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We have the millennium prizes in mathematics. There should be a similar prizes in computer science. Here's 5 problems I suggest for the list. Maybe they're too hard, I'm not sure.

* Synchronizing audio and video streams.
* Detecting an external display has been plugged in. Especially if that display is a projector.
* Establishing that everything is correctly set up at the start of a video conference call. Especially verifying audio is working, and unmuted.
* Bluetooth. Especially emulating the straightforward operation we can do with wired devices: unplugging from one and plugging into the other.
* Printers. Making them work.

So today I got to explain to my very much not online coworkers what UwU is. Thanks, Kubernetes.

I've just read the latest Nix community trash fire^W^Wopen letter (save-nix-together.org).

The commentary on Eelco sitting on leadership roles and not doing anything + not allowing contributions fully reflects my experience with joining the #NixOS infra team. When I expressed interest to join the infra team when it was clearly understaffed and malfunctioning, this was blocked for **6 months** by Eelco, even though I was supported by the foundation board member nominally in charge of infra.

food (vegan), trains 

@tastytea@very.tastytea.de I'm reminded of that guy who took an airfryer into a Dutch train, plugged it into a power socket, and fried a snack - and this somehow worked

SimpleX 

In case you were considering SimpleX, this is an actual quote from its founder, in response to criticism about their misleading marketing:

"Most marketing is to some extent exaggeration, and you are saying that we are not allowed to exaggerate at all."

Certainly not someone I would trust with private communications, with that attitude.

(Source: github.com/markqvist/Reticulum)

I originally started using it for its auto timetabling feature, but it turns out to have a lot of other cool stuff!

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Also, if you've been playing OpenTTD and hadn't heard of JGRPP (JGR's Patch Pack) yet, you *really* want to try that - it has a ton of quality-of-life improvements and I don't think I'd want to play without it again (if you're using NixOS, it's packaged as openttd-jgrpp)

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Really enjoy it (/s) when two different train drivers disagree about whose train is going to continue on to my destination, and the trip planner and the station signage don't agree with each other either

@sindarina I wonder how far you'd get with some tiny "autonomous" robots (PCBs on wheels basically) that do nothing but randomly wander around things-that-look-like-sidewalks and emit a MAC address

Your reminder that posting fascist shit with a 'dunking' caption is still posting fascist shit

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self-meta 

Time to mute that memes account that frequently posts un-CWed dunking on fascist shit, I guess

I broadly like my Glove80 keyboard but the tenting system really is atrociously bad

@betalars@chaos.social The DPA over here barely makes any effort at all... likely because they are not getting enough funding (which seems deliberate)

@silvermoon82@strangeobject.space I know that there are at least some adtech companies that do, yeah

treingeweld 

@StroomAfwaarts Het gaat niet om redenen, maar om oorzaken. Dingen hebben oorzaken ongeacht of die oorzaken als rechtvaardiging kunnen fungeren; en met alleen maar zeggen "dit willen we niet" los je het probleem niet op.

writing prompt: you are overworking yourself and suffering. your robot roommate decides that this requires action under the first law of robotics and takes you to town to enjoy fun activities.

title: "if you don't schedule time for selfcare, your machine will schedule it for you"

Sinds een artikel van de Correspondent benoemde hoe berichtgeving over verkeersongelukken altijd de nadruk legt op de fietser/voetganger maar nooit op de bestuurder van het motorvoertuig, al dan niet via passief taalgebruik, kan ik het niet meer ont-zien.

Echt bizar hoe wijdverspreid dit fenomeen is. Nagenoeg 100% van de nieuwsberichten, zelfs van de partijen die *niet* van het ANP overnemen, heeft dit probleem.

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