Notices by Graham Sutherland / Polynomial (gsuberland@chaos.social)

self-OH: "itar what you did there"

just saw the best sponsor segue ever on a youtube video. "and speaking of leaking highly classified military information, today's video is sponsored by Warthunder"

a computer can never be held accountable because it is made of metal, whereas humans are made of skin

therefore a computer must never write a self help book

(yes I am finally watching Severance)

@feld I don't think we've ever interacted before but somehow my private note field on your account says "crypto guy 🙄" which I think is extremely funny

remember when blockchain hype was everywhere and people kept saying things like "oh I know it's so silly and overhyped but there will still be niche applications like tracking and securing supply chains"

and then it never fucking happened because the tech was crap and slow and expensive and error prone and difficult to manage and basically just worse than the existing solutions in every possible way

keep that in mind when people say "well it will have SOME good uses" about the tech fad du jour

spamming fedi is so funny can you imagine a literal worse demographic to have pissed off at you than a bunch of tech nerds who built their own social media infrastructure out of glue and spite

@ryanc does it need to be sealed or can it be the type with air holes?

@ryanc LRS-100-48 for example would be my first port of call

@ryanc for sealed I'd probably go HEP-100-48

@ryanc Meanwell every time, if you've got the cash.

@ariadne as a general approach if tools don't exist: Spotify track metadata contains the ISRC of each track, which you can use to look up the track on MusicBrainz (which they call a "recording"). if you then check the release for that recording, the metadata includes external URLs for that release, typically including Bandcamp, Beatport, etc.

as a fallback you can look up the artist metadata for the release and get their external links, and that also typically includes Beatport, Patreon, etc.

does anyone actually *like* read receipts? I have a visceral hatred of them.

@luna it's thr safead

@luna see also: "Feeling Insecure About Your C Knowledge? Relax, This Compiler From 2025 Hasn't Read The C99 Spec Either!"

I was thinking about the mechanics of magic earlier and it'd be really interesting to explore the idea that it was deeply tied to the availability of entopy in the universe, and died out over time as a result of the natural order.

SMBC is back! this explains the outage. interesting turn of events.

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/announcement-2

"what's it like having ADHD?"

"well this morning I woke up and saw the moon and that made me think of Interstellar and then Cornfield Chase got stuck in my head and that made me think of that time I mixed the D&B remix of it into Wilkinson - Infinity which reminded me of someone talking about infinite dimensional vector functions so now I'm reading about infinitely differentiable functions and smoothness classes."

was not expecting to be writing a vulnerability report for Command & Conquer Generals: Zero Hour today but here we are

https://github.com/TheSuperHackers/GeneralsGameCode/issues/272

@lexiconista the yes/no one hit me hard because I just realised how many globalisation frameworks absolutely fail to provide a way to handle that. ouch.