are those cookie "consent" forms where the options are "accept" or "reject and pay" even legal?

Some years ago, I needed to get an visa for urgent travel to China, a process that required me to fly down to SF and stand in a very long line at the Chinese consulate. When I finally handed the woman there my forms, she promptly stamped them and said "you need to take these to Window 2", pointing around the corner. So I walked around the corner...

...where *the same woman* swiveled her chair around and proceeded to check the stamp that she had just applied.

I would have been annoyed if I wasn't in so much awe at discovering the purest form of bureaucracy.

@kemona_halftau meow!

nice unpatchable A12/A13 secure boot bypass you got there ​

https://ps.tc/pages/blog-usbliter8.html

for anyone else who had to search it up:
A12 is iPhone XS, XR, iPad mini 5th gen, air 3rd gen, and base 8th gen
A13 is iPhone 11 series, SE 2nd gen, and iPad 9th gen

@kemona_halftau good morning!

good morning

nini fedi

Air to Ground Message:

HONK HONK LIKE A GOOSE YOU DIDNT KNOW THATS HOW WE COMMUNICATE

Area: Philadelphia, PA, USA
Type: Bombardier CRJ900
A: #aa1ad0f37dd
F: #f25000ad4a4

#acars #vdlm2

@kemona_halftau good night! (I should probably go to bed too, and try to get serial port input/output working tomorrow instead)

@kemona_halftau @ellis awawawawawaw awaaawaawa awawawawaw a wawawaw

T568A or T568B?

this manual is badly translated from chinese

@niko it also makes it not show up (at least when logged out) on the official web interface, which might be why

Under no circumstances, do not touch the metal part of the soldering iron to avoid burns.

… so, I should touch it?

@kemona_halftau does the key to view the contents of cw'd posts (x) work for you? I just tried navigating by keyboard in nicolium and that one does not

@seabass @bearmine it's both, and the technical issues are in some cases caused by systemd developers insisting on being wrong about things (e.g. lennart insisting that usernames beginning with digits aren't allowed based on one distro (fedora)'s rules for adduser (despite useradd and POSIX both allowing them), and for years refusing to support musl because glibc is the standard ABI for Linux (it's not, the Linux syscall ABI is, glibc is the standard for GNU/Linux))

it is highly opinionated software and some of the opinions are wrong