jamiecurle

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by jamiecurle 6mo ago
MacOS used to be excellent for a short period of time when Fleetsmith existed. Then Apple purchased Fleetsmith around 2020 and killed the product not long after. Fortunately around the same time, JamF ended the practice of the mandatory Jam
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by jamiecurle 6mo ago
yes, that's exactly how it happens.
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by jamiecurle 6mo ago
Not everyone is great at the level above and even if they are, sometimes it is not always a good fit for them. I've had more a good few engineers ask to go backwards when they've been promoted - each for their own reasons but nea
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by jamiecurle 7mo ago
technically, it's the ePrivacy directive. GDPR requires the consent to process personal data and governs the data but the ePrivacy directive is the instrument that requires that god-damn-please-make-it-stop-banner.
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by jamiecurle 8mo ago
I waited 2.5 hours for a webhook from the registry_packages endpoint today. I'm grateful it arrived, but two and half hours feels less than ideal.
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by jamiecurle 8mo ago
I wasn't in construction but I did spend three years working as an arborist / forester between 2022 and 2025 whilst taking a little break from tech after a long 20-year stint. I've been in good shape since I was 30 with stren
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by jamiecurle 8mo ago
That cane was no fun. It was around for one year when I was in juniors before it got banned. I can remember as clear as the day at the start of September us new boys were taken into the toilet by the headmaster (lovely guy actually) and giv
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by jamiecurle 9mo ago
They do it a lot. My garden backs onto a public woodland and I can confirm it happens. Last summer when I tidied up out the back of my house, I found at least five years worth of buried dog turds in bags. Cleaning it up was not fun. I used
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by jamiecurle 9mo ago
Specific to the UK, there's a list of enforcement actions that the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) have taken: https://ico.org.uk/action-weve-taken/enforcement/ Some went to prison, some were fined £14
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by jamiecurle 10mo ago
If you're under UK law the ICO guidance on "pay to reject" can be found here: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-re...
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by jamiecurle 11mo ago
Copyright and performance rights are two separate things. It's completely fine for me to go and perform (not record - that does need a license) the latest hit song until my heart is content.
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by jamiecurle 11mo ago
yes by "shop" I did mean the place in Blagdon, Northumberland. I live right next to it two small towns down.
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by jamiecurle 11mo ago
I live about five minutes by car from that shop. Weird when that happens on HN.
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by jamiecurle 11mo ago
Same here, only I used Hikvision PoE cameras. If I had of had a webcam on my front door a few weeks ago I would have been able to identify the thieves that broke into my car and stole a bunch of stuff whilst I was asleep. Since then I have
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by jamiecurle 1y ago
I think what the blog post is getting is OTP and the mystical/but not mystical GenServer / Supervisor/ distributed pattern. It's baked right in there as a core part of the Erlang VM. I think the post glances over the fac
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by jamiecurle 1y ago
I don't get this. Many years ago there was "Do not track", a header that was sent based on browser configuration. As a data subject, I loved it. As an engineer I also loved it - it was easy. If the header was present don&#x27
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by jamiecurle 1y ago
> Could you recommend any good books The Elements Of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst "Five minutes to learn, a lifetime to master" kind of thing.
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by jamiecurle 1y ago
Man I'd like to hang out. No one I know is a Mondrian nerd. I love all his work and have a few replicas hanging around my home.
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by jamiecurle 1y ago
Authenticity nitpick: during this period where Mondrian produced geometrical works, he was emerging from theosophy as a primary influence towards universal truths. A key part of this was never using green. It's my pet peeve when peopl
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by jamiecurle 1y ago
Maybe if you're just doing your own back garden and it's just leaf matter. But for professional arborists / municipal arboricultural teams, a leaf blower - specifically a backpack blower (battery / alkalyte | petrol) spe
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by jamiecurle 1y ago
Fun.
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by jamiecurle 1y ago
The escape hatch with all personal data processing is "legitimate interest". Consent is a big part of it, but an industry with sufficiently deep legal pockets would likely go down the route of "legitimate interest" if co
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by jamiecurle 1y ago
I love the phrase "It's because that's why". For anyone interested in this kind of subject I've benefited a lot from Vanessa Van Edwards books which essentially boil down to signalling warmth and competence in the r
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by jamiecurle 1y ago
I don’t want this, but I don’t really see a future where it isn’t a thing. One group of people are right to point out the scope for abuse and control of a population, and another are correct that we already have multiple forms of digital ID
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by jamiecurle 1y ago
Same in the UK - it is called the Occupiers Liability Act. It's not black and white but the liability is on the Occupier. I know this because I own an area of ancient semi-natural woodland which I'm restoring back to the natural N
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by jamiecurle 1y ago
Organisations need to ensure that doing business with you isn't over their risk threshold. One of the areas they focus on is security (cyber, info and physical and perhaps soon AI). In order to determine this they ask you a bunch of qu
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by jamiecurle 2y ago
It depends. For forestry stock there's no real way to avoid monoculture if you need a lot and you need it soon (40-60 years). There's much more to this answer though because Phytopthora is hammering larch, Ips is hammering spruce
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by jamiecurle 2y ago
At least in the UK woodland cover is increasing. It was 3% back in 1900~ and today it stands at about [13%][0]. The aim in the UK is to be at 15% woodland and tree coverage by 2050 – quite achievable. I currently teach woodland management a
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by jamiecurle 2y ago
Yes.
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by jamiecurle 3y ago
I grew up playing at this church in the 1970’s and passed it everyday until the early 2000s when I moved a bit further north. It’s a wonderful building and a loss for the town, but as a whole the town has completely changed (for the worse)

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