Nostr notes by dakkar

email from FedEx: > the shipper has contacted us to confirm ...

2026-09-08T13:30:41Z

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email from FedEx:

> the shipper has contacted us to confirm the correct address and postcode. The delievry depot have been informed and the consignment will be re routed to the correct delievry location today.

FedEx may be delievring soon!
(are typos like that a good sign that a human was involved? brave new world, that has such questions in it…)

I did not get my parcel yesterday, and I won't get it today. ...

2026-09-08T08:37:12Z

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I did not get my parcel yesterday, and I won't get it today.
BUT!
I asked Prusa support to talk to FedEx, and… apparently FedEx couldn't understand my postcode (it's not a new one! it's been the same for at least 30, probably 40 years!)
I am not sure why FedEx didn't contact me, they have my email addres and phone number ☹

FedEx updated the delivery estimate for the third consecutive ...

2026-09-04T18:00:34Z

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FedEx updated the delivery estimate for the third consecutive day, to Monday.
Wanna bet I do *not* get my parcel on Monday?

I'm sure this is fine: my parcel has apparently been jumping ...

2026-09-04T08:26:22Z

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I'm sure this is fine: my parcel has apparently been jumping around between Ridgmont (near Bletchley), Kingsbury (Birmingham) and London, for the past three days

Apparently nobody in FedEx customer support can read. Oh, also: ...

2026-09-02T15:15:37Z

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Apparently nobody in FedEx customer support can read.

Oh, also: half the time their website says that my tracking number is wrong, and the ticket messages fail to load. And the tracking is saying they'll deliver today before 6pm, but the parcel is still at the "local FedEx facility"…

Great company!

Gianni Ceccarelli Jan 9, 2026, 10:33:00 AM > tracking says ...

2026-09-02T15:13:08Z

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Gianni Ceccarelli Jan 9, 2026, 10:33:00 AM

> tracking says "A request has been made to change this delivery date" but I did not make any such request. please explain what that sentence means.

FedEx Jan 9, 2026, 3:40:00 PM

> Dear customer,
>
> Thank you for your contact with us and I am sincerely sorry for such of inconvenience. I have reported this matter directly to the station and reported that you did not made change in delivery date. I also requested the soonest delivery possible, however please be informed due to the hour I am terribly afraid it would be tomorrow.

Gianni Ceccarelli Jan 9, 2026, 3:45:00 PM

> thank you for the effort, but you have not answered my question
> I asked: what does that sentence mean?
> if the sentence implies that the recipient (that is, me) made a request, then your system in lying.
> if the sentences implies that *someone else* (not me) made a request, then your system is insecure (nobody outside of the recipient should be able to request a change to the delivery date)
> if the sentence does not imply anything about the origin of the request, then your system is useless (it gives me information I cannot use in any way)
>
> I understand that you have no influence on the software that runs fedex, I do not expect you to be able to change anything, but I would really like to know *what the system is telling me*
> thank you again

FedEx Feb 9, 2026, 10:28:00 AM

> Dear Gianni,
>
> Thank you so much for contacting FedEx.
>
> First and foremost, I would like to sincerely apologize that the scheduled delivery date was postponed without your request. I completely understand how concerning this can be, and I am truly sorry for any inconvenience caused.
>
> After reviewing the shipment details, I can confirm that, based on the service selected, transit time is 2 to 4 business days. As the shipment was sent on August 27, 2026, today marks the third business day, therefore the shipment is still within the expected transit timeframe.
>
> I have carefully reviewed the tracking scans and can see that the shipment has been going through customs clearance procedures. I am pleased to confirm that the shipment has now been successfully released from customs, and everything appears to be in order.
>
> To ensure the shipment continues moving as quickly as possible, I have also escalated the matter for additional attention and monitoring. I sincerely apologize for the concern caused by the updated delivery date and understand the importance of receiving your shipment promptly.
>
> Please rest assured that I’m personally following up on this matter. I have created a case on your behalf, and your case number is C-******* should you need to reference it in the future.
>
> I fully understand how important this shipment is to you, and I want to assure you that our team has already begun reviewing the situation. They are monitoring the shipment's progress and coordinating with the relevant departments to help avoid any further postponements whenever possible.
>
> We will continue to keep you informed of any significant updates regarding your shipment.
>
> If you need anything else, please do not hesitate to reach out.
>
> Thank you for your patience and understanding, and I wish you a wonderful day.
>
> Kind regards,

