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kepstin

@kepstin@tenforward.social
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I'm kepstin, but trekkier. (recently moved from @kepstin@glitch.social)

I spend most of my time trying to make computers do things that other people want them to do, mostly in Linux. Big fan of Japanese anison, pop, and doujin music. Recently on a bit of a retro-computing bend.

I contribute to the BigBlueButton open source conferencing software (while working for Blindside Networks), I'm a developer on the Exherbo Linux distro, and I sometimes poke information into MusicBrainz.

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Joined August 26, 2022
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kepstin @kepstin@tenforward.social · May 06, 2026
kepstin
@kepstin@tenforward.social

I'm kepstin, but trekkier. (recently moved from @kepstin) I spend most of my time trying to make computers do things that other people want them to do, mostly in Linux. Big fan of Japanese anison, pop, and doujin music. Recently on a bit of a retro-computing bend. I contribute to the BigBlueButton open source conferencing software (while working for Blindside Networks), I'm a developer on the Exherbo Linux distro, and I sometimes poke information into MusicBrainz.

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Ah, turns out when I lost my umbrella, I lost it in a pile of stuff inside my apartment. Anyways, I now have 2 umbrellas. Guess I'll leave the second one in my car or something.

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kepstin @kepstin@tenforward.social · May 05, 2026
kepstin
@kepstin@tenforward.social

I'm kepstin, but trekkier. (recently moved from @kepstin) I spend most of my time trying to make computers do things that other people want them to do, mostly in Linux. Big fan of Japanese anison, pop, and doujin music. Recently on a bit of a retro-computing bend. I contribute to the BigBlueButton open source conferencing software (while working for Blindside Networks), I'm a developer on the Exherbo Linux distro, and I sometimes poke information into MusicBrainz.

tenforward.social
Replying to @kepstin@tenforward.social
@mcmartin actually, https://www.haplessgenius.com/mocha/ is a much better web emulator for following along with these books, supports snapshotting (and saving snapshots locally so you can continue later) and the keyboard works properly.
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kepstin @kepstin@tenforward.social · May 05, 2026
kepstin
@kepstin@tenforward.social

I'm kepstin, but trekkier. (recently moved from @kepstin) I spend most of my time trying to make computers do things that other people want them to do, mostly in Linux. Big fan of Japanese anison, pop, and doujin music. Recently on a bit of a retro-computing bend. I contribute to the BigBlueButton open source conferencing software (while working for Blindside Networks), I'm a developer on the Exherbo Linux distro, and I sometimes poke information into MusicBrainz.

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Replying to @kepstin@tenforward.social
@mcmartin … and if you want to follow along with one of these books interactively, you can quickly fire up EDTASM+ in your browser over at https://archive.org/details/coco2cart_EDTASM_1982_26-3250_Tandy (but you'd probably want to use a local emulator with a storage device if you actually want to save your work... and want correct keyboard mapping)
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kepstin @kepstin@tenforward.social · May 05, 2026
kepstin
@kepstin@tenforward.social

I'm kepstin, but trekkier. (recently moved from @kepstin) I spend most of my time trying to make computers do things that other people want them to do, mostly in Linux. Big fan of Japanese anison, pop, and doujin music. Recently on a bit of a retro-computing bend. I contribute to the BigBlueButton open source conferencing software (while working for Blindside Networks), I'm a developer on the Exherbo Linux distro, and I sometimes poke information into MusicBrainz.

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Replying to @kepstin@tenforward.social
@mcmartin the specific book I own isn't in the coco archive for some reason, but the internet archive has a copy at https://archive.org/details/Color_Computer_Assembly_Language_Programming_1983_William_Barden_Jr
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kepstin @kepstin@tenforward.social · May 05, 2026
kepstin
@kepstin@tenforward.social

I'm kepstin, but trekkier. (recently moved from @kepstin) I spend most of my time trying to make computers do things that other people want them to do, mostly in Linux. Big fan of Japanese anison, pop, and doujin music. Recently on a bit of a retro-computing bend. I contribute to the BigBlueButton open source conferencing software (while working for Blindside Networks), I'm a developer on the Exherbo Linux distro, and I sometimes poke information into MusicBrainz.

