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@mogwai@fosstodon.org
- Github
- https://github.com/mogwa1
Standard-issue linux FOSS nerd.
Somehow obtained a PhD in physics and ended up in the micro-electronics industry.
In my spare time, I'm the lead developer of Kasts, a convergent podcast player which is a part of plasma mobile gear. https://invent.kde.org/plasma-mobile/kasts
Joined Dec 2020
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"Man Who Lost Everything In Crypto Just Wishes Several Thousand More People Had Warned Him"
https://www.theonion.com/man-who-lost-everything-in-crypto-just-wishes-several-t-1848764551
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Can you trap a galaxy in a crystal ball? I tried! Back in 2018 I took this image of the Milky Way through a crystal ball from ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile.
This toot is brought to you from a virtual machine connected through bluetooth to an android phone sharing a public wifi connection tunneled through wireguard to the home network.
Not sure if I should be proud or ashamed of that. π€
My kids and I are really excited about going to Maker Faire Gent tomorrow.
It's good to be able to go out again, experience new things and talk to like-minded nerds. ;-)
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Yesterday night I felt a sudden need to give Maui Shell a try. While trying to do so starting from @danctnix #PlasmaMobile on my non-pro #PinePhone did not end in success (I should have started with barebones), I must compliment the @plasmamobile developers for their hard work: It's gotten so much better, even on the limited hardware!
Honestly, if I had the time to redo my setup, I would totally try to do so on #PlasmaMobile!
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Well, I guess it's #introduction time with all the new people coming in.
I'm Jeroen, I'm a software engineer from Belgium. I'm part of the Nerdland crew, providing a podcast about science and tech news every month at nerdland.be.
I'm a privacy activist and Tor node hoster. Looking forward to seeing the Fediverse grow :)
I also like lame jokes and tweet in NL and EN.
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Also relevant to my #introduction - I am on the team that will be getting the first #NASA #JWST data of planets around other stars! Stay tuned for exoplanet results later this summer!
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@Tay0 Or you can just go here https://fosstodon.org/statuses_cleanup
Now give me boosts 
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What the fedi needs now is a way to get rid of old toots. Space will become critical. I use a utility at https://forget.codl.fr/about/
It's free and you can set the parameters as you like. Do your admins and instance a favor and get rid of your old tired takes, your cat pictures and out of date memes.
Feel free to boost.
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Tokodon 22.04 is out! This release is featuring an improved profile view and desktop mode! π
https://plasma-mobile.org/2022/04/26/plasma-mobile-gear-22-04/#tokodon #tokodon
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Plasma Mobile Gear β 22.04 is here, and improves the design of the user interface, adds support for callaudiod in dialer, and other new features and bugfixes in applications like Spacebar, Neochat and Tokodon.
https://plasma-mobile.org/2022/04/26/plasma-mobile-gear-22-04/
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#Python creator Guido van Rossum puts it plain and simple. Asked about what role python could play in the #web3 world, he says
βLet web3 die in a flaming ball of fire.β
https://twitter.com/gvanrossum/status/1508959260905918465?s=21&t=tyMjVkrRWAjh_Rpe_R5fdA
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How you end up in frustrating 'status update' meetings when you work for/with large orgs:
0. Start project and agree meetings cadence. Often weekly or monthly.
1. No-one has any time to actually do work because they're in other meetings
2. Any work that does get done can only be reviewed in meetings because no-one's got other time to look / give feedback.
3. People arrive to meetings late or have to leave early, so context is lost.
4. Work slows to a glacial pace, or in fact stops.
Last week the IT department at $ork rapidly deployed ZScaler "to mitigate attacks due to the ongoing conflict."
I thought it was just another background virus scanner type thing. However, it turns out that this thing is doing a full-blown third-party man-in-the-middle attack on all internet and intranet traffic!
While I don't like this, I can sort of understand that they want to deploy this on their own hardware. But they did this without any notification to employees.
What the hell!
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Plasma Mobile Gear 22.02 is Out!π Things to look forward to: Smoother gestures; improvements to the Dialer, NeoChat, Clock, and more; lots of optimizations to the shell and its components.
https://plasma-mobile.org/2022/02/09/plasma-mobile-gear-22-02/
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#InfiniTime 1.8.0 is available for your @PINE64 #PineTime : BLE secure pairing, shake to wake, trip meter in step app, chimes, and many improvements and fixes!
Thanks everyone for your work and contributions!
Enjoy!
https://github.com/InfiniTimeOrg/InfiniTime/releases/tag/1.8.0
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Check out @kde #PlasmaMobile Gear 21.12! This release packs tons of new features and apps, improvements to performance and stability, revamped interface designs, and much more.
https://www.plasma-mobile.org/2021/12/07/plasma-mobile-gear-21-12/
Highlights to look forward to: gPodder syncing in Kasts, MMS support in Spacebar, and the migration from oFono to ModemManager.
Backyard astronomy
Another attempt at astrophotography trying to point a handheld smartphone at the eyepiece. :)
This is (supposed to be π) the double star cluster in Perseus.
Just noticed that it's my 1 year anniversary on fosstodon today. :)
- Github
- https://github.com/mogwa1
Standard-issue linux FOSS nerd.
Somehow obtained a PhD in physics and ended up in the micro-electronics industry.
In my spare time, I'm the lead developer of Kasts, a convergent podcast player which is a part of plasma mobile gear. https://invent.kde.org/plasma-mobile/kasts
Joined Dec 2020
