@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk avatar

penguin42

@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk

Chocolate eating computer geek, Manchester, UK
[ searchable ]

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

HypercubicPeg, to science

I am writing something, and I want to refer to the isoceles triangle formed in a regular n-gon by two adjacent vertices and the center. Surely there is a simple name for it…isn’t there?

Any ideas?

penguin42,
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk avatar

@HypercubicPeg I was thinking 'polygonal sector' and a search found someone else pointing to Euclid having used the phrase, but other warnings pointing out that referencing anything to translated Euclid is a bad idea.

jonty, to random
@jonty@chaos.social avatar

GPS jammers have been installed in Westminster ahead of the coronation

penguin42,
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk avatar

@jonty That'll confuse the food delivery robots in Greenwich?

penguin42, to random
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk avatar

my reason for looking in #mesa was that I was trying to use profiling in some #opencl code and while it worked with AMDs ROCm user code, it failed on Mesa with a 'PROFILING_INFO_NOT_AVAILABLE' and it looks like there are a whole bunch of reasons that can happen - in the end it turned out to be because the event was still in the queue, but I only figured that out by adding debug prints into mesa.

penguin42, to random
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk avatar

Wow Mesa;

  • 3-space indentation, no tabs.

That solves the 2 vs 4 space war!

penguin42, to random
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk avatar

Well that links to an LLVM bug....which I think is then arguing about whether it's a rust bug???

penguin42, to random
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk avatar

Sigh, Kellogs have been shrinking again and JS haven't spotted it:

FINOkoye, to accessibility

Yet another shoutout for #a11y feedback...

If you're based in (or have easy access to) London, UK and you primarily use a screenreader, would you be interested in testing out an image recognition app for an exhibition at the Natural History Museum, South Kensington?

Do share around! Feel free to DM me for details.

penguin42,
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk avatar

@FINOkoye I'm curious if you include images of the carvings in the inside building structure/roof? I live far enough away that I've only been to NHM a couple of times, but the thing that really struck me was the carvings (or was it mouldings?) in the stonework.

dick_turpin, to random
@dick_turpin@mastodon.org.uk avatar

There's trouble brewing at #CastleCannon The wife and daughters have tickets for ABBA on the 13th, and the selfish bastard train drivers are on strike that day! Now I can get them coach tickets from Walsall, but it would seem my one daughter is determined to make her husband drive them down to Londinium. Personally, I'd have dumped them at Watford and let them get the Tube, although High Barnet seems to be the furthest Northern working station.

penguin42,
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk avatar

@dick_turpin Please tell me they were intending to take the train to Waterloo.

penguin42,
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk avatar

@dick_turpin Oh come on, I mean Waterloo! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj_9CiNkkn4

kenshirriff, to random

Before WiFi, Ethernet was the best way to connect your computer to the network. This Fujitsu Ethernet chip from the 1980s was used in network cards. 🧵

penguin42,
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk avatar

@kenshirriff Nice pic; any idea what's going on the left of the 10th row up where a few cells seem to be below the line of the others? I admit to not understanding why - even for a gate array - they have all the gaps between the cell rows; I think it might be because they didn't have many metal layers so all the custom horizontal wires are in the gap?

penguin42,
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk avatar

@kenshirriff Oh right! Yeh that makes some sense.

mansr, to random
@mansr@society.oftrolls.com avatar

So if Google Authenticator has become annoying, what is a good replacement and why?

penguin42,
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk avatar

@mansr There's 'FreeOTP Authenticator' https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.fedorahosted.freeotp

penguin42,
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk avatar

@mansr Shrug, not sure what the others are like; it's pretty simple and it's open: https://github.com/freeotp/freeotp-android

clacke, to random en-us

Ugh, that was long and mumbly, but this one was fun:

> ”Apples to oranges”
[ . . . ] that phrase don't make no sense
Why can't fruit be compared?

Minor pet peeve of mine too. 😃

farside.link/dumb/Lil-dicky-pi…

penguin42,
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk avatar

@clacke You can compare there is no ordering of them.

hrw, to random
@hrw@society.oftrolls.com avatar

Arm going public on US stock market instead of UK one.