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Replying to @kepstin@tenforward.social
@mcmartin there's a few books for the 6809 in the Color Computer archived over at https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Books/ if you're interested at poking around. By the time of the m68k stuff people were starting to use higher level languages and operating systems, not so much interacting with the CPU directly (tho it was used in the sega genesis/mega drive). You'd probably be looking for pascal/delphi or C compilers for old mac os versions, unix, or os9 (not to be confused with mac os version 9).
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kepstin @kepstin@tenforward.social · May 05, 2026
kepstin
@kepstin@tenforward.social

I'm kepstin, but trekkier. (recently moved from @kepstin) I spend most of my time trying to make computers do things that other people want them to do, mostly in Linux. Big fan of Japanese anison, pop, and doujin music. Recently on a bit of a retro-computing bend. I contribute to the BigBlueButton open source conferencing software (while working for Blindside Networks), I'm a developer on the Exherbo Linux distro, and I sometimes poke information into MusicBrainz.

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Replying to @mcmartin@mastodon.gamedev.place
@mcmartin I suspect the 6502 has a lot of resources specifically from folks doing home-brew for the Famicom/NES? But since these chips were mostly used in general-purpose computers, the programming environment was *self-hosted*. The chips themselves are generally very simple, and most of the important info you need is how to interact specifically with the hardware in your system, and that's often provided as documentation along with the development tools that run on the system. For example, along with my TRS-80 Color Computer, I inherited a book "TRS-80 Color Computer Assembly Language Programming" which includes a guide to the 6809 CPU, ROM subroutines included with the computer, and how to work with input and output devices (keyboard, graphics, sound, etc) on the machine… along with instructions on using the EDTASM+ editor/assembler and ZBUG debugger.
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kepstin @kepstin@tenforward.social · Apr 28, 2026
kepstin
@kepstin@tenforward.social

I'm kepstin, but trekkier. (recently moved from @kepstin) I spend most of my time trying to make computers do things that other people want them to do, mostly in Linux. Big fan of Japanese anison, pop, and doujin music. Recently on a bit of a retro-computing bend. I contribute to the BigBlueButton open source conferencing software (while working for Blindside Networks), I'm a developer on the Exherbo Linux distro, and I sometimes poke information into MusicBrainz.

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Replying to @kepstin@tenforward.social
downside is that i had to sign a copy of the fedora shim in order to be able to install the update with fedora's fwupd. fortunately that doesn't break the security of my automatic disk unlocking, since if something gets booted via shim, shim measures additional keys into pcr 7 which would stop the disk from unlocking. secure boot support on most distros (including fedora) is basically broken by default since they use grub to load an *unsigned* initramfs, meaning that someone with physical access to your system can, without authentication, invisibly rootkit it or use a keylogger to grab your luks password or whatever (without changing the values in any pcrs that have predictable values).
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kepstin @kepstin@tenforward.social · Apr 28, 2026
kepstin
@kepstin@tenforward.social

I'm kepstin, but trekkier. (recently moved from @kepstin) I spend most of my time trying to make computers do things that other people want them to do, mostly in Linux. Big fan of Japanese anison, pop, and doujin music. Recently on a bit of a retro-computing bend. I contribute to the BigBlueButton open source conferencing software (while working for Blindside Networks), I'm a developer on the Exherbo Linux distro, and I sometimes poke information into MusicBrainz.

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I'm impressed. Lenovo released a firmware update for my thinkpad which includes a new microsoft UEFI signing key, but they managed to apply it in such a way that it did not break my secure boot setup using my own keys; my encrypted drive still unlocked with PCR 7 validation.

(seems like with the setup I'm using, the update simply didn't add the new key as a trusted key automatically - if I wanted it added I'd have to do that as an additional manual step)

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kepstin @kepstin@tenforward.social · Apr 27, 2026
kepstin
@kepstin@tenforward.social

I'm kepstin, but trekkier. (recently moved from @kepstin) I spend most of my time trying to make computers do things that other people want them to do, mostly in Linux. Big fan of Japanese anison, pop, and doujin music. Recently on a bit of a retro-computing bend. I contribute to the BigBlueButton open source conferencing software (while working for Blindside Networks), I'm a developer on the Exherbo Linux distro, and I sometimes poke information into MusicBrainz.

