Notices by Ted Mielczarek (tedmielczarek@mastodon.social)

@goatsarah best of luck! Having a framework to use to think about the way my brain works has been incredibly helpful for me.

@goatsarah oof, this one hit too close to home. (Got my DX at age 35…)

@skinnylatte she has also described that phenomenon! The next time we are in SF we'll have to meet up so you two can chat. I feel like I'm constantly telling her about things you post, I think you two would really get along. That might have something to do with her also being a queer autistic Asian immigrant…

@skinnylatte my wife tells me that the first time her immigrant family tried skim milk they thought it had gone bad. I think they bought it because that's what all the other families they new in America used. I think my mom still buys skim milk, and margarine instead of real butter. The margarine kills me because she loves baking dinner rolls and they're really good but margarine is so bad. 😭

@darius https://webcomicname.com/post/152958755984

@skinnylatte we randomly stumbled into this unassuming place because we needed to use the bathroom, then looked at the menu and wound up getting their charcuterie board where virtually everything (down to the mustard) was made in-house: https://toupsmeatery.com/

@skinnylatte we visited New Orleans in November and my biggest regret is that we did not find our way to a Vietnamese-Cajun establishment. 😭 (It was my first time there and there are entirely too many good places to eat.)

@dalias @jpm @tithonium @foone I assume it uses a zeroconf address: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-configuration_networking
Remember that the "Ethernet" device here isn't connected to your actual network, it's just a protocol over USB. You can do this with a Raspberry Pi Zero, too: https://learn.adafruit.com/turning-your-raspberry-pi-zero-into-a-usb-gadget/ethernet-gadget

@skinnylatte I'm sure the combination of locking up items + not paying their employees enough such that they're always short-staffed is a great combination!

@skinnylatte now I'm curious because I know there are TfL fans and merch in the UK. Is this an anglo-centric phenomenon?

@skinnylatte counterpoint: trains are cool, actually.

@RainbowStardiver @skinnylatte looking at how cheap it is to buy a US Senator or even Supreme Court justice is *wild*. These folks don't know their own value!

@jwz the commitment to build up a portfolio as an artist so that you can one day exhibit goatse and force people to treat it as Art is truly commendable.

@cstross getting malware into the iPhone would be the hardest part of this attack given that iPhones have a secure bootloader (and Apple controls the silicon).

@jwz I guess it's thematically appropriate that it would be on the hellsite but it doesn't make it any less of a bummer.

@jwz I'm here for this kind of pedantry. Also: after watching the anime _Akuma Kun_ on Netflix a few months ago I also fell down a rabbit hole of medieval demonology. Mine was centered on The Lesser Key of Solomon, though: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lesser_Key_of_Solomon#Ars_Goetia (the sigils are pretty sick!)

@tess What are some of the most important considerations when designing C++ APIs at the boundaries? I'm a few years removed from actively writing C++, but I always struggled with that. It didn't help that the big C++ codebases I worked in (e.g. Gecko) all seem to have homegrown interface systems.

@Polychrome @dysfun having been there while that was happening, unfortunately it was fucked from the start because they let mobile carriers call the shots and the carriers wanted dirt-cheap devices so the user experience was awful on the phones that actually managed to ship.

@navi @fasterthanlime counterpoint: dynamic linking is a nightmare.

@navi @fasterthanlime I fully agree that build.rs is a nightmare. Everything else you describe is the standard tension between project developers and distro maintainers that is as old as time. 🙂