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M0CUV

@M0CUV@mastodon.radio

Software crafter/engineer (Rust, Scala, Perl, C++); open source developer; real-time/fault-tolerant systems; Transputer & FORTH enthusiast; radio amateur (MØCUV). Couch to 5K runner.

Let's stick with the past, 'cos the future won't last.

Used to be @mattgumbley on the bird site.

[Avatar: photo of me & my dog Oscar, a white cockerpoo; Header is a quote from the Postlight podcast entitled "Can We Understand Coders?"]

Pronouns: he/him

“AI is a lying machine made out of crimes” - Alex Falcone

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M0CUV, to television
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Started watching FX’s Shōgun (UK: Disney+) - a breathtaking attention to detail in retelling James Clavell’s story. There’s also an official podcast and viewer’s guide relating the background to each episode, and situating it historically. Highly recommended!

M0CUV, to random
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I wonder if it’s because keyboard and trackball are already paired with this OC’s Bluetooth adapter - but when it’s running Windows 10?

It doesn’t search reliably; pairing is futile.

M0CUV, to random
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And then I tried pairing my Bluetooth devices. I’ve been used to macOS where this isn’t even as much as trivial, and solid. It Just Works (and why wouldn’t it?) Windows 10 generally works, has a user interface that looks like arse, sometimes flakes out requiring a re-pair.

Linux. Oh dear…

M0CUV,
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@croyle I’ve had that on macOS in the past, not so much recently. I’m using Logitech devices, and a USB BT adapter that came top in some review & works fine on Windows). Guess there’s some research ahead of me..

M0CUV, to random
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Dual boot: achievement unlocked 🔓 🐧 🪟 ☮️

On the new GPT SSD, create a 1MB partition with flag bios_boot, then use the rest of the disk as / ext4. Install the boot loader at the device level ie /dev/sdb. Choose this device in the PC boot menu - it won’t show in the Windows Boot Menu.

M0CUV,
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Oh, and boot from the Mint USB stick in Legacy mode!

M0CUV, to random
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Has anyone got a solution to getting dual-boot Windows 10/Linux Mint working consistently on an EFI system? Two SSDs, 1 with Win10; 2 is blank. Both GPT partition tables. Install Mint alongside Windows Boot Manager, and all on sdb (the blank). Installs OK, reboot to GRUB menu, can boot Mint. Reboot, choose Windows Boot Manager, it boots. Reboot and GRUB is gone. Looks like modern Win10 forcibly “repairs” its boot to remove Linux.

M0CUV,
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@thelastpsion yes. Trying to install it in legacy mode now, it’s really frustrating. Shouldn’t have to jump through hoops to get this working - first system I’ve had that has difficulty. Oddly, I managed it on here with a pair of hard disks, now I’m rebuilding it with SSDs. hate computers

ret, to random
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Y’ever have those moments where you stop and think “this thing I’m spending all this time learning about is so insanely niche, there are a million things I could be spending my time on instead. But this is fun.”

M0CUV,
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@ret it’s Transputers and radio data modes maths for me. Or I could be stuffing my head with this week’s version of the AWS Developer exam course. Hmmm, tough one.

M0CUV, to random
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Today… how it started… how it’s going.

markhburton, to random
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Google has a new machine learning gibberish generator but it looks like my adblocker scuppers it.
I tried a search for steady state Manchester on Google, Mojeek, Qwant, and Duckduckgo .
All results were relevant but a bit odd - lots of historical stuff. The bing based qwant and duck did best on this trial.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=steady+state+Manchester+&source=hp&sca_esv=dcd8657a821dedfa&sca_upv=1&oq=steady+state+Manchester+&gs_l=mobile-heirloom-hp.12..0i22i30j0i512i390i650l4.2964.11165.0.12181.20.18.1.1.1.0.418.2431.1j16j4-1.18.0....0...1.1j4.34.mobile-heirloom-hp..1.19.2436.YWYWVzeOasA#ip=1

https://www.mojeek.com/search?q=steady%20state%20manchester

https://www.qwant.com/?client=ff_android&q=steady+state+Manchester&t=web

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=steady+state+manchester&t=fpas&ia=web

M0CUV,
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@markhburton Hi Mark, I tried stract.com a new independent search engine and it gave useful results.

