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revk

@revk@toot.me.uk

Species 5618, Geek, techie, grandfather, software (mostly C), and hardware (mostly KiCad, and ESP32 based), IoT, IPv6, 3D printing, occasional [even parliamentary] expert, a bit tactless, Canon over Nikon, TNG over Kirk, Stargate fan. My hallway has a working ASR-33 (as old as me) and a suit of armour (modern). Oh, and I run an ISP, but these are my personal views and worth what you paid me for them. May contain nuts. Ordained atheist. Yes, RevK is a UK registered trade mark. Making 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 my home.

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localzuk, to UKpolitics
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Why would the nationalisation of Thames Water end up putting its debt on the public books? If a company goes bust, and the govt buys the remains, surely the investors simply lose their investment and the debt falls to zero?

They want water companies to operate as profit makers, so they should accept when they go bust too.

Ofwat poised to refuse most suppliers’ requests for big price rises | Water industry | The Guardian
https://amp.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/28/water-watchdog-suppliers-price-rises-ofwat-bills-thames-water

vesatimonen, to random
@vesatimonen@mathstodon.xyz avatar

Dissecting a mitre.

ysegrim,
@ysegrim@furry.engineer avatar

@vesatimonen I had to build it. @ColinTheMathmo @f4grx @FreeCAD

A FreeCAD sketch with many auxiliary lines and -circles and constraints constructing the four parts of the mitre
Photo of four 3D-printed parts, glowing green, put together in mitre shape
Photo of the same four 3D-printed parts, glowing green, put together in square shape

18+ revk, (edited ) to random
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At this point, I don't even question Labour policies. They will have a shit load that is bad or stupid, I am sure.

All politicians are problematic. But at this stage, after so many years of so much shit, I have to say "things can only get better".

And I say that as someone that is running a company, with many staff, and many taxes to pay, knowing I have to seriously consider tax changes that Labour may bring to my personal detriment.

The country needs change, any change!

18+ miblo,
@miblo@mas.to avatar

@revk Same, really. And I even think that a fair bit of the time and effort we'd spend going into the parties' policies generally is wasted anyway, while our votes get warped through the lens of FPTP, and not sampled more fairly with a system like STV.

jasongorman, to random
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It sometimes feels like the last 25 years of progress in software development has just been thinking up cool names for the things we were doing in the previous 25 years.

tess, to random
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Posting the Linux distro chooser in anyone's mentions gets you an instant block. It doesn't matter if the person was literally asking which Linux distro to use.

I will not be answering any further questions at this time.

danlyke, to random
@danlyke@researchbuzz.masto.host avatar

I mean, the numbers don't lie, but Google's AI summarization could probably use some context. https://www.flutterby.net/Image%3a2024-05-27HealthBenefitsOfEatingAss.png

ianbetteridge, to random
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Now about these options you're presenting me with...

revk, to random
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This bloody one touch switching stuff has taken me nearly a week now, annoying. But working out how it will impact the ordering process. Essentially it makes it worse! More steps, more info to provide. All to save someone ceasing some other type of service by themselves. But getting there.

What worries me is the ease of “slamming” and I gather we won’t be able to stop slamming from losing side any more, which is worrying.

interpipes,
@interpipes@thx.gg avatar

@revk I have said from the outset that the fix for this was Ofcom doing something that would actually help consumers like insist it is as easy to cancel broadband as it is to sign up (i.e. tell Virgin to stop being shithouses), and for bonus points the banning of anything over a 30 day term to get rid of 'introductory pricing' with loyalty penalties.

interpipes,
@interpipes@thx.gg avatar

@revk Make providers charge what they actually need to make a profit without gouging long term customers, and let people finance their own deals to cover any install costs or whatever can no longer be hidden in an amortisation however they see fit.

ahnlak,
@ahnlak@kavlak.uk avatar

@revk will there not be any mechanism for the consumer to say "don't allow a transfer without me saying ok" either?

I can understand doing something to stop troublesome providers blocking legitimate transfers, but as a consumer I'm rather in favour of locks to avoid said troublesome providers "accidentally" transferring me to them!

