Notices by emily, emitter of spooky noise (emily@sparkly.uni.horse), page 2

hibernation is such a cat-coded activity that I am surprised actual cats don't do it

my ISP now offers a VPN for $7/month to "boost the cyber safety of [my] AT&T fiber"

unrelated to that, my ISP famously operates several surveillance centers in cooperation with the NSA

silly edge case that I am suddenly intensely curious about: if I physically mail someone a compiled binary of GPL'd code, does the requirement to give them source code take effect when I put the box in the mail, or when they receive it, or when they open it?

$work has optional code review, based half on "do you, the developer, think this needs review" vibes, and half on a regex that matches words like "sql" with as many false positives as you would expect

which means this was going to happen eventually

@foone YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD A DEITY

the number of late HRT doses I've been reminded of by people posting HRT jokes is very non-zero

thanks, y'all

Fedi, recommend non-obvious #vegetarian foods I might like. (I'm neither vegan nor even anywhere near full vegetarian, just vaguely wanting to drift more in that direction, so interpret as broadly as you want.)

"Obvious" here means "an omnivore casually interested in vegetarian food would have already tried this". I regularly make stir-fries with firm tofu, and I have eaten all three of the paneer dishes offered by the local Indian restaurant and they were all delicious.

Special requirement: I categorically do not like squishy foods. Eggplant, most squashes, and cooked carrots are inedible for me, for example.

New horrifying thing I learned about today: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/thruchip_interface

what if wireless RAM because wires are hard

@lanodan @FallsMom @hannah Nine Radian Nails, but radians are technically unitless so the angle is just 9

@FallsMom @hannah Nine Inch Nails, like the band

except they don't use inches there

@botvolution no, I had an unopened bag labeled by the distributor as quantity 37

why did I buy 37 of this one specific FFC connector

I mean, I know which abandoned project it was for, but why 37

TIL: one way they test how planes handle ice forming on them is by... flying another plane in front and spraying really cold water at the first plane

submitting a C++ proposal to add the ==> operator because I just found myself in a weirdly specific situation where I wanted it

(a->b) == ((*a).b)
(a==>b) == ((*a) == b)

I did a tedious but satisfying thing I've been wanting to do for a while because I hate working with pick and place tape by hand

it's fun being so experienced at computer touching that someone can start to describe computer weirdness to me and I can pick out how the builders of that system fucked it up

partner was telling me about inconsistent data in two sections of a thing she uses for work and she did not understand how it could show blatantly wrong data in one part since it clearly has the right data right there in the other part

and I'm just like "so let me tell you about this thing called microservices. once upon a time some programmers decided they didn't like working with other people..."

I have acquired a transmitter.

It didn't come with sticks on the analog sticks?? But it otherwise works.

#combatrobotics #dragoncon

there I fixed it

found in my i3 config:

bindsym --release $win+A exec bash -c '/bin/kitty >/tmp/what 2>&1'

I wonder wtf I was trying to debug when I added that

normal combat robotics: "my robot is called The Smasherator 9000"

emily: "I wonder If I can paint Spicy Donut to look like a donut"