Gianni Ceccarelli Feb 9, 2026, 11:03:00 AM

> thank you again
> I never complained about the delay
> I asked to know what the sentence "A request has been made to change this delivery date" means
> I still want to know what it means
> what kind of request? who made the request? why does that sentence appear in the tracking information?
> that is all I want to know

FedEx Feb 9, 2026, 12:11:00 PM

> Thank you contacting FedEx. I hope you are well. Please accept my apologies for the issues faced with your consignment. I can confirm no request has been made and the shipment has arrived at the station. Please continue to monitor for delivery online. your case will now be closed. Kind regards, Ariana.

Gianni Ceccarelli Feb 9, 2026, 12:13:00 PM

> thank you for *NOT ANSWERING MY QUESTION*
> I did not face any issue with the consignment
> I saw a weird sentence in the tracking, and asked what it means
> nobody has cared to answer

Some "fun" with FedEx waiting for them to deliver my ...

2026-09-02T15:12:29Z

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Some "fun" with FedEx waiting for them to deliver my Prusa INDX kit…

The delivery was initially expected yesterday, but when I checked the tracking page, it said $[border.style=solid,color=aaa,radius=10,width=2 "A request has been made to change this delivery date" ] and the delivery was re-scheduled for today.

Curious, I opened a support request (it took a while to figure out how to do it…); in the next post I'm copying the exchange straight from their website (yes, the timestamps are ridiculous: they're UTC with the month and day swapped)

delivery expected for Tuesday it would have been fantastic to ...

2026-08-27T13:47:44Z

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delivery expected for Tuesday

it would have been *fantastic* to get it today or tomorrow, and build it over the long weekend

oh well, there's really no rush, it's not like I have stuff I need printed urgently

#prusa shipped my INDX upgrade! ...

2026-08-27T07:39:08Z

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#prusa shipped my INDX upgrade!

Just realised that this server has better uptime than GitHub… ...

2026-05-13T08:02:36Z

Just realised that this server has better uptime than GitHub…

(I reboot it about once a week, after updating all the software, and it takes a few minutes to come back up; that's 99.9% uptime by my calculations)

``` $ llama-cli -hf mistralai/Ministral-3-8B-Reasoning-2512-GGUF ...

2026-05-11T11:04:51Z

```
$ llama-cli -hf mistralai/Ministral-3-8B-Reasoning-2512-GGUF --temp 0.7 --system-prompt /tmp/sys.txt

Loading model...

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██ ██ ▀█▄██ ██ ██ ██ ▀█▄██ ██ ▀████ ████▀ ████▀
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build : b9103-838374375
model : mistralai/Ministral-3-8B-Reasoning-2512-GGUF
modalities : text, vision
using custom system prompt

available commands:
/exit or Ctrl+C stop or exit
/regen regenerate the last response
/clear clear the chat history
/read <file> add a text file
/glob <pattern> add text files using globbing pattern
/image <file> add an image file

> what's the name of the captain of the nautilus?

The name of the captain of the *Nautilus* is **Captain Nemo**.

He is a fictional character from Jules Verne's 1870 novel *Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea*. Nemo is a brilliant but enigmatic inventor and the commander of the advanced, self-sustaining submarine *Nautilus*, which he built to explore the ocean and conduct scientific research.

Would you like more details about the *Nautilus* or its captain?

[ Prompt: 4.0 t/s | Generation: 2.3 t/s ]

> what's the *birth* name of the captain of the nautilus?

