sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

it's almost 11. close to mid-day, but the sun isn't coming up much higher than this. here's my very long shadow.

owo I got the two cute tvs connected to the laptop with HDMI. I still have one mini displayport left, so I guess this laptop can drive four displays (three external + built-in). (there is also a usb C port, but I think it's USB only.)

However because these are TVs and not monitors they are inferior. The edges of the view are off the screen and I can barely see the task bar. They identify as 1920x1080 when they are actually 1366x768. Text doesn't subpixel-smooth properly.

And they are not better than my laptop screen, the backlights are actually dimmer. The colors are more vivid though I guess, red is red, blue is blue and green is green, unlike on the laptop where red isn't quite red. But something else looks wrong, maybe the gamma and/or white balance or something (they look relatively purplish).

Anyway these are cheap TVs after all for watching video not displaying UIs. It's cool to experience all this screen space for the first time, I'm surrounded by corn lol (it just changed.) I need to get a few DVI to HDMI adapters, then I can use the real monitors which should perform much better (the Dell monitor I fixed which is stuck in some "burn in" test mode looks to be really bright!).

Social media isn't dying.

It's turning into broadcast media.

"Faltesek, of Oregon State University, conducted a two-year project to study exactly what kind of content TikTok pushes.

At the end of this exhaustive process of gathering data on TikTok’s algorithm, the conclusion became obvious: 'TikTok is television.'"

https://www.wsj.com/business/media/a-handful-of-accounts-create-most-of-what-we-see-on-social-media-bdafa8f3?st=1a2o70zybggwjhy&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

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akkoma123.spacehost.dev a #akkoma server from United States
pleroma.0x68756773.moe a #pleroma server from Germany
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shutafem.casa a #firefish server from Germany
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stream.nik.mx a #owncast server from Germany
peertube.universiteruraledescevennes.org a #peertube server from France
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Seen in Glasgow.

Successfully nerdsniped @chadmed into adding uclamp support to PipeWire, so now all our fancy DSP stuff will stick to an E-core at 600MHz (which is more than enough for it) to minimize power impact when just listening to music.

(We can do fancy scheduler stuff too, Apple!)

End-to-end torture testing.

If my speakers don't melt I think we'll enable speakers on j313 (M1 MBA) in one of the next few kernel updates, to test the waters.

does anyone want to hire me
skills:
- meow
- mrow
- mew

Lol, Apple's attempted wriggling out of reasonable browser competition even hit El Reg:

https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/02/apple_safari_browser/

It underlines the incoherence that iLeakage is *still* unpatched, leaving all iOS users unprotected because of the very monopoly Apple is spending $$$ lawyerbucks to protect.

I'm going as a fedi admin for Halloween

I just need the police uniform

What the F’ing hell is this shit?

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/10/11/t-mobile-plan-migration/

“””
“We are not raising the price of any of your plans; we are moving you to a newer plan with more benefits at a different cost," T-Mobile instructs employees to say.
“””