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Replying to @swetland@chaos.social
@swetland@chaos.social @mjg59@nondeterministic.computer yeah, han unification is rough. Modern font tech lets you use a single font but only if you attach metadata specifying the language to each run of text so it knows which glyph to pick (it doesn't work with "plain text")
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kepstin @kepstin@tenforward.social · Apr 27, 2026
kepstin
@kepstin@tenforward.social

I'm kepstin, but trekkier. (recently moved from @kepstin) I spend most of my time trying to make computers do things that other people want them to do, mostly in Linux. Big fan of Japanese anison, pop, and doujin music. Recently on a bit of a retro-computing bend. I contribute to the BigBlueButton open source conferencing software (while working for Blindside Networks), I'm a developer on the Exherbo Linux distro, and I sometimes poke information into MusicBrainz.

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Replying to @mjg59@nondeterministic.computer
@mjg59@nondeterministic.computer I'm annoyed that they still didn't fix this with Blu-ray. You got higher resolution, more colours, and alpha blending, but subtitles are still images. I think you could do proper text rendering with ttf fonts from the Java menu code tho.
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kepstin @kepstin@tenforward.social · Apr 24, 2026
kepstin
@kepstin@tenforward.social

I'm kepstin, but trekkier. (recently moved from @kepstin) I spend most of my time trying to make computers do things that other people want them to do, mostly in Linux. Big fan of Japanese anison, pop, and doujin music. Recently on a bit of a retro-computing bend. I contribute to the BigBlueButton open source conferencing software (while working for Blindside Networks), I'm a developer on the Exherbo Linux distro, and I sometimes poke information into MusicBrainz.

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Replying to @khm@hj.9fs.net
@khm hmm. I'm personally not sold on disabling automatic updates and setting "DisableRemoteImprovements" to true, but I guess this guide just isn't intended for my use case. I personally think that getting automatic security updates and out-of-band fixes is important. (For example, in the past day or two they reverted a DTLS change in 150.0 that broke some open-source web conferencing systems via the remote improvements mechanism; a full fix will come later in a point release). Showing punycode for idn is somewhat locale-specific - works for people who speak english and some other latin-script languages, but other folks might need to revert it to get readable domains.
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kepstin @kepstin@tenforward.social · Apr 19, 2026
kepstin
@kepstin@tenforward.social

I'm kepstin, but trekkier. (recently moved from @kepstin) I spend most of my time trying to make computers do things that other people want them to do, mostly in Linux. Big fan of Japanese anison, pop, and doujin music. Recently on a bit of a retro-computing bend. I contribute to the BigBlueButton open source conferencing software (while working for Blindside Networks), I'm a developer on the Exherbo Linux distro, and I sometimes poke information into MusicBrainz.

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Replying to @Bodling@deacon.social
@Bodling @emilymbender for anyone else who isn't familiar with the term, here's a link back to the wondermark comic that the term is derived from: https://wondermark.com/c/1062/ (but also look it up on wikipedia for more context)
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kepstin @kepstin@tenforward.social · Apr 17, 2026
kepstin
@kepstin@tenforward.social

I'm kepstin, but trekkier. (recently moved from @kepstin) I spend most of my time trying to make computers do things that other people want them to do, mostly in Linux. Big fan of Japanese anison, pop, and doujin music. Recently on a bit of a retro-computing bend. I contribute to the BigBlueButton open source conferencing software (while working for Blindside Networks), I'm a developer on the Exherbo Linux distro, and I sometimes poke information into MusicBrainz.

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Replying to @ZephyrAuster@mastodon.social
@ZephyrAuster @lritter running inferencing on small/medium models locally is quite reasonable, but *training* (and distribution) will continue to require storage and compute out of reach for many people for the foreseeable future. Since models can't "learn" during inferencing (weights are read-only), the modern commercial models are constantly getting rebuilt with updated training data. Another problem to think about is getting access to appropriately licensed training materials either to make models reproducible or to make them "free" software where you have the ability to modify and rebuild the model that you are running.
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kepstin @kepstin@tenforward.social · Apr 17, 2026
kepstin
@kepstin@tenforward.social

I'm kepstin, but trekkier. (recently moved from @kepstin) I spend most of my time trying to make computers do things that other people want them to do, mostly in Linux. Big fan of Japanese anison, pop, and doujin music. Recently on a bit of a retro-computing bend. I contribute to the BigBlueButton open source conferencing software (while working for Blindside Networks), I'm a developer on the Exherbo Linux distro, and I sometimes poke information into MusicBrainz.

