christophski
@christophski@feddit.uk
- Comment on World Conker Championships men's winner cleared of cheating | UK News 4 weeks ago:
Why on earth is it segregated by gender…
- Submitted 3 months ago to selfhosting@slrpnk.net | 2 comments
- Comment on what is with child names like Aiden, Braiden etc? 3 months ago:
But those are just names that already existed? I thought you meant like taking a name like Simon and making it Simonlin or Adam to Adamlin
- Comment on what is with child names like Aiden, Braiden etc? 3 months ago:
Never heard of this, what are some examples? Maybe caitlin?
- Comment on The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins 3 months ago:
It is literally a zip file. If I remember correctly you have to write some xml which describes the layout of the skin and then include any images you need, you then zip it and change the file extension to wsz. So really you could put anything in a skin.
- Comment on Apple Decides to Block Open-Source Emulator App for iOS 5 months ago:
Apple’s constant anti-interoperability stance is the core reason I do not and will not own their products
- Comment on The problem with GIMP 5 months ago:
Yeah, every install comes with a hit of DMT
- Comment on The problem with GIMP 5 months ago:
NDE available in the next version daviesmediadesign.com/gimp-3-0-update-non-destruc…
- Comment on Is lemmy now what reddit used to be 10+ years ago? 5 months ago:
Same here, my reddit account is 15 years old
- Comment on Rishi Sunak announces 4 July general election 5 months ago:
Get labour in then protest their most right wing views
- Comment on Lots of times the restaurants won't even have milk 5 months ago:
Like milksteak?
- Comment on Count Binface Celebrates beating Britain First 6 months ago:
Satirical candidate that pretends to be from outer space beat a racist party in the London Mayor election
- Comment on Not just mums go to Iceland: supermarket drops slogan to be more inclusive 6 months ago:
I’m shocked they were still using it, I’d assumed it was long gone
- Comment on what the heck is a pensioner in the UK and why are they the butt of so many jokes ? 6 months ago:
Somebody that has retired and is living off their pension: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pension
- Comment on Cuts the size of BBC Two's budget needed after licence fee squeeze, says insider 11 months ago:
The public is never the one calling for privatisation, the government do that
- Comment on Why do people want games that are just stories without any gameplay, these days? Why not just watch a movie for that? 11 months ago:
I wasn’t aware of this, what games are you referring to?
- Comment on Amazon shows ‘contempt’ for UK law over parcel thefts 11 months ago:
At this point, it’s pretty clear that leaving packages on the doorstep and hoping they don’t get stolen is part of the current business model for couriers. Cheaper to do that than to retry delivery the next day.
I’ve had two packages stolen in the past month. Jokes on them, unless they really did want a chef hat and some paper gift bags.
- Comment on Gimp banned from wearing a gimp suit in public and 'crawling, wriggling or writhing on the ground' for five years 1 year ago:
I wonder what leads you to the place in your life where this is what you want to do
- Comment on Sikh 'barred from Birmingham jury service' for religious sword 1 year ago:
This would have been around 2008 for me, secondary school
- Comment on Sikh 'barred from Birmingham jury service' for religious sword 1 year ago:
We are definitely made aware of it in school, though not in-depth
- Comment on Are there any people who hates music? 1 year ago:
Haha we used to do the balloon thing at raves
- Comment on Thames Water: Is this the worst company in Britain? 1 year ago:
Maybe networks that have a natural monopoly should be in the hands of the public
- Comment on Hot take: Users without a profile pick are mildlyinfuriating 1 year ago:
I don’t really want to show my personality, I want to be faceless
- Comment on I'm aware of kbin, mastodon, and lemmy. Are there any other federated applications out there? 1 year ago:
Is there interoperability between pixel fed and lemmy at all? I’m so sick of Instagram, this piques my interest
- Comment on What is the current "favorite" show? 1 year ago:
Rewatching stargate and it’s just as good as I remember
- Comment on BBC Launches A Mastodon Instance 1 year ago:
Bbc R&D is very cool, their blog is a great read and doing some very impressive work
- Comment on I just subscribed to Lifehacker a few days ago, and now I've unsubscribed. The articles are nothing but tech product-shilling, non-stop. Mostly Samsung and Apple. 1 year ago:
Lifehacker got me into everything tech 15 years ago. It is nothing like it used to be, it’s very sad.