Notices by Ryan Finnie (foo@fosstodon.org)

May 1748, Surrey, England.

William Thomas Json: One last touch and my magnum opus will be complete...

Me, appearing in a portal of light: Stop! I come from the future, no time to explain, you MUST allow trailing commas, or the world will suffer!

Json: Sorry, no can do, I just sent the specification off to the printers. Maybe next format, thanks!

Me, disappearing in a flash of sparks: NOOOOOOOO!!!!

Achievement unlocked: nearly broke my wrist from the kickback while using a power drill hole saw

@ArchiteuthisFlux @alpenglow @bnys I have an LED work light which is “this can blind you” bright, but its button is on the back in a way which makes it natural to hold it in front of you to reach around back. I added a helpful warning to it.

Actually, needing to agree to the AGPL may actually be a thing, considering it places restrictions on usage, not just distribution.

(The next page required me to agree to the LGPL, so...)

It's been

@eniko If it makes you feel better, I've got a song stuck in my head and it's making me think of Kitsune Tails.

All the lyrics sites say she's saying "I'm a cool, cool cartoony girl", but I keep listening to the phrase and I swear it's "kitsune girl". Anyway, licensed soundtrack song from 25 years ago?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc3wejNeZCk

Okay, hear me out: why didn't the Federation just deploy a small vial of Odo on each of their ships during the Dominion war? Is there a minimum threshold before the Jem'Hadar can't kill a go-- security guard?

@brooke Yeah, the entire extent of their points program was when I bought a game, it would be all "do you want to apply the $0.13 rewards from your last purchase" and I'm like "kind of useless but okay"

@ckape And yet the other South African tech billionaire did go to space, and all it did was make him obsessed with what electives you took in high school.

@mcc Something something Dunwich Borers LLC in Fallout 4

https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Dunwich_Borers

A few years ago I started getting into the habit of always using ${FOO} shell notation. It's a very quick and distinctive visual indication that it's a variable, and helps avoid remembering things like 'in $FOO-BAR, is "FOO" the variable or "FOO-BAR"?'

I do this so often now that I saw someone else's code do $FOO_BAR_LONG_VARIABLE and had a brief moment where I thought "is this PHP code or something?"

@ret @kiwa Hah yeah, I actually needed to buy a copy of Vista once and had to google how to open the case

@BathysphereHat Pretty sure Max Fosh once broke into a security conference under the name Robert Banks.

@planetclue.com LG TV ThinQ AI+

Tired: stylized heart
Wired: medically accurate heart
Inspired: biblically accurate heart

@dgar Fixed it to be more accurate to existing maps.

@tiaz @squinky During 2020 I came across a bread recipe which was "throw all-purpose flour, yeast, water and salt into a bowl, chuck it in the fridge overnight, take it out in the morning, put it in a pan, bake for minutes at temperature". It's the laziest recipe ever and somehow results in tangy bread with a nice crust and good texture.

SC3037 is a narc.

https://www.shellcheck.net/wiki/SC3037

@tef Wait, holding stacks were eliminated at Heathrow? I used to fly to London a few times per year, but I believe the last time I was there was around 2016. It was frustrating for the plane to be like "Welcome to London! Feel free to use your seatback entertainment system's built-in map to watch us circle around Croydon for the next hour."

UI? I don't want any of that crap infecting my programs!