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by davb 3mo ago
I used to participate in a bunch of forums across an range of topics and in recent years considered starting one myself but with the OSA (Online Safety Act) in the UK, it’s not worth the personal risk.
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by davb 3mo ago
But under Ofcom rules, it is social media if we are to assume that they’ll apply the same scoping as the Online Safety Act does for user-to-user services. I think a lot of comments here assume that only sites like Facebook, Instagram, Tik
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by davb 4mo ago
Yes!! The Dell WD19 was notorious for that. My wife’s company used those - we couldn’t leave her WFH dock connected to our home network because of the wild broadcast storms causing our core switch to stop processing frames from her home off
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by davb 4mo ago
Indeed. We look after a huge, very diverse set of users (university science faculty - many thousands in our faculty, but tens of thousands across all faculties and professional services teams). According to https://gs.statcounter
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by davb 4mo ago
An extra 4GB per user on our NFS home file server is going to be a huge pain (several thousand students). And for our Windows lab machines, they end up in AppData\Local (which isn’t redirected for operational reasons) so we either leave the
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by davb 1y ago
I actually found it really reassuring and a little enlightening that he had so little to say about those technologies. I find it very easy to get sucked into a technology vortex (especially on Hacker News), where the imposter syndrome creep
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by davb 1y ago
Related, I found that even after designating an application (iTerm2) as a "Developer Tool" in System Settings -> Privacy & Security, there were circumstances where notarisation checks were still carried out. Particularly, l
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by davb 1y ago
Fortunately it’s only £16.40 with VAT and shipping to the UK. Approx $21.85. Comparable to the £9 M5Stack AtomS3 Lite (ESP32-S3) I picked up from Pi Hut recently.
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by davb 1y ago
Anyone who has maintained code that written by engineers new to the industry, who didn’t understand the context of a system or the underlying principles of what they’re writing, may disagree.
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by davb 2y ago
I’ve seen other versions of this like https://www.reddit.com/r/popculturechat/comments/1i4nm32/rip... - none of which mention Trump. I do wonder if this version (mentioning Trump) is real - the domain fr
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by davb 2y ago
Yeah, having the whole of the UK being one colour is pretty useless, given the huge disparity in wages and cost of living between central London and the rest of the UK.
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by davb 2y ago
I use a .xyz for my personal domain (I could get my real name as the domain, and it was cheap). I use FastMail for email. Deliverability has been fine, with one exception - Radisson Red hotels. I’ve had two occasions in the last year when I
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by davb 3y ago
Thanks for the clarification, that’s really helpful. I think a paragraph under a “License” header in the README just reiterating what you said in that reply would be pretty clear. I’m sure some people would make the assumption that it’s und
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by davb 3y ago
That appears to be the VirtualBox OSE license, copied from the original Oracle package, not the license for this specific release. It’s unclear how this new derivative or work is licensed.
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by davb 3y ago
The blog post mentions an open source license but I can’t immediately see it in the post or the repo (perhaps I’m just missing it). Any idea what license this is released under?
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by davb 3y ago
I was looking for something just like this the other day. I’ll often import a CSV into SQLite to do some ad hoc data analysis and transformation, but realised how useful it would be to have a JS/WASM based tool I could host on a static
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by davb 3y ago
Similar experience here - I was making changes to the internal phone directory program and seen an entry for the “Pig Launcher” on a platform. As someone new to oil and gas, I thought it was quick funny.
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by davb 3y ago
It wasn’t that I couldn’t find a terminal supporting background images (indeed, this is very well supported). It was that I couldn’t find anyone referencing using subtly textured (slightly noisy) images to avoid a very solid background.
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by davb 3y ago
Meta, but I love the simplistic design of the landing page. That textured background is so much less brutal than a solid colour. I thought about using a background like that in my terminal (to give it a very subtle paper like quality) but w
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by davb 3y ago
Whatever the complaints about DDG, I still commend yegg for engaging here. I can’t imagine the head of Google Search or Bing doing the same.
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by davb 3y ago
Agreed. And chatbots also leave no room for discretionary exemptions. My headset microphone broke recently (after the warranty period) - emailing the company and asking if there was any way I could buy a new one netted me a free replacement
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by davb 3y ago
No, the people building the shite customer service chatbots that we all hate using should take a stand.
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by davb 3y ago
It looks like the top line is “Screw better technology” (with the r dropped off). “RR - What were FY96 [Financial Year '96] SW sampling limitations” “RPG’s most messy” (with a superfluous letter in there).
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by davb 3y ago
Their (Serif / Affinity) site license costs are exceedingly reasonable, too. Especially for education customers.
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by davb 3y ago
Except, LLMs don’t cite their sources accurately (if at all). A Google search may yield information with a source I can verify; my understanding is that LLMs are fundamentally incapable of doing so.
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by davb 3y ago
I'd say https://neocities.org/ is the modern reincarnation of Geocities.
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by davb 3y ago
Python runtime deployment is a major pain point for us (CS department at a university). On the most tightly managed lab machines, which are all in lockstep on a fixed configuration (latest Ubuntu LTS with a updated image pushed annually), w
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by davb 3y ago
The stateful example is much easier to read.
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by davb 4y ago
I played the games when they were first released and loved them - they’ll forever be amongst my favourites. I’ve also really enjoyed the TV show. I know very little about TV production and set design but I, too, was blown away by the amount
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by davb 4y ago
That’s a great point. Even if it’s not the real reason, it’s plausible and better than “we took one of the brands currently popular products”, especially when they’ve tried so hard (within reason) to get everything else just right.

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