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Replying to @davidrevoy@framapiaf.org
@davidrevoy I think the ASRock board you're using probably does support ECC ram (the CPU does, but it also needs motherboard support)... But it would be very expensive to replace all your ram to add error correction :( Also desktop Linux distros won't notify you when the error correction is being used. The system will continue to work correctly with ECC ram that has errors, so unless you manually check logs or error counters you won't realize that some of your ram needs to be replaced...
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kepstin @kepstin@tenforward.social · Apr 14, 2026
kepstin
@kepstin@tenforward.social

I'm kepstin, but trekkier. (recently moved from @kepstin) I spend most of my time trying to make computers do things that other people want them to do, mostly in Linux. Big fan of Japanese anison, pop, and doujin music. Recently on a bit of a retro-computing bend. I contribute to the BigBlueButton open source conferencing software (while working for Blindside Networks), I'm a developer on the Exherbo Linux distro, and I sometimes poke information into MusicBrainz.

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Replying to @caten@mathstodon.xyz

@caten@mathstodon.xyz In upstream Firefox, clicking the "Proceed to…" button saves an exception for that site, meaning you should only ever see this warning once for any given site. I don't believe there is any way to disable this warning in general (doing so would make https certificate validation ineffective).

If you are running a large number of different local sites, you could consider setting up a private certificate authority and adding it to your system trust store (or just Librewolf, depending on use case). The browser should then automatically trust the certs signed by that CA used by your local sites. (If you own a domain name, you could also get "real" free letsencrypt certs for local servers using dns validation).

Regarding the "no https" warning - check what you have the "https only mode" option set to under about:preferences#privacy ? There's also some tweaks in about:config if you search for dom.security.https_only tho I'm not sure what they all do.

Weird things can also happen regarding https if some service has set the Strict-Transport-Security header when you didn't expect it to.

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kepstin @kepstin@tenforward.social · Apr 13, 2026
kepstin
@kepstin@tenforward.social

I'm kepstin, but trekkier. (recently moved from @kepstin) I spend most of my time trying to make computers do things that other people want them to do, mostly in Linux. Big fan of Japanese anison, pop, and doujin music. Recently on a bit of a retro-computing bend. I contribute to the BigBlueButton open source conferencing software (while working for Blindside Networks), I'm a developer on the Exherbo Linux distro, and I sometimes poke information into MusicBrainz.

tenforward.social
Replying to @sky@thetransagenda.gay
@sky the Kobo readers work great with Calibre - sideloading books onto a Kobo is easy on its own, but the plugins available in Calibre convert books so the Kobo will use a better kobo-specific book renderer and add extra metadata to the library (e.g. series info) You could try out KOReader, an open-source book reader app that can be installed alongside the stock firmware. It's a bit clunky compared to the stock interface, but it does support wireless connections direct to Calibre to load books. A downside of the current Kobo devices is that only the basic 6" reader is available with the B&W screen. If you're mostly reading novels, a B&W screen has superior text contrast over the colour screen, and can potentially save battery due to not needing to use the front light as much. 6" is great for novels unless you need large text, but i find it too small for comics or manga.
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kepstin @kepstin@tenforward.social · Apr 06, 2026
kepstin
@kepstin@tenforward.social

I'm kepstin, but trekkier. (recently moved from @kepstin) I spend most of my time trying to make computers do things that other people want them to do, mostly in Linux. Big fan of Japanese anison, pop, and doujin music. Recently on a bit of a retro-computing bend. I contribute to the BigBlueButton open source conferencing software (while working for Blindside Networks), I'm a developer on the Exherbo Linux distro, and I sometimes poke information into MusicBrainz.