Captain Nemo’s **birth name** is **Armand Nemo**, though this is only mentioned indirectly in Jules Verne’s novels.

- In *Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea*, Nemo is revealed to be **Armand Nemo** (his full name) after a character (Professor Arronax) deduces it from a cipher and a French passport reference.
- Later works, like *Nemo and His Sons* (1923) by Jules Verne’s son, **Maurice**, also confirm this name.
- Some early translations and adaptations may simplify it to just "Nemo," but the full name is **Armand Nemo**.

Would you like more details on Nemo’s origins or the *Nautilus* itself?

[ Prompt: 3.5 t/s | Generation: 2.2 t/s ]

>
```

Almost everything is garbage! That's very impressive!

#prusa #3dprinter ...

2026-04-24T14:59:11Z

#prusa #3dprinter

Postal vote in the UK… (no, I'm not going to talk politics, ...

2026-04-22T12:23:07Z

Postal vote in the UK… (no, I'm not going to talk politics, this a UI/design thought)

I have to fill in my date of birth. The form looks like this:
▢▢/▢▢/19▢▢

it's 2026

it's been 8 years since people not born in the 1900s have been allowed to vote

do they get a different form? are we exhausting some old stockpile of forms?

that's also how I read it… like a pneumatic tyre ...

2026-03-11T17:09:38Z

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that's also how I read it…
like a pneumatic tyre
rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually (npub1mzg…l2g4)

Question for the people that are basing their business on ...

2026-02-16T14:37:14Z

Question for the people that are basing their business on LLM&c: what happens when OpenAI/Anthropic/&c raise their prices?

They're a cartel of half a dozen companies building black-box tools that thousand of other companies are (or will be) completetly dependent on. They can hold your business to ransom.

What's your plan?

I'm learning Rust on company time apparently the way I learn ...

2026-02-03T14:40:51Z

I'm learning Rust on company time

apparently the way I learn Rust involves, among other things, spending an hour fiddling with the trait bounds to write:

