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For the pun king @neil

@hellomiakoda @PopeASDF I know, I have one. But I could not get a new one with Mac layout so had to change to a new keyboard. Shame.

This has to be pretty good for raising awareness of @signalapp

1. When you want to break US laws on logging government discussions, and break US laws on secure communication of top secret stuff. It is perfect for that.

2. But not where you are stupid enough to invite a journalist to the chat. A simple user error risk.

It highlights both the security and the user generated risks well.

@pitchingniblick @mattl We need to ask OFCOM how it is pronounced in the Online Safety Act and end this once and for all.

Did the creator of GIF deliberately go for the statement on pronunciation being "JIF" do so just to create controversy and allow this to still be discussed even in 2025 when GIF is essentially an obsolete image format?

(apart from compliance with The Online Safety Act for text based porn with images where GIF is actually in the law!).

Oh FFS it is blood sugar wheel of fortune tonight is it? Just what I need, a roller coaster.

@penguin42 @neil my door controls are ESP32 but none have Bluetooth turned on.

And even devices that do, don’t have HCI enabled.

What the?

My mate is in Thailand

Don't use #UPS https://www.revk.uk/2025/02/dont-use-ups.html

@neil @geoffl @dan @bloor What we need is an activity pub gateway protocol that uses TCP port 25 with full SMTP headers so that in all technical ways it is "email" and so exempt.

I think Neil's point makes sense - the operator of the instance is the operator of the service, and they only have one user, so it cannot be a user to user service. It is user to fediverse or fediverse to user, not user to user.

@neil Wow, that is crazy. Is that seriously going to be an acceptable way to judge age?

I mean, the fact I have used the same email address since at least 2003 is great for proving I am over 18.

The fact I use a new unique email address for everything to which I sign up is great for proving I am not 1 day old.

If forced to use my "usual" email address to access a service, that is not "privacy respecting", is it!

Is it just me or is this crap?

@ben How is taking stuff legal, is that not basically theft?

So amazon insist someone else selling my product (cheaper) hence not feature offer.

REFUSE to say who it is.

I point out this is trademark breach and GS1 EAN allocation issue.

They explain how to report such issues.

Including the step:

"- The store or business name of the seller you are reporting"

WHICH THEY REFUSE TO TELL ME.

Please can we donate some brain cells to #Amazon Seller Support.

And they going around in a loop.

They always answer a ticket even if the answer is a repeat of a previous answer.

Three times on this ticket they said to report the abuse, a step of which is saying who the seller is.

Three times I have pointed out that they won't tell me who the seller is.

I really need to automate this - I wonder how many tickets I can keep open at once, for ever, if I do that.

Wait, what? This is a new "gender" thing...

@lcamtuf that is some proper cursed C there. And can you really guarantee the side effects of an array initialisation will be in order?

Err, what?

[It is an SMD pushbutton]

@webmink @carlmalamud Is this like when UK did a no smoking law, that required signage, that had to be A5 size minimum, where A5 was (in the legislation) a reference to British Standard, that cost money to obtain and hence comply? Notably A5 is easy, the legally applicable tolerances, not so easy to find.

Well, the audio recorder works, yay!

I managed to get the SD card to cope with 44.1kHz stereo 24 bits per channel, just. So some progress.

OK, it works: https://youtu.be/b0-DdG64-Qo

If you want a prototype to play with, message me (I have 3).