millak

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by millak 8y ago
This. Especially fucking the corporate bureaucracy! I always enjoyed my work before I joined my current company and, with just how _corporate_ it is, it’s opened up the “where does my meaning come from if not work?” can of worms for me. I h
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by millak 8y ago
My experience is that this doesn’t apply to the see you next Tuesday word, at least here in Canada. It’s seen as very offensive according to the Canadians I know. Speaking as a Brit, that word is thrown around quite casually in the UK!
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by millak 8y ago
Indeed, I'm working at a bank at the moment. There are half a dozen "endpoint protection" agents installed on my laptop, and don't even mention the network filtering - the Docker, Nginx and Vagrant documentation websites
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by millak 8y ago
I've always wondered how well Privacy Badger works if you also have third-party cookies disabled - is there any benefit in that case?
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by millak 9y ago
It would have been if I hadn't married a Canadian in the UK. In fact, if I had wanted to get in on a work visa instead of as a spouse I doubt I would have been able to get in because I don't have any university qualifications and
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by millak 9y ago
I feel absolutely the same. I went to Canada.
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by millak 9y ago
I remember watching this in my school history class - not too far away from where the film is set, actually. It's chilling.
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by millak 10y ago
Indeed, it's frustrating to see it constantly said that the "decisive will of the British people" has spoken!
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by millak 10y ago
You could still be compromised in this situation if you use 1Password to store your 2FA codes.
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by millak 10y ago
Yep, brew cask will just tell you that Transmission is already installed without --force.
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by millak 10y ago
Actually planning that move myself. My Canadian wife and I had it planned before Brexit, but Brexit seems to have justified it! Threads like this are a little disconcerting however.
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by millak 10y ago
Why is that a flaw in the service? The ISP/mobile operator is essentially the gatekeeper to the Internet; having them block WhatsApp (or anything else) is just a case of them adding a block rule to their DNS. What would interest me is
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by millak 11y ago
I'd be interested to hear how you made the jump to contracting? I find myself wanting to make the jump from my permanent job (in London) but being anxious about whether or not it's the right time to do so, if my skill set (sysadmi
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by millak 11y ago
My (Canadian) wife is proposing that we emigrate to Canada in the medium-term - I'm inclined to agree with her for the same reasons that you give.
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by millak 11y ago
Nope.
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by millak 11y ago
To be fair, it was the government that passed a law to legalise such activity; it was the industry that challenged that law and the High Court that overturned it!