```rust
use std::ops::Sub;
fn diff<X,Y>(x: X, y: Y) -> <X as Sub<Y>>::Output
where X: Sub<Y>
{
x - y
}
```

but hey, now I know

thanks to your post I discovered that @npub1rk6…hv4q Contacts ...

2026-01-14T17:33:40Z

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thanks to your post I discovered that Nextcloud 📱☁️💻 (npub1rk6…hv4q) Contacts _does_ have that field!
I'm not sure how well the calendar and the email client handle it, but it's there

I think the Go idiom would be to pass the extra values via the ...

2025-12-09T13:42:19Z

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I think the Go idiom would be to pass the extra values via the Context object
in Perl I'd often `local`ly set package variables, or use the logger's MDC (or equivalent mechanism)

Yes, Guinan, Ten Forward is almost ready ...

2025-11-30T16:55:38Z

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Yes, Guinan, Ten Forward is almost ready

From bag 24, we start building the final sectors of the saucer. ...

2025-11-30T16:54:33Z

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From bag 24, we start building the final sectors of the saucer.
The way these work is fascinating: they need to match the slopes on both top and bottom side, and be stable.
They're built as two separate triangles, hinged together. The smaller triangle clips to the bottom of the saucer, and the bigger triangle clips to the top. The fact that the slope of both surfaces match that of the spokes we built earlies, is quite surprising!

Captain on the bridge! ...

2025-11-30T14:48:21Z

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Captain on the bridge!

To shape the charactistic oval shape, LEGO has used a six-spurs ...

2025-11-30T14:47:18Z

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To shape the charactistic oval shape, LEGO has used a six-spurs skeleton structure

Welcome aboard, Pinocchio! ...

2025-11-30T14:44:08Z

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Welcome aboard, Pinocchio!

more saucer section; it's got an empty space in the center, ...

2025-11-30T14:43:14Z

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more saucer section; it's got an empty space in the center, which houses the golden dedication plaque

Bags 16 to 23 build the core of the saucer section We start with ...

2025-11-30T14:38:45Z

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Bags 16 to 23 build the core of the saucer section
We start with the attachments between the two sections

it takes four whole bags to build the nacelles; making a cuverd ...

2025-11-30T12:29:01Z

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it takes four whole bags to build the nacelles; making a cuverd structure this large, that's both robust enough to hold together and light enough that the "wings" of the engineering section can hold it up, required some clever design. Notice how the middle "slice" is essentially empty, what little internal structure is there, exists only to hold the thin rods that clip into the tip of the "wings"

Tangentially, I (re?)learned that the red bits at the front of each nacelle are Bussard ramscoop collectors; I'd have thought that the geometry of the saucer section and the main deflector dish would interfere with ramscoopsin that position (and that most/all the collecting would happen as a side-effect of the deflector's geometry), but what do I know… Geordi was critiquing my assembly and I didn't want to bother him further 😁

Geordi LaForge observes critically as I put together the warp ...

2025-11-30T12:16:12Z

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Geordi LaForge observes critically as I put together the warp nacelles

back to building! bags 10&11 build a sturdy support for the ...

2025-11-30T12:14:27Z

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back to building!
bags 10&11 build a sturdy support for the ship

I had forgotten a minifig! Our Number One, William T Riker, with ...

2025-11-28T20:31:03Z

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I had forgotten a minifig!
Our Number One, William T Riker, with trombone!

this feels like a sensible place to stop, the next two bags build ...

2025-11-28T18:15:31Z

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this feels like a sensible place to stop, the next two bags build the display stand
I'm out of the house tomorrow, I'll carry on building on Sunday

bags 8-9 and we've got all the detailing of the top and ...

2025-11-28T18:14:46Z

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bags 8-9 and we've got all the detailing of the top and bottom sides, and the deflector dish

Here they are, together ...

2025-11-28T18:11:17Z

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Here they are, together

Three more bags to build the other half of the engineering ...

2025-11-28T18:09:54Z

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Three more bags to build the other half of the engineering section; notice the axles to connect the two halves together

Crusher family portrait ...

2025-11-28T16:53:48Z

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Crusher family portrait

two more bags, and the thing now has a very recognisable shape! ...

2025-11-28T16:52:11Z

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two more bags, and the thing now has a very recognisable shape! it's half of the engineering section!

