Notices by Ret (ret@furry.engineer)

a sign underneath the shelf that says "If you're struggling to afford stuff like food right now, please talk to us, we have contacts that can help you immediately" would go a LOT further than this bollocks.

end of the day, if you're stealing a £3 block of cheese you're at your absolute lowest. you aren't sticking it on facebook marketplace for profit. you aren't selling it in the dodgy pub around the corner. you're starving.

I'm kinda tempted to write to the Co-Op about this. Not sure what I could say really but... just getting somebody there to agree "yes, this is fucked, but here's our justification for it" would be interesting. The Co-Op is usually perceived as a "good" company so it's odd.

Cheese in security cases at the local shop.

Somebody has placed a rock with "JW.org" written on it next to my house :blobfoxscared:

Binge-watching motovlog compilation videos… three things stand out:

1. Most confrontations are about bikers filtering
2. Most accidents are people pulling out of side-roads on bikers, or bikers being hit from behind while waiting at lights.
3. Bikers and drivers need to chill. Being patient and courteous even in the face of abject stupidity from others would defuse and solve so many situations.

Oh hey a furry biker.

@dalias @neil in Mastodon at least, there’s a big banner that warns you DMs aren’t encrypted and can be read by the server owner, which I suppose helps to break that down a bit. Other platforms could benefit from that I think.

amateur radio

@bagder wait until you find out Amazon Application Load Balancers don't validate server certificates.

Edit: CloudFront does

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”