Why it does not surprise?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65445428

penguin42,
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk avatar

@hrw The BBC could at least have used an ARM labelled chip rather an Intel.

penguin42, to random
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk avatar

hth did standard deviation become 'stdev' in spreadsheets.

neil, to random

If you are concerned that someone has made a "sex arse" modelled on your own posterior without your permission, you might be interested to know what legal options are available to you.

And, oddly enough, here's a presentation I prepared on almost exactly that theme:

https://neilzone.co.uk/2017_sex_robot_likenesses.pdf

(Apologies, it is a PDF of a slide deck from years ago.)

#SexArse

penguin42,
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk avatar

@neil Hang on a sec, is that a toilet block or a concealed LIDAR scanner....

wyliecoyoteuk, to random
@wyliecoyoteuk@mastodon.org.uk avatar

Quite amusing that of all the apps I am installing on Windows 11, the only one to fail is the proprietary one: Adobe reader.

penguin42,
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk avatar

@wyliecoyoteuk I'm curious what you still need Adobe reader for.

penguin42,
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk avatar

@wyliecoyoteuk On Linux I fell back to using Chrome when filling a form that Okular couldn't cope with.

penguin42,
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk avatar

@wyliecoyoteuk So yeh, you might find Chrome works well for that.

penguin42,
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk avatar

@wyliecoyoteuk Yes, I've been unfortunate enough to have to use the Teams client in the past.

penguin42, to random
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk avatar

Weird my X server just restarted, the only logs seem to suggest it thinks it did it on purpose:

[ 5429.918] (II) event3 - PixArt USB Optical Mouse: device removed
[ 5429.940] (II) event2 - AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: device removed
[ 5429.948] (II) UnloadModule: "libinput"
[ 5429.948] (II) UnloadModule: "libinput"
[ 5429.948] (II) UnloadModule: "libinput"
[ 5429.948] (II) UnloadModule: "libinput"
[ 5430.002] (II) Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file.

penguin42,
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk avatar

@dickon Hmm, it's possible - but I don't see any crash logs for anything.

zaitcev, to random

Regarding my earlier query about CA

I went and scanned all the hosts that came to mind, with a particular emphasis on fun-side Fedi nodes and small gun parts suppliers. To nobody's surprise, the vast majority of sites use Let's Encrypt, including shitposter.club, mastodon.online, mstdn.social, dlahdesigns.com, seeallopensight.com, makerforums.info, ultradyneusa.com, omglinux.com, cogburnarsenal.com, cromusa.com.

A number also use Cloudflare:
poa.st, larue.com, benedwardsllc.com, guntecusa.com, gab.com, olyoak.com.

Now the fun part, the outliers:

tridentconcepts, leapers.com: GoDaddy

reason.com, realclearinvestigations.com: Amazon

pistol-forum.com: Starfield Tech

apextactical.com: Google Trust Services

ftfindustries.com: Sectigo

vulcanmachinewerks.com: Digicert

The number of Cloudflare users is far fewer than I expected. I am also a little surprised by large sites using Let's Encrypt.

penguin42,
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk avatar

@zaitcev Oh I'm sure the small companies would never detect any intrusions unless they got lucky. My general worry with a cert like that is with Letsencrypt there's very little checking - so it could easily already be a completely dummy domain. Of course commercial certificate providers are completely thorough....

th, to random
@th@v.st avatar

not right, but not totally wrong either

penguin42,
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk avatar

@th Nice vias! Is that manual assembly?

penguin42,
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk avatar

@th I'm pretty impressed by them being able to place the small ones at any angle around the edge; a couple of the big ones a bit skewy.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • JUstTest
  • mdbf
  • ngwrru68w68
  • cubers
  • magazineikmin
  • thenastyranch
  • rosin
  • khanakhh
  • InstantRegret
  • Youngstown
  • slotface
  • Durango
  • kavyap
  • DreamBathrooms
  • megavids
  • tacticalgear
  • osvaldo12
  • normalnudes
  • tester
  • cisconetworking
  • everett
  • GTA5RPClips
  • ethstaker
  • anitta
  • Leos
  • provamag3
  • modclub
  • lostlight
  • All magazines
    •