Mans R @mansr@society.oftrolls.com

Which company is worse?

Does anyone know of a tool for creating USB device descriptors? Getting all the sizes and cross-references right by hand seems error-prone.

@ktemkin

Why does Microchip want me to install 22 GB of crap just to program a microcontroller?

Pick one.

Some people: Twitter is bad because arbitrary moderation.
Same people: You must block all the instances on this list, or you'll go on the list too.

@revk I am, and I will if it keeps happening today. It seems to have calmed down, though, from 17 disconnects on Sunday.

Aaaargh, now that memory leak hit the 5.7 kernel too. This time kmalloc-256 was eating everything.

My internet connection has been flapping a lot the last few days. Should I be blaming @revk or TalkTalk?

WTF?

Anyone talking to Tektronix instruments using the IEEE 488.2 based protocol? I've run across what seems to be a bug.

Dumb criminal of the week.

'World's unluckiest burglars' arrested after calling police by accident
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jan/07/suspected-burglars-arrested-after-calling-police-by-accident

This is starting to look like a Rainbow Six game. Do they still make those, btw?

Is there a way to not show when people repost their own content (ego boosts)?

Had any epiphanies today?

I went for a walk and passed by the cemetery. There were monoliths everywhere.

Covid case rate curves for the 380 LTLAs in the UK plotted with 10% opacity.

Seen elsewhere: Twitter is ok if you ignore it completely.

«Out of the 17M page requests made between 8–9pm (111M if you include assets: stylesheets, images, etc), we served 21 5xx errors.»
https://twitter.com/TheRealNooshu/status/1346419468151488512

If only the rest of the government were as competent as the web team.

How is the new lockdown different from tier 4?