ukplissken

ukplissken, 3 days ago to UKpolitics

Can always retrain in cyber.

#ukpolitics #ge2024

ukplissken, 3 days ago to UKpolitics

UK #election latest

#ukpolitics #politics

ukplissken, 17 days ago to UKpolitics

“If you don’t vote for Labour, the Tories will get in”
“Mate. You’ve literally just welcomed with open arms a member of the ERG.”

#ukpolitics

ukplissken, 5 months ago to random

There is a lot of good things on Substack and the chart covering "This Week in the 90s" is one of the best of them.

https://open.substack.com/pub/thisweekinthe90s/p/dont-look-any-further-m-people?r=nyqy9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

#TOTP

ukplissken, 6 months ago to premierleague

Since June 2020, #Burnley have played 51 home games in the #PremierLeague. They've won 10 of them.

As a Season Ticket holder who can't make every game this means that in those 2 1/2 years, I've seen them win a game at home... twice.

#football #MastodonFC

ukplissken, 6 months ago to random

The thing about #Braverman is I often wonder just how much she actually believes the fascist stuff as far as it is a useful tool to get where she wants, which is Prime Minister and what she enjoys, which is arranging for people she doesn't like to get the shit kicked out of them.

Because she really wants to be Prime Minister and she really hates lots of types of people.

ChinnyVision, 7 months ago to random

Perhaps I'm not on social media to build brand awareness and promote myself. Perhaps I'm on here to lark about and thus wish to lark about where my chums are.

ukplissken, 7 months ago to random

I come back to this every so often. You know when you are watching something and you don’t know the intricacies of how it is done but you instinctively know that you are watching an absolute master at work?

Watching Jonathan “Sugarfoot” Moffat playing “Smooth Criminal” on the drums is absolutely astonishing.

https://youtu.be/bRM2Gn9nU7Q?si=PLb3n9sl8RKg_7n1

losttourist, 8 months ago to random

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danieldurrans, 8 months ago to random

Shit shit shit. I'm sorry everyone who works in IT...

My wife, Emma, just asked me how to fix something on her computer. While trying to fix her computer I googled the problem and left the answer page on screen.

She just called me out for 'googling the answer’.

I feel like I have broken some sort of masonic secret.

craiggrannell, 8 months ago to random

YouTube is starting to get this too. I was watching a video about something something space. Within 10s, it felt like something was off with the voice. Within a minute, it was clear the edit, script and voice had been automated to a huge degree at best. The title was the only good bit.

From: @marcpalmer
https://iosdev.space/@marcpalmer/111040402265850707

mharleydev, 8 months ago to infosec

I'm a #SharePoint and #PowerPlatform developer. We often send email notifications saying "hey, there's a new thing that needs your attention. click here to respond." The link takes them a #PowerApps form or a #PowerAutomate flow approval.

It occurs to me perhaps this isn't a good practice from an #infosec perspective. Many of the phishing email test that we're supposed to pass follow this exact pattern.

Is there a better way to send these notifications?

craiggrannell, 8 months ago to random

A quick slice of catharsis:

iCloud sucks and it really shouldn’t • https://reverttosaved.com/2023/08/26/icloud-sucks-and-it-really-shouldnt/

craiggrannell, 9 months ago to random

X is going to do [thing] and so users are going to flood to [alternative].

Yet it never happens. X is a slow drip now. But maybe half the accounts I enjoyed following, including a disproportionate amount of major ones, still use it as their primary platform. I’m not sure at this point what, if anything, is going to change that. Nor if anything even can.

Garwboy, 9 months ago to random

I am informed that it is #InternationalCatDay

So, for your enjoyment/distraction/amusement, here is a thread of highlights of the adventures of my own cat, #pickle

For those of you unfamiliar with Pickle... strap in.

/1

craiggrannell, 9 months ago to random

We have whatever the opposite of green fingers are, but we try. We have explosive rhubarb in a pot we never tend. And we try to grow salad. This year’s weather made the tomato crop rather sad. And we tried cucumbers again. Our best to date had been a thumb-sized specimen. This year, I spotted something almost as thick as my forearm. That was from our plant. Biggest cucumber I’ve ever seen. Natch, we just got that one. Still, good effort, cucumber plant!

craiggrannell, 9 months ago to c64

#DailyRetroGame 171: International Soccer (1983)

Before SWOS – and even Match Day – there was International Soccer. Two teams of chunky players seemingly made from Lego clashed in front of a crowd that hissed white noise when you scored. The goalies were rubbish. A bug (intentionally left in) meant you could sometimes head the ball half the length of the pitch. And yet this was the first time footie felt fun on a home micro.

Play it on: #C64

Gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-iLlgmZpT4

#retrogaming

arstechnica, 9 months ago to random

Tesla exaggerated EV range so much that drivers thought cars were broken

Inundated with complaints, Tesla created "Diversion Team" to cancel appointments.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/tesla-exaggerated-ev-range-so-much-that-drivers-thought-cars-were-broken/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

craiggrannell, 10 months ago to InitialD

#DailyRetroGame 163: Power Drift (1988)

Years before Mario & chums scooted about in karts, Sega had a bunch of rough and ready folks battle on circuits that were more like rollercoasters, gesticulating as they passed rivals. The arcade-original was eye-popping. The conversions were a case study in smartly bringing across the feel of the original (C64, CPC) or unwisely attempting to replicate it (Speccy, 16-bits).

Play it on: #arcade, #C64, #CPC

Gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ngUCwEVtlI&t=1s

#retrogaming

llamasoft_ox, 10 months ago to random

I think I made an error whilst rescuing a cup of tea Giles had been making but abandoned.

I think he puts in one sugar at the same time as the teabag, which is of course heathen. Sugar, if taken, is not put in until after the teabag is removed. At or around the time of correct milk insertion.

In rescuing the tea I did the proper British thing of putting in the sugar when it ought to go in, meaning I ended up with a cup of tea with TWO sugars in, which is far too sweet.

arstechnica, 10 months ago to random

Meta blocking VPN access to Threads in EU

Move comes as Meta tries to avoid violating privacy laws.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/meta-blocking-vpn-access-to-threads-in-eu/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

glennpegden, 10 months ago to twitter

As somebody who has been at the sharp end of DDoSs/Service-impacting-traffic-levels (and scrapers come to that) for years, from single servers to massive enterprises, the #Twitter limit doesn't feel like ...

• An intentional choice (nobody sane thinks that)
• A response to an army of scrapers (Elmo's claim)
• A response to a DDoS

It smells very much like a just-keep-it-running solution whilst they investigate/fix an internal self-DoS issue. Something in their own stack, a race condition or mis-config or something that causes "something" to fall over when run at a scale massively below what it's designed to.

If you can't find the blockage in the pipe that's causing it to rupture, you start by limiting the amount going into in, to limit the damage from each rapture, until you find that blockage.

Elmo will continue blame the scrapers though as it makes him the victim not the cause