Troy Dowling

Vim, or neovim if you want to put some leg work in for vi with modern features.

It’s a beautiful bird until the horny little pricks find your chimney’s metal flashing at 5:00!

I prefer my accolades in the form of bonus cheques. I’ve got a git history for anyone else that matters

Very cool. Time to smassh my old gtypist high scores.

Give the article a read. Your answer is right at the top.

ToonStruck, remastered, or the shelved sequel ressurected. I’d like Burst to (exist again and) handle the development because they did a fantastic job the first time around!

Strangely topical for me. I wasted yesterday telling myself I was smart enough to make SwayWM on Wayland work well with my 1070. Should have trusted the warnings in the documentation; hubris cost me a weekend day!

I noticed I was blocked today when connecting via the same VPN I’ve used for years, including back when I was a user. That’s fuck up enough for me.

If you don’t mind me polling your opinion: do you recommend Graphene for someone previously used to Cyanogen / Lineage? I recently upgraded to a Pixel 8 from quite an old handset and I’m not particularly fond of the stock ROM. Much has changed since the last time I had to think about this stuff! I primarily care about privacy, and use my cell for little more than phone calls, messaging, and its camera.

I picked it up on the Steam winter sale. Been waiting to play this one for so long and can’t wait!

Yeah, it certainly can go that way unfortunately. I’m in favour of digitisation generally, but at a minimum it relies on:

1. Redundant storage (always), hosted and paid for by the government (in this case).
2. Published and documented open file formats.

I believe that, in general, things lost to time on the net violate one of those two rules. They either resided on a single privately held server which was discontinued, or the data was locked up in some proprietary file format which was inevitably replaced for the sake of selling the new software product.

The benefits of pulling this off correctly are enormous:

1. Data lasts a very long time.
2. Documents can be authenticated and change-controlled.
3. Documents can be shared with any number of users simultaneously.

Just cross your fingers we don’t wind up with that ridiculous chimp we saw in one of their previews.

Thanks to Britain, we now have swearing on the Internet.

I have heard it front to back, back to front, up or down, but never have I heard of a left-right wiper.

When I hitbthe B button instead of spacebar on my tiny, touchscreen cell phone.

Root access should be available from the moment my purchase payment clears. I paid, it’s my device.

The dietary illuminati hid their food pyramid atop the unfinished pyramid of the one dollar bill! It’s pyramids all the way down!

The perpetual year of the Linux desktop.

What a Barclay.