catgirl shaped object "A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin." ✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧ ✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦ ✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶ ✷ nothing else matters ✷ #searchable X-ALT-PFP: a white-haired catgirl with big fluffy ears, blushing deeply and smiling like a cat who knows something that you don't. her shirt is red, the bow on her hair is red, and the eyes behind her square glasses are red. the background is reminiscent of a halo. PRONOUN: it
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Last Notes npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ someone should make a Factorio mod that removes any and all* possibility of building a computer inside it, for people whose job it is to build computer and who are tired of it * in the gameplay sense; like not having any signals for example npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ the funniest thing about meeting people is that they sometimes don't expect me to be like this in person as well npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ i meant less my brain is fried due to background pain npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ they should make a multiplayer interactive disassembler npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ going to start a new fad, "try to not catch COVID this winter challenge" npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ id Software, ego Software, and superego Software npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ if you tie security updates to features like this, nobody will install them either! npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ hi do you wanna join me doing the same i have uhhhh vscode liveshare npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ (I think that's more or less what USB4 does? but now you have to deal with USB4, which is an even worse can of worms) npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ "it has to be really cheap [to make devices]. no, cheaper than that. no, even cheaper" as for TTs, interestingly even VL671 doesn't fully encapsulate 2.x packets in 3.0, but I can't conclusively say why without actually trying to implement a TT, and I've got better things to do with my life right now npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ back in 2014 i wrote a replacement for liquid, any interest in it? it's designed from ground up to be faster & have excellent diagnostics npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ is this flirting or a cry for help? npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ type of girl (weapon) who only accepts praise when the praise is done by someone with acceptable credentials and is specific enough to indicate what exactly she has done well npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ what is the python "winrm" package and why is it trying to parse Powershell 'CLIXML' with regular expressions npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ can you cw this as "uspol" please npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ I mean that you're going with it I assumed that the memory aimed peripheral would have issues like this and got surprised you didn't stay away... npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ wow, that's cursed npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ yep--I have a confirmation from Eurocircuits here: https://mastodon.social/@whitequark/112988210787736366 npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ interesting, I guess they didn't want to touch the card edge with probes, or else there was perhaps some other reason to bring both of them out I'm thinking that the lines would continue straight down until forming a row of PTH test points npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ may know? npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ @npub1zf7…cszn welcome! npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ I've learned to give anyone who uses the term "polycule" in relation to themselves wide berth lest I get hurt as well npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ (after sending this to someone) "My girlfriend and her asshole friends who date her whom I still consider my own friends" is too bulky" npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ really good point actually npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ i'm already on tramadol/pregabalin/NSAID for said pain condition and still in pain every day, not sure your experience applies npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ I had an induction stove once and while I love the technology I am not tempted to try actually using it for cooking again npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ was it in a dead drop and did you get coordinates hardcopied as GPS latlon into a picture? npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ someone asked me a few days ago what i could wish for if it could be anything, money, power, whatever, and i replied with "i want all of the unwanted hair gone" instantly npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ i think this really depends on a specific stove. some of them kick ass, some of them are absolute garbage npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ nice npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ like it's really depressing to think about all of those times i've been screamed at or hit (former: probably thousands of times, latter: enough times) and realize they really just failed to communicate first that they wanted me to be a tool, a means to an end. i don't _know_ that i would have bought into it if they did but at least i would have considered it npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ i wonder whether i would have done better or worse in college if someone told me when i was a child that it wasn't for "education" (which struck me as false given that it was clearly meant for social mobility and networking, which i resented) but for "making me the good little tool i should be" npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ <she> ... it involved googling how much blood there is in a human body... <my headmate> (instantly) five point two liters or so? npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ i don't think i've ever tried to optimize for comfortable