Notices by Chuck (chuckmcmanis@chaos.social)

@neil If you're British I read that as "would you like to go out for lunch or coffee at some point." If you're American I read it as "We should celebrate with a fancy lunch or a fancy coffee break sometime in the future."

But it is confusing without hearing the accent which way to translate it.

@whitequark but Chrome :sad face:

@ai6yr
https://mightyohm.com/blog/products/geiger-counter/ just sayin'

@ai6yr I used mine to freak out a friend by holding up to some granite 😃

@ai6yr Would likely get a reading from the kitchen countertop. Another acquaintance I know built one (on my recommendation) and backgroun radiation in their house was way higher than it should be. Turns out they had sealed all of the vents to their house foundation, "To keep out rats", and started collecting Radon instead.

@GottaLaff This is wonderful news. And yes, people whine about SCOTUS, and yet. Having the record state that this was unlawful is huge. And the more the Robert’s court caves, the larger indictment on THEM. The easier it is to see justice later. My biggest hope is that us living through this nightmare and documenting it will ensure future generations will now be cowed with “you’re over reacting.” and will instead act with will and purpose to stop it from happening again.

@ai6yr Looks over at a MicroVAX …

Hard to believe this isn't getting more coverage ...

@whitequark @azonenberg @dalias @mcc @becomethewaifu

I was at Sun (but not in the Windows group) during the first Windows wars, NeWS was Sun's attempt to 'start from scratch'. When Canonical jumped on the Wayland bandwagon I had hoped we could see a better outcome but too many of its developers looked up to the Win32 API. A small minority of programmers today understand *why* X11 is the way it is. I believe that contributes to them breaking things when they try to reinvent it.

@steter @harrymccracken This is where having the instructions in the native language of the person making the sign and then using a translation app on your phone actually works a bit better. At least a bit more consistently.

@harrymccracken lol. I get "verify that you're iphone does magnetic charging" and "remove the case so that there is small enough distance between the phone and this charger to charge it." But yeah, it's cryptic indeed.

@whitequark Oh that is super awesome! I noticed that Sigrok was falling down here and put my QSPI gateware project back on hold until I could do something like this. Procrastination paying off for me 😁

@neil i groaned a bit at that one

@mcc Whenever I am coaching new engineers who are trying to figure out what to do now that they built something and it doesn't work, I tell them this;

"Verify that everything you think is true, actually *is* true. For anything that isn't or is unexpected, find out *why*."

At the end of that exercise they will nearly always know what the problem is.

@CStamp @mattblaze @ai6yr

Definitely a mass casualty event, first one in 16 years for a commercial jet apparently. SECDEF is going to have their hands full trying to figure out why deconfliction protocols may not have been followed?

@SteveBellovin The Steve Jobs quote is spot on. The Linux 'user land' developers do not want "Unix" architecture for free they want "Windows" architecture for free. They learned to program on windows, they grew up using windows, they "get" windows, they "want" windows but without the gatekeeping of Microsoft.

Once you understand *that*, you understand systemd and all of the other tasteless things that have become part of distributions.

@karlauerbach @mkj

This makes total sense to me, there is no "standard" for people implementing their "right to object" so DNT should definitely be considered a valid way. If the EU court would rule that "cookie choices" MUST revert to 'necessary only' when DNT is sent and not bother asking for additional confirmation it would make DNT super useful to users as well.

@mekkaokereke Have you ever seen this video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWVKrtmpQbE&pp=ygUqYnJlYWtpbmcgY2FyIHdpbmRvdyB3aXRoIHNwYXJrIHBsdWcgc2hhcmRz it shows how using ceramic you can easily break a car's windows. Thieves use it to do smash and grabs. Not disagreeing that the manual release is best but even cars with electric windows need something like that.

@mekkaokereke Can you remind me what Biden said/did to alienate black men ?

"I really liked your paper, what program did you use to create those illustrations? They are fantastic."

"The program prefers to be called Mike, he's a technical illustrator. Would you like contact information?"

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