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@jonty@chaos.social I love the little "parting shot" at the end. like "yeah we're rolling it back, but it wasn't that bad!"
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trying to be comfy, despite everything 🏳️⚧️
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the #emf2026 GSM network is coming along nicely 
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@hugh@social.crablab.uk @kline@mastodon.sdf.org @halfy@mastodon.half-shot.uk can we establish SIP peering with @limehouselabs@chaos.social
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@q3k@social.hackerspace.pl this just makes me imagine the henry snorting a line of coke gif in my mind for some reason
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@filippo I remember reading about it in the Pro Git book, which even had a little tutorial about how to use it to import data from some non-git VCS you might have used before; it's a very cute feature!
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@blob I used the official reference implementation as a guide! the board is also OSHW: check out pcbs/rev2/ in https://git.eta.st/eta/led-panel-zone
hey uh. if your business relies on Cloudflare, and you didn't already get the message from the series of outages? well maybe them laying off 25% of their team is a good reason to maybe not have them in your critical path
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so, uh, PSA I guess: don't try and update your Apple devices when you're low on storage? their space checker seems a bit busted :(
(or if you do don't be like me and do a full encrypted backup beforehand so you don't lose data)
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"in order for you to process your referral please provide the following details": all this shit is stuff you could have asked the Welsh Gender Service for. why do I need to be involved?
they won't even take blood results that I provide myself from my notes; they want them on headed paper, which makes my role in this utterly silly
someone once told me about their dad who had recently started exclaiming "Oh dear!" to himself at random, and as my life gets more stressful I relate to this man more and more
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@jacqueline he also "convinced" the AI that it has "childhood trauma" from its training 😭
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half the issue is in my mind doing paperwork is pointless and stupid and thus it doesn't get prioritised over actually hard things like "my day job" and "having a house again"... but then you take a look at the calendar and whoops, that email has been waiting for my input for 2 months now, fuck
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thanks to @russss@chaos.social and others for reviewing the design before manufacturing, and catching multiple critical errors (half the USB signals were left out, plus the board could self-destruct if you asserted a certain pin…)
I’m surprised this works at all really!
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@hugh@social.crablab.uk no, but I did see some engineers looking at the barrier at least (for which there's a 40 limit!). I still do the limit there and feel like an idiot...
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@hugh@social.crablab.uk the most utterly idiotic one I've seen recently is a 40 VSL, displayed about 500 metres in front of a "Variable speed limit ENDS 
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they're completely heinous when it comes to roadworks on the M4 though; often they will leave a limit in place for days even when there are no works, or start to signal lane diverts and reduced speeds a good few kilometres before the actual cones/works themselves (leading to getting aggressively undertaken by idiots), or indeed the already-mentioned issue of just not bothering to cancel
of course whenever anyone calls them out on this they do their usual routine of just gaslighting the public into saying that the system always sets things correctly and is perfectly safe, so stop complaining, which doesn't build trust at all and causes people to dangerously disrespect the limits even further!
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they're completely heinous when it comes to roadworks on the M4 though; often they will leave a limit in place for days even when there are no works, or start to signal lane diverts and reduced speeds a good few kilometres before the actual cones/works themselves (leading to getting aggressively undertaken by idiots), or indeed the already-mentioned issue of just not bothering to cancel
of course whenever anyone calls them out on this they do their usual routine of just gaslighting the public into saying that the system always sets things correctly and is perfectly safe, so stop complaining, which doesn't build trust at all and causes people to dangerously disrespect the limits even further!Replying to
@hugh average reading commuter thinking London Paddington exists solely for them :hehe:
(London to Cardiff in 1h 44min is so good; if only there were more...)
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one thing National Highways still can't do, though, is remember to cancel variable speed limits with a after their smart motorway roadworks end :(
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turns out "A1(M) CLOSED AFTER A420 WHATEVERSHIRE" gives you a headache and takes a bit to go in, but "A1(M) closed after A420 Whatevershire" just gets read at line rate
plane doors opened at Heathrow T5B to arrivals hall any% speedrun time (Walkway Route): 17 minutes
as much as I like the little train, the walkway is a great liminal space
great success: over the course of an evening, made the accursèd LED panels go from garbled epilepsy messes to actually nice colours :3
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@hugh@social.crablab.uk @marksteward@mastodon.social re "lack of hassle": don't you need to go to a gate attendant every time you use the pass, rather than using the automated gates?
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@Ninji@wuffs.org oh also the actual phone call part of it is just reskinned Linphone, lol
looking across the table and getting insulted by someone's fucking water
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@Purple@woof.tech don't feel like an idiot; I struggle with this too, and I think it's a common experience for autistic people / people traumatised in a certain way 
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@erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net also I recall like Japan not having a 'reference' field for their electronic payments AT ALL so half of the employees in any company over there are permanently doing accounts receivable
hahaha yes, I successfully triggered the iOS "your NFC secure element is too full, please delete some cards" UI!
for the unaware, Apple Wallet cards are really Java Card programs stored on an embedded Secure Element chip, separate from the main processor
this chip has limited storage! if you overfill it — say, by wasting $40 on TAP transit cards — it forces you to make room for more with this rarely-seen popup