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Update on my encounter with credit card fraud involving John Lewis & Partners (trigger warning: long) 18 July — I received a notification that something was bought using my card. I called AmEx. AmEx said best check with John Lewis first. I called John Lewis. Lady said manager is

So the lightest hearted interpretation is that a generation at their horniest time in life now expecting to be cockblocked for 2 years will vote and somehow the same people think it will yield a positive result for them

I may be imagining things, but when Snowden alerted everybody to the existence to PRISM we knew that they knew who we were and what we were doing already. It was an old school & more gentle type of surveillance “For Queen and Country” or whatever. Now it is all just in your face.

I have this book & am using it to hold the Roomba down on the dock so it would charge properly. Flippancy aside, it is not a bad book, but it is quite long.

Meetup funsies Dude: “Hey are you a dev” Me: “Yeah sometimes”

When I was young & a proper misanthrope, I used to think the Swiss citizenship approval process involving your neighbours’ approval was an overstep My thinking has now changed on this matter b/c if you can’t get a few local dudes to vouch for you, that may imply further problems

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Postgres 18 is bringing a major performance improvement: async io. This uses the Linux io_uring interface to make table scans, bitmap heap scans, and VACUUM operations leverage async io, greatly speeding up these operations. pganalyse has a great article on this (link below)

The plot of Watch Dogs 3 seems quite tame now in retrospect

Blursed

American tech companies: Little tech is about to call Europe and the UK's bluff on global censorship and content regulation. If we all do it at once, together, Europe's bullshit is over. Done. Forever. It's now or never.

Deus Ex strategy. Why contain it

Having to suffer age verification to use the Nvidia app is like a third order problem because your driver would have come via Windows Update already or you just go and get the driver yourself and install it. The app isn’t necessary. The Profile Inspector is a more important app

Currently in a shop where they discount everything by 50% during the last 30 mins so everybody queued up with their product but nobody is checking out. Incentives etc

Waiting for the scenario where they conclude that the black hole is too large and every week there is a new weather balloon released to check they can’t raise X tax so they QE again

NASA putting a nuclear setup on the moon sounds like what I have to do in Factorio when expanding to a new planet. I load up a 4-reactor setup and 1000 concrete… Also Factorio nuclear doesn’t work without water but somehow one single plant melting ice is sufficient

And on this chart you can see when the engineer intervened

Penetration tester types getting giddy because we now have parental controls on phones is such an alien situation to me b/c I was just dropped into the raw soup that was the internet 1.0 with my own phone line… they had to install the line physically (at the time I lived on an

People showing how porn filters are working or not working like older folks showing a screenshot of an alert with message “xss”

“Nothingness” indoors is in fact a distinct smell