Jon Wood

@jackeric for us that was a combination of physical testing for the casing (they threw a HUGE ball bearing at it to make sure it wouldn’t shatter) and radio emissions testing on the radios.

@jackeric not the person you asked but I’ve been involved in shipping consumer electronics. The big thing is CE marking, which is a self certification process but involves various third party tests to ensure you’re compliant.

@fesshole everyone needs a hobby. You especially it would seem.

After the terrible Section 31 Paramount made it up to me by reminding me I hadn’t seen any of Lower Decks past the first season, so I watched it all in two days. It’s a truly lovely thing if you’re the sort of nerd who grew up watching Star Trek.

@gsuberland I desperately want a second audio track option which doesn’t bleep out characters swearing.

@gsuberland coincidentally I picked it up again at season 2 today after bouncing off at the end of season 1 ages ago. The first is (like all Trek) a bit rough, and a bit over keen on cooky fan service. 2 manages to get into being proper Star Trek with a wicked sense of humour.

Also it opens with 5 minutes that can only be explained by someone in the script writing team saying “hey, the first Hunger Games was good, let’s do that” and then forgetting to even slightly cover it up.

Despite my better judgement I watched Section 31, the Star Trek film presumably made so Paramount wouldn’t lose the production grants when they cancelled the TV series. It is dire. They compressed the series into 95 minutes of incoherent plotting, characters I couldn’t care less about, and fight scenes which are all at least five minutes too long.

@catsalad BOOP!

@lynnesbian it’s called The Register, and my is it a miserable place.

I somehow ended up on a mailing list for video editing plugins and I’m not even mad because now I know you can get an After Effects plugin for adding elephants to your video. $40 for all the elephants you want who can “do almost anything (keeping a profile-view)”.

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Today in ominous commit messages: “Add a confirmation step for fleet actions”

@mattgrayyes I need to know what the Major Incident ONLY button does.

Late to the party on Severance because I dropped it mid-season for several months just before it really started going hard. Now very up for the second season.

@dramypsyd for now you’d need to run (or paying someone to run) a closed instance which requires invites and doesn’t federate so that posts don’t leak. It appears Mastodon has Facebook style groups in development but unclear when that’ll release.

@afewbugs pretty sure we already have a phrase for that, it’s called “house arrest”.

@jonathanmatthews for me the entire process took about eight months, with it only being clear completion (and thus payment) would happen about two weeks out. There were also a few 4-5 figure transactions throughout which would have been almost impossible for me to float for 60 days while waiting for a withdrawal.

“Focus solely on building tech products”. Wouldn’t want to get any filthy politics on your network of services that people use to communicate with each other.
https://mastodon.social/users/counternotions/statuses/113840267575859023

Can we please decide whether timelines go up or down? It’s very confusing when I’m mindlessly flipping between apps half watching TV.

@solderandchaos is he coming home to roost? Pretty sure that’s not right. It’s all I’ve got.

@solderandchaos until I zoomed in I thought it was Choking the Chicken, but it’s the wrong way round for that.

@Dianotron @anon_opin comes in a jar with a yellow lid.

@fesshole that’s ok, they’ve got your card on file and will charge you anyway.

@Sbectol @CatherineFlick they have a choice if forking the software from the last version with a suitable license and maintaining it at their own cost or paying the original author. Seems fine to me, no one is entitled to software their business depends upon free of charge.