Notices by Ret (ret@furry.engineer)

⚠️ Please do not ask LLMs to generate advice about things that can burn your house down if done incorrectly.

Holy fuck... Some of the people on the solar installation community forum...

"My installer hooked my entire house up to the EPS (Emergency Power Supply/Backup) UPS output of the inverter, and now every day the inverter goes into overload protection lockout. I asked an AI and it told me to [...]"

I find it so interesting reading the Code of Conduct/Dress Code for various furry events/meets and seeing what they consider "acceptable" to be.

• Collars, but no leashes. Collars but only if they are in certain style (no metal parts).
• Pup hoods yes/no. Pup hoods but only neoprene - latex is a no-no, leather is definitely a no-no.
• Harnesses, but no D-rings.
• "No kink based stuff" but the definition of such will rest solely with ourselves.

Very strange. Such an oddly complex domain of social and moral bikeshedding.

@whitequark next stage: "anonymously request Copilot for your team and we'll reward you with 6 months free GitHub Team"

🔍 “how to sniff serial port linux”

Answer type A “pfff just do socat -l -p -d -o -67 -420 | fucktty -p >> /dev/ttyS0 << /dev/ttyUSB0 > vim”

Answer type B “pfff just use strace and carefully interpret the resulting list of system calls”

Answer type C “just install this package” (doesn’t exist)

Answer type D “just build this 14 year old repo” (configure works, make fails with obscure C++ error)

Things are going well.

I though the CSS was broken but nah, their SSI stuff is fucked so the whole top bit of their status page is missing lmao.

@whitequark does scope work (I.e. do thing you need scope to do?)

If yes, scope good.
If no, scope bad.

Ends.

still maintain that saying "idk, I heard that's all going away" to crypto/AI fanatic techbros is the funniest thing you can do.

@jamesb

liquid glass exists to get you to buy a new phone. that's it. that's the only reason for it.

they know that phones now basically outstrip 95% of tasks a normal person is likely to want to do.

they needed to create a new challenge for your phone CPU.

approved connection method

@neil oh gosh, the worst are the ones with tiny icons for phone, email, linkedin, facebook, twitter, etc etc. Every thread ends up with like 100+ attachments.

Just ignore the flag people. They will get bored. Dedication and resolve are not in their vocabulary.

who up furrying they engineer????

@nikitonsky I actually did something similar on a project that had a digital compass rendered as a sort of "tape". I absolutely could not be fucked dealing with the 0º-359º crossover point so I just replicated the tape like 32 times in each direction with the assumption that no user would ever stand on one spot and spin in a circle 32 times.

No bug reports upto this day. We're still good.

@aral @Natasha_Jay looks AI generated itself to me? The long dashes…

Remembering Zero Cool today. Shame they were eventually outdone by infamous hacker Crowdstrike who beat their “number of systems taken out in one day” record by quite a bit.

https://bsky.app/profile/kefyor.bsky.social/post/3ltpec6nvv22s

@raccoon sorry to see them act this way. Seems a little bit childish. It’s a complex issue, it’s not clear-cut. Also not everybody can afford Mullvad and this is going to push a lot of people to the “free” options that… well… as we know… aren’t really free.