So many bad-faith arguments being made about this.

Independent of any arguments about who asked for this to happen and why: A free software project always has the right to choose which contributors it trusts and which it doesn’t. I’ve seen no evidence that these people are banned from submitting patches due to their nationality. They’ve been remove from a particular role in the project due to political reasons. An organization is an inherently political entity.

Remember when codes of conduct destroyed all of free software and nothing ever got built again? Me neither. It’s the same thing.

To be pedantic, Ford’s threat is to “rearrange [the computer’s] memory banks with an axe”

The countdown is until he starts doing it.

A much better idea than when I tried to organize my restaurant with hashtables.

It was too much for the waitstaff, who had to reindex the floor plan every time they added or removed a plate.

On the plus side, delivering the right food was always O(1).

Actually, amateur TV broadcast was something that interested me. I had the opportunity to buy an SDR with wider bandwidth, but I wasn’t sure how much I’d get into it, so I kept things cheap.

Another thing I’m looking into is ADS-B flight tracking. My house is within range of a sports arena where there are all manner of overhead banners get flown. Might be fun to follow them around on a map.

If you post on !amateur_radio@sh.itjust.works, I’d read.

I bought a cheap RTL-SDR to help solve a CTF challenge at DEFCON. The 2m/70cm antenna on my roof is begging for a fun project that’s not just talking to other hams.

“Honey, the water is about to shut off. Can you file a JIRA ticket to fill out bathtubs? I should be able to get to it next sprint”

If it’s just for movies, consider an Intel ARC A380.

Small, cheap, great transcoding performance, and its drivers should be shipped by default with most distros. It really can’t do games though.

Reminds me of an early Uni project where we had to operate on data in an array of 5 elements, but because “I didn’t teach it to everyone yet” we couldn’t use loops. It was going to be a tedious amount of copy-paste.

I think I got around it by making a function called “not_loop” that applied a functor argument to each element of the array in serial. Professor forgot to ban that.