bags 1-3 build this… thing it may not be completely obvious ...

2025-11-28T16:48:48Z

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bags 1-3 build this… thing
it may not be completely obvious right now where this fits in a Galaxy-class starship

Hello Beverly! Nice tricorder you've got there. ...

2025-11-28T16:44:07Z

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Hello Beverly! Nice tricorder you've got there.

Inside the Enterprise box, snugly nested, are 30 paper bags, and ...

2025-11-28T15:04:22Z

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Inside the Enterprise box, snugly nested, are 30 paper bags, and two thick manuals
Four thousand pieces take up quite a bit of space!

The Onizuka is a very clever build, tiny but very detailed ...

2025-11-28T14:47:40Z

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The Onizuka is a very clever build, tiny but very detailed

for no extra money, I also got a shuttle, a mini-castle, a ...

2025-11-28T13:35:10Z

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for no extra money, I also got a shuttle, a mini-castle, a Christmas thing, and a card game
it's not clear from this picture, but the minifig included with the shuttle is ?[Ro Laren](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Ro_Laren)

This thing is big and heavy #LEGO #StarTrek ...

2025-11-28T13:29:54Z

This thing is *big* and *heavy*
#LEGO #StarTrek

next step: `sub foo(\@a=[])` 😜

2025-11-15T11:31:08Z

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next step: `sub foo(\@a=[])` 😜

but back to Windows 2.0 at the time, Microsoft was still working ...

2025-11-06T12:11:02Z

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but back to Windows 2.0

at the time, Microsoft was still working closely with IBM, so Windows was described as a "presentation manager" (IBM's name for what we'd call today a window manager or desktop environment) and "leading to OS/2, the operating system of the future"

among the "New!" features touted on the box:
- overlapping windows! (MS Win 1.0 didn't do that!)
- you can transfer data between DOS and Windows applications!
- expanded memory support!

also of note: most of the volume of the box is taken by the user's manual, which guides you through the various UI interactions, and documents the bundled programs (write, paint, calculator…)

VisualAge C++ was an interesting product. I think it was pretty ...

2025-11-06T12:06:13Z

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VisualAge C++ was an interesting product.
I think it was pretty much the best standards-compliant compiler in '98, it did cross-compilation to OS/2, NT, and (according to the box) win95/98.
The Visual Builder tool was not just a UI designer: you could connect properties and events of each widget to each other and to custom processing objects, essentially writing a whole program visually (well, the view and most of the controller…). It was very promising, but the generated code was an unholy mess of templated callable objects that the compiler did its best to make sense of, to not-great success. I remember building a little program (it was essentially a TOTP generator) both with the Visual Builder and manually (the OS/2 UI libraries were quite usable!): the VB code compiled to almost 2MB of binary, my hand-written one was less than 200KB. And machine RAM at that time was still measured in MBs!

OS/2 was my main operating system from '94 to (I think) ...

2025-11-06T11:28:07Z

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OS/2 was my main operating system from '94 to (I think) '99, from version 2.1 (the first usable one) to version 4 pictured here.

Version 4 was not really usable, I believe that nearly all IBM people who know how to write OS/2 programs had left… the fdisk UI was written in Java! half the admin tools had weird inconsistent UIs instead of the beautiful uniform ones from 2.1 and 3

I remember spending some time training the voice recognition software. It was… not terrible?

At my parents' place, we opened a chest that hadn't been ...

2025-11-06T11:21:26Z

At my parents' place, we opened a chest that hadn't been touched in a couple of decades, and found… some historic computing artifacts

Yes, that's an original Windows 2.0 box, form 1987, with all the 5.25" floppies inside; I didn't get it at the time (I was still using a Commodore 64! also I was 10), but I saw it on eBay in the late '90s and decided to buy it.

would ```js 'unadvance': lig_unadvance ?? ...

2025-10-10T20:22:49Z

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would
```js
'unadvance': lig_unadvance ??
ligature_default.unadvance ??
info.unadvance ??
defaultInfo.unadvance ??
0;
```
work as well?

_normal people_ do not grep the source code of docker in the ...

2025-10-02T14:48:52Z

_normal people_ do not grep the source code of docker in the course of their jobs…

or even: ```perl use curry; my $callback = ...

2025-09-23T09:09:50Z

In reply to nevent1q…d60t
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or even:
```perl
use curry;
my $callback = $obj->curry::your_method;
# or curry::weak::your_method
```

I'm not sure I understood exactly the question, but: ```make ...

2025-09-04T13:02:32Z

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I'm not sure I understood exactly the question, but:
```make
.PHONY: one two three

