blackn1ght
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- Comment on A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions 1 day ago:
Agreed, but other cloud providers exist and it would be good if there was stronger competition in this space. But going back to self hosting is a huge step back and I think if a CTO said they were going to move from the cloud back to a self hosted solution, pretty much everyone would hate it.
- Comment on A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions 1 day ago:
Bit of an over-reaction to one incident. I’d be willing to bet the uptime, reliability and scalability of AWS is significantly better than what the vast majority of in-house solutions could do. It’s absolutely not worth going back.
Millions of customers using AWS also weren’t affected - the company I work for certainly wasn’t, although some of our tools like Jira were.
- Comment on Inside Amazon’s Plans to Replace Workers With Robots 6 days ago:
From a UK perspective:
The pensioners would never vote for party that would introduce something like this. They HATE the idea of younger generations getting “free money”. Honestly they’re the real problem. But they’re the demographic that vote the most and have a huge sway.
Just don’t point out to them how their triple locked pensions are probably the biggest financial cost to our [UK] country…
- Comment on Inside Amazon’s Plans to Replace Workers With Robots 6 days ago:
Technology has been replacing manual labour for a long time, this is hardly surprising. Some jobs will be created though as the robots need monitoring and maintenance.
- Comment on i enjoy using drugs and that will never change 6 days ago:
Man’s so high he can’t even narrow down his own age range
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- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I think it’s an introvert vs extrovert thing. For introverts, silence is the default and lots of talking is draining. For extroverts, silence is unnerving and makes them uncomfortable, and conversations energises them.
- Comment on They say remote working less productive 2 weeks ago:
Really it depends on the individuals and what their home and office environments are like. I work from home 95% of the time and much prefer it over being in the office, but if I lived in a house share with housemates or had very little space then I’d probably feel more productive in the office.
One thing I do miss about commuting is the return journey. It was nice to have a gap to decompress from work before getting home, now it’s straight off calls and 10 seconds later I’m dealing with a trillion questions from the kids and immediately start cooking dinner.
- Comment on Could building new train stations help get Britain back on track? 2 weeks ago:
Will I have to sell my kidneys to afford the travel?
- Comment on The most important person in Britain you’ve never heard of 3 weeks ago:
They probably already know.
But I hope that it’s his team that has this power, not just solely on him. I’d have to imagine (HOPE) that there’s a chain of command and some kind of playbook that whoever is in charge can authorise and act on whatever needs doing in such situations.
- Comment on A cartoonist's review of AI art, by Matthew Inman 3 weeks ago:
“Yes, but I’ll be quick, I promise.”
Isn’t quick.
- Comment on Here's what would happen if the UK abolished landlords overnight 3 weeks ago:
I do like the idea of permits. Landlords must have a permit per property within a local authority (LA) and reject applications if they see fit, such as having too many permits already or blacklisted. The LA should be free to set whatever cost they want per permit. Tennants can raise issues in a centralised portal where the landlord can view them and resolve them, and if they’re not actioned upon or done properly the LA can intervene and start charging additional fines, or failure to deal with serious issues like mould could see the LA taking possession of the property.
The LA set the rental price so landlords don’t just wack up rent prices.
This might provide some income for cash strapped councils without having to purchase their own housing stock and managing it.
There could even be some funds available for well rated landlords that have to use the money to improve properties as an incentive to be proactive in their repairs etc.
- Comment on Nigel Farage felt ‘genuinely worried’ by alleged TikTok death threat, court hears 3 weeks ago:
I dunno what client you’re using but voyager lets you filter posts by keywords.
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- Comment on Tories set a low bar after misspelling Britain on conference chocolate 3 weeks ago:
Yeah exactly, that’s what I mean.
- Comment on Disabled man denied access to train at Homerton station over ‘made-up rule’ 3 weeks ago:
If this keeps happening then there’s a failure in training or information to station staff, I can’t imagine they’re making this up out of nowhere.
Also, this is a really nice site - no bullshit cookie banner, no newsletter dialog, clean, easy to read site.
- Comment on Brits in disbelief as new refillable drinks ban implemented across UK 3 weeks ago:
This only affects sugary drinks, so their Zero and diet options should be exempt. Although a book I read recently was showing evidence that artificial sweeteners can also drive obesity, so we might start seeing things affecting those drinks too.
- Comment on Brits in disbelief as new refillable drinks ban implemented across UK 3 weeks ago:
They can drink as much as they like. There’s nothing stopping someone buying another drink.
Obesity is a huge public health concern that should be treated seriously and we should be steering our culture into making better health decisions.
- Comment on Tories set a low bar after misspelling Britain on conference chocolate 3 weeks ago:
Don’t blame the fucking printing business, own your fucking mistake. If politicians can’t even own insificant mistakes like this then they’re obviously not going to hold their hands up when they inventively fuck something up more critical.
- Comment on Brits in disbelief as new refillable drinks ban implemented across UK 3 weeks ago:
You can have free refills your beer but not your alcohol free beer lol
- Comment on Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began' 4 weeks ago:
Oh c’mon, he’s no where near that bad.
- Comment on save the planet 🌎 4 weeks ago:
What does this even mean?
- Comment on Keir Starmer to announce plans for digital ID scheme 4 weeks ago:
This will make fuck all difference. Employers already do background checks, I’ve always had to give some kind of ID whenever I’ve started a new job, and there will always been employers that don’t do any checks.
In theory, this should be one of those things that should make accessing services easier, but we all know this will be a foot in the door to more authoritarian bullshit and be yet another opportunity to show government incompetence.
- Comment on The search for anti-gravity propulsion 5 weeks ago:
I bet this service would cost an arm and a leg though.
- Comment on ‘I’m a modern-day luddite’: Meet the students who don’t use laptops 5 weeks ago:
Well you see he’s stopped using the internet for his university work. But he still uses the internet for research for his essays.
- Comment on Dazzling! 5 weeks ago:
It’s so competing artists can’t copy her design.