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by ItsBob 6mo ago
I think you're right. I think they are tightening the noose! I use Gemini quite extensively - I have a 5TB storage plan with Google so I get Pro thrown in. I also have Github Copilot Pro for IDE integration. However, lately it feels li
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by ItsBob 7mo ago
I'm curious how you use Sheets as a Trello-like replacement. I use Trello from time to time but my most recent project is using actual Post-It notes stuck to my monitor, wall etc. If Sheets works (I love simplicity) then I'll give
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by ItsBob 7mo ago
Just an FYI... I don't know what their service is like but they won't respond to my emails asking for a refund so, tomorrow I have to contact my CC provider now. Not happy :-(
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by ItsBob 7mo ago
Maybe it's just me but why is it on by default? Why is this shit not off in the first place? Why can't Firefox just be a browser with great html, css, js rendering and then have a bunch of toggles for extra crap that people want?
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by ItsBob 8mo ago
Yeah, Nationwide has the little PIN code device which definitely helps with transactions but not logging in: that's still old-school.
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by ItsBob 8mo ago
I can tell you with almost 100% certainty: no banks in the UK use any 2FA other than SMS-based. I spent December last year looking for a new bank to move to. One of my criteria (not the most important but it was on the list) was better-than
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by ItsBob 9mo ago
> Considering there is very little moat left in software and big companies can copy your product in no time? Having worked in the corporate world all my working life I can safely say with confidence that big companies absolutely DO NOT m
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by ItsBob 9mo ago
If you scroll further down, there's an image of a woman holding an opened keyboard with a SODIMM in her other hand so I'd guess that means it's user-swappable.
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by ItsBob 9mo ago
Two things for me: 1. Develop discipline around the piano 2. Build my side hustle beyond a side hustle (Kopi - replicate a production DB schema and relational subsets of its data for local development in seconds)
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by ItsBob 10mo ago
My wife and I had a good chuckle at these. The one we both remember is the one about Penguin losing his lollipop and buying a Milky Way. However, we both agreed that when comparing the UK(ish) and US(ish) variants, the UK ones are much more
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by ItsBob 10mo ago
I'm working on something called Kopi: a CLI tool that replaces the slow process of restoring massive production database backups on a dev machine with a "surgical slicing" approach, spinning up lightweight, referentially inta
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by ItsBob 11mo ago
I'm replying to you from Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC courtesy of massgravel (or massgrave... not sure wth it's actually called now!) and it's activated until 2038. The only thing it didn't have out of the box that I w
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by ItsBob 11mo ago
I had one of those umpteen years ago with RBS. I hated it at the time too :) However, I use a Yubikey as often as I can nowadays and authenticator apps too where possible. I'd like the option to use one but I can't :(
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by ItsBob 11mo ago
FWIW, I work for a major financial organization in the UK as a software architect and I've brought it up more than once over the years in various roles: not a single bank in the UK supports Yubikeys or custom Authenticator apps. Not on
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by ItsBob 11mo ago
I have to agree... I have no idea why I wrote that. Silly me. It's a bit of a global statement. There are, however, definitely domains it can excel: things like entry-level call handlers... I think they're screwed in all honesty!
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by ItsBob 11mo ago
I see where you are coming from but in my head, Brenda isn't real. She represents the typical domain-experts that use Excel imo. They have an understanding of some part of the business and express it while using Excel in a deterministi
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by ItsBob 11mo ago
It's not as black-and-white as "Brenda good, AI bad". It's much more nuanced than this. When it comes to (traditional) coding, for the most part, when I program a function to do X, every single time I run that function f
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by ItsBob 11mo ago
Haha, not trolling. I tend not to use libraries for JS, preferring to write actual vanilla JavaScript, hence the reason the name rubs me up the wrong way :)
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by ItsBob 11mo ago
I'm not sure it is off-topic. The parent to this one was talking about, presumably, dodgy Windows keys (that shouldn't be allowed) but from my understanding, the massgrave scripts just use internal Windows mechanisms to activate.
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by ItsBob 11mo ago
I really wish this wasn't called Vanilla JavaScript... that's what I call actual JavaScript, you know, the language without libraries! I don't normally feel strongly one way or the other about stuff but this really rips my kn
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by ItsBob 11mo ago
No need if you use the IoT version and the massgrave activation script. It uses the built-in activation mechanisms in Windows to activate until 2038 or something. I'm using the Windows 11 Enterprise IoT LTSC with activation until 2038
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by ItsBob 11mo ago
> If a client has an IP in this set, they get a simple UTF8 constant string in the response body "You have exceeded resource limits, please try again later". Would a simple 429 not do the same thing? You could log repeated 429&
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by ItsBob 11mo ago
I admit, my approach was rather nuclear but it worked at the time. I think an evolution would be to use some sort of exponential backoff, e.g. first time offenders get banned for an hour, second time is 4 hours, third time and you're s
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by ItsBob 11mo ago
> It's interesting to study, right? Definitely! I wasn't experiencing any issues, hell it wasn't even for public consumption at that time so no great loss to me but I found a few things fascinating (and somewhat stupid!) a
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by ItsBob 11mo ago
I had a website earlier this year running on Hetzner. It was purely experimenting with some ASP.NET stuff but when looking at the logs, I noticed a shit-load of attempts at various WordPress-related endpoints. I then read something about a
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by ItsBob 1y ago
Go here [0] to get the links to Windows 10 and Windows 11 LTSC. Also, the script to activate it, go here [1] for that. [0] - https://massgrave.dev/windows_ltsc_links [1] - https://massgrave.dev/ I'm us
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by ItsBob 1y ago
In this case, they likely had adequate fuel for, the usual eventualities but the weather in Scotland was particularly bad that night across the whole country (source: I live near Prestwick airport). Either Edinburgh (on the east coast) or P
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by ItsBob 1y ago
If memory serves, it's shit like this that sank Global Crossing: creative accounting, I think it was called at the time.
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by ItsBob 1y ago
Latency. It's everywhere. Open file Explorer and it lags. Change the volume and the slider lags with the example sound and just a general sluggishness compared to Windows 10. Also updates have broken my printer 3 times (that I can reme
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by ItsBob 1y ago
I was using Win 11 for a year or so until recently but I'd had enough. It was laggy and I was scared to download updates as they break things way too often. I understand the complexity with the Windows codebase... it's fkn massive

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