Notices by Peter Brett (krans@mastodon.me.uk)

@bremner Deportation at the scales DHH promotes is simply not logistically feasible in any way.

Any attempt *always* ends up with death camps. No exceptions.

I am completely certain that DHH is a smart well-educated person who is fully aware of this.

@thomasfuchs

@whitequark When I used to do open source work a decade ago, we would always release gate on LTS distro support. I'm surprised that's no longer considered important/relevant.

@dalias @intarga @david_chisnall

@elilla Even in the 21st century, British troops have regularly had positions overrun and ended up in melee, fighting with fixed bayonets. It was getting to be a ~monthly occurrence in Helmand. I don't think that there is consensus that “everyone agrees that bayonets kinda [aren't] worth it”.

@dalias Um.

I've done real world PCB schematic design, PCB layout, and on an assembly line. I also work for one of the world's largest EDA vendors.

Most BOMs I've seen in practice do indeed contain specific manufacturer part numbers and supplier URLs/catalogue numbers.

@theeclecticdyslexic This is, for example, exactly what we should do for the entire fossil oil industry.

@foolishowl @dalias @datenwolf @aeva

@PhoenixWright Congratulations! That's the most absurdly reductive toot I've read this week.

@dalias

@dalias I have a pretty simple rule: if the website requires a passkey, I don't use the website

@cwebber LLM-boosting colleagues keep making this assertion and then retracting it after they see my facial expression

@Bartok I can definitely see the regime using ‘Andor’ S2E9 as their playbook (but with IFVs instead of riot control droids).

@inthehands

@whitequark I'm considering making mine “build more infrastructure”

@whitequark This was in my recommendations. Worth watching?

@nils I would recommend Stationeers if the idea of a basic understanding of thermofluid mechanics as a prerequisite to continuing to breathe without exploding sounds like an entertaining game mechanic

@whitequark

@whitequark The UK does number trains! They just believe the public wouldn't understand it.

Check out https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/ which exposes the data.

For example, the Kings Cross to York service leaving at 1106 is service 1N83.

@whitequark I need to clarify:

- “15 minutes” is probably an underestimate
- parts of the silicon production line are less sensitive to particulate contamination than others
- there are failsafe systems to protect against making this mistake by accident
- with sufficient time and effort some facilities/machines can be restored to use

@whitequark Pull the particle filters from a modern fab's air conditioning system for 15 minutes and that fab will never be making anything ever again.

My understanding is that much of the equipment will be functionally *destroyed*.

@whitequark An alternative anecdote: I went to university 20 years ago. I thought I was there to learn, and I did learn a lot, and I had a great time learning. I didn't spend my time “getting connections” — I'm still in touch with exactly 2 of my peers. I have no regrets.

Interesting to note: not a *single* mention of “AI” in Valve's Steam hardware announcement.

Thinking about it, my Steam Deck has been the only truly user friendly computing platform I've had the pleasure of interacting with over the last 5 years.

If the new Steam hardware launch goes well, I really want Valve to make a phone.

With Google's acceleration enshittification of Android, and with the opportunity for Valve to make most of my game catalogue Just Work on a phone platform, I think it would be a “shut up and take my money” opportunity.

@whitequark I was hand-soldering 0.5 mm pitch connectors with lead-free solder in 2013 with _very_ little skill or talent, so I feel like it must have been perfectly usable even then. @slaeshjag

@whitequark In 2020 I had to completely rewrite a feature of our software from scratch because our customers stopped having access to browsers that allow XSLT of local filesystem XML files. It felt like a lot of rework that shouldn't have been necessary.

@dpk @janl