this was unrelated to the bill clinton kid? no idea what that was even about

Me, learning about this for the first time: "Maybe it was a mistake? Maybe they didn't know they hired a cop?"

Their Twitter:

We hired a policeman and it's going really great. Meet our Maker in Residence, @TobyRobertsPi.

Oh no! They don't seem to see the problem. Worse, per the comments, @Raspberry_Pi has been blocking detractors too.

But hey, all cops are bastards, but maybe this person is a reformed officer? Nope, turns out he had a proud 15 years of using Raspberry Pis as a surveillance officer:

“I was a Technical Surveillance Officer for 15 years, so I built stuff to hide video, audio, and other covert gear. You really don’t want your sensitive police equipment discovered, so I’d disguise it as something else, like a piece of street furniture or a household item. The variety of tools and equipment I used then really shaped what I do today.”

I have used Raspberry Pi a lot in various police tactics over the years. They were dependable, low-cost, portable, and supported by such an awesome community.

And then, whoever runs the official Raspberry Pi Mastodon seems to have the maturity of a literal child.

Even with the most generous interpretation to Raspberry Pi, with all the goodwill they built over the years, this definitely burns them for me. Hiring an ex cop who used RPis for covert surveillance

typing this out, i realize i am hitting the “pity threshhold” where the closest thing i can think of to compare angerey people on League of Legends to are particularly childish children from my childhood

maybe i should not play league

it’s like one time i got the last strawberry milk in elementary school (i don’t know why, i liked chocolate or normal milk) and then a minute later on in the line a kid started sobbing and asked “does anyone have a strawberry milk? please?”

it was kind of a scene and i just took my tray and walked to a table where my friends. thinking back on this, i wish i wasn’t too shy to trade milk with that kid

like, did that kid have so much going on that strawberry milk was the last straw? if so that’s sad

or maybe the most important thing to that kid was strawberry milk? like it’s enough to break the sob threshhold? that’s sad too

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When learning new languages, I throw asserts all over the place. Learning to unit-test usually requires knowing more of the language than I already know, but asserts provide 90% of that value by forcing the code to crash if my mental-model of the code does not match reality.

I also share these feelings!

It has that same magical "power" that functional languages have. I can put expressions in places that shouldn't be possible.

Working on a toy language, I threw an expression in curly braces, i.e. for x in {...}, which returned a different iterator depending on a condition. It really helped me cut down on code re-use (which was really good for my dev experience). That "clicked" in an extremely satisfying way.

I haven't used an Instapot, but I have the Aroma rice cooker / steamer. It certainly cookers my rice. I got it because it was cheaper, I don't know if it's better.

I've heard good things about the Zojirushi rice cooker, and I can attest that their thermos is very good. I'd consider Zojirushi if I were in your shoes.