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IanTwenty

@ IanTwenty @piefed.social

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  • Weekly thread - What movies have you watched this week? 07/01/2026

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  • North by Northwest 1959. Feels like the forerunner of Mission Impossible and James Bond. Though it's superior to both in my opinion for the fact it avoids excessive plot and technology instead favouring situation, circumstance and suspense.

  • Culture Workers in the Fediverse

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  • Flatpak Exploring GPU Virtualization To Ease Driver Challenges

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  • It turns out however that the developers of virglrenderer also don’t want to have to run a VM to run and test their project and thus added vtest, which uses a unix socket to transport the commands from the mesa Venus driver to virglrenderer.

    It also turns out that I’m not the first one who noticed this, and there is some glue code which allows Podman to make use of virgl.

    Nice if podman and flatpak both gain from this work in future.

  • DeGoogled phones, made in Europe: Fairphone, Volla, SHIFTphone, Punkt – a full review.

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  • If you have one of these phones be great to hear some personal experiences.

  • (Al Leong) The Greatest Movie Star You've Never Heard Of

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  • IIRC in Die Hard whilst guarding the lobby he reaches under a shop counter to grab a snack which makes me like him immediately. Apparently it was an improv!

  • What's a lesser known Christmas movie worth a watch?

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  • Really useful vim tricks you've probably never seen - Bread on Penguins

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  • Newpipe {mob) or Freetube let you watch without sign in?

  • DistroWatch - The best open source operating systems of 2025

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  • Why different DEs for laptop/desktop may I ask?

  • Sync-in, a new alternative to Nextcloud

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  • WebDAV only on mobile and via third-party apps

    https://sync-in.com/docs/user-guide/mobile_apps

    At the moment, Sync-in does not yet offer a dedicated mobile application. We know this is an important point for many users️ and we plan to address it thanks to community contributions and sponsorship.

  • The Future of Film Is Behind Us — Whatever happened to 3-D?

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  • I did 4dx for Paddington 3, it was a hit with kids, less so with the adults. There is a river scene and the water effect was used to great surprise. You could turn individual effects off.

    As an adult I would not want these effects during a 'proper' film, they are a novelty only I'd say.

  • What's a lesser known Christmas movie worth a watch?

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  • This might be obvious but it could be caching? Use a tool like dig to check if it's really updated. Not had a problem with duckdns, works good.

  • It's kind of funny how many late 90s games had at least one drum and bass track

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  • This is good read

    The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development

    https://pikuma.com/blog/jungle-music-video-game-drum-bass

    Jungle and many other genres of EDM were a perfect match for the fast-pace games that were developed in the 90s. Most of the titles using a jungle soundtrack were from the second half of the decade, although the trend continued all the way up through the mid 2000s.

    Consoles from this generation were also able to store and play CD-quality audio, which meant developers could really take advantage of the entire spectrum of frequencies and sounds that both jungle & drum'n'bass demanded.

    There's a list of games at the end including Wipeout, Rage Racer, Gran Turismo, Bomberman, Sega Marine Fishing

  • Selfhosting with a seven year old

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  • Hedy is an open source programming language that is broken into levels for easy learning. As you progress the language gains more capabilities, so they are never overwhelmed with too much

    In contrast to block based languages like scratch its goal is to leave students ready to switch to Python by the end.

    Each level has small tasks to complete so you can tackle it piece by piece and get a sense of progression.

    https://hedy.org/

  • Selfhosting with a seven year old

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  • Self-Host Weekly #149: A Few of My Favorite Things

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  • It's become somewhat of a trend over the last several months for new projects to describe themselves as 'modern'. Not only is this not a helpful descriptor (What is 'modern'? Is the design modern? The codebase?), but a good portion of the time it's simply not true.

    I keep seeing 'blazing/blazingly fast' everywhere too, with a rocket or such emoji

  • Guarding My Git Forge Against AI Scrapers

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  • Self-hosting anything that is deemed "content" openly on the web in 2025 is a battle of attrition between you and forces who are able to buy tens of thousands of proxies to ruin your service for data they can resell.

    This is depressing. Profoundly depressing.

    Sigh

  • What folders do you make in addition to the default ones ?

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  • This dir structure for git projects is the best one I think, especially if managing multiple identities/git configurations. Git has a 'includeif' to change your setup depending on which dir you are currently in:

    https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#_includes

  • No more gmail? My switch to European alternatives.

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