A white guy with a beauty pageant sash that reads “Jebus ❤️ You”.

I read “Eat me, I’m free!” in Mr. Humphreys’ voice (from “Are You Being Served?”).

I mean, you can’t expect an American Christian to just live peacefully without finding something to feel persecuted over. It’s not like there’s a group throwing them to the lions anymore - they have to import their own lions and toss themselves into the arena.

So reading the commentary in the first link, if you flash your printer with new GPL firmware that bypasses these restrictions, you’re now in violation.

And what if I move (back) to WA with my printer purchased out of state that I’ve already modded?

I see what they’re trying to do, make ghost gun production illegal, but turning makers into criminals for flashing their printers with new firmware seems the wrong way.

My Congresscritter will ignore this when I send it.

I’ve a list of all the drugs I know from commercials - started writing a song about them all, just need to get the bridges done between verses.

Ever listen to the voice over in the commercials for <insert name of drug you don’t need>?

After telling you how much better the drug is than the competitor, but before imploring you to “ask your doctor if <$1> is right for you”, they list the side effects, which often include a worsening of the condition it treats as well as death, all while a bunch of actors get paid to show you what the best scenario looks like.

It’s the same thing, but for illiterate hypochondriacs.

It would have been too sarcastic for them to have touted it as a “legitimate” “new” “business”.

I use AntennaPod on my phone - highly recommended.

Every time I hear someone say something like, “Experts - what do they know?”, I want to reply, "Yeah, you’re right - now, when can I come by to fix your roof? I’m not a roofer - don’t know shit about roofing or construction, actually - but you don’t like experts, and I’m certainly not a roofing expert, just another ignorant monkey with a hammer and a lot of misplaced confidence in my abilities. "

This device looks really interesting, but I don’t see anything on their site about how I can write software for Light Phone, or install anything except what they provide through their app.

How is that any different from what Google plans to do to Android?

There’s a similar bill working it’s way through the Senate here in the US.

The Kid’s Online Safety Act has the same problems as the one in the UK, and people here like the EFF have been sounding the alarm. I’ve written to my Congresscritter about it, but sadly, they’re a bloody co-sponsor of the bill. Like the article said, they think the internet is made up of Facebook and Google, and they’re ignoring the impact it will have on the small players, like Lemmy server operators.

In this case, I don’t think just a VPN will help – I think Tor might, as long as the small operators don’t mind being borderline outlaws.

You forgot “defines a code of conduct and social responsibility so I don’t have to resign from the FSF again.”

Meh, if that happens I’ll just replace the cheap commodity printer… I’m not fixing anything, except the cats.

Yes, it’s an accident - the power button is just a touch sensitive spot on the printer - but they do like to play witn paper, so this would invariably lead to more shenanigans.

I just spit out my coffee reading that, and I wasn’t drinking coffee at the time…

Which is why I don’t mind if they break it - it would let me justify getting a decent laser jet printer.

W. T. F.

I will repeat my earlier statement: I hate printers.

I appreciate the info, but I wasn’t looking for a solution - I just wanted to vent a little…

Meh.

I’ll agree, docstrings are better for documenting a function than just a comment.

However, the author seems to jump through hoops in the next example to break one function into four, just to avoid some single line comments. Unless those code blocks make sense as functions (they’re used/duplicated elsewhere), you’re just making work for yourself. Why not turn it into 12 functions? One for each line of code?

I’m reminded of the admonition that there are only two hard problems^* in computer science – cache invalidation, and naming things. The more functions you have, the more things you have to name.

The rest of it – name your magic numbers, use tuple unpacking, comment “why” instead of “what” – is good practice. I’m just not a fan of making functions just to avoid writing a comment.

^* And off by one errors.