@JimSycurity@IanColdwater The "liquid" part of this is *very* important.
Yes, you might see more growth in stocks/shares, but you're most likely to need that emergency fund while the market is down. It's a safety net, not an investment pot, and shouldn't be in capital-at-risk vehicles.
@wenbeamupscotie@EmmaKennedy@elonmusk He certainly doesn't seem to understand what advertising depts in a business want. Which is worrying, given it's basic things like not having their adverts appear above & be associated with a bunch of racist (sorry, free speech) comments
@Twig9876@who_let_mum_out@hj44_john@MartinSLewis To be clear, that doesn't detract from what you went through. But, it might help explain why there's very little tolerance for people popping up and saying "I didn't get any help pay 15%" - aside from being insensitive, it's uninformed and focuses only on the interest rate
@neil_neilzone That's about his offence and the consequences though. The headline promises we'll find out about *him*. The article fails to deliver on that promise
@mmasnick@neil_neilzone Charging a per follower fee is an even worse idea - people will start creating bot accounts just to see whether they can bankrupt blue checks
Feels like Michael Gove's been stitched up - sent out to defend the indefensible, especially with the focus on "she's very capable" given things that were coming out about Braverman yesterday.
#BBCLauraK
@TraceyR64968698@JohnPatrinos@mikeysmith Agreed, but it's nothing they haven't done before - shift focus onto someone to shield another. But, I don't think their tactics work as well as they did - there were some flawed attempts during Truss's time too.
@TraceyR64968698@JohnPatrinos@mikeysmith It does, but the idea is the focus then shifts to Truss's mistakes. She's already out of power, so can't be driven out, so gets used as an unwitting human shield to take pressure of Braverman.
But yeah, it shows none of them should be there
@VModifiedMind@neil_neilzone Yep agreed, it's unnecessary and user hostile. The driver should be concentrating on the road rather than making sure their finger is on the right part of a flat glass panel.
@deepandoften There was a guy a little while back who glued his face to the road. Started off very "things need to change" but his bravado went away when he realised they basically needed to cut his face off the road - https://youtu.be/m0_Ty38JcgI
@NiallerHiggins@ByrneLuc@justsnoozing@DaveB22664400@Peston@johnmcdonnellMP And, of course, that's just this occurrence. The person who made that mistake has the nickname Leaky Sue, and has apparently been *routinely* sending sensitive govt info to a particular back-bencher, from her personal account.
@NiallerHiggins@ByrneLuc@justsnoozing@DaveB22664400@Peston@johnmcdonnellMP Sending docs marked Top Secret from a parliamentary to a personal account, and then, whilst attempting to send it to someone not authorised to view it, accidentally sending it to someone else.
If you don't think that's Very Serious, you've no experience handling marked documents
@ninkosan Yup, exactly where I'm at: I *want* to replace it out of spite, but having beaten it into some form of submission I don't have a pressing need
@Ipstenu This really is a few steps beyond crazy - initial irritation at being blocked, understandable, but a 4 year campaign of contacting friends & employers?
Sorry you had to deal with this
@GossiTheDog@ZayoGroup@voxility Thats not going to go well for them... my (limited) experience of Voxility has been that if they think there's risk, they cut services quickly/early and then investigate. Can't imagine they'll appreciate their staff being hounded by randomers
@workwithtoby@MalwareTechBlog Yep, what little hope I hadwas smashed with Braverman's appointment, he's gone and kept Coffey too.
It's still all about party rather than what's right...
@alexbloor You see it a lot in privacy too: you're complaining about the govt doing X but I bet you've a smartphone that lets $vendor track you.
It's whataboutism and /r/iamverysmart material
@NataliaAntonova Threading to avoid spoiling other's fun - you've posted about going there on your Facebook profile. Searching the location on image search (never been there) yields pictures including the tree to your right
@alexbloor@InfosecSapper Agreed. And if you *are* going to do it in HTML, use > to quote them, don't say "replies inline in blue" because you can't guarantee the receiving end will actually display colour and stuff will get missed
@alexbloor "Literally Hundreds" from a party that's apparently got around 180,000 members. It's going to take a fair few days at a sustained rate to make a difference in anywhere but the most marginal seats (assuming there are 'kippers there to lose)
@MirandaArnold@HannahAlOthman Yep, you save much more by looking at how you use things that heat water (put washing machine on lower temperature etc) than you ever will by forgoing lighting.
Once you get down to base load, though, it's a bugger to shift as it starts to be things like "new fridge"
@beez104@JonathanNichol4@kprescott The cognitive dissonance is because they'll believe anything to convince themselves that their vote for leave wasn't a mistake or the result of being conned - hence "Brexit could have worked if not for the global elite".
@beez104@JonathanNichol4@kprescott He probably thinks the damage was deliberate, inflicted by some secret cabal to convince us to rejoin the EU.
That cabal being both so powerful as to be able to rig things, whilst also powerless as to be unable to stop the damage completely fucking themselves over.
@nunn_annie@Benrrowland@BritishAlba@JSHeappey@RobertSyms@RishiSunak Probably referring to how he claimed to have an oven ready deal, which he used to "get brexit done" before campaigning against the terms of his own deal. Or perhaps they mean the bus, or his claims about brexit enabling our covid response. Prob quicker to list the few truths tbh
@garrymallen@MarinaPurkiss@GregHands AFAIK, no. It'd still be the same.
If PM pay rises during his second time though, his pension will increase as it's tied to the salary they got whilst serving as PM.
Feels wrong to use "serving" in his case, but I guess self-serving is still technically serving.
@Hahahanowait@DamoclesBDA@fesshole In a healthy relationship though,if one isn't ok with it, the other shouldn't insist. Neither I or my other half would be comfortable with having it on - that's not distrust of each other, just an aversion to sending constant location data to Google etc unnecessarily
@chhcalling@BorisJohnson What did he deliver? Brexit's not done, he campaigned against his own "oven ready" deal.
About the only thing he seems to have managed to deliver is parties and lies.
Based on the last few months, he doesn't even seem to be able to actually turn up and do the job
If it's listed on the front page summary as
Refund £66
You're probably affected too. Do
(Last balance + charges + 66) - payments.
If you get the number at the bottom, they've screwed up
If you're on @edfenergy check your latest bill balance carefully
They'd accidentally treated the refund-to-bank of £66 from the government as a debit balance, so had effectively tried to charge me for that £66.
Customer services can correct it for you.
@EmaCymru@notshenetworks@chriscarlson001 That's why the nearest mcflurry/milkshake machine always seems to be down - they've turned off the tracker there to allow another location to verify it's findings
@SeanWrightSec I believe the way forward lies in growth of traffic, so I've added ACCEPT ANY to all of our firewalls so that packets might trickle down
@chrisweston@sunny_hundal@HannahAlOthman That's what I'm expecting. Threatening removal of the whip was always mad, it's a choice between losing your seat because you voted for fracking, or maybe keeping your seat as a non-Tory running in a non-safe seat.
@ask_aubry I had to stop for a minute and try and make sense of "post-wall". There's no hope for someone who can just casually drop that into their background/explanation.
@willhirsch@adebradley@thomaswilliams@aliceolilly Odds are that if it succeeds they'll try and claim it as "proof" of confidence in the govt, if it fails they'll just say fracking is a divisive issue and MPs voted with local sensitivities in mind.
@TheAdamHammond@goodbyenorman@MartinSLewis@Jeremy_Hunt It shouldn't have any: those re-mortgaging already have the house. If the rules aren't adjusted for new mortgages, then unless your mortgage is portable, you're not going to be able to buy a new house under easier rules and so shouldn't drive prices up.
@DigitalStefan@xciv Yeah, AFAIK the change is that lenders now define what tests they do, rather than it being standardised. So you might now pass affordability with 1 and not another.
@xciv That's what the stress test was - they tested whether you could afford that mortgage if it went up by 3% (which for most would put it at 5-7%).
The test was scrapped in August.
So a lot of people did it, but more than a few probably also went "ahh, it'll never hit that"
@nobdy_imp@GoodClearTweets@izakaminska@PlymMatth@BrugesGroup Why would they care about that if doing so entails allowing the PM to trash the economy/party to the point that no amount of canvassing would save their seats?
The vote that should be respected was in 2019 - if she wants to dramatically change the manifesto, call a GE
@ninkosan Woodburner aside, her "coping" strategy seems to be to use a more expensive - electric - source of heating. Most don't have a woodburner to heat the house with. "How you can too" seems to need "if you're rich or lucky" appended
@dnlongen@MalwareTechBlog Yeah, getting surveys done is a thing here too (not obligatory, but really worth the money). There are different levels, right up to a full structural (not normally done on anything <100 years).
