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Peter Tribble
@ptribble@mastodon.social
Theoretical astrophysicist who ended up in computing, which got a bit out of hand and resulted in Tribblix, my personal illumos distribution.
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If you're running Solaris 11.4 on Intel, and want to try out the latest jdk27 release candidate, here you are:
https://pkgs.tribblix.org/openjdk/intel-solaris/
#openjdk #solaris
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Having to suffer websites that have replaced simple search with AI. It now takes orders of magnitude longer, and fails to return anything useful. Companies are - again - spending an absolute fortune to make their customer experience worse.
#enshittification
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Any sufficiently complex packaging system will eventually acquire unresolvable circular dependencies.
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Updated openjdk builds of the latest 17.0.19 for Solaris 11.4 on SPARC:
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Something that came out of the Resilient Cambridge series was the importance of grass-roots community effort. Right on cue, the UK government agree:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/putting-people-at-the-centre-of-uk-climate-adaptation-and-resilience
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Went to see the England Women play West Indies at Lord's in the T20 World Cup yesterday evening.
A good game, the quality of the women's game keeps improving.
Getting there and back was interesting. I was prepared not to go, given a 'do not travel unless absolutely necessary', but in the end it worked out fine. Had to miss the last few overs to make sure I got the train home, which was a shame.
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Updated openjdk builds of the latest 17.0.19, 21.0.11, 25.0.3, and 26.0.1 for Solaris 11.4 on Intel/x86:
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And a current openjdk 17.0.19 for Linux/SPARC.
(This one was built using my previous jdk17 build, which is a lot quicker than using the Zero build as the bootstrap.)
https://pkgs.tribblix.org/openjdk/sparc-linux/
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