUU0

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james »
@james@jvalleroy.me

Just set up a new snac2 server. This one is on my main FreedomBox server, so hopefully will keep it going for a longer time.

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