John

Writer, photographer, recovering physicist.

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[John @9bladed]

Great working with @WIRED and publishing this piece on #gaming and memory

[WIRED @WIRED]

Old games are like memories. There's almost a time-capsule-like quality to be found in them. https://t.co/wl4QIwDpfW

[John @9bladed]

@NCGreen_1776 @nicoledonawho @Penn @mcneilcenter Doubtful, if you know just a little of current events @Penn. For context here, my starting salary in the writing program as a lecturer was 48k (6 years ago), less than I made a postdoc before that. Now up around 60k, full time. And this is a better paid lecturer position here.

[Harvard Academic Workers - UAW (HAW-UAW) @HAWorkers]

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[John @9bladed]

The claims of more people than ever on Twitter...how many are just here for front-row seats to this train wreck?

[John @9bladed]

@laskin In short, you can join any server (they talk to each other, like an email address). I'm on a big one (https://t.co/OuAUVZFRKK and could invite you) but there a ton of cool small servers if you want a nice "local" group: https://t.co/8AZL3XQdvm and see https://t.co/E6Bmf3EiOA

[John @9bladed]

For those taking the jump to #Mastodon (it's a real nice place!) here's me: https://t.co/7CldzejSW1 Honestly I'm about as active there as anywhere, which is to say not much, but it has become energetic and more exciting in the #Fediverse. #TwitterIsDead #TwitterMigration

[John @9bladed]

@hardpenguin13 True, I bet in some sectors they account for nearly all (like universities that use outlook/google exclusively)

[John @9bladed]

@hardpenguin13 Yup, agreed

[John @9bladed]

@hardpenguin13 Stats? Google is very popular but from my quick search Google plus Microsoft is less (maybe equal?) than half of email users. Bit more in business. Outlook is way behind Gmail. Either way, not the same in scope or lock-in as social media. I agree they are too big in either case

[John @9bladed]

@daviwil @bterlson Me neither! An open decentralized platform has some perks out turns out 🙂

[John @9bladed]

@daviwil @bterlson I just learned about self hosting a simple redirect, so you can use your own domain but whatever Mastodon instance: https://t.co/6OX2qyDztT

[John @9bladed]

Do people actually use the default Twitter website/app? It has so many ads, suggestions, random "trending" or whatever, who other people follow or random reply they got, ....I really don't understand how that keeps people on there, give me the basic timeline on #Mastodon any day

[Guix HPC Project @GuixHpc]

Now's a good time to join the growing #GNU #Guix, #HPC, and #OpenScience communities on Mastodon, the federated social media!

👉 https://t.co/BZBpsbAguV

[John @9bladed]

@alexkehayias https://t.co/7CldzeAVY1 I use it about as much as Twitter, which is to say not at all usually :)

[John @9bladed]

@daviwil @SqrtMinusTwo @GuixHpc The change was this one, the reason being that the glibc-for-fhs package can be overwritten by another package in the container propagating glibc (or something like that): https://t.co/FEgoYGv8Ss

[John @9bladed]

@daviwil @SqrtMinusTwo @GuixHpc Ah, I thought the LD_LIBRARY_PATH being needed was weird, as the container should have a glibc that uses a global ld cache. Turns out there was a bug introduced with a recent change. Hopefully have a proper fix soon, reverting the change locally it works without that path.

[John @9bladed]

@liberachat @element_hq It seems this has happened again, at least in #guix and #nonguix from what I can see

[John @9bladed]

@daviwil Nonguix's steam package shows you the full complement of what to share for hardware access too, if you need GPU access

[John @9bladed]

@daviwil @SqrtMinusTwo @GuixHpc Missed the stream but glad to see someone playing with the FHS container! This worked for me for Discord (with /lib and /lib/nss to LD_LIBRARY_PATH): "guix shell -C -F -N coreutils gcc:lib -D ungoogled-chromium --preserve='^DISPLAY$' --preserve='^XAUTHORITY$' --share=$XAUTHORITY

[John @9bladed]

@GuixHpc Thanks for highlighting this work (I wrote the patches)! I'll be looking to add to that recent cookbook entry and/or a blog post to show some tips on working with this.