It's a simple way to avoid a very expensive mistake.
@cube0x0@qtc_de But then the authenticating system needs to hold your number - something which can be used to directly contact and harrass. So you get attempts to combine alert fatigue and social engineering as well as the risk of contact details leaking.
@goodbyenorman@MartinSLewis@Jeremy_Hunt Foreclosure costs banks a ton of money, they'd rather sell you a mortgage rate you can better afford, but if you fail the affordability test they're not allowed to, so you end up on SVR, paying more interest than if you'd got the fix.
@goodbyenorman@MartinSLewis@Jeremy_Hunt The affordability rules are a rock-and-hard-place thing.
They're there to make sure banks don't sell mortgages that people can't afford, but once you've got a mortgage you're trapped until you can settle: if there's a market drop, you'll struggle to sell up and get out.
@goodbyenorman@MartinSLewis@Jeremy_Hunt Loosening affordability rules for remortgages would help avoid people becoming trapped on more expensive variable rates because they fail the affordability test for lower fixed rates. It'd likely reduce the likelihood of banks needing to foreclose, so reduce their risk
@kleenaechs@ask_aubry Then she won't accept his IG request, and he's sure it must be because she thinks she's ugly. Definitely not because she had a weird email from her lab partner, cue another email...
JFC
@johnboy61@johnestevens I'll believe it when I see it. She should have gone long ago, even the stuff about dog shock collars didn't unseat her - people round here just keep voting Tory
There are various issues you might expect to run into when running a rack of kit at home.
One little mentioned one though, is that sometimes the dog will get a little over excited and accidentally throw the end of a carrot in there, and then expect you to extract it.
@jrr226@Nanaakua1@walsh2509@GBNEWS Well, the BBC has standards, and GBeebies has none, so no-one's likely to get the complaints dept to say she "overstepped the mark".
@SBuschova@xciv@Samfr That, presumably is a position that they can only afford to a point though? if rates go up too high (or stay for too long), they may have to revisit that.
@AlexCrane33@xciv@Samfr I don't think I suggested they were? In fact I specifically said those not affected by mortgage rises would increase their own charges to match the rest of the market (driven by those who do see a hike)
@Scott_Helme I've seen stuff do similar with Nginx in the past - it resolves names at startup and will fail to start if a name doesn't resolve. The system notices it exit, so brings it back up again (rinse and repeat)
@Scott_Helme What are you betting that's a thread that resolves the name on startup (and then periodically afterwards), but if resolution fails it throws an exception - the caller then restarts it, and around it goes again.
@xciv@Samfr The flipside though, is presumably you're paying rent instead? Higher mortgage costs will also ultimately push rents up (as LL's with mortgages pass the cost on, and those without increase prices in line with the rest of the market).
@SeanWrightSec I object in principle to the name 3FA. What they're describing is something you have (the company machine), its just a 2nd 2nd factor.
And as you say, the 2nd factor could already be hardware based
@devnetsecops@alexbloor The other one that fits that mould actually is tcpping - same base issue, ISP deprioritises ICMP so with ping your report loads of loss. But TCP is fine, and whatever you're troubleshooting is caused by something else
@devnetsecops@alexbloor True, but that doesn't matter as much as making sure that you follow the same outbound path. Might just be the industry I was in - there was a lot of PBR about - so you'd end up chasing ghosts if you used the wrong protocol.
@alexbloor I've spent years encouraging people to test with it - many networks QoS TCP differently to ICMP (and sometimes UDP), and of course there's policy based routing, so it's invaluable if your troubleshooting connectivity for something that does TCP
@Hairyloon@_tillyflip_@BrugesGroup I'd forgotten about that, they rejected Labour's motion and tabled their own. Amazing just how much shitness they've squeezed into such a short timeframe isn't it?
@Hairyloon@_tillyflip_@BrugesGroup That option was entirely open to the Tories - rather than a 1922 VoNC they could have held a parliamentary one.
Perhaps they should correct their mistake and hold one now and give voters an actual say in the matter
@mal3aby@alexbloor Yep. Many of them will leave their (still celebrating) families to go into work and be abused by the general public because X isn't discounted enough, or because they've sold out of Y. It's not just another bank holiday, Boxing day is a truly shitty day to have to work
@ninkosan How dare they feel entitled to have the energy they're paying an absolute premium for, don't they know there was a lot more dark in the 70s??
@alexbloor Close. In my experience, most of those working Boxing Day really don't want to be there, but don't feel they can say no to the employer. Retail staff get shit on year round as it is
@chacebookDOTcom@iSnortArsenic@ask_aubry Yup, and he'll probably spend a good chunk of his life complaining how "unfair" it was, whilst making the same mistakes over and over
@chacebookDOTcom@iSnortArsenic@ask_aubry The "I cannot concentrate because she's so cute" suggests he's probably spending some time staring/stealing glances and/or periodically mentioning that he can't concentrate. Can imagine it'd be unpleasant to be on the receiving end of that when you want to work
@damocrat All but impossible to get an appointment round here - plenty of people willing, but they turn up for half a day with a small number of slots. Pretty much given up trying at this point - they'd get far more if they permitted walk-ins (even if you were then told to wait/come back)
@neil_neilzone Reading between the lines, looks like it's Tesco's having a go at having checkout-less stores like the ones Amazon tried.
You swipe in with Clubcard, cameras watch what you take off the shelf and you walk out - the app charges your account
https://twitter.com/Tesco/status/1580119731839041536
@cybergibbons Have they doubled down yet and claimed it's "buried" just because they couldn't be arsed to read the text on the front page and were looking for an image 5 times the width of their monitor?
@IO83MZero@alexbloor You'd hope, but I can't think of many instances where ongoing support wasn't an extra charge on top. You're paying for the certification - if certification is required you're a captive audience and have to pay whatever price, because going generic might cost lives.
@Frances_Coppola Wonder if Kwasi will do a Raab:
"I hadn't quite understood the full extent of this, but if you look at the UK and look at how money and economy works, we are particularly reliant on not doing stupid things and making the market nervous".
@IO83MZero@alexbloor When advertising to consumers? Yep, it tends to be exactly that. But, actual suppliers to the military tend to charge a massive amount more, because it's "certified" - let alone if it's going anywhere near an airframe (which gets its own certification and price)
@gav28uk@StevieJasonD@Kellineil@MartinSLewis@hmtreasury@TheFCA@bankofengland@GMB If anything, having been through that *should* make you more empathetic, not less. Incidentally, I know people who survived that, but are now facing the real possibility of losing their (more recently purchased) homes precisely because it's less affordable than it was
@gav28uk@StevieJasonD@Kellineil@MartinSLewis@hmtreasury@TheFCA@bankofengland@GMB No-one's saying you had it easy, but equally you can't just shrug and say "we had it hard too, what's the fuss?" because the two aren't directly comparable - interest rates are lower, but capital is much higher as a proportion of earnings.
@AlvyEdgardo@amberwildee They'll just hold a "referendum", which'll go their way and then they'll suddenly be very interested in the principles of democracy. The aim of it is probably to sow division and generate distraction, they don't need the actual change to be possible
@andyrossecon@tomhfh@jdportes Wouldn't an admission mean publishing/saying something that has some accuracy in it? Do you want Tom to come out in hives or something?
@Omz2468@MarinaHyde One of the theories is that she is - because Boris could run again in the resulting leadership election. Not sure it's likely to actually be true, but there are certainly people who believe she's actively trying to screw up badly
@neil_neilzone Every time I've needed legal services, first contact has been via email, not phone. How are you supposed to give any kind of background by phone without tying them up for an unreasonable amount of time?
@girlonthenet@edfenergy FWIW, my bank account shows a pending transaction with EDF sending £66 into my account - the date on the transaction is tomorrow, so that money *might* yet turn up in your account
@RhonddaBryant Lot's of time and respect for you, but on this one you're wrong. People are perfectly willing to be abusive under their real names, ending anonymity only really hurts those who actually need it (such as those leaking information under oppressive regimes)
@SimonApperley@Frances_Coppola@DavidPenneyPRW Yup - I read one of his threads top to bottom a little while back, it was predicting the imminent collapse of basically everything, thoroughly depressing and based on some quite poorly founded assumptions.
@86Shyguy@supertanskiii He's been on BBC Radio 4 this morning complaining that he'd get cancelled if he went on the BBC...
