jokeyrhyme @jokeyrhyme@aus.social

Well, my #Platform for my #ZSA #Moonlander keyboard arrived: https://www.zsa.io/moonlander/platform/

Its weight (due to being almost entirely metal) and its the rubber feet are very effective at keeping this in place: it doesn't slip around like my bare Moonlander would

No more needing double-sided tape or blue-tac

It's very sturdy and configurable, and it's quite easy to get repeat the same angle on both sides, which I find very hard to do with the thumb cluster angles on a bare Moonlander

#mechanicalkeyboard

This weekend, I learned just enough new #Rust to finish a major rework I've been thinking about for a while

I even felt proud enough to put together a presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Yo03Mym-INvh2Vuvx5irhAavPYGxeG_KZc2FS4KfYkc/edit?usp=sharing

#rustlang

Haha, this poor technician character on #Alias has to recreate a C/C++ project from photographic memory at gun point

I can't do manual memory management at the best of times, let alone under duress :)

It looks like they're using #KDE , but I can't identify the code editor (but it looks like a terminal one like `emacs` and `vim`)

Huh, in the #Alias universe, the NSA has an Echelon system that scans every conversation on planet earth looking for specific keywords

It's amusing and chilling just how much of this show (2001-2006) has been demonstrated to be true by whistleblowers Manning (2010) and Snowden (2013)

The show does end up being pro-USA-intelligence, but characters do occasionally question the jurisdiction and unconstitutional powers at play here

Today's #rust #linux project is up :)

I built this plugin ( https://gitlab.com/jokeyrhyme/pop-launcher-plugin-networkmanager-rs ) so that I could see #NetworkManager controls in results that come back from `pop-launcher` ( https://github.com/pop-os/launcher )

I'm using `onagre` ( https://github.com/oknozor/onagre ) to query/display/action those results

https://iliana.fyi/blog/software-supply-chain/
> This is where the supply chain metaphor — and it is just that, a metaphor — breaks down. If a microchip vendor enters an agreement and fails to uphold it, the vendor’s customers have recourse. If an open source maintainer leaves a project unmaintained for whatever reason, that’s not the maintainer’s fault, and the companies that relied on their work are the ones who get to solve their problems in the future. Using the term “supply chain” here dehumanizes the labor involved in developing and maintaining software as a hobby.

#opensource #supplychain

I put some masking tape over the LED screen on our oven, and it is astonishing just how much less light hits the bedroom door at night now

Why aren't ambient light sensors in every device yet? Annoying that simple auto-brightness isn't baseline

Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle at work: you can't ask me about how excited I am about my current assignments, not without lowering my excitement about my current assignments

Heh, I watched another episode of #Alias over lunch
In this one, they have to clone 2x stolen 3.5" floppy disks in under 90 seconds so they can put them back without anyone noticing, hilarious
So much tension as the CIA agents are rushing the technicians, haha