Janne Moren

HPC support engineer in Okinawa, Japan. Former neuroscientist, former programmer.

Photography, recreational programming and playing the sanshin are things I do.

Sweden, Osaka and Okinawa are places I particularly care about.

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2026-06-11 06:11:45 UTC

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@nprofile…50mt
We have lots (hundreds) of users using Samba on macOS to move research data back and forth to our storage. I do our support and I basically never get complaints about that combination.
Some samba configuration issue on the server? Our users all use whatever the default client configuration is on their Macs.

2026-06-07 07:16:21 UTC

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@nprofile…ynd9
Heh, I have a 1TB drive because I was splurging when stuff was cheap :) I still only use about 260GB, so today I'd probably go with a 500GB one. Use the spare cash for more memory instead.

2026-06-07 06:28:07 UTC

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@nprofile…ynd9
Good news is, if you're anything like me, storage sizes have way outgrown my actual needs the past decade.
If I didn't have a big image library I could do just fine with a 250GB system disk - and the images could honestly live on an external 500G spinning disk without any real trouble.
I'd go for a smaller, affordable SSD now, and perhaps upgrade if or when you really need to. Hopefully prices are a bit better by then.

2026-06-07 06:23:14 UTC

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@nprofile…ynd9
Have you looked at RAM yet?

2026-06-03 14:12:47 UTC

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@nprofile…hj6n
CentOS rug pull basically.

2026-05-31 09:44:31 UTC

Should be prosecuted for crimes against typography. Capital punishment, probably.
#Tokyo #Typography
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/116/668/530/410/708/144/original/7b59898cfe330bb6.jpg

2026-05-29 14:57:00 UTC

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@nprofile…0zw6
There are times I suspect researchers are deliberately aiming for an IGNobel.

2026-05-23 00:08:27 UTC

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@nprofile…v9vp
I realized that I might have done so by mistake, more than once. When I see a post that I really like I check if I'm following the person. And if I'm not I will typically follow them.
But if somebody removes me and then a good post flies by again three months later, I may follow again, never remembering that I already did it once.

2026-05-19 08:12:01 UTC

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@nprofile…ynd9
I have the RX 9070 (non-xt) and it's been really solid. Very happy I got it. FYI, the performance difference to the XT is something like 5% or less, so you may decide XT isn't worth the added cost (and higher power use).

2026-05-17 10:07:36 UTC

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@nprofile…r9yx @nprofile…h6sh
Skulle posta samma sak, men du hann före 😋.
Hastigheten i fiberoptik är ungefär 2/3 av ljusets hastighet. "Nästan" är väl ganska rättvisande tycker jag.

2026-05-17 02:34:44 UTC

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@nprofile…ynd9
You can get a pretty good apartment that size in central Tokyo for that money.

2026-05-09 14:33:37 UTC

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@nprofile…mk4g
It's a blend! Name it after yourself.

2026-05-09 14:28:58 UTC

So, it thinks I'm in Tokyo. I'm using Firefox on Android. Fair enough.
It knows my screen size, touch screen with five touch points, the phone orientation and that I use english, swedish and japanese. I use dark mode. All are things a page can reasonably need for input and output.
It can set cookies, and thinks nobody else has set any. It thinks I switched away once for 5 seconds (I was gone for minutes).
This frankly doesn't look very concerning to me.
#nevent1q…nwu8

2026-05-09 12:08:54 UTC

Ok. If I, say, accidentally shorted a USB port on my desktop and the entire thing immediately died. Am I looking at getting a new motherboard?
Is it possible something failed safely and there's a way to reset and get it going again?
Conversely, could this have damaged something else?
#pc #computer #FediHelp #AskFedi

2026-05-02 09:43:22 UTC

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@nprofile…hmf0 @nprofile…0zw6
Yes, people wouldn't want to take up a strangers time unless they really couldn't figure out something critical.
But that attitude - while polite - is also a waste of an opportunity to make contact with another researcher in your field.

2026-05-02 07:59:14 UTC

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@nprofile…0zw6
Positive take: your papers are clear, complete and easy to read.

2026-04-22 11:25:57 UTC

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@nprofile…h6sh
En av dom två filerna på väg 58 runt OIST i Onna-son här på Okinawa är avstängd på grund av vägarbete nu i vår. Kan vilja ta kustvägen istället under rusningstid.
Kan du pinga honom och se till att han får med det i presentationen?

2026-04-20 10:10:19 UTC

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@nprofile…pfuj
Problem is if it also weeds out too many of the people with the abilities you need.