VAR=normal

one: VAR=special

one two three:
echo "$@ var=$(VAR)"
```
seems to be close enough?

This is probably the best-researched work on the history of ...

2025-08-29T16:20:06Z

This is probably the best-researched work on the history of keyboard layouts (Sholes, Dvorak and others). I was already aware of most of its contents, but it was still worth a read even just for the presentation.

(tangentially, I've been using Dvorak's layout since the turn of the century, on both physical and virtual keyboards, mainly because *I like it*)
nostr:note1gdl099d6rkpzesaq5hr98w9jpy256zqg00eqmrkgqgw40usuhguqtjfjtj

OH: > I know a guy who's dead set against blockchain. > ...

2025-07-03T15:41:49Z

OH:
> I know a guy who's dead set against blockchain.
>
> He's a contractor, and he's been exclusively taking contracts for blockchain work. Takes their money for 6-12 months, drives the whole thing to the ground, then moves on.

talking about the 1960s: > bits were expensive in those days; ...

2025-06-16T12:46:37Z

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talking about the 1960s:
> bits were expensive in those days; five- and six-bit character encodings were still in widespread usage, and mixed-case alphabetics in file names seen as a luxury

Nostr event nevent1qqsz3lmtvveh23wjc0ny073c7muh8fvadmpnegmutvtp0v2jnsx7rlczyq6uafp2j3fxqhw45l90ku7qg74zknxg54ng20ep2snuu2ztv36g2amy353

2025-06-16T12:17:02Z

Now reading roff(7)

yesterday my printer took 8 hours to print a whole set, using a ...

2025-06-16T10:10:06Z

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yesterday my printer took 8 hours to print a whole set, using a bit less than 200g of plastic (mostly white)
I don't think I'll print the other 3 copies, but despite hitting the limits of detail that my printer can do with a 0.4 nozzle, I'm pretty happy with the results

https://www.thenautilus.net/cgit/mahjong-tiles/about/ source code ...

2025-06-14T13:00:16Z

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https://www.thenautilus.net/cgit/mahjong-tiles/about/ source code and instructions

I think these tiles look decent enough to play with ...

2025-06-14T12:59:59Z

I think these tiles look decent enough to play with

And this is why it's called a TTY ...

2025-05-31T15:42:26Z

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And this is why it's called a TTY

A Gundam microcomputer! @npub1kpp…4dft ...

2025-05-31T15:41:25Z

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A Gundam microcomputer!
KSGamingLife🕹️ 🐈 🍸 (npub1kpp…4dft)

A little spread of machines @npub1kpp…4dft ...

2025-05-31T10:34:40Z

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A little spread of machines
KSGamingLife🕹️ 🐈 🍸 (npub1kpp…4dft)

A vectrex! @npub1kpp…4dft ...

2025-05-31T10:10:16Z

A vectrex!
KSGamingLife🕹️ 🐈 🍸 (npub1kpp…4dft)

a quick search makes me think it means "your functions should ...

2025-04-09T10:11:34Z

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a quick search makes me think it means "your functions should throw at runtime if they get bad input", mostly applied to languages that don't have a good enough type system

@beka_valentine@kolektiva.social

Sometimes I find code that seems written specifically to annoy ...

2025-02-18T15:58:41Z

Sometimes I find code that seems written *specifically* to annoy me.

[This line in Misskey](https://github.com/misskey-dev/misskey/blob/7c87dec6ee9a6b07c27597c5fe21037ff31058f0/packages/backend/src/core/CustomEmojiService.ts#L491):

