Notices by RevK :verified_r: (revk@toot.me.uk), page 2

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).

The 7.5" e-paper panels are actually quite nice, I am almost tempted to do the MOQ 100 boards with laminated glass front from waveshare. This is the latest version of my PCB for them.

@neil You know some of us used an 80x25 text only screen and keyboard (connected via a serial line) all day, long before these new fangled "browser" things.

Just occurred to me, my card design site (which seems to have a lot of use of late, https://www.me.uk/cards) has options for things like an 11 in the suit (like https://amzn.eu/d/d9x1LKv) but I don’t have an option for say “extra aces”. That would probably be way more fun, especially if only one person knows and has them up his sleeve.

I might add that. I also want to add customised jokers and the like.

Ok I am confused...

They need Sandra Bullock!

@neil I am puzzled by the focus of the story being on “driverless”.

(A) how was she “stuck”? Surely she could have got out. And surely that is the same with a driver. Indeed if she was the driver she would be stuck as she could not abandon the car, which in this case she presumably could.

(B) how is this different to a car with a driver, with someone persistently standing in your path?

Story is “idiot stands in front of car to cause trouble”. Driverless makes no odds?

Nice pub you have there...

It would be a shame if someone bought it, redecorated, cleaned up the kitchen, got some real ale, decent wine, and a proper coffee machine, and opened it up in a week and a bit as a new pub, with WiFi that has IPv6 even, as well as breakfast and coffee early morning.

I'd have to be in there every morning if that happened 🙂

@Dragon Err, best answer to that is "yes"...

And if all their telecoms/WiFi kit has A&A stickers, so be it.

Maybe let's just say I have a stake, or is that a steak, well done? Well, an involvement.

So not like the last pub I purchased, this won't actually be "my pub".