🆕 blog! “Is it rude to make a profit from your friends?”
You're in a restaurant with a group of friends. The waiter won't let you split the bill, so you offer to pay for it on your card and have your friends send you their share. How much would you charge them for that service? That sounds absurd, right? OK, you might agree to split the […]
@Edent the flipside to that is if you don't charge a profitable rate you maybe undercutting people who do need to make money from selling stuff. Who may also be your mates.
Heather Burns has an absolutely deft way of turning the sometimes-dull world of digital privacy into entertaining, informative, and actionable prose. Too many of these sorts of books end up being a list of woes and end with "someone should do something, I guess?". Understanding Privacy is different. A…
@Edent Yes. This is an excellent book. I specifically liked the contrasts between EU and US approaches. Must read for anybody doing anything with customer data.
Would anyone be interested in participating in thermal photography?
I was thinking of taking photos and videos of people & infrastructure. That sort of thing.
Everyone's favourite tabloid, The Daily Telegraph, contains an article decrying the Financial Independence Retire Early philosophy1 I have a mixed relationship with the FIRE movement. It basically boils down to "spend less, save more, then you can retire once you've save 25x your annual spend". That's it. As Michael Taylor writes, some people f…
Those of you who use #Matrix - should I be using the Android app Element, or Element X?
I just want text based comms in the #EMFCamp channel. I'm not fussed about anything else.
The Element website recommends Element. But their GitHub seems to recommend Element X. And, frankly, I don't understand why I'd want one over the other.
Everyone loves Dark Mode. It is kinder on the eyes, less energy intensive, and looks hecking cool. 5 seconds later We regret to inform you that Dark Mode causes security bugs. (With apologies to Ben Ward) OK, OK. This isn't a particularly severe security bug, but I found it interesting. The Matrix messaging app "Element" […]
@Edent Strange. An airline PNR is six alphanumeric characters - like 6GAX6S - which would be how I’d look for an airline flight detail. Although, it seems that they can often not contain any numbers at all, so it seems almost impossible to programmatically spot one.
The only other thing I could think of was - HDL (an airport code, but for Headland in Alabama, so unlikely); or WN21 being a flight (It is, flying Houston to Atlanta, but last flew in March).
@callum_snowden No worries. I've registered a cool number and look forward to spending a few hours debugging why the eSIM doesn't work with GrapheneOS 😆
@Edent hmmm I don’t still have a Google account but I believe in drive.Google.com you could click the actions icon next to the file and say make available offline. Or if you’re on Mac or PC use the sync client to get an actual copy locally
@Ric mate, I'm sorry to be a bit harsh, but there's no point you giving advice on something that you don't know about.
Sorry if this come across as mean - but literally the first line of my original post was specifically asking for experts.
I wasn't looking for well intentioned guesses.