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This is #Japan .Free T-shirts of all sizes being distributed in the coffee corner. M-size is first gone, then S-size, XXL still around..

This is #Japan .
Free T-shirts of all sizes being distributed in the coffee corner.
M-size is first gone, then S-size, XXL still around..

Tokyo Linux User group, technical presentations today:"Introduction of open-source FPGA toolchains" by Yimin Gu "How...

Tokyo Linux User group, technical presentations today:

"Introduction of open-source FPGA toolchains" by Yimin Gu
"How efficient are architectures x86/aarch/RISC-V etc. for a workload?" by Christian Horn

Details: https://lists.tlug.jp/ML/2504/msg00013.html

The Sanyo-shinkansen, running between Hakata and Shin-Osaka turns 50, for celebration Onepiece styling was...

The Sanyo-shinkansen, running between Hakata and Shin-Osaka turns 50, for celebration Onepiece styling was setup:
https://www.nippon.com/ja/guide-to-japan/gu900303/

Got to love today's smbc++https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/sci

Got to love today's smbc++
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/sci

World exhibition opening ceremony: Osaka governor is thanking the workers on the expo in family-speak vocab, that's good.Good that also...

World exhibition opening ceremony:

Osaka governor is thanking the workers on the expo in family-speak vocab, that's good.

Good that also diversity topics are here unchanged, while they are getting wiped from the websites of US companies, to appease Trump..

As a huge fan of "Ghost in the Shell" I approve especially this part of the Expo opening ceremony:
https://youtu.be/8X_bgcgpORQ?list=TLGGX4HGMls2sWQxMjA0MjAyNQ&t=251

Big uproar as: someone got fined by a store for parking - but actually he was ok to park there.I rather read that than news about school...

Big uproar as: someone got fined by a store for parking - but actually he was ok to park there.

I rather read that than news about school shootings - that's the good thing about living in #Japan :)

https://unseen-japan.com/cosmos-drug-store-parking-fine/

News in Japan today: puzzled over Americas tariffs. The 46% which Japan is said to charge ontop of things imported from America.. even if it...

News in Japan today: puzzled over Americas tariffs. The 46% which Japan is said to charge ontop of things imported from America.. even if it was true, how to get then to 24% which America now charges on imports from Japan? Half of that would be 23%.. 🤡
Working in IT support in Japan, I'm not surprised by the question. :)

Interesting thoughts on languagelog on how to translate the word "woke", which already has very wide meaning depending on whom you...

Interesting thoughts on languagelog on how to translate the word "woke", which already has very wide meaning depending on whom you ask, into #Japanese .
https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=68754

List of Aprils fools from Japan, among these:- tooth paste with chocolate taste- GPS locator device for cats, including VPN- Zelda clone...

List of Aprils fools from Japan, among these:
- tooth paste with chocolate taste
- GPS locator device for cats, including VPN
- Zelda clone from Mosburger
- Curry meals for drinking
- obento made from chocolate
https://gigazine.net/news/20250401-aprilfool/

20°C in Tokyo on Thursday evening, so this season of jogging around the emperors palace, and then cycling back has started.

20°C in Tokyo on Thursday evening, so this season of jogging around the emperors palace, and then cycling back has started.

This explains it nicely: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gw8zMmeRTI

This explains it nicely: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gw8zMmeRTI

Awesome idea.Many radio amateurs around the world are constantly sending, and receiving signals. Partly automated, to test how strong the...

Awesome idea.

Many radio amateurs around the world are constantly sending, and receiving signals. Partly automated, to test how strong the signal is received in other places - these reports on who hears what are coordinated over the internet.

Now: air planes between sender and receiver change the signal. So if you have enough senders/receivers, you can compute and get kind of passive radar! How about using this to lookup lost planes?

That's done here: https://www.mh370search.com/2025/01/01/new-technology/

Early April fool which @makuharigaijin will love: terminal in Severance style at the apple...

Early April fool which @makuharigaijin will love: terminal in Severance style at the apple store:
https://www.apple.com/mac/lumon-terminal-pro/

I was so tempted today at a presentation to say "trickle down works!".Remarks: this was not on economy though.. but relating to...

I was so tempted today at a presentation to say "trickle down works!".

Remarks: this was not on economy though.. but relating to how pmda-denki, the software to measure electrical power consumption found it's way to the Performance Co-Pilot project and eventually trickled down into the Linux distribution for which we are providing support.

The pmda-denki handbook: https://fluxcoil.net/files/pmda-denki-handbook-publish/denki.html

#AsiaBSDcon had been planned for this weekend and was cancelled.As we have visitors from other countries who had booked their flights long...

#AsiaBSDcon had been planned for this weekend and was cancelled.
As we have visitors from other countries who had booked their flights long before and coming in now, we will instead gather tomorrow, with tech sessions and dinner.
There will be impromptu presentations, I plan to offer a session on emulation/virtualization/power consumption.
Details: https://wiki.netbsd.org/summits/AsiaBSDCon_2025_NetBSD_BoF/
#bsd

I actually planned to spend the weekend with other things..I'm using a self hosted "Tiny Tiny RSS" to fetch feeds from sites...

I actually planned to spend the weekend with other things..
I'm using a self hosted "Tiny Tiny RSS" to fetch feeds from sites and podcasts.
Their default deployment is based on docker since some versions. I had translated that into podman at some point, but that no longer worked after an update.
So now all the ttrss services run in a single Debian container with podmad. Not what upstream recommends.. but finally my feeds are back.

How are animal sounds spelled in German, Japanese and other languages?Nicely made overview for some animals:...

How are animal sounds spelled in German, Japanese and other languages?
Nicely made overview for some animals: https://pudding.cool/2025/03/language/

For learning #morse_code , it's common sense to learn characters with speed of 12 words per minute (WPM) speed or more - otherwise one...

For learning #morse_code , it's common sense to learn characters with speed of 12 words per minute (WPM) speed or more - otherwise one would learn single characters and would have to "relearn" as characters sound differently at higher speeds.

Asking the ones fluent in CW, i.e. 20WPM or more: would you rather suggest to start learn with 12WPM and then speed up? Or start with 20WPM straight?
I try the latter one right now, and am struggling in just telling already the first 3 characters apart :)

12WPM and then increasing
20WPM right from start
Something else - comment

I have this Apple Macbook M2 at work with #Asahi Linux, and can emulate x86-64 just fine.But qemu can emulate many variants of x86:...

I have this Apple Macbook M2 at work with #Asahi Linux, and can emulate x86-64 just fine.
But qemu can emulate many variants of x86: Haswell, Icelake, Broadwell and so on: are there speed differences? And how much slower are these than virtualized guests?

I investigated, the results are here: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/performance-and-energy-consumption-comparing-cpu-virtualization-and-emulation-efficiency

Awesome: loading custom microcode to AMD cpus. The example patch leads to RDRAND executed on a certain/patched cpu core to always return the...

Awesome: loading custom microcode to AMD cpus.

The example patch leads to RDRAND executed on a certain/patched cpu core to always return the same value:
https://bughunters.google.com/blog/5424842357473280/zen-and-the-art-of-microcode-hacking