M0CUV, to random
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Does anyone know if “The Week in #Tory” has a presence on Mastodon?

M0CUV, to microsoft
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So if you have #Recall installed, always make sure you have a media player window open, playing some DRMed content, I dunno, Disney’s Frozen or some such. Paused, perhaps, or you’ll start losing it. Then it won’t record you. #LetItGo #Microsoft #Enshittification

M0CUV,
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@dl2jml hmmm, best to just not use Windows I suppose!

M0CUV, to microsoft
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Think I need to start planning for a total free software future. Been using Windows 10 for work and because it’s tolerable. Changed to VS Code because it’s a very good lightweight IDE. This spyware has forced me to conclude that have turned evil. I was optimistically naïve to think they might not be, in hindsight. So, must look to changing to Linux Mint everywhere, and getting my setup perfected. (May revisit , if it has a tree view now). As for Apple.. hmm.

M0CUV,
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@serichards This bug where old iCloud Photos mysteriously re-appear, after you deleted them… is concerning. Dropbox? Thinking a big ol’ WebDav server on a hosted Linux box might have to be brought into service.

M0CUV,
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@serichards it’s very good, but eye-wateringly expensive, compared to the alternatives. I only use basic features but they keep adding extras that I don’t use, and push the price up.

M0CUV,
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@jayvii I bet they’re analysing everything that goes into iCloud, profiling us, ready to sell it to data brokers.

M0CUV,
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@jayvii Been using Linux since 1995 :) Just not as a “daily driver”. Mint/XFCE is really nice. Helix will require retraining some deeply ingrained vim muscle memory - just wish it had a file tree (fuzzy find is fine; I just prefer a tree for spatial awareness)

M0CUV,
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@tony @serichards My Windows hardware isn’t compatible with Win 11 (no TPM), about which I’m going to do precisely nothing. I do like Apple systems, and as there’s no open source / open hardware iPhone replacement, I’m stuck with it.

iangriffin, to random
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Just for fun. I added together all of the images I took of Comet Pons Brooks a few weeks ago. The session was just after astronomical twilight and every single frame I took (68) had at least one satellite trail. To really piss me off, a whole train of freshly launched Starlink satellites joined the "party". This, friends, is the price we pay for "progress". #notostarlink #savethesky

M0CUV,
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@iangriffin @Dtl would have been a great picture! Since the position of each satellite can be computed, and each frame accurately time-stamped, I wonder if some pre-stacking image processing software could be developed that subtracts the satellite trail from each frame? It would be better to solve the problem, but might the effects be reduced?

M0CUV, to random
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Le Sigh. Adobe reader has just updated, and guess what, it has an AI Assistant.

M0CUV, to random
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Windows 11 Recall a.k.a. Panopticon Edition is going to be taking screenshots of everything I do and feeding it to an AI that’s going to be local (yeah, right, sure). So glad my PC hardware is insufficient to meet its hardware requirements (runs Linux Mint just fabulously). What are these techbros smoking that makes them think people want this dreck?

M0CUV,
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@NI6V I’m a Mac user mostly; it’s only a matter of time before we see something similar - adding AI seems like something nobody should miss out on (I think this is how the CxOs of companies seem to think). I would not be surprised if the “guardians of privacy” image they portray is actually a lie. I’m not running the latest OS; perhaps I’ll be immune?

M0CUV,
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@NI6V … and I heard they’re adding more local neural engines to their new phones to offload the computation from the cloud… so yes, inevitable. Asahi Linux is looking more attractive daily!

M0CUV, to random
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I’m also unblocked on , now I’ve got the receiver’s Fast Fourier Transform working. Need to revisit the transmit side, to prepend the outgoing encoded data with a suitable Costas array. Then it’ll be on to the receiver’s detector and demodulator - which will be something of a “three pipe problem”.

M0CUV,
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@vk6flab I hadn’t realised it was that bad. Most times when I try running some Python applications it ends up in failure. Whatever happened to the idea of reproducible builds? (Docker promised to take that issue away, so people stopped trying to solve the actual problem?)

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