sleep until like a few weeks ago, and it makes such a huge difference for, well, existing npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ it's quite impressive just how much having a comforter with the right TOG rating, a good pillow, and a springy mattress do for improving your sleep quality npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ did... itanium do that npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ My (;20;) local variables (i32 i32 i32 i32 i32 i32 i32 i32 i32 i32 i32 i32 i32 i32 i32 i32 i32 i32 i32 i32 i32 i32 i32 i32 i32 i32 i32 i32 i32 i32 i32 i32 i32 i32 i32 i32 i32 i32 i32 i64 i64 i64 i64 i64 f64 f32 f32 f32 f32 f32 f32) have unionized npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ pcbway has the best gender option https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/682/997/555/654/782/original/201e4012e9516555.png npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ if you use lead free solder you could reflow electronics in an air fryer npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ rage against the state machine npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ OH: "air frier is the "I use Arch btw" of food preparation" npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ if you're disabled, consider getting an air fryer. i've struggled with meal prep for as long as i remember. it's not _completely_ infeasible for me, but it's a lot of effort on the best days, and completely and utterly draining on the worst ones, where every time i stand up pushes me closer to just staring at the wall forever an air fryer and a pack of single use inserts mean that meal preparation is now a two-step process 1. put stuff in and click start 2. get stuff out and it tastes nice too npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ his online presence is so tedious like ok i get it you burned out on tech and decided to start a bar do you _have_ to be that insufferable? npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ Murder on the PCI Express npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ do you, personally, associate quartz crystals with war? (there will be context once the poll ends) npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ thank you! I've been looking for a tool like that for a very long time npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ that drill is so cute omg... what's it called npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ > It doesn't matter if I make a dozen "how to disable recall" tutorials. The second YOUR data shows up on someone ELSE'S screen, it's in THEIR recall database. this has nothing to do with microsoft recall! anybody you send stuff to can have it compromised. you message your high school friend, she gets caught at a protest, now cops have all that data you can never control the data you give to somebody else, recall or not npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ where in the UK would i have a type-C connector on a laptop motherboard swapped? I need it to be done within 1-2 days npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ ok i will simply admit that nix (unsurprisingly) truly wants to be reproducible https://mastodon.social/@[email protected] /112529338623040075 npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ if nix truly wanted to be reproducible it'd set SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH in the shell rc file npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ incredible https://www.ambionics.io/blog/iconv-cve-2024-2961-p1 https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/523/815/165/521/683/original/5ef13bbd552badfd.png npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ don't like microsoft making decisions for you that you can't do anything about due to the market forces? switch to linux! here, you can have the systemd project making decisions for you that you can't do anything about due to the market forces it's funnier because more shit breaks npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ today's helldivers 2 discovery: it has an unlockable revolver. makes sense, right? lots of games do. you fire six out of six shots and reload. your character uses a speedloader. makes sense! you fire two shots and reload. - if you're in a fight, your character uses a speedloader, and you lose four - if you're not, they reload it round by round, and you lose none this is an incredible level of attention to detail holy shit. nobody does this!! npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ by the way, and incidentally fuck you Frederick G. Weiss and your associates, the key for decrypting the SteelSeries .edevice blobs is: +T0mc(}@GOc4j9]C}K)=J)TS4WnLI0@!=qi5&~xX]#RB#&/ix5O~g[pg7moE4NqZzh{?pw48)NlU$y3^[I#j9DNEMKvkQM2Z6X67RJKwhWsI#m1mu5/Q2ZPF78Kz=U5f dearmor the blob, put it all in openpgp.ReadMessage, you can now enjoy the lisp blobs that have the programming algorithms for firmware updates and other "trade secrets" of Avnera meow :3 npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ well fuck you too, Frederick G. Weiss https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/449/704/275/105/594/original/ce85fd94e060919a.png npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ oh hey, a datasheet https://fcc.report/FCC-ID/X5B-PL051014T/2399158.pdf npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ zero google results for "avnera av3395" npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ what the heck is Avnera npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ but hey now i know how to update the firmware! https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/449/624/601/618/369/original/18973fc1bf030227.png npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ ohhhhh, the reason i couldn't find any device-specific code in the binary i was reverse-engineering is because it was all living in encrypted lisp blobs that makes sense npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ check this out thanks to VS Code, YoWASP Toolchain Extension, and WebUSB, you can now program FPGAs with nothing but your cellphone o:3 https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=yowasp.toolchain https://vscode.dev/github/YoWASP/toolchain-demo https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/449/494/574/852/218/original/64fd476bce93e1f0.mp4 npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ the thermostat in this place is wireless and talks to the boiler over radio... but something happened (?) and it's no longer working. and i noticed that i'm cold. fortunately i had a recording of the thermostat's boiler-on and boiler-off commands on my flipper zero. so now flipper zero is a key part of how i'm going to not freeze to death while asleep npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ OH: "c++ is more effective at causing pain than any knife ever will be" npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ one of my least favorite things in computing are progress bars that straight up lie to you until getting to the very end just make it a puck that goes back and forth and grows bigger as you actually receive data or something stop fucking lying to me you piece of shit npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ science advances one death at a time. and open source programming languages advance one burned out queer person at a time npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ My (27F) enemies (21F, 27N, 36F, 29F, 19N) have formed a polycule npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ lol get fucked i didn't expect to see the Hague Invasion Act be tested in my lifetime https://www.bnr.nl/nieuws/internationaal/10545882/vs-dreigt-met-maatregelen-tegen-strafhof-den-haag https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/361/834/114/830/305/original/a38b05602e4ab904.png npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ achievement unlocked: I just comprehensibly explained my gender (or lack thereof) to [@mwk](https://donotsta.re/users/mwk) using set theory npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ I don't think you know very much about me--I'm not a "rustacean" nor do I write much Rust these days. I do spend my days mopping up the mistakes of another bunch of 80's dinosaurs though, see you in 20 years when the bar for HDLs is as high as it was for software in mid-2010s npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ impressive amount of effort that went into suppressing any curiosity you might have once had, great job npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ ohhh, you're _afraid_, that makes more sense npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ but to answer to this more concretely: the fact that one component of a system can violate a contract doesn't make contracts pointless or, indeed, less valuable; this is true regardless of how your hardware is built and whether your kernel is written in assembly, C, Rust, or Ada the only real difference is how much of the contract is machine-checked npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ I think you should spend a lot more time looking into OS and hardware designs that didn't come out of the 80s before this conversation will become interesting for me, sorry npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ plenty of drivers are architecture-specific by nature and some of those already use Rust in the kernel, this is kind of a done deal npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ i would hope not npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ rust people: let's make the kernel more memory-safe with rust! linux people: we have memory safety at home memory safety at home: eBPF npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ try demangling this C++ symbol name: _ZN8iloveyouIS_S_S_S_S_EIS0_S0_S0_S0_S0_EIS1_S1_S1_S1_S1_EIS2_S2_S2_S2_S2_EIS3_S3_S3_S3_S3_EIS4_S4_S4_S4_S4_EIS5_S5_S5_S5_S5_EIS6_S6_S6_S6_S6_EIS7_S7_S7_S7_S7_EIS8_S8_S8_S8_S8_EIS9_S9_S9_S9_S9_EE npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ remember that bill gates joke where an audience member for a presentation of a new voice-controlled microsoft os whispered "format c: enter" to it? well, it's no longer a joke https://mastodon.social/@kennwhite/112290497758846218 npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ > The Open Source Security (OpenSSF) and OpenJS Foundations are calling all open source maintainers to be alert for social engineering takeover attempts, to recognize the early threat patterns emerging, and to take steps to protect their open source projects. so what you're saying is that OSS development needs more violence npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ DMA-chan, the moe personification of a standalone bus initiator in a System-on-Chip ASIC npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ The #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer project now has a written Code of Conduct documenting our practices! I encourage you to read it: https://github.com/GlasgowEmbedded/glasgow/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ could you be more specific please? npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ chat, can someone explain to me what a "bottom" is in the context of human psychosexual behavior? please pretend i know literally nothing npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ well, we still have time and labor. and yep! that last paragraph is exactly the bit I have a problem with. from the perspective of an independent FOSS dev, the whole concept exists to make my life worse with no upside for it. since it doesn't seem like CISOs care about not making my life worse, I see no reason to spend effort acknowledging their motivation; only pushing back against it. npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ that's not the usual definition of a "supply chain"; that's the definition of a "supply chain" that CISOs came up with as an attempt to pawn off their responsibility onto unpaid labor literally anywhere else your "supply chain" consists of organizations you're paying in exchange for services and labor npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ unless you do have one, you do not have a supply chain. npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ repeat after me: open source packages are not my supply chain unless i have a contract with their maintainer npub1y6dlvsas2kk6xjmj82rk2gda8lrtdkp4002f2gz86qqyudmc5utqk5d9nx ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ I just went digging for why Ethernet jumbo frame size is typically 9000, and found out that the reasoning is "until equipment supports much more than 9000 byte frames, we can use 9000, because it is an easy number to remember" https://docs.globalnoc.iu.edu/i2network//jumbo-frames/rrsum-almes-mtu.html