@anotherwalther Rounding is a show of cowardice.

Statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged:Your account balance is now $ 1.022696519797640770, and based on the amount of data you have stored it is currently dropping at a rate of $ 0.167406515403739116/day.(I am quite certain this is not a case of doing accounting in double precision floating point - it's probably just picodollars stored as bigints)

@EndlessMason @retr0id @gsuberland The interface works.

@ryanc Doesn't take much practice, even. The mechanical decoders were notoriously tolerant. You'd just need to know how many ticks number 1 was, and whether the subsequent numbers were more ticks (common on the Northern heimsphere) or less ticks (which apparently was, for some reason, common in Australia). But the rotary dial didn't run the other way in Australia; the dial's direction is determined by the right-handedness supremacists. Only the numbers appeared in the opposite direction, because the proximity of a number to the finger-stop was mechanically coupled to the tick-count of the number.

@Hyolobrika I would be perfectly happy if the concept of a legal sex or gender were abolished.Being legally considered something I am not and that I cannot pass as is, however, genuinely distressing.

@Hyolobrika As to it being illegal to use the wrong pronouns for someone deliberately, it is hate speech and should be legally classified as such, regardless of legal gender.Some jurisdictions make hate speech illegal, some do not.

@deutrino @[email protected] running an actual catch-all will trigger anti-fraud systems sometimes, and yes they can and will check.

@ryanc Not for me but try Helix, it's pretty good and very similar to Vim. I program in C and Go with no problems in both, Vim and Helix.

@panda Yeah, basically via generic broadcast relay functionality. I forget where I found it, but it saved me from having to run something in userspace.

@ryanc I had one of these mini-computers.https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2015/11/inside-a-wifi-travel-router-charger/Had WiFi, Ethernet, USB, VPN support, and a power adapter.Wish I hadn't lost it!

@panda i learned recently that nftables can do mdns forwarding natively

I have a soldering iron and I know how to use it, do not force my hand!

@ryanc lack of revision numbers on change in general is just evil.i remember buying a couple of hundred boxes with a very specific controller board that we had to have due to OS support. first batch worked fine. second shipment, every one failed. checked board revision versions. no change.turns out they did new board firmware but didn't increment version number.hilarity ensues.sigh...

I have a WiFi connected scale that's over a decade old. It speaks bloody boring old http. I can run my own server. It's a privacy nightmare if I don't, though...

@ryanc If you are going to store data on a cloud, you must encrypt it first with keys that you control.#Cryptography #Cloud

Trying to hack the ventilation system for remote control. Someone already reverse engineered the thing. Trivial RS232 protocol, over RJ11 according to the official specs.Open the thing up, try to plug in an RJ11 cable... doesn't fit. Seems to be an RJ9/RJ10. 🤬

@kkoftaki @silvermoon82 I'm running it on an old Protectli FW4A that was previously my router/firewall, so in my case there wasn't really anything to it for dedicating hardware. Maybe a little more power draw.

I feel like I have the glasses from "They Live".

@ryanc Bless, curse me now with your fierce tears, I pray.

@zoy https://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html