Notices by Ret (ret@furry.engineer), page 3

@ftg @Nixie RF stuff is weirder because it isn’t even just a more complicated version of something people are familiar with (like valves), it’s just pure invisible voodoo.

@ftg @Nixie 380-395MHz

@aismallard @whitequark you have now been GPL Miranda’d

*literally anything goes wrong with software*

LOL should have written it in Rust, did you know Rust is memory-safe? A whole class of memory safety related bugs are rendered impossible when you use Rust. Rust has an elegant and expressive type sys—

*stuck in lift*
*presses the alarm button*
*dial tone*
*fast DTMF*
*ringing*

(scratchy telephone voice) “—tem that makes it possible to express concepts without dated abstractions such as inheritance. Rust favours composition over inheritance, which is far superior due to—“

AAARRGGGGHHHHHHHHH

bit extreme

@vxo @f4grx @brett “…turned a potential Chernobyl into a mere three mile island.”

Love seeing “NOT FOR EU” printed on all our produce now. Makes me feel warm and fuzzy that our food safety standards are now too good for the EU market.

…Right? …Right guys?

@raccoon

🅱️ultrasound

sorry, that is unfair, but I see an *inordinate* amount of terrible opinions from that domain.

mastodon.social is the blue checkmark of fedi

Agilent ESAs always look like they could survive a car crash.

Links to https://custom.shopcheck-073[.]com/order/263935616

Have fun.

Heads-up to Tindie users that I just received this pretty convincing looking Tindie community DM from tindie_robot.

Link takes you to a classic phishing page to collect your credit card details. This will catch a few out :blobfoxsad:

I love the threat in the source... Awh yeah proper gangsta you are aren't you? Well fuckin' hard.

Forgive me if I am not that scared of a person that writes fake card phishing pages for a living. Loser.

Spectrum analyser shopping…

Every time somebody suggests a solution, it is just a solution that adds another layer or another Python version/binary and associated pip etc.

"Oh just use pyenv that'll solve all your problems."

"Oh just use virtualenv, I never have any issues with that"

Python packaging is such a fucking mess. The awful "managed environment" stuff with pip. The disconnect between pip versions and Python versions. The trend for systems to end up with 20 different mixed/mashed versions of Python installed that is so bad XKCD memed about it.

It's a language that has done some extremely opinionated things in the name of consistency and correctness, but the ecosystem around it is still a total dumpster fire.

:blobfox: