Notices by Ted Gould (ted@social.gould.cx), page 4

Have a meeting coming up ... but my music player is really on a roll selecting songs ... I'm sure my co-workers will understand.

@popey or "I've never printed from that app" 😉

There are lies, damn lies, and git commit histories.

@FLOX_advocate not purposely.

I claim no responsibility for what my random password generator was up to.

The joy of setting up new accounts; or trying to figure out which special characters are required and which ones are "too special."

An aside, if your password field can't take semicolon or double quotes, you're probably doing it wrong.

Watching someone at The Lab build a Prusa 3d printer and I'm genuinely impressed with the quality of instructions that come with the kit. Lots of work, but the guide makes it straight forward.

https://www.prusa3d.com/original-prusa-i3-mk3/

Hoping the Danish PM writes a book: "The Art of no-Deal"

@guerrillarain I didn't know that they were illegal. Here is a lot of information on that: http://sharpeners.org/why-are-butterfly-knives-illegal/

For protection you may also consider a pendant dagger. Badger blades used to sell them, not sure if they only do at fairs now.

http://www.badgerblades.com/pendag.php

Reading a merge request with a bunch of XML.

"Oh, this is SVG, I know this!"

@sophia so we have a problem with bunnies falling into our pool (mostly babies). I thought I'd saved one and put it out behind a bush to dry off and move along. But just ended up finding the body there later.

Anything you can do practically to dry them off in that case?

The problem with video chat is how much pressure I feel to decorate the wall behind me.

@freakazoid I'm a fan of Mailspring. Has most of GMail's niceties in a local app: https://www.getmailspring.com/

@sungo @dokuja @thegibson @tek yeah, I'm not sure why broadcasters, and especially their advertisers are okay with that.

It seems like they'd want to have more control over the encoding to ensure that it is good. For instance, if you knew which region is graphics and which is video you could handle their encoding differently.

And for advertisers, you probably don't care what happens to the rest of the video as long as your logo is perfect. To do that you have to control the encoding.

@danrabbit waiting for IDEs to support in line GIFs

@sungo @dokuja @thegibson @tek that's why I got an over-the-air antenna. They have more bandwidth than they know what do with, so they are usually broadcasting pretty high bitrate video.

To the point where last year during the Superbowl my hardware MPEG4 transcoder couldn't keep up and I had to turn it off.

@sungo @dokuja @thegibson @tek when were were doing Cable Labs certification on a box you should see some of the crazy video formats that we had to support. Basically they'll compress horizontal and vertically differently so that it can be "1080i" but not always 1920 horizontal pixels as well.

@sungo @dokuja @tek yeah, I used to work at DirecTV and if people were happy they didn't interrupt that. When I worked there (over 10 years ago now) there were still people running the original DirecTV boxes.

The downside of that is that all card changes and card upgrades had to be tested on all boxes that were in the field. Which become a rather large set over time.

@n8 we ended up hosting our own for @inkscape . Not something I like spending project time on, but eh, it gets us off the ads in the SourceForge lists.

@tek @dokuja funny story there, as I've always bought my own modem.

I got a flier in the mail saying "300Mbps service in your area" and so I called saying "Why don't I have 300Mbps then?!?!" fully expecting the answer to be that it wasn't *really* in my area. The reply was that my modem was too old.

Fixed it quickly, and I doubt they would have upgraded it without me calling, but it was a funny challenge of my expectations.