2026-04-16 12:58:21 UTC

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@nprofile…ynd9 @nprofile…canu
My feeling is, "blockchain" strongly implies it's a grift, not above-board.

2026-04-16 07:38:07 UTC

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@nprofile…ynd9
This fellow needs blingy reading glasses in a neck strap, a cardigan, a book of poetry, and a large mug of herbal tea.

2026-04-04 09:14:02 UTC

A few more Buenos Aires street pictures.
#photography #Buenos_aires
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/116/345/651/312/355/109/original/59042f6c4b540bda.jpeg
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/116/345/651/331/668/428/original/f123d1aae05c7645.jpeg
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/116/345/651/333/003/125/original/f7094f579fccb4e0.jpeg

2026-03-28 06:56:46 UTC

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@nprofile…pklk @nprofile…65q8
You know, I'm in my fifties. And over the past 40 years I've gone from a liberal centrist to a socialist radical, without changing my opinions.

2026-03-27 11:41:51 UTC

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@nprofile…pfuj
I think you could make a case for "it's discovered" and "it's embodied" at the same time.
The underlying structures of mathematics are all latently there. But we discover and use the ones that fit our cognition (which in turn is highly embodied and contextual) and overlook or reject the ones that don't.
There's any number of ways to represent multidimensional points and angles for instance, but we use the ones that make sense to us. A different creature may pick different ones.

2026-03-23 08:28:46 UTC

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@nprofile…ynd9
Welcome to any tech conference of any kind whatsoever :/

2026-03-21 23:19:21 UTC

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@nprofile…zqv6
I mean, if the pressure container mass is less than the air it displaces it'll work. It'd have to be a pretty amazing material though.

2026-03-01 09:40:38 UTC

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@nprofile…ynd9
Maybe according to your definition (and maybe not even then). We have an apartment in Ginowan, a city of about 100k, and directly connected to Urasoe, then Naha in the south; and Chatan and Okinawa City in the north.
To me this is still urban (if not the big city vibe of, say, Osaka or Tokyo). Many japanese consider Okinawa as a whole as the far-end of nowhere.

2026-03-01 09:27:07 UTC

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@nprofile…ynd9
Yep, different idea of "countryside" 😁

2026-03-01 09:20:41 UTC

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@nprofile…ynd9
Countryside, with an expat vibe, and great coffee. Let me gently doubt the existence of such a place - though your definition of "countryside" may be a lot more urban than mine.

2026-02-28 04:11:57 UTC

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@nprofile…z6pq hmm, tempting.

2026-02-28 04:06:41 UTC

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@nprofile…z6pq
That looks pretty usable. How did you get hold of 17? Is there a beta program?

2026-02-22 14:53:41 UTC

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@nprofile…ynd9
None of us is only our job or our hobbies. Our lives are full of different things, and we should be talking about them when we want to.
Also, I'm sure that disliking the climate of central or northern Europe is not going to come as a major shock to anybody who's spent more than ten minutes there...

2026-02-22 09:20:29 UTC

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@nprofile…pxgp @nprofile…8kn5
Två dörrar, en på varje sida. En kan du bara stoppa in grejer, en kan du bara ta ut.
Eller, hål mellan hall och kök, och kyl och frys i hålet. Stoppa in-dörren vetter mot hallen när man kommer hem med matkassarna. Ta ut-dörren i köket där man lagar.

2026-02-19 08:30:00 UTC

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@nprofile…3n63
If the project makes clear it's no longer maintained (or not interested in keeping itself patched) then no, no need to care.
I do think there's an obligation to make it clear though, for anyone considering using the project.

2026-02-19 03:48:10 UTC

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@nprofile…50mt
In my experience Ubuntu has become much better at keeping up than they used to. The LTS releases update drivers through hardware enablement kernel updates. And they keep the graphics and sound stacks fairly well updated these days.
I don't know how closely Mint tracks the Ubuntu LTS updates though.

2026-02-04 13:59:34 UTC

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@nprofile…ctk3
Here's a GTFS data site for Okinawa, Japan.
https://www.ottop.org/gtfs-opendata
And here's an API endpoint:
https://swagger.ottop.org/

2026-01-14 08:16:55 UTC

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@nprofile…unzg
The past decade the ick wasn't exactly residual either.

2025-12-13 10:00:19 UTC

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@nprofile…dcm7 Same here. Back again on the 5th.

