Half-fox, half-wolf, half-engineer. Into electronics, radio & software. (Very) amateur radio operator. Talk to me about TETRA V+D. Talks about NSFW stuff sometimes - please be 18+ 🔞 Runs (NSFW) https://isthisyiff.net

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Kofi? If you just want to accept tips but I think it’ll do subscriptions too.

2025-09-01 13:03:24 UTC

Just ignore the flag people. They will get bored. Dedication and resolve are not in their vocabulary.

2025-05-19 16:38:42 UTC

look what they did to monopoly
https://furry.engineer/system/media_attachments/files/114/535/477/546/469/918/original/c48c0eb268859323.png

2025-05-10 09:50:52 UTC

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not just bandwidth egress too. You find a lot of services have strange fees for things like this exporting in a downloadable format. See RDS: exporting tables to parquet format is charged at $0.012/GB *processed*. That’s before you’ve downloaded it from S3…

2025-03-06 11:50:46 UTC

Update on last night's experiments though (it wasn't exciting enough to justify a blog post) - extracting screenshots from the test set using the "Print to Serial Port" option is... not feasible.
It takes at least 2 minutes to transfer the 40k of PCL data at the maximum 19200 baud. Mainly because the test set waits ~5 seconds between bursts of data (I guess because normally a printer with a small buffer and slow drain rate would be on the other end!)
https://furry.engineer/system/media_attachments/files/114/115/334/667/415/284/original/ba09405eac8cb4c1.png

2025-03-06 11:44:25 UTC

ok here we go we are LOCKED THE FUCK IN. no more furry trash shorts for me.

2025-02-05 11:20:12 UTC

Oh lovely, "Apple Intelligence" enabled itself automatically after updating to macOS 15.3.
Never disabled something so fast in my life.

2025-01-30 23:21:29 UTC

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I think Wi-Fi neutral-less switches are pretty unusual because of the power they require. Might be wrong about that but most neutral-free options I find are Zigbee or Z-Wave or some other low-power radio.
Might be easier to grab a Zigbee dongle and just bite the bullet with a Zigbee network. The nice thing about it is you can get switches that will run from a coin cell for 2 years+ with zero mains wiring.

2025-01-25 18:20:06 UTC

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https://furry.engineer/system/media_attachments/files/113/890/371/492/644/565/original/73b9c445cbbce614.jpg

2025-01-25 18:11:31 UTC

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Where I have found it useful is for HTML and CSS. Visual stuff. Because you can instantly validate it as correct or incorrect. There's very little chance of subtle bugs. Very little chance of semantic errors (you'd spot them immediately anyway).
So... they made a billion dollar HTML machine... cool.

2025-01-25 18:10:10 UTC

Yeah. Totally given up on Copilot now. At least for the Rust stuff I'm working on, it is totally unusable. It just seems to be *bad* at Rust generally. Maybe because it's a *comparatively* new language for which there is less content out there to train on steal.
Combine with the unfamiliar/unpopular domain I'm working with (TETRA protocol stuff), the propensity for it to hallucinate absolute horseshit is far too high. Everything it generates is either wrong from a language semantics perspective or wrong from a domain perspective.

2025-01-23 19:15:00 UTC

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I feel like “beside” (no S) and “next to” are the same?
A is next to B
A is beside B
Beside*s* (with an S) is a strange and annoying preposition that I don’t feel I often use.
I feel like it’s super tough to describe prepositions like that :blobfox0_0: One of those where just hearing/reading it used and pattern matching the places where it is and isn’t valid is probably better.

2025-01-22 22:54:58 UTC

I miss Stargate.

2024-11-29 11:26:41 UTC

love that companies are so desperate for you to notice their AI shit that they have to resort to tricks to get you to interact with it.
Amazon moved the bottom-right hamburger menu in their iOS app and replaced it with "Rufus". No doubt millions of accidental taps are being spun in a quarterly review to some hapless fucking exec as "huge user engagement".

2024-07-08 11:42:53 UTC

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is there some standardised shibboleth for that?

2024-07-04 19:04:49 UTC

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it’s scary how many around here are supporting them. I’ve definitely seen more Reform posters and signs on houses than Tory ones.

2024-07-04 19:00:05 UTC

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just saw the Reform Battle Bus doing a tour around here…