He's starting a new show on Gbeebies and says it's a free-speech network.
His decent into cuntism, unfortunately continues.
@scriptmonkey_@alexbloor I always find the "it's the law here, so must be the law everywhere" mindset quite odd, especially when it comes to traffic laws where there are already obvious differences (turn on red, side of the road etc etc) to suggest that laws might just differ.
@anthonyoren@MalwareTechBlog The best way to address bad speech is more speech - which is *exactly* what this is. The original speech is still there, but after a democratised process, it's had some added to it clarifying that it's bollocks.
Why are you against Freedom?
@rcam2802@EthanAhlers@sarahloscombe@Natt We might have some idea if the government hadn't just shelved the health review rather than publishing it.
There are no easy answers, under-resourcing is clearly an issue, but additional resources need to be brought into the correct areas.
@rcam2802@EthanAhlers@sarahloscombe@Natt You're right, many experienced staff in other businesses are overloaded. Hence, "the great resignation" along with wide-spread strikes, where employers are being told they need to sort it out.
You don't get to shrug off problems just because they're not unique to the NHS
@rcam2802@EthanAhlers@sarahloscombe@Natt As you seem to be right-wing inclined, let me frame it in different terms. The *market* has said the pay is too low: there's demand (vacant positions), but very few willing to supply service at the price being offered.
But also, paramedics say the pay is too low
@rcam2802@EthanAhlers@sarahloscombe@Natt And to answer your earlier question - it's a Tory problem because they've been in power for over a decade and have, at best, ignored the growing problem. Some might even argue that they've not ignored it and have actively sought to make it worse.
@rcam2802@EthanAhlers@sarahloscombe@Natt Which is exactly the point you're arguing against isn't it? People know what the wage is and have an idea of what the work is like, and *don't* go in, precisely because the pay is too low. Experienced staff then leave because they're overloaded and pay doesn't keep pace with COL
@De_Lille_D@notshenetworks I think this guys falls into the last category. I could see myself not realising the chair placement issue, because it's not something I normally have to think about. But when pointed out, my answer definitely wouldn't be "wear a longer skirt"
@RegGBlinker@alexbloor@shitkemisays You'd have thought so. We have multiple takeaways nearby, several of whom have websites, only one accepts card (online or in person) - guess who gets the vast majority of our orders...
@SeanWrightSec I had one of those just this morning - the original was one of those "there's a broken link, why don't you link to our content instead?" relating a mail mirror that's not even online any more.
"I know you're busy, but could you please have a look at my earlier mail?"
@tim2040@neil_neilzone Agreed, though I misread the last one and didn't see the note until after I voted £100. Went £100 on that on the basis of it being the external stuff, and the data-subject having to spend time finding missing contact details in order to exercise their rights. But yeah, also £0
@mmasnick There are a few where the hold music is fine, but they interrupt every 20s to say "please keep holding" or similar. Constantly making it sound like you're about to be put through, and killing music's ability to make time pass.
@IGrobrien@PrivacyMatters@EinsteinsAttic Interacted with them recently, they're slow to respond, and yeah, no names - the mails just have a signature noting it's from the DPO's office.
@DataFinnovation@AsiaEconInfo@coloradotravis@molly0xFFF Yeah sorry, I think I misinterpreted what you were saying - you seemed to be implying only senior mgmt were listed, which isn't the case.
The inclusion of creditors isn't a surprise to me, but I'd imagine more than a few users are surprised to find themselves in there
@AracerRacer@alexbloor We don't know what the campaign would have looked like, to be fair, given it came from Mogg it might well have simply said "if you don't have the money,get some or don't use things"
But yeah, it's a poor choice by Truss, and doesn't exactly instil confidence
@DataFinnovation@AsiaEconInfo@coloradotravis@molly0xFFF You didn't actually read the thread then? This thread is about them including details of every recent transaction in their filing - exposing the transactions of their entire (recent) userbase not just senior mgmt
@AndrewYee2@TheGoodLiars Not just drugs though, Fentanyl - so they're going to give away (for free) something that's highly likely to kill the people they're targetting (for unclear reasons)...
@TheRealRevK@aaisp Can I just say, once again, how much I appreciate the verbosity of the status page updates you do. It leads to much less frustration than "we're continuing to look into this, please don't call us" like other ISPs do
@Beat_That_Beat@VJ@spinybadger@DmitryOpines I assumed it was Elon "just give Crimea to Russia" Musk he was referring to.
There are obviously a lot of plates in the air at the moment
@elonmusk@LindseyGrahamSC In 2012, Tesla's share price was about $2, should we work on the basis of that being accurate now too?
Quite a lot changes in the course of a decade
@ask_aubry "but she's financially independent" - so if she wasn't, they'd totally be exerting control and preventing the two of them living together *in another city* too.
Toxic
@alexbloor It's fucking laughable that she thinks renting is sufficiently cheaper than a mortgage payment to make a difference, even before you consider the relative insecurity of renting. Out of touch doesn't begin to describe it
@FreelanceScien1@PaulBrandITV Came here for this. Had it not been here, I'd have tweeted it.
What did they expect? They're members of a party who currently view intolerance as some sort of a unique selling point which they can use to foster a culture war and keep themselves in power.
@SnoozeInBrief Yep. Sounds to me like a way to accidentally raise the missed appointment rate too - people will get ill, make an appointment for 10 days time, get better, forget to cancel and not turn up.
@zefrog@MarinaPurkiss They don't quite get that for some, even that 50p is a struggle, and means taking from other things (like bills, rent etc). They can't imagine what it's like to have that constant weight on you, feeling perpetually trapped by your situation.
@zefrog@MarinaPurkiss Yes, although things like "porridge is 50p" is callous, I don't think they always understand the callousness of it, or that it's completely ignoring the underlying issue. It's almost like they're responding to "I can't afford food" with "there's some food there".
@RegGBlinker Conversely, agencies like the DEA can attract additional funding by pretending that dealers will do stuff like this.
So one side has no benefit from doing it, the other benefits from pretending the other is...
@Michael19443672 Interesting question... most of the Oven's usage is in the warmup period, and you'd need to extend cook times a little to account for the lower initial temperature, so I'd guess the AF. But, you also won't lose heat from opening the door to put chips in.
I may have to test this
@Frances_Coppola No bacon, beans,black pudding or hash browns. That's not a breakfast, it barely qualifies as a snack. Also all the ingredients divide by 2 except the bread... WHY??
@alexbloor Her imagination is as limited as her capacity for empathy.
Wonder what she thinks she'll do after it all ends: after her time as AG, noone'll hire her for legal advice, except as a scapegoat. If she's too poisonous, not many are going to want her for her ex-Homesec creds either
@rahaeli@AlecMuffett Because this is a totally normal thing to do in those circumstances...
I would hope/imagine plod have probably been provided with messages she's sent. Given the mention of KF, it's possible someone's also had a swatting attempt, and she's now tied up by association https://twitter.com/bentasker/status/1577344083613319172/photo/1
@SueSuezep@AlStewartOBE Crazy innit. He got an OBE for services to broadcasting and charity. Nowadays, you could believe it actually stands for Outspoken Bell End and has been added as a joke.
@neil_neilzone Based on their other announcements, I could totally see "businesses with under x employees can ignore most of GDPR" being suggested. Don't think itd ever make it into effect
@CashQuestions@ThriftyParentUK@emmalunn Oh you're not kidding, they come out *so* much better too, you find yourself thinking "ah, I'll just do chips" that much more
@carlheaton@Sidwick4Dorset Indeed. Similarly, it'd be interesting to see any evidence that the reclassification to Class B has had a positive impact on use and potency, especially given that it went against ACMD's advice at the time.
@ThriftyParentUK@emmalunn@CashQuestions > They can be noisy due to the powerful fan inside.
I got asked if I was on a plane the other day because the AF was on in the background 😀
Rest of the world: Don't criminalise the youth
#Tory coppers: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-63115171
If there's any truth in the @Sidwick4Dorset's dubious claim that it's a gateway, maybe that effect *because* it's criminal? The same guy who gets you weed can also get harder stuff.
@emmalunn@CashQuestions Ours is 150w, though obviously that's not constant. Wanted to work out whether it's better or worse than a hot water bottle or microwaving one of those toys with beans in.
@emmalunn@CashQuestions I don't have an answer on blankets at the moment, but had been planning to stick a plug on one, because I'd been wondering what usage actually looks like.
@giffgaff's multi-factor-auth seems poorly thought out. It relies on a code being sent via SMS to the linked phone number.
