Notices by Hugh 🔜 FOSDEM (hugh@social.crablab.uk)

🇮🇪 Ireland Roadtrip

I have some time off, so I'm going on a short trip around the West Coast of Ireland. I've never been before!

I'll post some photos as I make my way around, and if you have any suggestions I'd love to hear them!

Obviously, the starting location for a roadtrip is...up a mountain in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

First stop: a cave, with @linus :neocat_notice:

@eloy @famfo Maybe we should switch allegiance and use... Solaris :neocat_googly_shocked:

@mametsuko & @aetios caught an octopus!

@ryanc Good? Fare evasion costs the industry (ie. government thus taxpayers) millions.

@eloy @linus I've been convinced by a friend that Unix timestamps are the worst, because of the way they (don't) handle leap seconds.

Another shipment has arrived 📦

Does anyone in the UK want Spezi? I now have *a lot* and will happily ship it to you.

Each can cost £1.42 to buy and import.

Boosts appreciated 🙂

@sarahc This would make a great greetings card

Chocobus

British Telecommunications gebakjes in the pub

@ryanc @Edent If it helps, mine (from MoJ) didn't.

I imagine not, as the font file is rather tightly controlled. You're not supposed to use it on a live service that hasn't gone through the GDS Service Assessment.

And each department has different suppliers for IT equipment, so things like that wouldn't be standard across the board 😅

(There are framework contracts like G-Cloud for stuff like Microsoft licencing and AWS, I don't think hardware goes through that)

Build more railways.

@fesshole Entirely believable.

@ryanc Not especially. One might wonder about whether it had fallen off the back of a truck...

Those sellers are usually the ones who've ended up with an office clearance worth of stuff and don't understand the value of the thing they're selling.

My mind wouldn't have immediately gone to 'counterfeit' 🙂

Either way, if it's not as described then it's just going back.

@ryanc You seem extremely suspicious of this hardware :P

Love getting a wave of spam before I start work in the morning.

Fediblocked most of the domains from this list: https://catswords.social/@gnh1201/111940208648310302

Thanks @gnh1201 🙂

#fediblock

@libreleah I'm not sure that there's an equivalence between mentioning and promoting, or even endorsing. The news mentions many things - it's not promoting them, just stating facts.

Ultimately as it's your project you should feel free to do what you want.

Stating your software works with one of the most well known OS' might help people feel confident about the quality & compatibility of what you're offering them.

And it's probably unhelpful to users to gloss over that fact.