MonsterMonster
@MonsterMonster@lemmy.world
- Comment on UK government announces tender for live facial recognition technology 2 weeks ago:
There was a time, not long ago, that this type of sensitive contract would have been awarded to China.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 5 comments
- Comment on UK needs cyber security professionals, but won't pay up 1 month ago:
There seems to be a race to the bottom when it comes to pay across all industries. These are wages from almost 30 years ago for a middle level IT person. In 1994 a typical high end IT manager for a national corporation was around £70k+.
- Comment on Water bills set to rise by more than expected 1 month ago:
Here’s a reminder of what the water companies have been doing to get into this mess.
- Submitted 1 month ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 10 comments
- Comment on Harvest in England the second worst on record because of wet weather 2 months ago:
It’ll be interesting to know the level of impact of turning arable land over to solar farms.
- Comment on Chancellor Rachel Reeves says she needs to raise £20bn. How might she do it? 2 months ago:
The clue might be France.
Closing corporate tax loop holes will help a fair bit.
- Submitted 2 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 1 comment
- Comment on Nationwide to launch mortgages at six times' income for first-time buyers 2 months ago:
It’s a shame wages weren’t keeping pace.
- Submitted 2 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 8 comments
- Comment on Internet replaces TV as UK’s most popular news source for first time 3 months ago:
It’s very rare that we watch broadcast TV or record anything to a PVR. It’s all streaming on Netflix/Amazon to TV or on my phone. Haven’t watched TV in the conventional sense for some years now.
- Submitted 3 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 3 comments
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- Comment on Fish and chips price rise tops UK takeaways 3 months ago:
Chip shops will go the same way as pubs.
- Submitted 3 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 15 comments
- Comment on Mike Lynch's co-defendant in US trial dies in UK road accident, lawyer says 3 months ago:
I think this story will be around for a while.
- Comment on Britain’s nuclear submarine software built by Belarusian engineers 4 months ago:
Mmm Gerhard Schroeder and Russia rings a bell …
Why Gerhard Schröder won’t unfriend Vladimir Putin.
Putin’s pal Gerhard Schröder won’t be kicked out of Germany’s Social Democrats
- Comment on Britain’s nuclear submarine software built by Belarusian engineers 4 months ago:
You couldn’t make this stuff up.
- Comment on 'Lightning speed' broadband for rural areas 4 months ago:
I’ve heard these grandiose announcements over the last 15 years where it is already known that rural areas have rubbish broadband. Plans were announced, huge amounts of money were given to telcos , usually BT, and nothing happens in the rural areas but towns and cities get super fast fibre.
The telcos do not want to upgrade Comms infrastructure in rural areas as they are invariably sparsely populated so the profits don’t exist. But they’re happy to take the tax-payers money though.
With the onset of mobile phones, wired/fibre solutions become increasingly expensive and less likely in such areas and we’re still waiting for a decent signal.
And so it goes on.
- Submitted 4 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 3 comments
- Comment on Two in five not saving enough in pension for even basic retirement 4 months ago:
This shouldn’t come as any surprise as many people can’t afford basic day to day living costs because of low wages and reduced employee security.
- Comment on Two in five not saving enough in pension for even basic retirement 4 months ago:
An investment savings fund built up over ones working life to provide an income in retirement.
- Comment on Ofcom to ban inflation-linked mid-contract price rises on phones, pay-TV and broadband 5 months ago:
I took things into my own hands. Once my 12 months SIM only contract was up almost two years ago I moved over to a rolling 30-day. I will not go back to the big players on anything more than 30 days. Fuck the greedy bastards.
- Comment on Water bills set to rise by between X and X 5 months ago:
Mmm earlier it said £94, the extracted body text said “X to X” and now it’s £19.
- Submitted 5 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 8 comments
- Comment on Carnival of Self-Harm 6 months ago:
Definitely needs a TL;DR.
- Comment on What will Royal Mail’s takeover mean for customers and postal workers? 6 months ago:
We’re only now feeling the effects of the water privatisation of a few decades ago along with the selling off of the council houses.
- Comment on Conservatives plan to bring back mandatory National Service 6 months ago:
Yes you certainly have.
For clarity, I have not stated any excuse whatsoever, certainly not for Tories, but rather a reflection on where we are at present, where we could possibly be in the future and what has happened previously.
- Comment on Conservatives plan to bring back mandatory National Service 6 months ago:
The realistic prospect of an armed conflict with Russia is what has changed.
Whether we cannot afford it is irrelevant, we may have no choice. We couldn’t afford it in 1939 and it wasn’t long ago that we’d only finished paying for our WW2 debts.
Unless something drastic happens that Putin comes to his senses we are in most likelihood heading for very dark times.
We’re not the only country considering a return to National Service/Conscription.
- Comment on Does anyone else find that 4G+ on O2 is awful? 7 months ago:
I found them to be total rubbish in my area and was tied in for 12 months. But someone else in another area will find them brilliant. The only provider that I found having the best decent consistency was EE. But I refuse to go into a 12month+ contract with these new rip off mid term price increases.