RejoinEU,
@RejoinEU@mastodon.online avatar

@interpipes @revk Virgin made quitting their broadband service a nightmare; no email channel of communication no acknowledgment of correspondence, then they served spurious invoices, then gave out my personal data (and that of my wife) to two successive aggressive "debt" agencies. I saw them off, but i'm a litigation solicitor. They are a stain on commerce.

ahnlak,
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@revk urgh. I mean it'll work I guess, but it feels like a most unpleasant hack to solve a problem that shouldn't exist.

My sympathies for having to work in such a daftly regulated industry!

ben,
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@interpipes @revk

I'm guessing the lack of protections in the OTS process is probably a symptom of that too - if you were to add a "don't switch" flag that the current provider needs to unset first, you run straight back into the Virgin Media problem.

The whole thing basically boils down to trying to solve people problems with software (which rarely works)

markx, to random
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bert_hubert, to random
@bert_hubert@fosstodon.org avatar

It didn’t work out but I appreciate the attention to detail over at the financial times:

drandrewv2, to random
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The thing that really fucks me off about this announcement is the undertone that “the problem with young people today” is they just don’t have sufficient ‘patriotic spirit’ to do these jobs for fuck all money when they’re faced with a lifetime of debt for the education I, and everyone older than me, had state funding for; shit pensions; late, if any, retirement; no chance of buying a house unless they have a rich benefactor…

Young people aren’t the problem. The system is.

considermycat,
@considermycat@eldritch.cafe avatar

@drandrewv2 Sentencing teenagers to 200 hours’ community service for the crime of being young, in order to build “social cohesion”, is an impressively “boring dystopia” idea for a dying government to burp out

Julie, to ai
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Wow. Yes.

mkarliner, to UKpolitics
@mkarliner@mastodon.modern-industry.com avatar

I would like to meet the person who advised Sunak that National Service would be a policy to win an election.
Quite apart from being a bad idea on many levels, I'm amazed at its stupidity as an election policy.

bazcurtis, to random
@bazcurtis@mastodon.social avatar

I have written up our heat pump planning permission journey here https://www.bazmac.me/blog/my-heat-pump-journey-with-octopus-energy-part-2-planning-permission

Installation date is the 22nd July.

@EarthOrgUK

#HeatPump #OctopusEnergy #Daikin #easthertfordshire

revk, to random
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You gotta think...

If a star ship keeps its "number" when a new one of the same name replaces it...

Like 1701 -> 1701-A, etc.

That means they created 1700 star ships not call "Enterprise" first (after "NX-01").

Why would they do that?

What was the massive lul in ships called "Enterprise" caused by?

ahnlak,
@ahnlak@kavlak.uk avatar

@revk maybe when they switched to the NCC classifications, the Federation was big enough that Earth got assigned the 17xx series to name, and other planets got other series.

(*) I suspect this theory wouldn't stand up to any trekkie with deep Federation history knowledge!

garicgymro, to random Welsh
@garicgymro@toot.wales avatar

Reminder to other UK citizens not living in the UK: It's easy and quick to register for an overseas vote and there's no longer any time limit! If you haven't done it yet, do it now and be part of the General Election in July!

https://www.gov.uk/voting-when-abroad

sewblue, to random
@sewblue@sfba.social avatar

win!

I just had a coworker seek me out because of my dyslexia. Asked for my special dyslexia powers. They were working on engineering concept that needed to be clear to construction workers for safety. Stuff that can kill you.

With my dyslexia, I make the same kind of interpretation mistakes the field often makes. I just don't have the working memory easily process (badly written/presented) written material, doing so by force of will rather than ease.

Through experience am able to diagnose and articulate where my working memory screws things up. Mainly by "how much am I needing to study to understand it."

Was able to quickly help them figure out what was wrong. This info here needs to be clarified so it isn't conflated with that info over there. This is the mistake people can make.

And poof, a plan to fix.

Always feels good when you know you may have prevented someone else's screw up that could have killed someone.

Neurodiversity for the win.

revk, to random
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Some StarTrek banter makes sense...

The constant "logging what you are doing" is something we do in the data centre, via irc, so we know what happened just before shit hit the fan, or we can but in and say "wait!".

But the captain having to say "deploy damage control teams", or "seal off that affected area", or "divert auxiliary power", makes zero sense...

Bugger, over thinking again.

🙂

penguin42,
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@revk It's obviously for legal backup in case of a court martial. 'So Captain, please explain how you lost another starship....well, I did everything by the book, sealed off the affected areas, deployed the damage control teams...'

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