```ts
builder.andWhere('CAST(emoji.updatedAt AS DATE) >= :updateAtFrom', { updateAtFrom: q.updatedAtFrom });
```

The column name is called `updatedAt`

The query parameter passed into this function is called `updatedAtFrom`

The placeholder in the SQL snippet? `updateAtFrom` *WITHOUT THE D*

Grrrrrr

I think [sdview](https://metacpan.org/dist/App-sdview) is aiming ...

2024-12-15T19:05:29Z

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I think [sdview](https://metacpan.org/dist/App-sdview) is aiming for that; right Paul Evans (npub1hlp…gkyk)?

Oh FFS, it's called "re-silvering" because it's ...

2024-11-27T16:17:30Z

Oh FFS, it's called "re-silvering" because it's what you do to repair a _mirror_.
Actual mirrors used to be made of glass with a thin _silver_ deposit on one side.

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2024-11-25T20:53:34Z

Paul Evans (npub1hlp…gkyk) https://metacpan.org/release/PEVANS/Object-Pad-0.816/source/t/80async-method.t#L17 should this line call `Future::XS->VERSION` instead of `Future::AsyncAwait->VERSION`?
Also https://metacpan.org/release/PEVANS/Object-Pad-0.816/diff/PEVANS/Object-Pad-0.815#t/81async-method+dynamically.t seems to have lost the minimum version spec for `Syntax::Keyword::Dynamically`

Accompanied a friend to charity shops, and this little guy ...

2024-11-11T17:00:34Z

Accompanied a friend to charity shops, and this little guy followed me home
https://s.thenautilus.net/files/8d7ef0dd-5615-4be2-b320-24694403c2c3
https://s.thenautilus.net/files/01aa8616-6ce0-46d3-9727-f0e19b4d575a

also… isn't that usually spelled 429? is this one of those ...

2024-11-04T15:29:59Z

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also… isn't that usually spelled 429? is this one of those APIs that always says 200 and you have to look inside the response?

my Gentoo machines are all OpenRC 😜

2024-10-01T15:47:10Z

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my Gentoo machines are all OpenRC 😜

https://systemd.io/THE_CASE_FOR_THE_USR_MERGE/ it pretty much ...

2024-10-01T15:42:59Z

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https://systemd.io/THE_CASE_FOR_THE_USR_MERGE/
it pretty much already happened, although "the other way": everything is now under `/usr`

finished the book! Loved it (predictably). During the last few ...

2024-09-27T21:02:42Z

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finished the book! Loved it (predictably). During the last few chapters I had [Marian Call's "Independence"](https://mariancall.bandcamp.com/track/independence) playing in my head…
> You cannot raise a barn alone
> And I curse the burden made you think you should
> And I curse the blind spot made you think you did
…
> 'Cause Independence is a myth
> But loneliness is real.

your hard work is very appreciated

2024-09-24T21:06:55Z

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your hard work is very appreciated

&c (`&` originated as a ligature for "et", ...

2024-09-03T13:10:58Z

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&c
(`&` originated as a ligature for "et", meaning "and" in Latin)

for the people following at home, you accidentally `chown`ed the ...

2024-08-29T21:23:37Z

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for the people following at home, you accidentally `chown`ed the `sudo` binary, so it went from "set-user-id root" to "set-user-id leah", making it significantly less useful 😜
(there is no "sudo user")

it was apparently added in Unicode 11, 2018-05-21

2024-08-28T08:46:14Z

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it was apparently added in Unicode 11, 2018-05-21

notice that not all email servers understand that. Gmail does, ...

2024-08-26T19:09:53Z

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notice that not all email servers understand that. Gmail does, but I'm not sure about outlook/hotmail/live, for example
(Also a lot of validation logic is wrong and doesn't think that `+` is a valid character in email addresses…)

random thought: that headphone jack might be connected (via a ...

2024-08-16T11:48:39Z

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random thought: that headphone jack might be connected (via a DAC) to the HDMI audio channel
yes, that would be weird and slightly evil
it's still a possibility

I thought that what I wrote was exactly "a custom modal with ...

2024-08-15T18:59:13Z

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I thought that what I wrote was exactly "a custom modal with async return"… what did I miss?

here, have a near-replacement! (needs styling, and proper ...

2024-08-15T17:38:59Z

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here, have a near-replacement! (needs styling, and proper "modal" display, but it works)
instead of `const response = window.confirm(message)` you do `const response = await confirm(message)` (extending this to `prompt` is left as an exercise for the reader)
https://s.thenautilus.net/files/d47c88c3-d7c0-4408-a902-617bdd69d69b

"login" works fine in Italian 😁

2024-08-11T10:14:27Z

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"login" works fine in Italian 😁

at work, deployment images are stored in the tarballs 😜

2024-08-01T15:23:16Z

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at work, deployment images are stored in the tarballs 😜

first of all, don't 😁 second, auto-upgrade from a random ...

2024-08-01T14:47:59Z

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first of all, don't 😁
second, auto-upgrade from a random host is a security nightmare, please don't
third… git over http exists https://git-scm.com/docs/http-protocol