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erincandescent

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immigrant | they/them | software engineer in card payments
liker of ISO 8583, the 8051, ASN.1 and EBCDIC.

I wrote the ActivityPub initial draft, so this social network is in some way my fault.
Formerly @erincandescent

Instance admin, queer.af (2018-07 - 2024-02, RIP)

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erincandescent, to random
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I was talking to someone at who was talking about making a LoRa hexpansion, but I'm terrible with names so have forgotten who it was. Does anyone know? 😅

erincandescent, to random
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On my way to and from EMFCamp I have been screwed over by:

  • DB Regio
  • DB Fernverkehr
  • SNCF
  • GWR
  • Avanti West Coast, and
  • NS

Train operators I intend to use that I did in fact use fully successfully:

  • Eurostar Blue
  • SNCB
erincandescent, to random
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Wandering around Europe with an Aranet 4 to and from EMF and a few other places, my experimental train ventilation findings:

Good (700ppm or less):

  • DB Regio Dostos
  • NS IC (locomotive hauled)

Reasonable (less than 1000ppm)

  • BR Class 165 Clubman (Chiltern Railways) (n.b. much worse if stationary)

Bad (Up to ~1500ppm)

  • DB ICE (all varieties)
  • DB IC1
  • TGV Duplex
  • Thalys PBA and PBKA
  • Eurostar e320
  • BR Class 80x Hitachi IET
  • NS IC (double decker EMU)

Apocalyptic:

  • West Midlands Trains BR Class 196 CAF Civity (3300ppm recorded)
erincandescent, to random
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There's no fire bowl to huddle around to keep warm, this feels wrong :(

On the other hand, there's a bed with an actual mattress. And plumbing.

erincandescent, to random
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Pros of traveling with a big hiking rucksack: lots of luggage capacity
Cons: feeling paranoid that I'm gonna turn around and annihilate a shelf full of glass bottles when you need to visit a store

erincandescent, to random
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After 11 days sleeping in a tent

I am so so ready to sleep in a building on a mattress not made out of air tomorrow night

erincandescent, to random
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@mattgrayyes out of curiosity, what instance is MastoDot pulling the #emf2024 feed from?

erincandescent, to random
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FFS, he wasn't supposed to give me one of those. Waste of perfectly good bit of passport page

erincandescent,
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If you paid for Eurostar business premier, your reward is more of the same airport style waiting benches that are in the rest of the waiting room, except they're flooded

erincandescent,
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@lanodan still physically in Lille, yeah

erincandescent,
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@lanodan honestly this is exactly the same sort of bullshit the UK would pull also

erincandescent, to random
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I appear to be experiencing the train announcer equivalent of butt dialling

(Indistinguishable non-announcement distant conversation through the speakers)

natty, to random
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"After October 14, 2025, your Windows 10 PC will no longer receive security updates"

???

They're dropping security updates immediately?

erincandescent,
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@natty Windows releases have a 10 year support lifecycle

(just thinking about the implications of that statement makes me shrivel up into a wrinkly prune)

erincandescent, to random
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I work for a French company, which means I get reminded yearly about the existence of the concept of the Solidarity Day, and I do not understand how the French people not only allowed the government to take away one of their public holidays a year (which will vary based upon employer) and replace it with a day where you have to work, but to go as far as to replace it with a day where you have to work but do not get paid for doing so :afloofLoad:

erincandescent,
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(instead of being paid to the worker, the money is paid to the French state pension system/ponzi scheme)

erincandescent,
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@gsuberland YES

18+ astrid, to random
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ATX is such an outdated standard. the power connectors are chonky. the data connectors are chonky. it's so fucking 90s. everything is bigger than it needs to be. yet, there's a charm to it, and not just that, it's actually a good standard in so many ways, and i'm really sad because we will likely never have a standard that's so commonplace and so consumer-friendly as ATX again.

like, everything about it is modular, whether it's the PSU, the CPU, the cooling, the GPU, the front panel connectors, the case, the storage... you can buy a dell desktop and put in an ASUS GPU and HP RAM and samsung SSD and move it into a thermaltake case and it will be very happy to have received its new and improved hardware. every connector, whether data or power, is specially keyed so it is literally impossible for you to fuck up unless you are using adapters. even the 2x5 connectors are keyed! you can't put the USB 2.0 plug in the audio socket! the motherboard won't let you! and these are durable and flexible connectors -- not rigid and bespoke as most ribbon cables are. it's so user-friendly and modular and repairable it's beautiful. we are never going to get anything as good as this ever again.

yes, it is theoretically more efficient to put memory and storage and compute on the same chip. but that doesn't fucking matter if you're running 8 different versions of chrome. congrats you're now running for 4 hours instead of 3. manufacturers don't integrate everything onto one chip in the name of performance, they do it in the name of vendor lock-in. still, this seems to be the way everything is going, and it's sad that this era of being able to swap parts out in your PC so easily is likely to be over in a decade or two.

erincandescent,
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@astrid tbh the power connectors couldn’t be made much smaller with the same power ratings. The only real shrinkage you can do is ATX12VO

clacke, to random

On Saturday, the Fediverse is celebrating it's 16th anniversary!

How are you celebrating?

erincandescent,
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@lanodan @clacke @iceloops @sun its sad to think of the projects which got approached and invited to the ActivityPub process and decided not to get involved and which have slid into irrelevance

Its understandanle; I think even most of us assumed it would be an XKCD-927 situation; and yet it was sad to watch as they marched stubbornly towards obscurity

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wow, M.2 NVME Optane is cheap!
less than $10 for a 16GB stick
I might put the postgres WAL on it, for a laugh

erincandescent,
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@izaya warning they’re pcie-3.0 x2 and severely bandwidth constrianed as a result

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Thanks so much to everyone who hung in this week as we’ve all worked to fix the state of the Nix community. It’s been a ride; but I think things are going to get better.

Here’s the last major piece of the puzzle — the product of several months of work from an absolutely incredible team. It’s not ready for a full announcement, but we’ve opened our beta so people who are fleeing the core Nix community have a place to go.

https://lix.systems

erincandescent,
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@leftpaddotpy @smallcircles @jakehamilton @ktemkin I can't see any of the rooms in #space:

erincandescent, to random
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seriously though why is the state of gapless playback in media players so dire these days

i swear this was actually a solved problem in the 90s

RE: https://chaos.social/@scarlet/112383790126485200

erincandescent, to random
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do you think fastly will ever not be a path MTU discovery black hole? :(

erincandescent, to random
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What the fuck.

erincandescent, to random
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Hallelujah, Eelco steps down from the board of the NixOS foundation

As important as his contributions have been, it’s very clear that him continuing to hold that position has been corrosive to the project and become untenable

In general I’m looking forward to a much needed governance reform

erincandescent, to random
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Not gonna lie, being able to say this will never get old :drgn_uwu: :drgn_tail:

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