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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Worst amusement park ever.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha I know what you mean. It’s in St Helens unless there’s more than one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two UK water companies lack complete maps of sewage networks⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Several years ago I was working on water sites and they didn’t even have accurate info about the stuff on their own sites. The head office staff thought they did though. Just the computers did not match reality. Running many of the sites was entirely reliant on the knowledge of site operators who were all about to retire. There was no younger staff being taught anything either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommendations for lightweight wiki servers?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been using silverbullet.md

  Its more notes than wiki I guess so depends what you’re after.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK election may be rigged using AI deepfakes, home secretary warns⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This doesn’t really seem like a new problem. It wasn’t so long ago that most news was disseminated in text form which has been easily faked forever. The solution should be improving the ways of verifying the information we receive. I guess the main difference now is most people would see a video on social media and believe it. 20-25 years ago I was taught not to believe everything you read online and that hasn’t changed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK workers ‘should get day off’ if workplace is hotter than 30C⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably half the offices I’ve worked at had no AC at all. One job I had moved to a new building that didn’t have AC, they spent a fortune installing it, then were required to remove it when they vacated the building a few years later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Taxpayers foot £300k energy bill for MPs’ second homes⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, this is a pretty nothing story. Seems like it is just trying to generate outrage. I wonder if all this could be solved by the government simply buying 650 residences in London and assigning them to sitting MPs while covering all the bills and maintainancne on those properties but it would probably be much more expensive

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this a bad option for a home server?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m running Jellyfin on 6th gen i3 and quicksync works fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Git is hard⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I exclusively use CLI, it’s not ego at all, I simply find typing what I want to be quicker than clicking buttons. I’ve written a bunch of aliases to automate my common workflows.

  When I need to help a colleague who’s made a mess of something, I can easily give them the command to fix it rather than finding the right options in their GUI of choice and it’s often because of some broken abstraction in the GUI they got into the mess in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Do Not Track" is a legally binding order, German Court tells LinkedIn⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It would quickly get very annoying because one of those essential cookies is remembering that you rejected the rest.

  The law doesn’t actually mention cookies at all. Its about tracking users, they need your explicit consent to track you or to share data about you with third parties. Cookies are the primary way of doing this but there are others and they need your consent too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the dumbest thing you've shipped?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  A client paid us for a bespoke platform for managing invoice payments. Probably 20 man years sunk into it, they wanted to sell it to their customers but no one wanted it. They’ve just given up trying and axed it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨0.30000000000000004⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  And remember not all currencies are 2dp so get a list and use the appropriate exponent.

  I had to update our currency database this week because there’s new currencies. It’s almost as bad as timezones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does "Selfhosted" mean you actually have a server at home?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought colo was your hardware in someone else’s data center.

  For me though a VPS is still self hosting because you own your applications data and have control over it.

  You’re less beholden to the whims of a company to change the software or cut you off. With appropriate backups you should be able to move to a new cloud provider fairly easily.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cost of living: Loyalty card prices mask price hikes, says Which?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate that the member prices don’t show the unit rates. I prefer to buy in bulk where it works out cheaper for some things and it’s impossible now without taking a calculator.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PostgreSQL 16 Released⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I’ve been dropping not very subtle hints. We’re only a small company, about 25 people. We don’t have any dedicated database admins at all.

  It’s on the list I think but we don’t have the people to spare to get it done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PostgreSQL 16 Released⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  We use SQL Server at work and I really don’t get why. It’s so expensive. We’re hosting it on AWS as well. I can’t remember the numbers but it’s several times more than a similarly specced postgres and we’re only using Standard edition.

  I don’t think we’re really using any features that would stop us moving over, it’s really just inertia and in-house knowledge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX projected 20 million Starlink users by 2022—it ended up with 1 million⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe that’s normal in US but it’s way overpriced in UK. They want £75/mo and I’m paying £35 for 500Mb in a rural area and there’s several different providers to choose from. My sister is even more remote than me and they’re getting fibre this week.

  I could also get unlimited 4G for about £20.

  I don’t know anyone who is using starlink

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Encryption versus Child Safety: Westminster Blinks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah totally agree in the technical sense but if they want to spy on your banking they can go to your bank. If they want to spy on your instant messaging they can’t.

  The bill doesn’t mention encryption at all, it only creates the ability to compel service providers to grant them access on request. Breaking the encryption is the only way they could do that. The law isn’t telling them not encrypt traffic directly.

  Up until the last decade, law enforcement could access pretty much any communications with that appropriate warrants. They could intercept mail, tap phones, get access to emails. E2E being so widespread is fairly new and I vaguely remember messaging platforms implementing it to avoid all the potential legal problems with law enforcement around the world and and international user base. I have no source for that though.

  I can imagine it’s a potential minefield that they don’t want deal with so removing their own access solved that problem.

  Don’t get me wrong, I believe people should have access to private communications and I think all the rhetoric about protecting children is BS. It’s just an easy way to quiet the dissenters then they expand those powers later on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Encryption versus Child Safety: Westminster Blinks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I see this argument every time this comes up but it’s not true. The end to end encryption they are talking about is between users so the service provider doesn’t have access to the data.

  You sent a WhatsApp message and it’s encrypted right through to the recipient’s phone.

  Your banking doesn’t do that, it’s encrypted between you and the bank.

  Don’t get me wrong, I agree with you there’s no feasible way to stop it and hasn’t been for 30 years since the release of PGP, but it’s not about encryption in general, it’s specifically encrypted communication between individuals and bringing other stuff into it just weakens the argument against it.