sunbeam60
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- Comment on Transport secretary considers ban on floating bus stops in UK cycle lanes 1 week ago:
Yes, let’s make that thing that WORKS in every other country illegal. British laws for British people!!
- Comment on No more 12345: devices with weak passwords to be banned in UK 2 weeks ago:
Banking security is so bloody awful it’s insane. I just want a passkey.
- Comment on No more 12345: devices with weak passwords to be banned in UK 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. I’m sure the Chinese manufacturers will get on to this right after faking the CE markings. Any second now…
- Comment on Adult transgender clinics in England face inquiry into patient care 5 weeks ago:
Why is it a show trial of a study? In the article it seems Mermaids is supportive of the study.
- Comment on Low tech DHCP 1 month ago:
Yeah it has. The demo aspect became smaller and smaller and with the advent of internet penetration even the copy side of it dissipated. It wasn’t the same at the end tbh
Still, fond memories of coding, sleeping under the tables, eating junk.
- Comment on Low tech DHCP 1 month ago:
Same as The Party in Aars, Denmark, in the 90s. Every table had a sheet. Cross out the IP you picked.
- Comment on You Can Now Follow President Biden on the Fediverse 1 month ago:
I would agree with your suspicion but it’s got to be said that their public statements are pretty clear: It is coming.
- Comment on You Can Now Follow President Biden on the Fediverse 1 month ago:
Yeah they should have run their own Mastodon server but I can understand they want to reach the Threads audience and until there’s two-way sync Threads it is.
- Comment on You Can Now Follow President Biden on the Fediverse 1 month ago:
I know. My point remains the same.
- Comment on You Can Now Follow President Biden on the Fediverse 1 month ago:
Groan. I’m on a mastodon server and a full believer in the free market. Can we not force this left/right conjecture onto server choice too, please?
- Comment on Jump Ship Plays Like a Mix of Sea of Thieves, Left 4 Dead, and FTL 1 month ago:
It might have started a 4/10. By now, it’s touching 10/10 IMHO. But of course you have to like the kind of game it is.
- Comment on 3 days 🤯 1 month ago:
Don’t be a downer man! Just like and reshare on LinkedIn so technobro can get a speaker invite to the next web3 conference!
- Comment on Britain risks becoming dumping ground for ‘slave labour’ solar panels, UK official warns 1 month ago:
Ah right, then it’s ok then.
- Comment on Not buying a shaver from Philips again.. 1 month ago:
They all do this. Every time.
I’ll await the EU enforcing USB-C here too.
- Comment on tesco and sainsburys hit with technical issues 1 month ago:
Yes, the thing that tallies up how much cash should be left in the till, operated by people on minimum wage, has been coded by the CEO’s nephew. Sure.
- Comment on Are We Watching The Internet Die? 2 months ago:
Well this is what I mean. In the olden days, this would be custom traffic on a custom port. Nowadays it just uses web HTTPS REST calls as API.
- Comment on Are We Watching The Internet Die? 2 months ago:
Yes agreed. I suspect it will collapse to “non-time critical traffic will run on HTTPS” and “everything else will run on UDP, using their own ports”, except for maybe a couple of golden oldies like NTP, FTP, SMTP/POP/IMAP.
- Comment on Are We Watching The Internet Die? 2 months ago:
Lemmies unite!
- Comment on Are We Watching The Internet Die? 2 months ago:
Not sure if a serious question. So forgive me if your question was meant to be a statement.
The internet is a large set of computers connected via two protocols: IP and TCP.
There’s 65000-ish ports (channels) available on the internet.
The web runs on port 80 and 443.
The internet supports all sorts of other traffic too: Time synchronisation, games, file transfer, e-mail, remote login, remote desktops etc. None of these run on the web, but is traffic that runs in parallel to the web.
The distinction is getting blurrier as lots of traffic that used to be assigned (or simple chose) its own port number is now encapsulated in HTTP(s) traffic. But the distinction is definitely not gone.
- Comment on Gen Z is bringing back landline phones because they think they look ‘cool’: ‘I love to twirl the cord’ 2 months ago:
My wife insists on us having a landline. She doesn’t know she’s running a SIP phone over the internet connected to a SIP trunk that has a local area number. She’s happy. I get to kill our landline.
- Comment on Record one in five NHS staff in England are non-UK nationals, figures show 2 months ago:
We send 300 million to the EU … oh wait!
- Comment on More than 11 million Britons have less than £1,000 in savings 2 months ago:
You’re not asking for advise and it’s a lot easier to manage a budget when you’re not living hand-to-mouth (been there myself), but I really can recommend something like YNAB. It made a WORLD of difference for our family.
- Comment on UK state pension age will soon need to rise to 71, say experts 3 months ago:
I love how the powers that be are like “this is a hard problem”. No it fucking ain’t. Look east, towards Denmark; one of the strongest, wealthiest societies on the planet, literally running a state surplus every year, with the happiest citizens on the planet.
Just do what Denmark does. Copy-paste.
- Comment on Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85 3 months ago:
What I also love about NTP is that its port (123) is open both ways on most networks, even the most locked down ones, so it’s a good place to hide VPN traffic.
- Comment on Stonehenge campaigners’ last-chance bid to save site from road tunnel 5 months ago:
With great respect that’s not how works happen in archaeologically sensitive areas. There’ll be a full search done ahead of earth works.
- Comment on Stonehenge campaigners’ last-chance bid to save site from road tunnel 5 months ago:
And you expect them to carry on digging if they find invaluable archeological artefacts?
- Comment on Stonehenge campaigners’ last-chance bid to save site from road tunnel 5 months ago:
Have you read the plans? Have you visited Stonehenge? Have you driven along the road?
This will be a genuine improvement for everyone as far as I can see.
- Comment on Stonehenge campaigners’ last-chance bid to save site from road tunnel 5 months ago:
I have to drive along this road from time to time. I’ve never experienced it moving smoothly. Partly there is also a slow down simply because people can see the site so there’s a fair amount of rubbernecking going on.
I’ve read the complaints against the tunnel and I still don’t really understand why people resist it.
It will mean that visiting Stonehenge will actually be a tranquil experience - at the minute all you can hear on the site itself is cars. In my understanding it will restore the site, not scar it. I really truly cannot understand why you wouldn’t go through with this.
And now, having said how I think it will benefit the site, let me just touch on the traffic issue. Traffic is APPALLING on the road - it’s the only artery moving people from South East to South West so it clogs up completely. It’s in DIRE need of improvement - and if that’s high quality public transport then fine too; but given how complicated HS2 has turned out I suspect roads or a ban on moving west SE to SW is the only two options we have.
- Comment on How's everyone's pets doing tonight? 6 months ago:
Our cat couldn’t give two shits. If it’s not running away from him, edible or stroking his belly he doesn’t care.
- Comment on Demand to reverse Brexit hits ‘highest ever level’ 6 months ago:
FPTP is exactly as dumb as the US election system, because it’s the same thing the US has.