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The tech team at work going with an ambitious target for the day of “nobody dies”.

I find myself reading the TLS spec (because what else would a boy do at 11pm on a Thursday?) and this document is full of cursed phrase in the form “For reasons of backwards compatibility with middleboxes…”

So far my highlights are “all negotiations must claim version 1.2, we’ll stuff the real version in somewhere else later to stop traffic inspectors crashing”, and “this new message identifies as an older message but one of the values is the SHA256 of the name of the new one”.

Amazon want me to return the ear syringe that cracked after one ear. I’ve decided not to include the tip that’s been in my ear canal and included a small note for whichever unfortunate person gets tasked with unpacking the return so they’re not wondering.

Messaging apps should allow me to flag people as doing this. Anyone with that flag would get a cooldown placed on notifications so that I’m not left wondering what’s so urgent.
https://mastodon.social/users/fesshole/statuses/116563929033604800

@peter @mdione can’t help but be amused at “Mark Zuckerberg has staked the future of his company on AI” because his staking the future of his company on VR went so well.

@AoifeGreenhamIllustrations @nette this post has literally made me realise (at 1130pm as I go to bed) the reason I’ve been grumpy and dissatisfied with the world all day is that I forget to take my medication this morning, so, uhh, yeah.

@RadishTM @tdp_org no it hasn’t. If you look at the actual vote numbers rather than seats won you can see a clear majority for people who aren’t fascists, they’re just spread between multiple candidates so first past the post screwed us again.

Embrace tradition, post to your walls again.

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How is Apple Podcasts so catastrophically unable to reliably sync the point I stopped playing on my Apple HomePod? The whole sales point on those things is “just tap your phone on it and what you’re playing will transfer over”, what’s unwritten there is “but we’ll be fucked if it resumes where you left off next time you pick your phone up”.

Today in ways my brain is broken: someone posting a map with one pin in entirely the wrong place and almost immediately going “lat/lon have been entered back to front”.