Which'd be fine, except they also for an account per-sim, rather than allowing one account to manage multiple numbers - makes sorting littlun's account hard
@FuckMusk8@onionrick@EdConwaySky Plus, if they let it recover, they can always make some more cash by making another announcement later and crashing it again.
@alexbloor Not to mention the unfortunate minister who went on Kuenssberg's show yesterday and re-stated their committment to it. Truss must be angrily trying to find out who it was by now.
@omega469@THgrumpy67@Heather_Jones5@etmilitavi He was basically just pasting variations of "try living in the real world", so wasn't much opportunity for him to show understanding of anything beyond punctuation.
@RalphMould@Frances_Coppola@Timbassett And tbh, if we're talking about something that's obviously/genuinely defamatory, there's the question of why you'd "like" it in the first place.
@RalphMould@Frances_Coppola@Timbassett Twitter includes tweets you liked in other's feeds (Ralph liked this tweet...) so by liking you still cause wider dissemination.
I don't know that you'd ever see the inside of a court-room over it, but you'd still have an unpleasant time with the threat of it hanging over you
@THgrumpy67@omega469@Heather_Jones5@etmilitavi The real world where people were paying 4% on 400K houses, and are now potentially looking at significantly higher? Or the real world that exists in your head as a rose-tinted memory of the past?
@cybergibbons@alexbloor From conversations I've had in the past, that confusion is *part* of the plan. Theory is it gets people talking about it, and by extension the topic in question.
Just like gluing yourself to the top of the tube at commute time. Not sure it works personally, they just look nuts
@BruceSequeira@Rogue_74@kendawg69628768@garry_birkwood@bagpuss61@etmilitavi It's not though. For example, a parent who doesn't work, but claims child tax credit gets NI entitlement towards their state pension for that time.
Your pension also isn't linked, in any way, to the amount that you paid, only the amount of time you paid for it.
@omega469@Heather_Jones5@etmilitavi Wasn't there like, 18 years notice before the change, followed by a gradual introduction?
If you want to talk about... ahem... "rights" that were withheld, maybe reflect on the fact the generation affected by this change was also able to claim tax relief on mortgage payments.
@ferozemj@Frances_Coppola There is no pot with your name on it. If the Govt tomorrow enacted legislation to scrap the state pension (despite being political suicide), you'd not get a refund of the NI you've paid.
NI is a tax, used to fun social care and benefits.
@ferozemj@Frances_Coppola You're not getting back what you paid in. The amount you pay doesn't change the amount you receive, only the time you pay. What you pay now pays current state pensions (and social care). Your state pension will come from the paychecks of the workforce at the time.
It's a benefit
@Markvincent83@CitznOfNowhere@mexicola25@MidgeRekab@mikegalsworthy You must be reading a different thread to the rest of us - I don't see anyone here suggesting that that is how it works. That you need to try and put words into others mouths to try and defend your masters suggests you have no real argument to make.
@mexicola25@TasTasty@CitznOfNowhere@MidgeRekab@mikegalsworthy Yep, and thats the thing. The petition will never be enacted, but will help remind MPs that voters aren't happy, and increase their pressure on Truss. A GE would be turkeys voting for xmas
@alexbloor It seems somewhat foolish to enact recall legislation, but leave it so that the only way a MP can be replaced is conviction for specific crimes or death.
@alexbloor The recall act is curious really, because it allows for a situation where party leadership lie their arses off to win an election, are suspended by the standards committee, recalled and replaced, but the party remains in power with no real recourse until the next election
@g0fcu@alexbloor Yeah, basically the way EDF have addressed it is to make your reading queue, rather than making *you* queue. It's a much better way to do it, cos you turn up, enter a read and go about your day - in practice nothing changes for us other than a slightly different form.
Maybe we should hold an election on behalf of Russia? I mean, Putin's OK with honouring the results of illegitimate and poorly run votes right?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-63077272
@g0fcu@alexbloor EDF changed their flow a few days ago. Assuming they sent you to the same form as me, what you've actually done is submit a read into a queue to be recorded against your account, rather than immediately updating.
Which is the correct way to do it, as you say, they prepared
@neil_neilzone I suppose 37 could be referring to the 2nd, but "It does not ring true that she'd not want to anger someone who had assaulted her and her child" doesn't sound like it fits.
@neil_neilzone Aren't para's 21 and 37 at odds? 21 says the 2nd went to her home and assaulted her and her son, but 37 suggests it was the 1st respondent.
But yeah, what a horrible mess, built around playing with someone's hopes and dreams
@Frances_Coppola@faye80211760 She seems to be betting on the idea that it'll deliver results before the next election - presumably she thinks that 1922 rule gives sufficient protection against her own MPs in yhe meantime
@NZJamesS@BritishAlba@andrew_lilico@danwootton That the budget that did it came without an OBR report, and after sacking the top civil servant at the Treasury screams that they're either outright incompetent, or knew exactly what the objections (and by extension, the likely outcome) would be. They're shit, or evil
@NZJamesS@BritishAlba@andrew_lilico@danwootton At the cost of everyone else paying significantly more on their mortgages, with no proof that cutting the 45% rate in the midst of an energy and cost of living crisis helps?
Yes, it's abhorrent. It's also fiscally & politically incompetent, she's fucked the country and the party
@harry_mc@tomhfh I assume the "pay off" is her donors being able to buy everything the UK has on the cheap. It's certainly not likely there'll be any true economic pay-off
@SpudSecurity@cybergibbons No wait, I lie.
It was 3G versus 2G. It must've been, because the issue was I was missing calls because of the downtime - 4G doesn't carry calls.
Ultimately I had to convince EE to send me a Femto
@SpudSecurity@cybergibbons I had something like this only a couple of years ago - phones tend to assume 4G is better than 3G so will switch if it's there. Problem is, 4G coverage was marginal and the phone would switch over, spend a few minutes timing out, drop to 3G, see a hint of 4G and start over.
@Frances_Coppola Yeah it's not great. The Govt needed to communicate better (read not hide) with the population, and accept that they'd screwed up, but communication wasn't the cause of the market's reaction, what they're doing was.
@quentynblog@SeanWrightSec I've hooked mine up to HomeAssistant and now do everything via that. It was NEST I came here to comment on too though, next one won't be anything Google owned because you can't trust they won't kill the product off mid-way through it's usable life
@neil_neilzone@MissIG_Geek I can't think which site it is, but there's one that annoys me every time: it auto-submits as soon as you've entered enough digits, so there's no chance to check for typo's. Get it wrong, and you need a new SMS
@alexjbutcher@f1lmer@Frances_Coppola@MartinSLewis Agreed, there are definitely no easy answers, and as much as a mess as this govt has just made, some of the pressures I've mentioned are because previous governments failed to address growing issues in the housing market.
@alexjbutcher@Frances_Coppola@MartinSLewis True enough, though the governments role (IMO) should always be to address that rather than dropping a bomb and accelerating it. Even the mini-budget would've been sort-of-acceptable if they'd since realised their mistake and moved to correct it - instead they're doubling down
@alexjbutcher@f1lmer@Frances_Coppola@MartinSLewis Yup. Unfortunately, that's not an option for some - whether because it means leaving a support network, or purely because they're in a trade with poor job availability elsewhere, so would be looking at no job rather than lower earnings.
@alexjbutcher@f1lmer@Frances_Coppola@MartinSLewis And, even if they do the cautious thing and decide not to buy, that leaves them renting - the landlord's mortgage goes up, so their rent goes up. They're no better off.
@alexjbutcher@f1lmer@Frances_Coppola@MartinSLewis This doesn't reflect the reality of the modern market. Many can't afford to purchase until they're at the point in life (kids etc) where they need that family sized home.
The idea of starter homes only really works if buyers can get on the ladder at the appropriate time in life.
@alexjbutcher@Frances_Coppola@MartinSLewis We're not talking doubling or tripling though are we? There's currently a non-0 chance that when our fix ends we might go from 1.5% to 6%.
Remember, this isn't some form of mortgage or pricing reform, it's an unintended consequence to an ill-thought out economic agenda
@Frances_Coppola@NW6Penguin Unfortunately, it's something they rely on, they utter some vague bullshit, knowing that high profile accounts on the other side will clip it, not realising that they're actually drowning out the actual arguments against it.
Vocal opposition has been weaponised against itself.
