Notices by jack (jackeric@beige.party)

@aral transphobic use of the pronouns field to boot

@ryanc is it DNS

@inthehands like Saudi Arabia?

anyone able to recommend noise-cancelling bluetooth headphones that ideally won't play loud noises at random in my ear or fall to pieces after a month or two?

@pony that's a talented dog

dear god. I'm in an all-hands call. director says we are adopting a "zero-defect approach" by... ceasing to work on bug fixes, delegate bug fixes to LLMs, while developers focus on new features. I think I've already encountered this approach already, with a GDPR-breaching bug introduced by a "refactoring" fix in July by a dev I'd never heard of before

#GetFediHired anyone looking for an application support engineer/developer/general computer-wrangler, remote or based in Glasgow?

@tef what form factor label?

I'd like to get one that can do heatshrink but ehhh looks like lock-in to the Brother ecosystem and ehhhhh

@inthehands I think the correct grammar is "Their excellences @kissane and @jenniferplusplus..." - and if that's not correct grammar then it should be

@skyfire747 suggesting that vaccine refusal isn't dangerous is WILD

here's one for the scrapbook @RantyHighwayman

@fesshole this is why you should make DuckDuckGo your default search engine. to search YouTube you just type "!yt thomas the tank engine 50 cent" in the address bar

@davey_cakes overheard a member of the armed forces talking about a medic and a clerk sharing a room, and it occurred to me you could have a medic and a clerk and a cleric and a merc in that context

@cwebber I'll be sorta in Montreal in a couple weeks!

@0xabad1dea Input validation is so last century

@fesshole have you considered undergoing the severance procedure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM5jW8oRR5Q

@GossiTheDog
Hello!
I saw a mudcrab the other day. Hideous creatures.
Well, goodbye!

@cwebber the scotpol groupchat is pointing out it makes GRCs meaningless, and maybe makes the UK in breach of the ECHR 2004 ruling that brought in GRCs in the first place

@cwebber kinda mix of "this is bad but it might backfire on the GCs and lead to self-ID (in Scotland) (if the Scottish gov has the guts to push for it)"

@cwebber
[from the ruling]: "It is fanciful (even perverse) to think that any reasonable objection to the presence of a person of the opposite sex could be grounded in (gender recognition certificate) GRC status or that a confidential GRC could make any difference at all."

[from a pal]: So, orgs who can't conduct biological sex checks (so, almost all of them outside medical settings) have basically no choice but to use SelfId

@selzero https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE0yG1KUuoU
(ignore the 4k upscaling, it doesn't detract from the clip)