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  Uh… #bandcampFriday quality-of-life question: Is there some convenient tool (preferrably CLI), that will automatically download everything one has on account? Ideally it would also look in one's local collection and only download what's not there, yet.

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  https://archiveofourown.org/works/71382156

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  @purple@nya.social @brouhaha@mastodon.social @futurebird@sauropods.win @fivetonsflax@tilde.zone @oscherler@tooting.ch @argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org @CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems The ICs used for the frontend are the same on either end. The difference is, that in a DSLAM a single subscriber card usually serves between 8 to 16 customers, and internally has a couple of relays for every line to swap to reserve frontends. You can buy them in two "regular" and "extended&...

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  I'm getting annoyed with the asymmetry of the PC104/105 keyboard arrangement. I guess the time has finally arrived for me to design and build my own, custom keyboard. Wishlist: - movement block ( Ins, Del, Home, End, PgUp, PgDown, ←,↑,↓,→ ) and media control keys on the left - Letters/symbols/digits and F-keys goes into the middle - Split main block for angled ergonomics? - TrackPoint? - Numeric entry block on the right. Also, I do enjoy writing gateware more than writing firmware → F...

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  @puppygirlhornypost2@transfem.social Every once in a while I vocalize my mental state (more often than not a state of frustration and confusion) in a single monosyllabic grunt. When asked: "What's up?" my usual response is "Do you *really* want to know?" will be acquitted by "I don't have the mental capacity for one of your in-situ lectures/infodumps"

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  @the_wub@mastodon.social @tokyo_0@mas.to Yes. Another nice trick (not RISC OS, AFAIK) is tabbing windows. See the Fluxbox X11 window manager. However, it's not an easily discovered feature. And given the fact how-g'dafwul-many people keep all their windows maximized, back-to-stack is virtually indistinguishable from minimization for that subset of users. A genuinely useful feature, and discoverable at that, is window shading/rollup. That is easy to understand.

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  @the_wub@mastodon.social @tokyo_0@mas.to Back in the 486DX2 / Pentium-1 days the main limit was available memory; swap space a band aid just so you could actually run software. Back in those days you actually had to terminate programs just to free up resources if you wanted to do something else. Even today I maintain the opinion, that programs should be developed with a mindset, that starting them should be nearly instantanuos. 1/

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  @the_wub@mastodon.social @tokyo_0@mas.to Microsoft did *EXTENSIVE* research on UI design during the development of Win-95. Nothing about the Win-95 design was random or left to chance. For Win-95 to become a success they had to beat their main competitor at their own game: Usability. Remember that before (Win[NT]-3.x) you had the system menu on the left and minimize/maximize buttons on the right; they changed that only after extensive usability research. https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.11...

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  "Ah shit, here we go again…" #dirtyfrag #linux #0day

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  Jedes Mal wenn ich im Baumarkt an dem Regal vorbeigehe, dass mit 5l-Kanistern Isopropanol vollgestapelt wurde muss ich an dieses Rundschreiben denken: https://bildung.ukrlp.de/fileadmin/ukrlp/daten/pdf/Informationsblaetter/Umgang_mit_ueberlagertem_Isopropanol.pdf