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721.
by hkt 4y ago
Germany seems to be the gold standard. A very healthy respect for decentralisation and privacy that we lack. Much of Europe is similar, leaving aside the more autocratic countries. Switzerland is also very good AIUI. What's a real pity
722.
by hkt 4y ago
That's a huge number of people who can't access secure messaging anymore. Journalists can't run such services, and as soon as somebody does it for them they're a service provider who falls under the regulations.
723.
by hkt 4y ago
Ah, politicians, consultancies, spooks, and civil servants all failing to understand cryptography. How novel. It really is a shame that we do this. It is symptomatic of an inordinate amount of ineptitude in our ruling class, and goes back c
724.
by hkt 4y ago
If it makes you feel better, I gather they're terrible for Windows users as well
725.
by hkt 4y ago
AI is the story of augmenting human intelligence rather than replacing it. The sooner we realise this, the sooner we can make good use of it.
726.
by hkt 4y ago
Partly Brexit, but partly our model of capitalism is broken. Our energy prices going wild means that local growers who rely on LED lighting out of season simply turned the lights off as there was no conceivable way of them producing economi
727.
by hkt 4y ago
Not likely. Millennials aren't undergoing conservatisation with age. We'll likely be the first generation to leave the country better than we found it since the silent generation. There are historical reasons for why this is, too:
728.
by hkt 4y ago
We also get paid holiday and sick leave, and can leave work at 5pm without anyone raising an eyebrow.
729.
by hkt 4y ago
OSX seems fine for most people where I've worked. For the truly intractable Windows addict, maybe ReactOS? https://reactos.org/
730.
by hkt 4y ago
I haven't used windows since 2008 and you've just made my day with this post. I have never felt so vindicated.
731.
by hkt 4y ago
Has the environmental impact of less efficient processing been studied? I've been thinking about this since seeing those stories a while back about bitcoin miners collectively having the same power consumption as some smaller countries
732.
by hkt 4y ago
7pm meetings?! It sounds like we can both agree that all people, regardless of their sleep pattern, are capable of being buffoons.
733.
by hkt 4y ago
Is a package available where employees are taught that "unions" are where you formally marry the company?
734.
by hkt 4y ago
New tech job challenge: find 20 companies a year whose HR departments are populated by dirtbags, make Google money.
735.
by hkt 4y ago
It absolutely shocks me that anyone is surprised by this. School and work are much the same. Rigid schedules that disregard people's actual circadian rhythms blight lives. Another example: https://www.nature.com/article
736.
by hkt 4y ago
Yep! Last I checked kubelet will just refuse to work if you try to give it swap from "underneath", too. I work with data science tools that require 16G of RAM eac for hundreds of users, and Kubernetes was an appalling choice of pl
737.
by hkt 4y ago
As a British person, I'd suggest you reconsider. Things over here are not so rosy. Drugs shortages, crazy inflation, no discernible benefits at all except to a government that hates judicial oversight of any kind.
738.
by hkt 4y ago
Similar situation where I've arrived recently: a big public sector org where the biggest expense each month is cloudwatch.
739.
by hkt 4y ago
I remember first meeting docker when trying to resolve dependency hell with ruby, so, accurate.
740.
by hkt 4y ago
For the avid self hoster, SeaweedFS: https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs
741.
by hkt 4y ago
Maybe don't shuttle your kids around on a private jet..?
742.
by hkt 4y ago
Empirically speaking, it seems more like rich languages are the past, present and future of programming. Rich as in, has a strong standard library. Python, go, etc. The only "little" languages I can think of that I'd reason
743.
by hkt 4y ago
Amen to this. I bank with Starling and having decided to minimise my phone usage am having to move away from them. Likewise a variety of other services.
744.
by hkt 4y ago
I've used it to talk to people in the past. It is uncommon but not unheard of.
745.
by hkt 4y ago
Various IRC clients have OTR plugins though, for the truly paranoid: https://irssi.org/documentation/help/otr/ https://github.com/onezero1/xchat-otr There's more listed here from th
746.
by hkt 4y ago
Sand and cement in my house's case. Rubbish insulation, utterly impermeable - combined that means the dew point (where water vapour condenses) is within the brick. The freezing point is too, and bricks are not exactly flexible when sat
747.
by hkt 4y ago
Goodness, no. I imagine the um, fast, companies didn't bother. It was a charming little outfit that has since sold out to iomart. Alas.
748.
by hkt 4y ago
And the free version has a neat open source fork that adds features: https://github.com/MCPI-Revival/minecraft-pi-reborn
749.
by hkt 4y ago
This is a fair point - in organisational terms it'd be better if NCSC was under a non-ministerial body, independent of political influence and control. Similar format to a university, maybe.
750.
by hkt 4y ago
I'd never considered the value all those things have when it comes to finding out what to index. Clever, actually.

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