I feel so stupid now. I can’t believe I ever thought a good way to save on costs was to not pay executives millions of pounds in wages and bonuses every quarter. Now I realise it’s better to lower wages/hours for minimum wage staff on zero hour contracts or lay them off.
It’s not just the Tories, Keir Starmer has already tried to get VPN’s included in the bill. Don’t kid yourself its going to be any better when Labour get in.
No doubt, but he’s very likely going to be the next PM. Even if the current proposed legislation doesn’t get through the Lords or get scrapped or not implemented before the Tories get booted out, he clearly sees this sort of bill as a good thing and will introduce his own.
I guess whoever is up earliest on a Thursday gets to make it, and isn’t being up really early cause enough for complaint in itself? Hmm, this is far too deep philosophy for so early in the morning....
What’s boiling my piss today is a bit nerdy, so apologies up front.
Why do 3rd party providers only make their scripts available via bloody iframes??? Honestly Stripe, I now can’t style or access the DOM for any part of the card fields!
It gets worse - Stripe seem to have replaced their front line support staff with a irritatingly upbeat AI. It’s clearly a cheap knock-off as the ‘I’ part of it is lacking…
Are people outraged just to be outraged or are they outraged because they don't understand?
I’m going to come to the conclusion that people are simply uneducated. Simply based on the responses I’ve already gotten....
The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide (www.eff.org)
Git repository storage/forge recommendations?
Looking into possibly replacing my GitLab instance, as I find it bloated and heavy on both hardware and maintenance compared to alternatives....
My turn for the Thursday complaints thread!
I guess whoever is up earliest on a Thursday gets to make it, and isn’t being up really early cause enough for complaint in itself? Hmm, this is far too deep philosophy for so early in the morning....