@LukeHandle@pwaring@neil_neilzone@steely_glint The mechanisms used in that post, btw, would be of limited use because they're only really in place in fixed-line providers, and Whatsapp usage is primarily on mobile devices. Users might have to turn off wifi on their phone, but beyond that
@LukeHandle@pwaring@neil_neilzone@steely_glint And most blocks would be poorly justified, because of how easily they're circumvented. On Android? Install Intra from the app store, boom, Whatsapp works again. Presumably Apple has similar.
@LukeHandle@pwaring@neil_neilzone@steely_glint I think it'd depend very much on the reason for, and the longevity of the block. Circumventing certainly wouldn't be their first impulse, but I could totally see them taking a "free speech" position if they were unable to gain traction against a poorly justified block
@ninkosan@alexbloor > Treasury minister Andrew Griffith insists the government's plan is the right one, and says all economies are seeing volatility
It's not gonna get better for a while is it...
@PickardJE We all assumed she missed the word "running", actually it was a different typo and should have read "I'm ready to hit the POUND from day one"
@pwaring@neil_neilzone@steely_glint I don't think DNS blocks would do anything but start cat+mouse. Facebook could/would just update WA to use names also used for Facebook, at which point the govt would have to consider a much wider/more disruptive block.
And, DNS blocks are trivially bypassed with DoH
@neil_neilzone@madofo It's a little like the Russian approach, the ISPs have kit within their own networks, but have to comply with directions from the relevant government organs. So, it's (in effect) an outsourced/federated national firewall.
@SeanWrightSec@clevybencheton I've not had many issues with dust, but I do tend to end up chipping the protector and getting shards of glass in my thumb
@frogboyflips@neil_neilzone Yup, we lost our (very small) UV library when the company we'd redeemed with went under. They transferred our library to another provider, who didn't support playback on any of our devices. Thankfully had the DVDs
@AlisonW@bloodysarcastic@kieransopinion@floschechter Fair, and even if you could argue the other way, they'd still have a point about sticking nails into the building's exterior. A lot of agreements don't even permit nails indoors without prior approval
@bloodysarcastic@kieransopinion@floschechter The flag is also nailed to the wall rather than being suspended from string (or wire etc etc), so it's not actually hung, simply displayed.
Not sure I'd wanna risk my tenancy on it, but tbh I think they're trying to pull a fast one.
@bloodysarcastic@kieransopinion@floschechter The intent of that para adds ambiguity IMO. The Para seems to be concerned with the idea that damp might be introduced by hanging wet (or absorbent) materials in inappropriate places (and drying on rads etc).
Should a flag actually fall within that?
@floschechter I did enjoy that they don't accept your interpretation of whether a pride flag is a notice or advert - they're clearly not wanting to close the door on that argument.
Curious what Clause 32 says?
@VeniVid62045424@Frances_Coppola@jeuasommenulle Doing so would be problematic in it's own right, but more importantly is a massive intervention that'd only have been necessary because of the fiscal incompetence of the executive. The blame lies with the chancellor and Truss - they can't even claim it has a democratic mandate
@VeniVid62045424@Frances_Coppola@jeuasommenulle They could have pursued multiple avenues, yes. However the route that's been taken is a rug pull, which is absolutely and entirely wrong.
What you're suggesting, presumably is that the government pay the difference in people's mortgage. So, funnel taxpayer's money to the banks?
@VeniVid62045424@Frances_Coppola@jeuasommenulle If you want to argue that prices should be -30% that's fine, but you also need to be able to advocate a path that doesn't involve widespread destruction of asset value and livelihoods. The abject stupidity was very much on the part of the chancellor and those who support him
@VeniVid62045424@Frances_Coppola@jeuasommenulle You can't just handwave with "oh it just takes us back to 2018", in getting back to that state you simultaneously push people into negative equity, make their mortgage payments entirely unaffordable, all whilst suppressing the market meaning they can't sell up to escape
@VeniVid62045424@Frances_Coppola@jeuasommenulle OK, let's assume you're right for a second.
Based on your earlier comment, you appear to be supporting a path that involves a sharp, painful corruption rather than seeking gradual reform so that you don't destroy the lives of people within the system.
@CivilShy@neil_neilzone We actually did something similar at primary school - interacting with a box with LEDs and motors. Nothing special, just "ON LED 1" and stuff like that. There was a LOGO like roamer too.
I think that's part of where my interest started.
@VeniVid62045424@Frances_Coppola@jeuasommenulle Then you weren't paying attention. There were more than a few posts from people unable to get a mortgage for the full offer because the bank considered the price to be overblown.
None of which, btw, changes the abject stupidity of doing something to cause that level of drop.
@max_rossell@MarinaPurkiss@BrugesGroup The funny thing is, many of the finance guys may end up worse off as some of their pay moves to discretionary bonus. Suddenly, you're looking at a smaller mortgage etc.
The budget manages to fuck over every one except those shorting the pound.
@popey Yeah, I'm dreading my next hardware cycle.
One thing to watch (cos I got burnt), you want to make sure whatever you get still allows them on the network (and possibly even lets certain requests through), otherwise phones just default back to mobile data
@popey Not exactly what you've asked for, but I run OpenWRT on my router/AP and it can do time based MAC/IP restrictions.
My old Edimax access point had the ability to filter by MAC, but it lacked time controls, so I ended up cron'ing a script
@addelindh@behzadbeh@evacide@signalapp Blocks are partial and not 24h, so they can use proxies to reach signal, but thats of limited use if they cant register/verify with signal in the first place
@ask_aubry "Full" experience... so under his own point 3 he's gay right? Otherwise is experience wouldn't be full. Of course, he'd also need to have verified there's no difference between the two.
Big "I don't wash my arse in the shower, cos touching a man's anus is gay" vibe there...
@xtremepentest Ubuntu didn't exist yet, started out on Mandrake linux using discs from the front of a magazine, then later moved to Gentoo for quite a while. Tend to use Ubuntu out of convenience now though.
@ivan007@alexbloor This. The mindset seems to be "well, you would too if you could" apparently not realising that not everyone is focused on the accumulation of wealth (many just wanting to not starve or freeze, and most not wanting to cause others to starve/freeze)
@AlanJenkins2@KaskaJessica@hartl73516271@TheRealJackDee It is far, far more likely that Paypal didn't want to be associated with the funding of a disinformation campaign, and so applied their AUP.
TBH, I'm done talking about it - you're relying solely on unsubstantiated suspicion, rather than applying logical tests to that suspicion
@AlanJenkins2@KaskaJessica@hartl73516271@TheRealJackDee What motive would the govt have? It's not like UsAndThem have a particularly compelling argument - the data disagrees with their claims, all they can do is tweet conveniently cropped graphs. Even if they did, the probability of another lockdown is extremely low. So why move now?
@hartl73516271@AlanJenkins2@KaskaJessica@TheRealJackDee Yep, "but porn" has got to be the bottom of the barrel, especially considering it's specifically listed as allowed (but requiring approval) in Paypal's AUP, so the comparison is between something specifically allowed by the AUP to spreading misinformation.
@AlanJenkins2@KaskaJessica@hartl73516271@TheRealJackDee Sure, and a bank isn't used to sell cocaine.
Payment providers tend to care (and sometimes are legally obliged to) what businesses are using their services.
Again, are you calling for a more interventionist state? Would you compel businesses to do business they disagree with?
New energy costs landed in my inbox... ouch.
The email notes we could save £46/yr by switching to a tariff which requires a smart meter.
So, it answers a question: I'm clearly willing to pay £50/yr *not* to have a smart meter fitted.
@AlanJenkins2@KaskaJessica@hartl73516271@TheRealJackDee The only answer that *you* can think of, and on that happens to support the narrative you're trying to push.
It's equally likely that Paypal weren't OK with their platform being used to spread disinformation. You also have no way of knowing that noone asked/complained.
@AlanJenkins2@KaskaJessica@hartl73516271@TheRealJackDee For all intents and purposes Paypal is the market, that market decided that it was in their interest (for whatever reason) to drop them. Either you pro-intervention or you're a free market absolutist. You cannot be both.
@weslar1@britus89@ask_aubry A little while back, someone actually suggested using Blockchain to record mutual consent. A recording's crazy, but has nothing on that. Sadly they didn't try to call it a Notarised Fuck Token
@babelmonk@TheRealRevK A couple of mine have got pennies under them for exactly that reason. I had to carefully prise the threaded ring off the original heads and get them onto the new ones too as the valves were an odd size
@Frances_Coppola TBH, with child benefit I'd even be happy if they went half-way and moved to testing on household rather than individual income.
That one partner earning 60K means loses it, but a couple earning £45K each do not it just backwards.
