Notices by Ret (ret@furry.engineer)

Saw this on Bluesky and thought I'd try it myself... and yes the Amazon sales robot will happily ERP with you with very little engineering...

I wrote a letter to my MP about the trashfire that is the Online Safety Act.

I don't write so good, so apologies for any bad grammar. I haven't sent it yet, so any suggestions are welcome.

I've obviously anonymised it a bit here too, of course.

Here's the text of the letter as a Gist: https://gist.github.com/retsplines/7b89b4628caf54059e933d148599e797

#onlinesafetyact #osa

I'll also stick the TeX version into the Gist if anybody wants to modify & send to their own MP.

ssize_t is size_t for snakes.

Fuck *that* radio software website that tries to get you to pay for software & firmware *they* have stolen.

Only available from the US :blobfoxdisapprove:

Want. Definitely one of the best versions of this I’ve seen.

Being obsessed with weird things is awesome. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

@puppygirlhornypost@transfem.social @frost my late nan’s church was approached by a mobile network and asked if they’d (for decent money) allow the installation of a well-concealed brick-effect radome on the spire. It would be almost invisible to people on the ground. They rejected it because it “might interfere with God’s word”. God, of course, famously using the 900-1800MHz band.

“The creative process”

This weekend's bonus project - make a probe mount for the MTP3000-series Tetra mobile's RF service port. Took a good few iterations of the "print → test → edit" cycle but I strangely enjoy that process. I should be able to connect these mobiles to the IFR 2968 now :blobfoxcofe:

we are so back

🌲 Please consider the environment before printing this Toot.

@Intaglio_Dragon

Kind Regards,
(stupid cursive font) Corpy Boomerton BSc MVP.
(Massive image with uncopyable contact details).
(Marketing bumpf and pictures of actual products like this is a catalogue not an email signature)
🌲 Please consider… etc

Anyone know a good tool to take two serial ports and interleave them (for example when sniffing a UART using the receive lines of two additional ports)?

strtoupper(str) → “STR”
strtopupper(str) → “🐺”

Excuse me what the ever-loving fuck is this?

seriously tho is audacity like, burned now? alternatives, people?

“Hang on, my radio’s ringing.” :blobfoxconfused:

Honourable mention for Dolphin: a mobile network in the 90s/00s in the UK that rolled out TETRA. Duplex calling would have been a huge part of their proposition. Didn’t last long though… http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1468447.stm