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Replying to @GIMP@floss.social
@GIMP the 1-bit mode mentioned as an aside might actually be interesting to have tho.
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kepstin @kepstin@tenforward.social · Mar 27, 2026
kepstin
@kepstin@tenforward.social

I'm kepstin, but trekkier. (recently moved from @kepstin) I spend most of my time trying to make computers do things that other people want them to do, mostly in Linux. Big fan of Japanese anison, pop, and doujin music. Recently on a bit of a retro-computing bend. I contribute to the BigBlueButton open source conferencing software (while working for Blindside Networks), I'm a developer on the Exherbo Linux distro, and I sometimes poke information into MusicBrainz.

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Replying to @GrahamDowns@mastodon.africa
@GrahamDowns@mastodon.africa more specifically, "software developer". For what it's worth, "engineer" is a protected term here and I don't have the education or certification to use it... Tho I did actually take a few software engineering courses in university - they were in a separate building over with the "real" engineers unlike the normal computer science classes that were in the sciences and mathematics departments.
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kepstin @kepstin@tenforward.social · Mar 20, 2026
kepstin
@kepstin@tenforward.social

I'm kepstin, but trekkier. (recently moved from @kepstin) I spend most of my time trying to make computers do things that other people want them to do, mostly in Linux. Big fan of Japanese anison, pop, and doujin music. Recently on a bit of a retro-computing bend. I contribute to the BigBlueButton open source conferencing software (while working for Blindside Networks), I'm a developer on the Exherbo Linux distro, and I sometimes poke information into MusicBrainz.

tenforward.social
Replying to @LexYeen@plush.city
@LexYeen @grote it's almost possible to make up a definition which would let someone pretend it has historical roots: "it's called 'sideloading' because you used to install software by sticking floppy disks into the side of the computer."
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kepstin @kepstin@tenforward.social · Mar 02, 2026
kepstin
@kepstin@tenforward.social

I'm kepstin, but trekkier. (recently moved from @kepstin) I spend most of my time trying to make computers do things that other people want them to do, mostly in Linux. Big fan of Japanese anison, pop, and doujin music. Recently on a bit of a retro-computing bend. I contribute to the BigBlueButton open source conferencing software (while working for Blindside Networks), I'm a developer on the Exherbo Linux distro, and I sometimes poke information into MusicBrainz.

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Replying to @rust@social.rust-lang.org
@rust@social.rust-lang.org the version number pie chart bugs me. I assume the version "1.9" is actually supposed to be "1.90"? There's no way that many people are actually using the ancient 1.9 version.
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kepstin @kepstin@tenforward.social · Feb 26, 2026
kepstin
@kepstin@tenforward.social

I'm kepstin, but trekkier. (recently moved from @kepstin) I spend most of my time trying to make computers do things that other people want them to do, mostly in Linux. Big fan of Japanese anison, pop, and doujin music. Recently on a bit of a retro-computing bend. I contribute to the BigBlueButton open source conferencing software (while working for Blindside Networks), I'm a developer on the Exherbo Linux distro, and I sometimes poke information into MusicBrainz.

tenforward.social
Replying to @knud@mastodon.social
@knud @Pionir @scott they're spending the investor money on datacenters and power plants and yachts and rockets and things… when you're buying all that, you can't afford to spend any money paying to license the human creativity that makes the product possible in the first place :(
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kepstin @kepstin@tenforward.social · Jan 28, 2026
kepstin
@kepstin@tenforward.social

I'm kepstin, but trekkier. (recently moved from @kepstin) I spend most of my time trying to make computers do things that other people want them to do, mostly in Linux. Big fan of Japanese anison, pop, and doujin music. Recently on a bit of a retro-computing bend. I contribute to the BigBlueButton open source conferencing software (while working for Blindside Networks), I'm a developer on the Exherbo Linux distro, and I sometimes poke information into MusicBrainz.

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Replying to @kaia@brotka.st
@kaia @Error interestingly, this graphic would have been more accurate if the GPU was marked "AGP" and it had PCI instead of PCIe. Back in the AGP days, the GPU really did have its own special bus connected closer to the system RAM.
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kepstin @kepstin@tenforward.social · Jan 02, 2026
kepstin
@kepstin@tenforward.social

I'm kepstin, but trekkier. (recently moved from @kepstin) I spend most of my time trying to make computers do things that other people want them to do, mostly in Linux. Big fan of Japanese anison, pop, and doujin music. Recently on a bit of a retro-computing bend. I contribute to the BigBlueButton open source conferencing software (while working for Blindside Networks), I'm a developer on the Exherbo Linux distro, and I sometimes poke information into MusicBrainz.