@AlanJenkins2@KaskaJessica@hartl73516271@TheRealJackDee The only problem with that, is that many of those complaining about the impact on free speech are also prone to saying things like "let the market decide".
In this case, the market *has* decided, and it's decided it doesn't want to do business with spreaders of disinformation
@AlanJenkins2@KaskaJessica@hartl73516271@TheRealJackDee What you're objecting too here then, isn't actually a concern over free speech. It's that markets should be better regulated to ensure that unbounded capitalism doesn't lead to a position - like PayPal - where there's one big fish, and no realistic alternative for customers
@widdowquinn@IanDunt It's quick and easy to do too, the more of them there are, and the more spread across them users get, the less effective each blocking attempt gets
@joetrev@HavocTechie Update posted: #update' target=_blank rel='nofollow noopener'>https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/house-stuff/is-an-air-fryer-more-energy-efficient-than-an-oven.html#update
TL:DR - dropping to 180c saved just 19 Wh and the chips weren't as nice.
The breakeven point only changes slightly, so it's still not worth buying one to save money on energy in the short-term.
@SeanWrightSec I'm often reminded of an article I read quite a while back on someone being sentenced for growing a small stash of weed in his attic. The judge explained that the use of a timer (to control the lights) made this a "sophisticated" setup therefore warranting a more severe sentence
@AlanJenkins2@KaskaJessica@hartl73516271@TheRealJackDee That's true, but also has absolutely no bearing on freedom of speech. Freedom of speech protections are about governments interfering, not private industries. You're conflating two very very different things
@th3j35t3r I don't care how many letters you put in front of it, if you post a picture of Lavrov and a word containing a U and ending in NT, my brain is always going to replace it with a single word
@neil_neilzone@wilhil Ah cool, you have a post up :D Makes sense.
If it becomes law, can we make a game of reporting companies that fall under the ridiculous scope with supporting arguments? Type ltd, Var Ltd, Function Ltd all seem like easy targets
@Shadow0pz I got a bit "Opsy" with school a while back over something similar, asking why they'd waited until the end of the week to notify, why they appeared not to have looked for a root-cause given some extremely non-typical behaviour etc. It pushes you into incident-response mode.
@neil_neilzone@wilhil I'd posit that query languages are not code, and therefore would not be prohibited by the changes.
There's probably an argument that "computer code" doesn't apply to much beyond assembler - high level languages just being a linguistic expression
@RookeryMike@IanDunt Yeah, that struck me as misplaced. It's a bit like saying "for the religious, taking a life is easy, because you're sending them to a better place" - it's easy to claim, but betrays a lack of understanding in what motivates them as well as what they actually believe.
@FreeUkraine91@NavalInstitute Have a look at the Wikipedia page on him - it's quite a story, but basically he bribed Naval staff and had them redirect ships to ports he controlled so he could charge extortionate prices for fuel, tugs etc
I don't know who thought this campaign was a good idea, but it's obviously not been very well tested, and doesn't exactly deliver the "feel good" that marketing teams normally aim for (even before you consider the negative impact of sending unsolicited mail)
In fairness, if we take a look at the raw mail we can see that... they're not actually using their own tooling for these marketing pitches.
They're using @InstillerESP who offer "automated marketing", providing the tooling used to send me spam with someone else's name on https://twitter.com/bentasker/status/1572940436670382082/photo/1
So their pitch is that I should try out their advanced analytics which use "clever technology".
Yet, the bot they've used to look up leads apparently follows external links and in doing so ballses up the page title used in the resulting email.
Well, I'm fucking sold...
I don't normally do these, but this one was so bad that I couldn't not.
I just received this spam message - normally these would have my domain name in, or perhaps a page title etc, but this time it's neither of those, and instead is the display name of @Dixie3Flatline's Twitter https://twitter.com/bentasker/status/1572940425731653636/photo/1
@alexbloor Not quite the same, but I remember a time where the first page of a google search on how to do something consisted of rip-offs of the first result, which had been written so badly it was trivially exploitable.
@damocrat She'll counter this by saying that it wasn't inevitable, but "some" people didn't believe enough and that lack of optimism drew us into a recession.
Or, she'll just lie and say we're not
@MisterShades Finding good boots at a reasonable price is an absolute crapshoot nowadays - names that you think of as good are now crap (ahem... doctor M).
I've not found a good set (that I'm willing to pay for) yet - they all seem to last about a year.
@damocrat My gas meter is near the oven, so I at least have the small reassurance that if I did accidentally leave a hob on and blow the house up, there'd be no meter for them to read and bill me for.
@joetrev@HavocTechie Happy to check next time I do some chips, but I don't expect dropping to 180 will deliver much in the way of savings, leaving the same issue of extremely marginal gains vs the capital cost
@joetrev@HavocTechie The oven's manual doesn't give directions beyond "follow the packaging". Most food requires higher temperature + less time in the air fryer - both the manual and online recipes tend to do this.
@MissIG_Geek Yep, so you can totally use this and a list of common surnames to enumerate Virgin Media customers within a postcode (and/or iterate through postcodes). Dodgy, should prob fire a report in to them
@MissIG_Geek Also, they don't appear to rate limit on the checker, so you can just keep checking postcodes + names. Access to the API it uses is tokenised, but a token will let you make many requests (I assume they expire, but will check later)
@MissIG_Geek I pulled the details in the positive match from a residential telephone directory site on the net, so I've gone from name + postcode to knowing who their ISP is.
Potentially fairly useful for targetting vulnerable individuals - "I'm here to fix your cable M'am"
@MissIG_Geek looks like if you provide a name they try and tie back to your account.
Which means you can pair a postcode and a surname to identify whether they're a customer (the response is different if there's no match) - fairly handy if you want to turn up on the doorstep and scam them. https://twitter.com/bentasker/status/1572638524561580037/photo/1
@MissIG_Geek It doesn't actually require it, just postcode is enough.
Which, in my mind, makes it worse - what justification could they have for the collection of that name when it's clearly not necessary (because you can leave it blank)?
@cybergibbons@neil_neilzone The one time I let my guard down, at, let's call them Animals at Abode, I started receiving marketing dressed up as "tips on caring for your animals" (most were by buying x from aforementioned place).
They were quite put out when I replied and objected
@TechBrandon@SeanWrightSec FIDO implements channel binding to try and try and protect session creds (so cookies etc) - the session cookie *should* be bound back the key so subsequent challenges can be sent. Not sure that all browsers support it though.
@TechBrandon@SeanWrightSec That should be much harder - the FIDO challenge is (or should be) tied to the session. You'd need the mark to go to login, FIDO & then do something which allows you to hijack their session. MITM might work if you can also poison DNS (need the same name), get a valid cert
@tautology0@RegGBlinker@cybergibbons Yep, I'm one of these too - heating's not kicked in, if it got cold enough that it did, realistically that means we probably actually want it on to take the edge off.
@SimonPJelley@tkerby@cybergibbons@ibikebrighton@matthew01wright@what3words If you've got to spell it out, you might as well just read out a lat/lon. Or, they could've designed their setup so you don't need to tell the dispatcher, you click their link and it sends the location to them, removing the chance of mistake.
W3W wasn't designed, it was spawned
@SeanWrightSec If they'd been attacked in a different way to the way they were, Darktrace would've blocked it? Gee, that's helpful. If they'd logged into something DT can monitor, rather than something they can't, they'd have caught them?
I'm sold.... /s
@GossiTheDog It does mean you need to actually establish contact rather than spamming them until they get pissed off and hit approve, but otherwise suffers from similar alert fatigue issues.
@GossiTheDog You just need to convince the user to provide the PIN to you "to stop the messages" - it's not much more effort that phoning them as "IT" and telling them they need to click approve. You then enter the PIN on your waiting screen.
@neil_neilzone > You can only add one security key on PayPal
I'm glad that that annoys you too.
It also used to be true of Twitter, though they've since fixed that
@MarinaPurkiss > What is the actual point?
The point is to create uncertainty. There are disinformation campaigns often that don't seek to convince you something's true, so much as to get you to the point where you're distrustful of everything.
Much harder to unite people if they're wary
@Richardbishop@alexbloor@p0welly@jonty@DCMS If you're then reduced to spelling it out, it's also no longer 3 words, it's what n words depending on the number of chars.
Which itself would be unnecessary with an app that sends the location to the dispatcher. Having to read it out at all is a W3W design failure,
@NeilRos93033708@omega469@cheriegood@TuckerClemens Ah now, that's a slightly different topic. The default funds for many pension providers (definitely Aviva) are unbelievably conservative, so growth sucks.
