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by flower-giraffe 6y ago
> Has anything really changed? There have always been kids programming that was primarily about selling toys Not on the BBC, that’s my point. I’m sure there are plenty of people here that remember Blue Peter and sticky-back plastic (unob
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by flower-giraffe 6y ago
> To me, public TV, especially BBC, shouldn’t be one-sided as it is now. I don’t think it is, and it’s certainly not meant to be. The law in the UK is quite clear and there is a framework and regulatory body to enforce it. From https:&
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by flower-giraffe 6y ago
I think the funding and governance (by Royal Charter) of the BBC have historically provided a huge benefit to society in the UK. Advertising free children’s TV (and radio) may have delayed the onset or rampant consumerism fuelled by commerc
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by flower-giraffe 6y ago
> In other words, real estate is a great way to preserve wealth. I don’t disagree, and I concede the increase in home prices is not exponential but it is certainly a long way from tracking the 2% inflation rate. The point I’m making is
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by flower-giraffe 6y ago
“A $500,000 mortgage now has the same monthly payment that a $300,000 mortgage would have with 2007’s interest rates, and what a $210,000 mortgage had at mid-1990s interest rates.” Isn’t this the elephant in the room? I’m assuming that the
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by flower-giraffe 6y ago
Yes, or indeed the later and cheaper Z88 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Z88
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by flower-giraffe 6y ago
In the future I think the tech savvy will be doing exactly that - pinefone as a wireless hotspot with wireguard to a anonymised proxy.
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by flower-giraffe 6y ago
Related thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24805748
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Jira on premises end of life starts feb 2021(atlassian.com)
163 points by flower-giraffe 6y ago|120 comments
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by flower-giraffe 6y ago
> They were literally making money from every click of the shutter. and that’s the pivot the software players made in tech, they monetised every click of the mouse (and every tap) while intel is stuck with the burden of the platform cost
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by flower-giraffe 6y ago
It’s not limited to DC - Former UK deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg @Facebook VP, Global Affairs
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by flower-giraffe 6y ago
The tech governance issue here is that a commercial organisation used personal information provided for an unrelated purpose for political lobbying without consent. Presumably some of the many recipients of the email are both US voters and
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by flower-giraffe 6y ago
> People on this site - technical people with the ability to make a difference - seem to be getting to the point where they care. I agree, hopefully we can inform and influence our less aware friends and peers elsewhere. One of my bigges
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by flower-giraffe 6y ago
> If you don't trust them, then you shouldn't trust anything running on top of it either... You start with trust, if you attempt to verify that trust by examining behaviour and discover a covert side channel surely you can no
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by flower-giraffe 6y ago
> I trust Apple, but I don't like trusting trust. Trust relies on faith or evidence, the overwhelming circumstantial evidence is that Apple can not be trusted with anything other than their commercial interests. You can not trust Ap
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by flower-giraffe 6y ago
> Apple can do whatever they want on their platform. Actually no they can’t much of the world has laws to prevent such abuses of power.
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by flower-giraffe 6y ago
-> "Friday drinks" calls, but attendance was so low that we just cancelled them. We have a 15 minute mandatory weekly review to start - it’s quite common for the session to last three hours.
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by flower-giraffe 6y ago
2. Friday at 4pm is beer o’clock - using jit.si, teams,zoom or whatever else is flavour of the week. Not everyone has a beer, and we talk about work and non work stuff without any agenda.
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by flower-giraffe 6y ago
Because it’s safer than a scooter.
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by flower-giraffe 6y ago
Fibre to the home is available in plenty of locations - off island bandwidth is a bit variable but you can get up to 1000/500 for 300 USD https://discoverflow.co/barbados/broadband/overview
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by flower-giraffe 6y ago
Can you explain how this is more secure than SSH to a bastion host via an out of band network?
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by flower-giraffe 6y ago
This is an interesting perhaps meta-relevant topic for HN. How many of us bookmark or otherwise record interesting posts from here and elsewhere? How many of us ever refer that accumulated digital memory? I have about 7,000 links with notes