2025-10-18 23:37:40 UTC

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@nprofile…yy3f
At least Free Software is not really giving it away. You get permission to use it, but if you make changes or improvements you have to pay back in kind by releasing those changes in the same way, making it available to me.
It's almost more like a banqueting or reciprocal gifting system than any kind of selfless act.

2025-09-10 07:52:01 UTC

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@nprofile…cee8
It's not "cold ass", it's "tropically challenged"...

2025-08-01 08:23:11 UTC

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@nprofile…wcf0
På ett forum en del år sedan var en amerikansk professor upprörd över att kinesiska forskare i hans labb pratade kinesiska med varann - det var oartigt,han förstod dom inte, och dom borde prata engelska i USA.
Samma professor var också upprörd över hur oartiga ett japanskt labb hade varit när han var post-doc där: dom pratade japanska med varandra, inte engelska, så han förstod dom inte.
Hans slutsats var att asiater är oartiga. Det var ingen annans slutsats i tråden.

2025-07-30 01:33:16 UTC

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@nprofile…fef6
That's a nice one!
Do you (or your client) need to get a release form from the building owner if they wanted to use this for an ad or something like that?

2025-06-23 08:06:06 UTC

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@nprofile…cee8
Housing prices have been increasing all over the world, with similar results.
Part of the issue is, everyone wants to live in the same few places. Because that's where everyone is. You can get a 10-room mansion in rural central or northern Sweden for the price of a car - but nobody wants to live there.
Humanity has been becoming more urban for a long time, and it seems the trend is accelerating.

2025-05-08 00:23:17 UTC

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@nprofile…fef6
That first shot seems an excellent example of picking a beautiful scene, then wait until something interesting happens.

2025-03-22 07:03:25 UTC

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@nprofile…h94j
Concert with Dreams Come True.

2025-02-19 11:22:00 UTC

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@nprofile…args
For *reasons* I have to always use a heavily remapped keyboard where many symbols have moved around. Then I got a HHKB with black-on-black keycaps (still remapped) as my main keyboard. By now I completely ignore what the keycap says when I press a key.
Which is not great the rare times I need to use somebody else's keyboard...

2025-02-18 13:29:44 UTC

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@nprofile…d6h6
Photos really hit differently when printed and framed.

2025-01-17 11:09:08 UTC

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@nprofile…fef6
I use 16:9 a fair bit, but I suspect it's is starting to lose that effect. It's too close to present-day laptop screens.

2025-01-17 08:35:35 UTC

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@nprofile…fef6
I've noticed that just cropping ultrawide makes it feel "filmic". Even more if I used a film camera. Probably because that's the only time we usually see such wide format images.

2025-01-12 01:49:15 UTC

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@nprofile…d92l @nprofile…fef6
It's a Daihatsu Canbus. And yes, I'm pretty sure the name is taken from CAN bus:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN_bus

2023-10-04 09:53:10 UTC

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@npub1knz…c73p
You list blue arrows twice and black not at all in the beginning - copy paste mistake probably.

2023-09-13 08:15:55 UTC

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@npub1feq…4u9n
General cost of living is much lower in Tokyo than in Los Angeles though.

2023-08-31 05:34:10 UTC

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@npub1q9m…zgdu @npub1g0t…tvm4
Can I gently point out that for a technology to actually spread widely into the real world you need a lot more people than just techies?
The people doing the marketing, the sales, distribution, running the numbers on pricing and plans, approving it for sale, resharing on the net, get for themselves or their work, and so on.
You'll find artists, social science grads, historians, economists and lawyers - everyone is part culpable.

2023-08-31 01:53:21 UTC

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@npub1lks…a4mq
Your doctor excitedly saying "I think we might make the cover of The Lancet!" is not a good sign.

2023-08-16 06:13:47 UTC

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@npub1g0t…tvm4
You may ask if a generally very safe and widely appreciated stimulant is not making people overall quite a bit more happy than they would be without it?
Also, it may help self-medicate a segment of people that would otherwise resorted to pharmaceuticals (in a manner analogous to tobacco, but without the harm).
Not everything has to have a survival utility to be valuable to us. You can ask the same questions about, say, making musical instruments? Or publishing fiction?

2023-07-19 12:38:16 UTC

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@npub1sg4…xslc
Spec? Aren't we supposed to breakfast and move things?

2023-06-15 14:30:35 UTC

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@npub19am…qjn6
I'd say it's not ideal, but not too bad. It could have been a future where the open source implementation was an afterthought, not the main implementation.