They often have much better performing (and higher risk) funds available, but most people don't change from the default
@NeilRos93033708@omega469@cheriegood@TuckerClemens A good fund, on the other hand, will include investment in many of the companies you're going to be targetting under your approach. It's just that the risk is spread across multiple investments.
@NeilRos93033708@omega469@cheriegood@TuckerClemens It can be fun to do, almost like another form of gambling, but it really shouldn't be a primary savings mechanism unless you've collateral to fall back on if the worst happens.
Past performance is no predictor of future performance, but people forget that and made bad choices
@NeilRos93033708@omega469@cheriegood@TuckerClemens Suggesting direct investment as a stability and savings mechanism for the majority of savers is dangerous - there's a reason that financial advice is strictly regulated. The reason you hear about people who've done very well with individual stocks is because they are so few
@NeilRos93033708@omega469@cheriegood@TuckerClemens Earlier in this thread, you complained that you could lose everything within months of becoming ill. Part of the reason you're in that position is because you've chosen an incredibly high risk route. Yes the rewards can be very high but if you're wrong, the consequences are harsh
@NeilRos93033708@omega469@cheriegood@TuckerClemens Again, that's terrible advice for anyone who's not comfortable putting their savings at that level of risk. The idea that you can consistently outperform over an extended period of time a professional fund manager is little more than naive arrogance.
@neil_neilzone Tounge-in-cheek, I think the reason macOS is known as being "the" OS for creatives is because the poor buggers issued with a Mac can't do much else without frustration, so spend their time being creative (and, to be fair, creating wonderful things)
@neil_neilzone Oh, and if you're a docker user on Linux, forget the convenience it brings because you're stuck with docker desktop (which is basically just a small linux VM which then runs your containers) which can't do bind mounts etc.
@neil_neilzone Is that a soapbox... modern macOS is bollocks. The utilities are second citizens compared to the GNU toolset, the over reliance on keyboard shortcuts screws you if you're VNCing on from not-a-Mac, which you'll want to because the keyboard's shit.
I'd actually rather use Windows.
@NeilRos93033708@omega469@cheriegood@TuckerClemens Investments go down as well as up - you can as easily lose money as make some. Investing is fine, but it shouldn't come at the cost of your financial security.
@NeilRos93033708@omega469@cheriegood@TuckerClemens A credit card isn't a solution for some emergencies - there are more than a few plumbers who won't take them, for example.
The point of an emergency fund isn't to grow, it's to prevent the worst happening. You yourself said you'd be on the streets after a 3 month interruption
@davidareader@neil_neilzone@bloggeronpole Conversely though, I guess there's an argument that it is better. You don't necessarily want to signal to an abuser/harasser that you've blocked them - which an outright rejection of their mail would do. If nothing else, it may prompt them to send from different addresses
@davidareader@neil_neilzone@bloggeronpole 100% agreed. It's not really a block if you're actually just accepting mail from them and routing into a different directory.
@davidareader@neil_neilzone@bloggeronpole I had that in the past. Instead you need to create a filter and then you can specify that mail from that source should be deleted.
Completely counter-intuitive IMO
@NeilRos93033708@omega469@cheriegood@TuckerClemens I get good growth from funds, but I also have a safety net built so that if something happened to our income we could weather the storm. Most people are most likely to lose their jobs when markets are down - at which point a S&S only approach would mean crystallising loss
@NeilRos93033708@omega469@cheriegood@TuckerClemens It's easy to say "buy good companies", but the art is in identifying those - a good fund will do that.
Property has an extremely high cost of entry and is difficult to quickly liquidate. If you're buying property instead of building an emergency fund you're taking huge risks
@NeilRos93033708@omega469@cheriegood@TuckerClemens Investing in specific shares, rather than a fund, is also incredibly risky - in effect you're betting that you know better than those who do it for. If you're right, the rewards can be high, but if you're wrong you can end up much worse off
@rdavies6 yeah we're in a similar position, I've optimised quite a lot, but we're at the point where cutting it back any further means giving up some utility
@rdavies6 Yeah we're doing similar - one of my newly found concerns about the air-fryer is how much better the chips are. There's a real risk some meals will become oven + air-fryer rather than just doing it all in the oven.
@rdavies6 Definitely seems worth playing around with. One of the habits I'm trying to break into is turning it off shortly before the end time and letting the residual heat finish the job.
@rdavies6 Nice, that longer burst at the end is interesting - did you do what I sometimes do: take the food out, serve up and then remember to turn the oven off? Wondering if those longer bursts are the result of door opening
@NeilRos93033708@omega469@cheriegood@TuckerClemens Obviously if you're actually rich it's a bit different, as you can start to leverage debt for investing, and usually have assets that can be liquidated if issues arise.
@NeilRos93033708@omega469@cheriegood@TuckerClemens You should only invest money that you don't need in the next ~5 years. Before you start, you should build an emergency fund - 6 months expenses (some go for 12), and pay down any expensive debt. Otherwise you end up in a precarious position if something happens to your wage
@omega469@NeilRos93033708@cheriegood@TuckerClemens It's sad how few people understand proper financial planning, but unfortunately it's just not taught in schools. Sadly it's not uncommon for people to commit each every payrise as they receive them, in part because our education system has failed them.
@omega469@NeilRos93033708@cheriegood@TuckerClemens Some higher earners earn what they do because they took risks earlier in their careers - some of those will only have felt comfortable because we have a social safety net. It's right that we all pay in, because we all benefit from it in some way, even if not directly using it
@omega469@NeilRos93033708@cheriegood@TuckerClemens But the way to address that is very different to how you address the issues faced by families on the poverty line. Good financial planning will help higher earners, but "manage your money better" isn't an answer for those who can't afford basics.
@omega469@NeilRos93033708@cheriegood@TuckerClemens I'm not without sympathy, whilst they're extremely privileged to be in the position they are, it sounds like there's been a lack of contingency planning and quite a lot of lifestyle inflation - that can leave ppl in desperate positions, even if it was initially avoidable
@omega469@NeilRos93033708@cheriegood@TuckerClemens Most income protection wouldn't be a lot of use in the scenario he described - a lot don't pay out for 3 months, so he might already be in a hole at that point.
That's why an emergency fund matters. At £60K inc NI, that's a £150K/yr salary, which should leave room for planning
@richardxxx4@TuckerClemens Indeed they don't, which is why we need to make sure we use a name that ensures that working and middle class people understand exactly what it is and what it's bundled in with
@richardxxx4@TuckerClemens It is a bit damned if you do, damned if you don't though - the underlying problem really, is the ongoing attempt to build a taboo about benefits, and their portrayal as drain on the hardworking taxpayer (all whilst the govt gift their buddies *billions* out of the same pots)
@richardxxx4@TuckerClemens Conversely, if you don't call it a benefit, then a good chunk of the population will continue to indulge in complaining about "people on benefits" and how much the country is spending.
If we're honest about what it is, there's a chance that some will temper their complaints
@richardxxx4@TuckerClemens The problem is, if you don't discuss it as being a benefit, you open yourself to a govt saying "we've got a strong mandate to reduce the benefits bill" followed by screams of "not *that* benefit" as people's state pension is whisked away under the guise of popular support
@omega469@cheriegood@TuckerClemens I never suggested that there was drawdown for state pensions - in fact my entire point was that we all pay in to a great many things without expecting that there'll be a drawdown at the end of it.
@richardxxx4@TuckerClemens Whichever way you spin it, the state pension is a benefit. Which, as you alluded to earlier, means we need to be *extremely* careful about some of the voices who are shouting about reducing the cost of benefits to the state.
Viewing it any other way leaves it very much at risk
@richardxxx4@TuckerClemens How about we split the difference and go with how the law defines it? https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/19/section/1
Or if you prefer, the National Insurance Act 1946 provided *benefits* as a result of illness, unemployment, or old age.
It was predated by a means tested non-contributory pension
@richardxxx4@TuckerClemens Worth noting too, that a high earner pays much, much more NI than a low earner, but if both pay NI for the same amount of time, they'll both be entitled to the same State Pension. That's because it's a benefit and not simply a pot that you're paying into for yourself
@richardxxx4@TuckerClemens Well, no, because some benefits have entitlement levels linked to them. Child Benefit for example - if you earn above a certain threshold, the amount you get tapers off. Job Seekers Allowance is a benefit, but has requirements about needing to have paid NI in the past 2 years
@richardxxx4@TuckerClemens If it were not a benefit, there'd be a link to how much you paid in, rather than how long you paid in for, and you'd not be able to draw out more than you paid in (+ growth), like private pension.
