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@andypiper@macaw.social This is double not okay: today HMRC are running a webinar to explain how to start using the new system, and this is what you get (opening with Firefox)
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Khleedril
@khleedril@cyberplace.social
mastodon 4.7.3Yorkshire, England 🏴, Ph.D.
Recreational maths and computing, sci-fi reading and writing, appreciation of fine art and planet Earth.
Avatar AltText: disc-shaped spacecraft hurtling flat-ways through space, accommodation blocks crowd the front face, a particle accelerator ring runs around the circumference, with back-firing rocket motors appearing at intervals around the ring.
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@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social Can lift weights to the left, can't lift weights to the right.
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@hodomania_simpson@indieauthors.social The name of the Federation's next galaxy-class starship: 'The Mouldy Rhubarb.'
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@simonzerafa@infosec.exchange @revk@toot.me.uk @benpye@mastodon.social @samir@mastodon.functional.computer I think this is what the UK would do if they stopped changing the clocks; it is lighter mornings we need not endless evenings.
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@jumpingjackrussell@mstdn.social @vowe@social.heise.de No it wouldn't. Don't copy this post to Instagram. Under no circumstances. Don't even think about doing it. Everybody will hate you.
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@ArtHarg@mastodon.nl @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange Never keep an axe on an overhead shelf...
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@Cheeseness@mastodon.social @inthehands@hachyderm.io This is true. Procrastination is a large part of the process of creative innovation.
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@markmason@mas.to @GeofCox@climatejustice.social The Bank of England had a model of the economy made of water flowing through tubes. Seriously.
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@rperezrosario@mastodon.social The actual font does not make any difference, everything else about the presentation (size, colour) does.
@nelson@infosec.exchange #TIL you don't have to slavishly create a .gitignore for every project, and you don't have to broadcast personal files you are ignoring. I've used #git for years, and this is a revelation...
https://nelson.cloud/.gitignore-isnt-the-only-way-to-ignore-files-in-git/
Thank you Nelson, whoever you are!
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@tasket@infosec.exchange @toxi@mastodon.thi.ng This all applies not only to desktop Linux, but also the rare implementations of phone Linux, where every phone OS requires apps specially written to work on some shitty special XMLish graphics interface.
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@wosrediinanatour@mastodon.social @TomF@mastodon.gamedev.place @mmcknett@hachyderm.io @bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place @sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place Yeh, I don't really agree with the c#->c++->C->asm stack either. They are all just variants of C which compile to object code. Understanding what a microprocessor (ain't that a quaint old word?) actually does with object code is the important step.
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@gbargoud@masto.nyc @davidrevoy@framapiaf.org There's only a 50% probability of a false positive...
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@peturdainn@mastodon.social @MarkHoltom@mastodonapp.uk Given that you would probably get decreasing returns as you scale up to those sort of numbers, I wouldn't be surprised if the estimate was an order of magnitude higher than the naive calculation might suggest.
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@Axolotl1@gaygeek.social It's been a while...
https://khleedril.org/dale-mellor/bookblog/?review=the-colour-of-magic
Edit: yep, that's a pretty shallow review 🤣
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@oldrup@mastodon.green @sarajw@front-end.social @tg@indieweb.social Good and well but I take the view that if you need to switch to Reader mode then there must be something wrong with the website. Failed to just keep it simple.
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@bsdphk@fosstodon.org @ladyteruki@mastodon.social Who needs €42M? Surely anything above €2M should be regarded as excessive.
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@djlink@mastodon.gamedev.place All programming was written by John Constable in a particularly dark mood.
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@anneapplebaum@journa.host It has turned into a very pointless war which neither side can back out of.
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@GrahamTG@mstdn.social Neat. While having the cockpit right at the back sure looks stylish, I think there is a whole heap of reasons why it would be better nearer the front.
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@movq@tilde.zone Kodak never understood digital. Just couldn't get it. It was their demise in the end.
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@NullTheFool@mastodon.gamedev.place Each to their own, but I prefer tiled window managers any day.
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@tmcfarlane@toot.community @cwebber@social.coop There is no reason at all why you can't have vim as your pid-0 init process.
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@mattblaze@federate.social It never ceases to amaze me the amount of stuff that gets spent whenever any type of rocket goes off. It is a small hospital gone in a puff of smoke.
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@rk@mastodon.well.com @alice@lgbtqia.space @farooqkz@mastodon.bsd.cafe At that level everybody is a prostitute.
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@Lizette603_23@mastodon.social @lawfare@mastodon.social Do you know how US carriers work?
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@atax1a@infosec.exchange Christ, I wish I could filter out all posts with `LLM' in them.
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@bsdphk@fosstodon.org @ladyteruki@mastodon.social You got me. I'll look out for a copy of it...
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@michaelharley@infosec.exchange Your observation about there being lots of posts at the moment about this is on-point, unfortunately while your site is looking good I'm still finding it 50/50 whether a site in general will work. Unfortunately most of the WordPress- and Ghost-based sites don't seem to like my webmentions, and I'm not happy about subscribing in order to leave a comment.
How are you finding the reliability of other sites?
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@Edent@mastodon.social @summerbeth@mastodon.me.uk Which is heavier, the hammer or the beer?
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@zer0unplanned @anneapplebaum@journa.host If you read my post again you'll see that it very definitely does not take sides.
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@atax1a@infosec.exchange It is a fair point but I'm sure my client (standard Mastodon) can't do it.
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@lawfare@mastodon.social The US should send a couple of its floating nuclear plants to police the floating nuclear plants and stop the proliferation.
Or better still, destroy its floating nuclear plants.
Postscript: the above was admittedly a stupid, throw-away remark, and the attached article is actually nuanced and well written. Though it basically adds up to the same thing.