Notices by Matt Cengia (mattcen@aus.social)

Hello Fedi, perhaps you can help me with a #USB #TTL #FTDI question:
I have two of these devices: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006150051861.html#nav-specification: The red USB-C version, and the blue mini-USB version. The red version has a pair of jumpers to control whether it outputs 3.3v or 5v, and this seems to work fine.
The blue version has a switch for the same purpose, but doesn't change the output voltage (whose pin is clearly labelled 5V rather than VCC). Is there another pin I'm missing that should be outputting 3.3vV

Hey @fastmail! This new "Show avatars" beta feature that's just rolled out… am I correct that's using (in the absence of a Gravatar etc), domain website favicons?
If so, how do I distinguish these from logos shown via BIMI?

@delta It's impossible to protect user metadata the way Signal does when you're constrained to SMTP as your protocol, though.

How the heck does Google let this happen? I don’t use Chrome usually, but was fixing someone’s computer today and switching their ad-blocker, and noticed that the second search result for “ublock”, which reviews describe as malware, looks more legit than the actual, not only because it’s the only one with a “verified” website badge, but it has a “featured” badge as well! Unbelievable.

I'm a bit disappointed to be missing #EverythingOpen this year, but I just can't justify attending a conference of that size without it having a strong health & safety policy. (While I haven't signed the @phpledge, I am aligned with its expectations in most cases. And I really don't want to catch #COVID again!)
It'll be the first #LinuxConfAU-shaped conference I've missed since I started attending in 2012. 😢

I *hate* it when companies do this. Of *course* this is *My* Telstra; it's my bloody phone! Stop prefixing all my mobile app names with "My" and making it hard to find them in the alphabetical list!

stop using discord for your open-source communities

I get that when you're working on stuff and not getting paid for it, it can make sense to seek the platforms with the lowest friction and barriers to entry, but between IRC, #Matrix (and by extension, Gitter), and #XMPP, there are plenty of options that don't include vendor lock-in.