roryirvine

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by roryirvine 3d ago
Not really - it's not sufficiently fine-grained and, besides, you need it to connect to X to display anything. There were various attempts to improve this situation in the early 2010s, typically using Xnest or Xephyr in conjunction wit
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by roryirvine 3d ago
On the contrary, Grindr's history of appalling behaviour is entirely germane when discussing their CEO's criticism of other companies for being "anti-civilisational".
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by roryirvine 3d ago
The CEO of Grindr, fresh from illegally sharing users' HIV status with advertisers, complains that a company displaying scruples is "anti-civilisational". Astonishing.
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by roryirvine 4d ago
A bit disingenuous to say "he was a member of the BNP briefly" - that almost makes it sound like he left the BNP by choice! In reality, he was kicked out because he insisted on prioritising violence over politics (contradicting th
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by roryirvine 5d ago
The question really is how to keep it in (or, at least, near) that sweet spot. People would love to go back to something like Facebook circa 2012 or the Twitter (or even Reddit) of maybe a couple of years later. But if you were to somehow m
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by roryirvine 5d ago
More of a shock, if anything - the higher taxes in Europe act to damp price swings, so sudden rises like this hit America proportionately more.
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by roryirvine 7d ago
Yeah, Exchange is a good comparator because it shows what the mail aspect of Notes might have been like had it been designed in the mid 90s rather than the late 80s. It's hard now to appreciate how different corporate IT was from the f
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by roryirvine 7d ago
Sure, but Notes was built for a world where ccMail, MS Mail, and GroupWise were the main workgroup email systems. Notes followed a similar pattern, with a proprietary "post office" system with optional gateways to larger x.400 &#x
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by roryirvine 7d ago
Looks like it's GB-only rather than UK?
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by roryirvine 7d ago
Ryanair have a finely-tuned marketing machine, dedicated to making everything they do seem as cheap and nasty as possible. In the long term people remember the "cheap" part more than anything else, which is why it works so well fo
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by roryirvine 8d ago
France has had 11 amendments to its constitution in the 21st century, South Africa and Ireland have had 13 each, Germany has had 20, and India 27. There isn't really any reason to suppose that the USA should be so very different.
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by roryirvine 8d ago
This was posted recently on Show HN: https://nickleenders.github.io/verisky-scoreboard/?city=lond... which tracks performance of the main models (including the AI ones) in various locations. There's also https:&#
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by roryirvine 8d ago
Yeah, the Met Office and BBC (which I believe use data from Meteo France) are both much more accurate for "later today" weather than Google for me in London. Google does update its forecast more frequently, and usually is as acc
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by roryirvine 8d ago
Yeah - Tom Barrack, appointed as US Special Envoy in mid-2025, prioritised "reunification of the Syrian state" over supporting the Kurds, saying that "federalism does not work" and that autonomous regions (in both Syrian
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by roryirvine 8d ago
I think this is just the cloud-hosted registry - the good old cli remains available, albeit under the non-free Business Source License: https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant
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by roryirvine 9d ago
Yeah, I came across Geerling 10-12 years ago when he was big in the Ansible community and he seemed pretty reasonable then. In his defence, those blog posts are ancient and he'd have been pretty young when they were written. But agains
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Grindr pays £26M to settle UK lawsuit over allegedly sharing users' HIV status(theguardian.com)
5 points by roryirvine 9d ago|0 comments
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by roryirvine 9d ago
Weirdly, there was already a good GNOME photo app written in Mono since the mid 2000s (F-Spot, originally by Ximian), though I believe gThumb remained the default in most distros until it began to be replaced by Shotwell at some point in th
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by roryirvine 9d ago
Detergent sheets are fairly common in the UK - I use https://www.amazon.com/Dr-Beckmann-Original-Laundry-Detergen... when travelling and they work well enough.
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by roryirvine 11d ago
To be fair, source code escrow was for a long time a standard feature of contracts between small/medium software companies and large enterprises. It's actually one of the reasons that open source took off in the early 2000s - if t
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by roryirvine 12d ago
I guess I'm surprised that it's not treated as a site safety thing, rather than personal safety. No PPE = no access to the site. I know America, and especially Texas, tends to take a more libertarian attitude - but is there really
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by roryirvine 12d ago
I suspect awards are one of the more profitable niches of the wider events industry. They're cheaper to produce than a full-scale conference (needing just a 1 day hire of a hotel ballroom or similar) and are easy to sell - every busine
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by roryirvine 12d ago
That seems pretty reasonable. Every provider has to deal with customers who sign up purely to use them for relaying spam, and blocking recently-compromised IPs is a perfectly normal mitigation step. Most providers in Gandi's class will
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by roryirvine 13d ago
MicroFORTH would have been the nearest thing to it - but FORTH was sufficiently easy to implement that most vendors decided to make their own rather than pay FORTH Inc. SofTech Pascal could have been there, too, if they hadn't priced i
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by roryirvine 13d ago
Of course, Syria's main oil and LNG pipelines run through the formerly-autonomous area popularly known as Rojava. The Kurds who live there are realists, and always knew that Turkey would veto any sort of independent state - but the Wes
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by roryirvine 13d ago
Yeah, KeePassXC is pretty basic but is trustworthy and it works. The KeePassXC-Browser extension for Firefox and Chromium-based browsers is useful too: https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc-browser
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by roryirvine 13d ago
A very minor decrease, but the previous two years have been flat rather than growing. Good news - let's hope for many more falls to come!
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by roryirvine 14d ago
You and others have been provided with links to DHH's writing plenty of times when you've asked for evidence in the many threads on this subject that you've participated in over the past few months. If you don't want to
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by roryirvine 14d ago
Does anyone seriously disagree that 1Password should not support ethnic cleansing, no matter where in the world it might happen? I don't really understand what you're arguing against here.
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by roryirvine 14d ago
Not just that, it's a poorly-disguised shilling operation for Bellroy: When we talk about “we” (or “our” or “us”), we mean Bellroy Pty Ltd and all its wholly owned subsidiaries. We are based in Australia but we review gear from all o

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