Notices by penguin42 (penguin42@mastodon.org.uk), page 3

@codewiz @globalc The UK regulators are requiring some form of blocking; it's explicitly listed in a letter from Ofcom apparently: https://www.aa.net.uk/etc/news/uk-sanctions-law-aa-and-domain-blocking/

@codewiz @globalc Don't forget they pulled back from Nuclear a lot after Fukashima.

@codewiz Is it actually remembering anything between boots - even minor settings?

@codewiz latest firmware?

@globalc The fly through on the stamping and robotics bits was very nicely done!

@codewiz What are you using instead of gitk? I did like Tk; it's still the easiest to program GUI system; I wrote a LOT of tcl/tk in ~2000 for a prototype/bringup system.

@codewiz Hang on, give me an explanation of dynamic throw and the changes in RAII, move semantics and smart pointers; I remember RAII was a thing long long ago in C++; that's mostly disappeared hasn't it?

@codewiz I don't think exceptions are that bad as long as you only use them for things that are exceptional.

@codewiz Libreoffice seems to use them quite heavily.

@codewiz On Fedora I just give up and build ffmpeg from source; my ffmpeg has loads of stuff in it.

@codewiz Yeh, we've got that monument to it outside one of the University buildings [Near the one of Archimedes leaping out of his bath....]

@codewiz Haha how does Vimto manage to get over there; it's celebrated as Manchester's local special: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vimto

@codewiz Reading the wikipedia page on DDR5 it looks like the bus protocol is very different from early DIMMs.

@codewiz Yeh I've seen that in a few emulators -- the objects are tangible; they actually correspond to chips you can pick up, and then to subcomponents in those devices. [Until you find something crazy that is, like the x86 running one of it's address lines to the keyboard controller]

@codewiz I relied on 'Wargames' for my education

@codewiz You've just lost me about 20 minutes reading about Plaid mode and Spaceballs.

@codewiz Remember you're renting it 🙂

@codewiz @benoit @globalc Surely it's easier to sell and rebuy; what are the chances of a good monitor surviving a transcontinental ride anyway?