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@mattl @neil I had a chuckle at ~"you are not allowed to make mistakes" w/r/t email address

I ordered a vinyl record of the They Might Be Giants album Join Us. I don’t even own a record player, I just liked the look and Join Us is one of my favorite albums.

Anyway, this arrived. I mean, maybe it’s a younger picture of William Allen White?

@maj I remember when they were small enough that I emailed them and asked for a representative sample of tweets to train my crazy Markov bot (X11R5), and they were like "no problem, here's an entire day of tweets". (It just happened to be Canada Day, so my bot was distinctly Canadian after that.)

@mattl Oh boy, SPEAKING OF WHICH! They fudge the screen / viewport sizes reported to the sites (which I'm sure will be fine 95% of the time and REALLY mess up the remaining 5%), and block the option to start a new session maximized.

I'm looking at LibreWolf, and the amount of effort needed to reverse some of its more heavyhanded decisions looks like it would be more work than adding (more) protections to my existing Firefox install. I mean, that's basically their selling point, but still.

For example, you can't have the browser tell sites you prefer dark mode because THAT'S FINGERPRINTING, and the only way to bypass that is to disable ResistFingerprinting entirely.

@mattl Congratulations on earning the Termite King's blessing, at the very least.

@evan Related pet peeve: some time ago in the US, the milk producers got together and rebranded "whole milk" as "vitamin D milk", even though it has the exact same amount of vitamin D as skim/1%/2%.

Decades later and I'm still not sure what Salesforce is.

@foone If it helps for reference, I once wrote a Wireshark lua dissector for 2ping, a low-level UDP binary protocol. Though as a warning, I haven't looked at it in about a decade, so it may not even work anymore.
https://github.com/rfinnie/2ping/tree/main/wireshark

A Hard Rock Cafe t-shirt and Mom Jeans are required to properly service your AT&T 5ESS 340MB hard drive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-pp6mx6yM8

@molly0xfff Stripe gave up getting feedback from you, and escalated to your manager (your pet).

@mcc

@discatte

Your GitHub account now includes one free hour in the ball pit

If you have a PiAware-type ADS-B setup for plane tracking, I've written a simple terminal app for displaying nearby planes. It's called... PLANES!, which is like SHARKS! but with planes.

https://github.com/rfinnie/rf-tools/blob/main/bin/PLANES

I don't think I can handle the emotional stress caused by the Signal logo's shade of blue changing slightly.

@evan Yeah, sounds like just SSH is network restricted. I'm guessing you could generate a PAT and use that for HTTPS auth to push; AFAIK there's no way to restrict that in GHES

@evan Just out of curiosity, are they running GitHub Enterprise Server (would be a custom hostname), or is it GitHub Enterprise Cloud with IP restrictions (on github.com)?

I'm the platform manager for our GitHub operations at work, and most of that is GitHub Enterprise Server.

@mattl On a related note, I'm still disappointed that switches aren't part of the core HDMI CEC spec. I want to plug in an HDMI switch and the TV will just see it and go "I guess I have 5 more inputs now", and you wouldn't need a separate remote.

If the manufacturers need an evil capitalist angle to make this happen, it would allow them to justify shipping TVs with only one input; you can always buy more later.

Huh, how did I get on top of this soapbox? Sorry, I'll get down now.

@mattl Through trial and error, I recently found one which 1) has all the HXPL 2.3pre1FINAL(v2final) standards and whatnot, and 2) didn't freak out randomly. It's kind of sad that this took multiple attempts.

Anyway, enjoy: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09Y14JSFH