contracertainty

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by contracertainty 6mo ago
What's a check? As the saying goes, 'I'm too European for this'. On a more serious note, the last time I saw a cheque in the UK was my grandfather balancing his cheque book in the mid 80s. It really has been that long si
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by contracertainty 8mo ago
Unfortunately iPhones aren't ubiquitous outside their home market. It would have to be on Android to be really useful in the places this would be really useful , i.e. places where regimes turn off the internet when things go badly for
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by contracertainty 2y ago
You are absolutely right, and you have indavertebtly hit the nail on the head. This legilsation is supported by parents who would like their children to be able to use the internet, all of it, without any effort on their part to police thei
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by contracertainty 2y ago
Hey, privacy is a vald concern. I could just as easily say 'When you say "privacy doesn't matter" most of us hear "moron". Try being a bit more civil next time.
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by contracertainty 2y ago
As a European I have to ask - do you really need another argument? If I stand on a platform for government in Europe with an arguably fascist agenda I will get called out as a fascist and will lose. Never mind if I am a convicted felon, rap
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by contracertainty 3y ago
My company ('systemically important' bank, ~100k enployees) is trying furiously to get us into the office 2 days a week. For many people this is more than was required of them pre-COVID. What is actually happening is that peopl
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by contracertainty 4y ago
I'm gonna second gp, I don't know anyone who does photo/video editing, cad/cam or 3D modeling. In fact, I know more people with > 3 pi's than I do coders. People love them and use them for all sorts. But I don&#x
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by contracertainty 5y ago
This is an incredibly silicon valley centered viewpoint. I'm sure the guy makes some good observations, but how can you take anyone seriously that starts with a comment like this? Apple is insignificant outside of the English speaking
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by contracertainty 5y ago
The UK doesn't have an NHS, nor NHS app. The UK has four national health services, one for each country. IIRC only England has an NHS app. And we have no id cards. It's not looking good.
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HashiCorp's code signing key compromised(discuss.hashicorp.com)
3 points by contracertainty 5y ago|1 comments
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by contracertainty 5y ago
The key HashiCorp use to sign downloads of such popular tools as Terraform and secrets management tool Vault has been compromised after a 3rd party tool used to scan code was compromised. The key, which doesn't appear to have been held