Notices by Ziggy the Hamster :whyfox:🐹🌻 (ziggythehamster@ruby.social)

I don’t know how Loongson is pronounced, so I will assume this instruction set architecture joke will land:

I want a girl with a short skirt and a LoongArch

@Rasp leap year birthday?

I have once encountered software which counted the number of times the day occurred since birth instead of now - year, which is the correct answer.

@itsOasus I have this album, lol. Should have clocked it immediately.

I was thinking about this newer skit: https://youtube.com/shorts/E9PVLbbSyyM

@itsOasus (am on a plane and can’t watch)

Is this the bathroom stall bit? If not, that one is also pretty good.

https://ziggythehamster.sh/2024/10/22/Rivian-R1S-Great-car-ruined-by-techbros/

@GossiTheDog @catsalad also @thomasfuchs apparently

@thomasfuchs I’m sorry, is that a fucking textbook????

https://academic.oup.com/book/683

@Infoseepage @thomasfuchs that seems like the only logical thing…

Both of my cars have a button to deactivate the sensors temporarily for exactly this reason. I know the Cybertruck doesn’t have buttons but it feels like it would be easy to have in the UI.

My Ioniq 5 knows it’s in a tunnel and turns on recirculate, maybe the Cybertruck could detect it’s in a carwash automatically?

@RebeccaSlatkin the California DMV calculates your expiration date by taking your expiration date and adding 5 to the year component

If your expiration date is 2/29, problem.

It took weeks of escalation but finally they figured it out. Solution was to change my birth date to 2/28, then change my expiration date to match, then add 5 years to it, then change my birth date back.

@BalooUriza @keirFox @connie @paul I’m personally terrified of changing my avatar there for the reason you elude to.

@TechTangents @thomasfuchs and even if you do, some people are still going to be mad about it. In this situation, particularly those who equate criticism of a certain government with religious bigotry (and I’ll admit as an atheist I do not understand why this can possibly occur; maybe it’s like how the emperor of Japan was also the highest ranking religious entity?).

Cathode Ray Dude just trolls people with his set, and that seems to not be as bad to deal with.

No, I don't think it's disk speed.

Think this is a disk speed limitation or is Azure just slower than I anticipate?

@thomasfuchs it’s about time Apple published Safari for Windows again

@thomasfuchs I’ll admit that the response to Meta here has made me less optimistic about implementing ActivityPub on the Amazon subsidiary I work for… but I also recognize that if my racist relatives end up here talking about their recipes involving horse paste or 5G neurotransmitters, that’s a big problem.

Idk enough about Mastodon the software to know if the problem is really just inadequate moderation tools. The protocol would allow you to drop messages without banning the instance.

@thomasfuchs theoretically a Bayesian filter on content on Threads would be sufficient, if Mastodon-the-software had a way for users to provide such feedback to the instance.

@thomasfuchs idk why but every Keurig coffee pod tastes like old car dealership coffee.

On the Nespresso - how painful is it to make espresso drinks (lattes, cappuccinos) with the system / are they any good?

@thomasfuchs the rate limit can be bypassed by someone like @textfiles.

Re: ringing the alarm bell… I am sure that is already happening. The question is whether VPs are hearing it and take some kind of action, and I don’t know they will. Hopefully they will.

@thomasfuchs @ygalanter The bug is pretty easy to spot:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/app/validators/poll_validator.rb#L15