allywilson
@allywilson@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on Thanks AT&T! 7 months ago:
It’s fairly important to keep is private for US citizens, see here.
- Comment on AI ‘apocalypse’ could take away almost 8m jobs in UK, says report 7 months ago:
Exactly. I keep hearing this “they’re taking our jobs” argument, and it’s been going on for a long time. The people saying this are not lookng at the stats of how many people are now employed compared to 10, 100 years ago. From the industrial revolution onwards, it’s been generally an upward trend.
- Comment on Alien: Romulus | Teaser Trailer | In Cinemas Aug 16 8 months ago:
this looks fairly generic to me. Alien killing humans in space. I don’t see what’s new? Admittedly watched it on phone on a bus.
- Comment on UK network operators ask govt to fend off attacks on fiber 8 months ago:
It’s the best characteristic of English, I think. It’s alive, it changes and we do very little to prevent that from happening (unlike French or German).
- Comment on Help @CountBinface@mastodon.world become Mayor of London. 10 months ago:
2024 Bindependence Day!
The hero we need
- Comment on It seems so simple 10 months ago:
The upside is you will age slower than the population.
Source: I watched Interstellar.
- Comment on Brexit Erased £140 Billion From UK Economy, London Mayor to Say 10 months ago:
…Surprise?
- Comment on UK government sets out plans for ‘biggest nuclear power expansion in 70 years’ 10 months ago:
No mention of Rolls Royce’s mini-reactors in there seems a bit suspect.
- Comment on All karma lost since v. 0.19 10 months ago:
There’s Karma on Lemmy?
- Comment on They now put ads in cigarettes 11 months ago:
They’re advertising alt-cigarette products, right? Probably from their parent companies alt subsidiary.
I vaguely remember in the '90s they used to have slips like that in the UK. Can’t remember if it was advertising or things like “Collect 100 of these tokens, get a 20 pack for free!”
- Comment on Restaurant Bill 1 year ago:
In the UK we tend not to tip if there’s a service charge.
- Comment on Please help me find/place a quote from Aleister Crowley 1 year ago:
Bard to the rescue
- Comment on Do any ATMs in Belgium support balance inquiries? 1 year ago:
That’s unexpected.
I’ve never thought about it before. In the UK getting your balance is on every ATM. The ATMs are all different makes and models, interfaces, OSes, different banks, etc. the only thing I can think of that is the same is they are all connected to LINK - maybe they have set standards for what they should all have/have not?
Anti-feature: you must enter your PIN before it shows you the menu. Does that mean it connects to my bank even in the absense of a transaction?
This is the same in the UK. They request your PIN immediately after putting in your card (althogh I think if you use a credit card it will prompt for your language first), but it doesn’t use it until it needs to connect to your bank (I know this after knowingly mistakenly putting in my PIN, then attempting to get my balance or something and then the card is ejected and the message about incorrect PIN appears).
- Comment on I created an image using AI. Not sure what this style is called, an I want to know the type of this drawing 1 year ago:
“I created” is a bit of a stretch haha
Pop-art, neo-noir styles are probably closest.
- Comment on How would I start as a database consultant for a niche software? 1 year ago:
Do I just need to start cold calling companies that based on their name “might” have this software as well, and explain my case?
So, as someone who works for an MSP that specializes in a certain vendors products, it’s maybe worth checking out the websites of who may be your competitors. They love to put their clients names on their websites. This should help you at least start building a list of companies to target (LinkedIn is heavily used by sales peoples these days).
- Comment on JK Rowling prefers two years in jail over using correct pronouns 1 year ago:
For a gender that less than 0.5% of the population identifies as (Wiki numbers, 355 people out of 100,000), we sure do argue about this a lot, don’t we?
- Comment on lemmy.ml 1 year ago:
I…I don’t think that’s a “now” thing, unfortunately.
- Comment on Do any languages have words for left & right that start with the same letter? 1 year ago:
Chinese I think?
Left - Zuǒbiān Right - zhèngquè de
Not sure if that counts, considering it’s using the Latin alphabet and the language is tonal, etc.
- Comment on I have an apartment where the dumpster is a car's drive away, and taking trash down involves 4 staircases. What is the best way to ameliorate this situation? 1 year ago:
suggest a maid service to the office that add be added to your rent a la carte
I apologise, it wasn’t meant to be hostile, more mocking/pointing out the bad english. I’m sorry.
- Comment on I have an apartment where the dumpster is a car's drive away, and taking trash down involves 4 staircases. What is the best way to ameliorate this situation? 1 year ago:
Is the dumpster within line of sight? If so, zip line.
- Comment on I have an apartment where the dumpster is a car's drive away, and taking trash down involves 4 staircases. What is the best way to ameliorate this situation? 1 year ago:
Are you having a stroke? Should I call someone?
- Comment on Germany refuses to extradite man to UK over concerns about British jail conditions 1 year ago:
I mean, this is one way to ensure a known drug trafficker can continue to be free, away from the UK and not cost UK tax payers money, right? Silver linings and all that /s
- Comment on Every single rising post on Reddit is crypto spam 1 year ago:
Never heard of it before either, but here’s an article on it
- Comment on Should Lucy Letby have been allowed to miss her sentencing? 1 year ago:
Forcing them to attend the sentencing, especially in cases like this, would not be in their interest at all, only in the interest of punishment and the victims families would this be a benefit.
See I think this is a bit dangerous to the victims families. This is a murderer, going away for their entire life. She has literally nothing to lose at this point. She could have hurled abuse at the victims. At the judge. Screamed incoherently. Self harmed. Attempted to harm others. There is no further punishment that we as a society could inflict upon her.
- Comment on When Y2K happened were there people burning their passports and walking barefoot to Jerusalem or something along those lines? 1 year ago:
I vageuly remember people kept on going on about planes falling out of the sky. “Welp, it’s 1900 now, guess I need to ignore all input and nose dive.”
- Comment on What's the difference between communism and socialism? 1 year ago:
Please explain any reearch you have performed before posting such a short and grossly generalised qustion.