trechnex

trechnex, 2 days ago

@RickiTarr they should have kindness, empathy, and patience for the people around them, but zero tolerance for bigots and neo-Nazis.

trechnex, 5 days ago

@nixCraft because technically you can use any modern spreadsheet program to perform the same functions as a personal database (eg. filtering tables, generating reports, organising data, searching for records, etc)

It's a good thing that people don't have to learn Microsoft Access or LibreOffice Base to do that imho. 🙂

This idea that using spreadsheets as a database is a "noob" thing to do probably should have went away about 10-15 years ago.

trechnex, 9 days ago

@RickiTarr then you go to somewhere that does do things differently, and they do something ridiculous like putting your steak in a mason jar and giving you a ladle to eat it with.

trechnex, 14 days ago

@craiggrannell @bardi personally I’m hoping it turns out to be a “hoisted by own petard” moment for the Tories, where a large contingent of their voters who routinely ignore government advice and flip their lid about mild inconveniences also forget their photo ID, and are so aggrieved by the experience that they never vote for the Tories again.

trechnex, 15 days ago

@quixoticgeek @cstross I was kind of amused when they asked "should we pay for a CDN?" Err... if you run a high traffic website that uses a lot of images & JavaScript, yes! Why are you still on Cloudflare's free plan?!

trechnex, 15 days ago

@fkamiah17 I’m guessing that Arron Banks decided to break his chequebook out again? 😂

trechnex, 18 days ago

@fkamiah17 @MadeyeTheCarnaptious I raised an eyebrow at that as well.

There’s been more than a few newspaper articles with him “looking concerned”, and one newspaper made him look like he was shakily taking a drink of water to calm his nerves, when he was probably just taking a sip at an earlier press conference. 😂

They did something similar to Penny Mordaunt when she tried to replace Boris Johnson as Prime Minister. Every photo was in a swim suit or had a really weird facial expression.

trechnex, 18 days ago

@MadeyeTheCarnaptious @fkamiah17 It might have been the BBC! Annoyingly I couldn't remember which news outlet it was. See the placeholder image for this video. 👀

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-scotland-68921855

trechnex, 21 days ago

@chris When I used to run Ubuntu, I also waited until the .1 release in July before making the jump from one LTS to another. 🙂

trechnex, 21 days ago

@RickiTarr tbh there's probably zero chance that anybody's pronouncing the Old English correctly because those sentences are probably a rough approximation of what used to be a runic alphabet with letters that made entirely different noises.

Just look at this original copy of Beowulf, which was apparently written around the year 1000. It's completely illegible! 😂

https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2013/02/beowulf-online.html

trechnex, 25 days ago

@BasicAppleGuy I think it's fair to say my six month old case is not holding up that well. 😂

If I had to describe its present condition, I'd say that it looks like a cat had a fight with it.

trechnex, 28 days ago

@girlonthenet at this point it’d probably just be “Three Blind Mice”, but that still counts!

trechnex, 28 days ago

@fkamiah17 WTF 🤣

Advisors: “Mr President Sir, we need to build ties in the Asia-Pacific. Try to build friendships in your next speech.”

Biden: “Roger that, I’ve got a great ice breaking story that my pop pop told me about Uncle Bosie getting eaten by cannibals in Papua New Guinea!”

Advisors: “Please don’t say that when you visit the area. That probably isn’t true & it’ll offend the locals.”

Biden: “Too late! The train has left the station. Don’t worry, it’ll crack them all up!”

Advisors: 🤦🏻‍♂️

trechnex, 29 days ago

@aral @kissane their other "fun" trick, if the project hasn't produced a first release yet, is spreading false allegations of impropriety. That spooks contributors & makes people fear for their jobs, so they end up closing all the donation portals!

One of the understated benefits of Open Collective is that it's handled by a trusted legal source & publishes everything publicly in real time. That eliminates trust as an issue.

Funnily enough, right-leaning white guys are just implicitly trusted.

trechnex, 1 month ago

@onepict and there's the crushing realisation that this is technically the first EU elections in which the UK won't participate. 😭

trechnex, 1 month ago

@fkamiah17 @MadeyeTheCarnaptious technically no. Requiring a vote before action not related to self-defence is a convention that started with David Cameron, who had to climb down after losing a vote about creating a no-fly zone over Syria during the Arab spring.

Before that the government just declared war with privy council powers, briefed the opposition, then made a statement in parliament.

That’s how Tony Blair managed to declare war on Iraq despite massive opposition at the time.

trechnex, 1 month ago

@fkamiah17 @MadeyeTheCarnaptious yeah, having looked it up you’re right. Iraq war was actually the first example in modern times of UK government seeking parliamentary approval beforehand.

I think my view of it is coloured by the fact it was later found to be based on a faulty premise, and I was very much against it at the time. So I wrongly assumed that Blair must have forced through his illegal war. 😂

trechnex, 1 month ago

@baldur I’d go one further and suggest making hard copies of photos, music, and video that it would hurt to lose.

All it takes is one bad sync or transfer to a new machine without you noticing and that file is gone forever.

trechnex, 1 month ago

@RickiTarr I was told to never show my thumbs to a horse, because they might think they're carrots and try to eat them.

In fairness, that was a good one. 😂

trechnex, 1 month ago

...and here's the reason why they were doing it: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/08/mps-propose-decriminalising-abortion-up-to-24-weeks-england-wales-stella-creasy

In summary, abortion is currently illegal in England & Wales unless the pregnancy is less than 24 weeks and two doctors agree that it should proceed. In practice, GPs normally wave it through unless there's a really compelling medical reason not to.

Two proposals are going to a free vote in parliament. One fully decriminalises abortions up to 24 weeks, and the other removes the criminal offence entirely.

trechnex, 1 month ago

@mina I'm not particularly clued up on this, but from what I understand there are certain medical tests that can't be performed to check the viability of a foetus until ~20 weeks.

So theoretically if the limit was smaller than that would mean more stillbirths and medical complications for the mother.

Apparently the limit used to be 28 weeks, but it was reduced in the early '90s.