blackn1ght
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- Comment on Apartment blocks causing issues for UK fiber broadband 6 days ago:
When I rented a flat nearly 10 years ago, we had to get a wireless broadband solution as the local area hadn’t got any decent broadband installed yet (despite being a brand new village between two towns), however to install it they needed to drill through the entire wall. To do that I needed the landlords permission, but it turns out it was owned by someone (or an entity) in China and the estate agent couldn’t get ahold of them, so I said fuck it and just said yes they can go ahead and do it.
- Comment on Samsung reveals first tri-fold phone 6 days ago:
Imagine the possibilities!
- Heated camping mattress
- Sausage roll warmer
- Car windscreen defroster
- A quarter of a million 11-year-olds overweight - including almost half of the poorest kids | LBCwww.lbc.co.uk ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 1 comment
- Comment on Today is the birthday of His Majesty the King 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, but not because I bear allegiance to the monarchy.
- Comment on Today is the birthday of His Majesty the King 3 weeks ago:
British citizens as His Majesty’s subjects bear true allegiance to His Majesty King
The vast majority of us don’t do this, no.
- Comment on YSK: A simple trick to keep your bananas ripe for a lot longer. 3 weeks ago:
Damnit Melon, you could have posted this the other week!
- Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politicsedition.cnn.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 2 comments
- Comment on Britain calls it safety. It is censorship 4 weeks ago:
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- Comment on 28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower 4 weeks ago:
28 pounds = 12.7kg, for those wondering.
- Comment on A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Man’s so high he can’t even narrow down his own age range
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- Wasted wind - So far in 2025, Britain has wasted £1.1bn switching off wind turbines and paying gas plants to switch on.wastedwind.energy ↗Submitted 1 month ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 4 comments
- Comment on 1 month 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 1 month 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? 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Yeah exactly, that’s what I mean.