blackn1ght
@blackn1ght@feddit.uk
- Comment on South Central Ambulance 999 call handler receives death threats 2 days ago:
I mean, I get it. Their job is to dispatch the relevant emergency services to people, it’s not a mental health crisis hotline. How long are they supposed to stay on the phone for receiving abuse when there’s other calls waiting? I get that people in an emergency won’t be thinking straight but I can’t fathom why you’d dish out death threats to someone you’ve called that’s trying to help you. I think the handlers have a right not to take that kind of constant abuse.
- Submitted 2 days ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 8 comments
- Comment on Centuries-old leasehold system to be abolished in England and Wales 2 days ago:
Now scrap existing leases on private houses.
- Submitted 5 days ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 0 comments
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Yikes
- Comment on 1 week ago:
So if there’s 50,000 users in a conversation and they all keep “tagging” the community instead of a hashtag, then that community would have thousands of new posts?
- Comment on How North Korea pulled off a $1.5 billion crypto heist—the biggest in history 1 week ago:
There’s a great podcast called “The Lazarus Heist” that goes into North Korea’s activities in stealing huge sums of money. Well worth a listen.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I really hope there’s better handling of Mastodon user comments on Lemmy, because all the comments tagging other users are an absolute mess. Are Mastodon users doing this on purpose or is their client tagging the users automatically?
If this were to become more common I’d probably just think about find out a way to block Mastodon users so I don’t see their comments.
- Comment on Life isn't easy if your last name is 'Null' as it still breaks database entries the world over 1 week ago:
It’s baffling to me. Maybe I’m just used to using “modern” frameworks, but the only way this could be an issue is if if you literally check if the string value equals “null” and then replace it with a null value.
lastName = lastName.ToUpper() == “NULL” ? null : lastName;Either that or the database has some bug where it’s converting a string value of “null” into a
null. - Comment on UK’s first use of city-wide facial recognition in Cardiff 1 week ago:
I guarantee the majority of people will be OK with this too.
I wonder if putting on facepaint would fuck up the facial recognition? Also, I lived in Cardiff and South Wales for a while and the atmosphere during the Six Nations was great, I don’t recall there ever being any issues. Not sure if that’s changed over the recent years as an excuse for the city to deploy this tech, but it seems kind of odd that they’d need this.
- Submitted 1 week ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 0 comments
- Submitted 1 week ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 0 comments
- Comment on St Pancras plans for direct trains from UK to Germany 1 week ago:
Now imagine if services could go from Edingburgh/Glasgow to the Netherlands & Germany.
- Submitted 1 week ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 5 comments
- Comment on The best instance to host a big community in Finnish? 1 week ago:
According to Google translate, “sopuli” in Finnish means “lemming”
- Comment on Godstone: Huge sinkhole swallows up more of Surrey street - BBC News 1 week ago:
The evacuated properties were built about three years ago, on the site of a former sand quarry.
Oh dear. Must be some very nervous residents in the area right now.
- Submitted 1 week ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 13 comments
- Comment on Lessons for Britain from Milton Keynes 2 weeks ago:
That clears things up, cheers!
- Comment on Lessons for Britain from Milton Keynes 2 weeks ago:
The parking in Chorley town centre is well priced and it’s always got a healthy amount of people shopping there. It’s something like £1 for up to 2 hours in the town centre, and pretty much a similar price in the longer stay car parks.
- Comment on Lessons for Britain from Milton Keynes 2 weeks ago:
w.r.t?
- Comment on Driver caught doing 122mph on 30mph road as UK’s shocking speed records revealed 2 weeks ago:
Yup!
- SkyNews | The number of people on NHS waiting lists in England has fallen for the fourth month in a row, new figures show.xcancel.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 11 comments
- Comment on "Reach" news websites 2 weeks ago:
You glorious bastard
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to britishproblems@feddit.uk | 9 comments
- Comment on Driver caught doing 122mph on 30mph road as UK’s shocking speed records revealed 2 weeks ago:
Unrelated, but God damn I hate Reach websites. Makes me irrationally angry every time I stumble upon one.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
“You can access all content from the Lemmyverse from any server, so it doesn’t matter which you choose” 1. not strictly true and 2. if it doesn’t matter why make the choice?
This is a great point. If it doesn’t matter, why not randomly assign you to an instance? The reality is that it does because some instances are political, and some federate with other instances that could give a negative impression of Lemmy. By people recommending particular instances to sign up to, shows that there’s an element of calculation as to which instance to pick.
Onto your second point, your impact would be negligible. I wouldn’t worry about that scenario.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
People always use the email comparison but it’s really not the same, it’s more complicated than that. We know it’s not too much of a big deal but it is when you don’t know what it means to be on a server.
I remember being presented with a choice of servers myself and wondering what on earth it meant, and just wanting to join the “default” one. Ultimately it doesn’t matter too much but at the time it feels like a big hurdle.
- Comment on Driver caught doing 122mph on 30mph road as UK’s shocking speed records revealed 2 weeks ago:
If pedestrians don’t vaporise into nothing then you’re clearly not going fast enough.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
It would be nice to have thriving communities for niche things. That can only really happen when there’s decent numbers though. I do understand the hesitation though.
A much larger userbase will bring its own problems for instance admins, where I’m sure it’ll start turning into full-time jobs to keep the lights on.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
It would solve the problem of choosing an instance, as the join Lemmy process would sign you up to that automatically rather than making them choose an instance.