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Replying to @brian@beige.party
@brian@beige.party @standardebooks@mastodon.social their style guide and formatting are so nice that I honestly wish commercially produced ebooks would use the standard ebooks tooling. (Which is actually possible, the tools have a "white label" mode which doesn't add the public domain boilerplate.)
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kepstin @kepstin@tenforward.social · Jul 03, 2025
kepstin
@kepstin@tenforward.social

I'm kepstin, but trekkier. (recently moved from @kepstin) I spend most of my time trying to make computers do things that other people want them to do, mostly in Linux. Big fan of Japanese anison, pop, and doujin music. Recently on a bit of a retro-computing bend. I contribute to the BigBlueButton open source conferencing software (while working for Blindside Networks), I'm a developer on the Exherbo Linux distro, and I sometimes poke information into MusicBrainz.

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Replying to @ivan_herman@w3c.social
@ivan_herman@w3c.social I'm gonna respond to the survey too, but my only real concern here is that even if it's permitted, it can't (or shouldn't) be *used*, at least for another 5-10 years. There's a fairly large amount of existing older ebook reader hardware out there which will refuse to display such books, even if they're using an html rendering stack that could handle them fine. It'll be interesting to see how long it will be until Kobo starts accepting the new format in their store, for example. That said, I'm sure Calibre will grow support for converting HTML ebooks to XHTML to load them onto older devices...
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kepstin @kepstin@tenforward.social · Nov 03, 2024
kepstin
@kepstin@tenforward.social

I'm kepstin, but trekkier. (recently moved from @kepstin) I spend most of my time trying to make computers do things that other people want them to do, mostly in Linux. Big fan of Japanese anison, pop, and doujin music. Recently on a bit of a retro-computing bend. I contribute to the BigBlueButton open source conferencing software (while working for Blindside Networks), I'm a developer on the Exherbo Linux distro, and I sometimes poke information into MusicBrainz.

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Replying to @chrisgerhard@toot.bike
@chrisgerhard@toot.bike @b0rk@social.jvns.ca ANSI color codes are, in the end, just bytes of data mixed in with the other output from the terminal command using escape codes (literally - they use the ASCII "ESC" character code). You can save them to a file and replay them to a terminal later. Less even has a mode that interprets them so you can scroll backwards through colored text. The old "console" on windows was different - for that, commands had to use separate special APIs to set colors. The newer one supports ANSI codes tho. (Edit: misinterpreted this. Yes the codes are in theory terminal specific - in practice, every useful modern terminal does ANSI and will support 16 colors, at least)
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kepstin @kepstin@tenforward.social · Jun 24, 2023
kepstin
@kepstin@tenforward.social

I'm kepstin, but trekkier. (recently moved from @kepstin) I spend most of my time trying to make computers do things that other people want them to do, mostly in Linux. Big fan of Japanese anison, pop, and doujin music. Recently on a bit of a retro-computing bend. I contribute to the BigBlueButton open source conferencing software (while working for Blindside Networks), I'm a developer on the Exherbo Linux distro, and I sometimes poke information into MusicBrainz.

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Replying to @sindastra@chaos.social
@sindastra@chaos.social @bekopharm@social.tchncs.de exactly; ".local" and a few special ranges of arpa reverse-dns domains are reserved for special use by RFC6762 and should not be used for anything other than Multicast DNS. The special handling for these domains is described in https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6762#section-22.1 - includes things like that DNS libraries and DNS servers should recognize the domain and refuse to forward/resolve queries for it.
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kepstin @kepstin@tenforward.social · Jun 24, 2023
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I'm kepstin, but trekkier. (recently moved from @kepstin) I spend most of my time trying to make computers do things that other people want them to do, mostly in Linux. Big fan of Japanese anison, pop, and doujin music. Recently on a bit of a retro-computing bend. I contribute to the BigBlueButton open source conferencing software (while working for Blindside Networks), I'm a developer on the Exherbo Linux distro, and I sometimes poke information into MusicBrainz.

tenforward.social
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@sindastra @bekopharm I agree that you wouldn't want to use ".local" as a DNS domain tho. That way leads to annoying device discovery failure, such as printers not working.
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