One of our cats kept getting out of our old house - took us a couple of weeks to work out that she’d found an access hatch into the subfloor that we didn’t know about in the back of a cupboard and worked out how to lift it up

sigh guess I need to go write another letter to my MP

Tbh, given how out of their way IBM went to enable the holocaust, I don’t think they really should be weighing in on this one

Ah yes, WordPress, renowned for it’s robust social engagement tools.

It’s the kind of decision you announce over Zoom so people don’t riot

I’d kinda hope that they don’t just take the word of any random person though - so much space for harassment otherwise

Basically none. The satellite link isn’t getting traffic directly between you and the server you are reaching - the satellite just relays the data to the nearest ground station that then uses the normal fibre network to get the rest of the way.

Even if you managed to reconfigure starlink to be a peering network rather than an access network, you’d still have the issue that the starlink network as a whole has orders of magnitude less bandwidth than even one under sea cable

I learnt a ton about Linux by fucking up my boot config and being too stubborn to just nuke and pave

Only if a dog does it.

Is that the plot of Air Bud? Idk, I only know the meme

So politics aside, would you really put any money into a financial system run by someone with a proven track record of driving businesses into bankruptcy?

The thing he seems to have forgotten is that unlike the automotive industry where the regulation is designed to allow companies to fuck up then fix things as long as they have the systems in place to fix the fuck up and to know when they fucked up, the medical device industry is very much designed so that the default stance is “this is dangerous and will kill people” unless you can prove otherwise

Keycloak to provide OIDC, although in hindsight I should have gone with Authelia Authentik

… Wasn’t there a story a few months ago about a family that had done exactly that and turns out living in Russia kinda sucks?

“settler” is such a bullshit term.

These are armed people who attack civilians, forcefully evict them from their homes, then claim the land as their own. If they were Palestinian they’d be called “militants”.

They are settlers in the same way the conquistadors were settlers

Or, alternatively, coms management is important and formally declaring an incident is an important part of outage response - going from “hey Bob something isn’t looking right can you check when you get a sec” to “ok, shits broken, everyone put down what you are working on and help with this. Jim is in charge of coordinating the technical people so we don’t make things worse, and should feed updates to Mike who is going to handle comms to non-technical internal people and to externals” takes management input

Why does patreon even need to be an app? What value does the app bring that the website can’t deliver?

https://valetudo.cloud/

There are very few things more obnoxious than an asshole with unsolicited parenting advice

Oh, you misheard - he doesn’t like “free speech”, he likes “freeze peach” - just a big fan of Super Mario. And Nazis - don’t forget how much he loves Nazis

Make sure you have your shiv handy so when someone is “helpful” and tries to push you without asking first you can get em right in the kidney

If you are talking about nation state leaders, I’m struggling to think of one where they don’t just end up getting replaced with someone similar - Putin turning to magic dust doesn’t suddenly dismantle the structure that allows for a dictator, so another dictator will slide into the void. Same with Trump - American politics doesn’t stop being insane just cos he’s not around, and now that people know/think that a politician of his style can win, there will be a queue to cynical imitators ready to go.

I’m less familiar with Indian politics, but I don’t think the BJP suddenly loses its power if Modi disappeared. Israel will still have it’s hard right nationalist core without Netanyahu. North Korea will find another Kim.

I guess my thesis is “focus on systems, not people”