Doesn't change the need to fight to protect it though.
@AmandaTreefield@Owain_jonez@MrVictorJay@TuckerClemens Along with National insurance and (to some extent), National debt.
Your NI wasn't saved up in some account allocated to you, it went to pensioners at the time, social care, NHS, schools etc.
The state pension absolutely is a benefit
@Frances_Coppola@Brian_Sauve > "covering offences with grace"
I think: rather than calling him an arsehole when he's being one, you're supposed to smile, say "yes dear" and go on with your day
His other tweets suggest he offers marriage counselling. Can't imagine his longterm success rate is great
@xciv I can understand putting a banner up as a mark of respect (although maybe not if you're Ann Summers), but this screenshot seems to suggest Toolstation pushed an entire app update for it?
@1Password It'd be really good if there could be support for a path prefix, as well as port number (even if fuzzy matching is on by default, but each cred has a way to toggle it off) - as an easy example, you might have different creds for the site front-end to (say) /administrator
Anyone know if you can configure @1Password's browser extension to take the port (if present) into account?
Creds on port 123 are different to 789 but it suggests all of them.
Keepass lets me specify a URL prefix, where 1pass seems to just extract the hostname
@SeanWrightSec Yep, today has really given people opportunity to show a really nasty callous side of themselves, and a few have lept at that chance. Sad
@MikeRamsay4@ShippersUnbound History doesn't recognise him as a monarch, but even if that were different he'd have been in power after the 1707 act of union, so would have been C3 for both England & Scotland (who were now 1 kingdom). In fact, he wasn't even born when the Act of Union happened
@MikeRamsay4@ShippersUnbound 1707 was when we became the UK, but the union of the crowns happened under James I. So he (and Charles I etc) was king of two kingdoms at the same time, whereas after 1707 it became one.
@Dan_Dan_Dan___@Bad_Journalist2@lewis_goodall They sometimes do. For example, King George VI was actually called Albert. Edward VII was also Albert, Victoria was Alexandrina etc
Monarchs choose their regal name, sometimes using a middle name instead - Charles is Charles Philip Arthur George, so could've gone King George
@SeanWrightSec But we have many writers who will provide you with content for free, you just have to agree to let them write about how much your readers will enjoy our products
@MarinaPurkiss They've also given us 3 PM's in 6 years, each one entitled to draw £115k/yr from the taxpayer for the rest of their lives. We'll be paying £345,000 a year because the Tories can't sort their own shit out, but helping starving people is somehow a handout.
@jimcyl@neil_neilzone@eBay_UK Robust controls are a good thing, but it seems odd that the DPO is restricted to the extent they can't answer concerns.
I'm guessing, though, that if I put a DSAR it'd meet the definition of "legally obligated" and would allow the DPO to check.
Interestingly though, once it's warmed up, the oven uses less power per minute than the air fryer. But, air fryers cook faster than ovens so the oven never quite manages to capitalise on it
The TL:DR is
An #airfryer is more energy efficient than an oven, but only slightly. So, you shouldn't buy one if you're concerned about the #energycrisis because even with the insane #electricity prices that are coming, it'll take years to break even with the purchase price
@Shadow0pz Nah you're not wrong. It's fine to say "can we take a break from this and come back to it later cos it's more than I can currently handle?". Doesn't matter whether you brought it up or not
@nellfallcard@aldapeople21@MalwareTechBlog@GossiTheDog The impact on the victim is the same. And it's the victim we should be focusing on - it doesn't really matter *why* Bob did Y, what matters is how it impacted Alice.
If someone with the best of intent accidentally puts you in a wheelchair for life, you're no more able to walk
@cybergibbons They need a new marketing campaign: Be really careful not to get sunburnt, otherwise you'll spend weeks being told how dangerous it is on social media.
@neil_neilzone When people say "military grade" I tend to assume they mean "the suppliers charged us at least 20x off-the-shelf prices because they've certified for this use"
@cybergibbons You seem to have missed "cyclists slow me down when there's a nuclear bomb counting down on my back seat and I need to get to the coast quickly to diffuse it using a special kind of shell only found on that one beach"
@SeanWrightSec The reports I saw suggested that the edit history will be visible, so whilst someone could change their trending tweet, it'd be obvious that they did so.
It might even be that re-tweets eventually end up carrying the version that they re-tweeted rather than the eventual edit?
@AracerRacer@cybergibbons Similar one is not to have the extractor fan on when showering. Because condensation in an unheated house isn't going to lead to fungal growth + health issues.
@popey It's a means to step around and ignore your evidence based statement about the store having value to a subset of users - can't argue with that, so instead attacks the way you've said it.
@obedisae@hakusaro@GossiTheDog@BunnyCDN You won't find much except CF for free. Bunny charge for what you use though, so the cost might well be pretty low if you're not seeing much traffic - IIRC you can set a cap to make sure you don't get bill shock if traffic picks up
@hakusaro@obedisae@GossiTheDog@BunnyCDN FWIW, I use Bunny. Generally pretty happy with them - costs are sensible, interface is reasonable (and there's an API if you prefer), and delivery is reliable.
Caching's really not much more effort to set up than CF either
@TanvirHamid1982@supertanskiii I got in an argument with some of these guys a while back, they blocked me and then started tweeting about how I didn't want to pay any tax. We'd never talked about money or tax.
A significant number of them are just full of shit
@JimMFelton@xciv I think what he meant to say was: it's important to have perspective, yes his incompetence & failure to act will leave you freezing and hungry, but that same incompetence also killed thousands during covid, and you weren't one of them, so should be thanking the boot in your neck
@lockdownurlife Or indeed sites that are used to dox & organise harassment (a certain fruit farm comes to mind), despite one of their items being
> including content that discloses sensitive personal information
They can write anything, it means nothing if they're not willing to enforce it.
@c_i_s_k_e@alsutton The introduction works just as well if you omit those things completely though - Studied a masters etc. I'd probably cut off or move "Originally from Turkey" too - you're supposed to be selling their skills and experience
@Tucker5law Whatever they do in the short term, they also need to pull their thumbs out and do some proper long term planning around supply.
Won't happen with the current lot though
@JibberJim@neil_neilzone@AlecMuffett@w3c They almost certainly do. User-agent client hints include whether the device is a mobile device or not, as well as the underlying platform (linux, windows, android etc) - #navigatoruadata' target=_blank rel='nofollow noopener'>https://wicg.github.io/ua-client-hints/#navigatoruadata
If anything it's *easier* to tell nowadays, as you don't have to parse arbitrary UAs
Managed to use .5 of a unit in gas this month, which pissed @edfenergy's meter entry form off - they don't take the decimal, so it initially objected to the reading being the same as last month.
@lilianedwards@neil_neilzone I'm sure there's a market for someone to release a kettle that counts how many times you've turned it "on" and only actually powers the heating element a few clicks in :D
@neil_neilzone@lilianedwards Yeah, the numbers seems really sus to me too. When I measured back in June, it was 1p a boil - price will be double that in Oct, so 2p a boil.
@TMurrayKent@thenitinsawhney@SangitaMyska@LBC It takes a certain type of control/courage to be able to sit and talk about it that well. In her position, I don't think I'd find words which could be aired during the day.
Understanding causes is important, but there's absolutely no excuse for Anna's small minded racism
There's something unbelievably suspect about these figures.
Plus, given businesses don't benefit from an energy price cap, they'd probably actually be better off subsidising wfh so that they can reduce their more expensive energy usage. https://twitter.com/willydunn/status/1563163887666892800
@lennyvalentino@willydunn And, of course, the article ignores that business energy costs are uncapped. Businesses will want people to wfh to drive their own costs down, and for many it'll still be cheaper to wfh than to travel in (because commuting costs money and often annihilates the "savings").
@SeanWrightSec Meh, out of time for looking at this.
One final thing: we've all chuckled at "just use jquery" in the past, but these guys are loading jquery seemingly just to update window.location.href. I suspect though, that that fetch of remote/fetch.php is used to try and exclude bots/curl
@SeanWrightSec I haven't got time to sit and work through the various permutations, but I'd guess if you indicate a specific android version (and/or chrome version) you'll get a payload
@SeanWrightSec It was sent to your phone, so use a phone UA. With a UA indicating edge on android, I get this. That php script redirects to another, which sends me onto evri.
If I indicate chrome/android the path is different, but still takes me to evri.
They're targetting a specific UA https://twitter.com/bentasker/status/1564566843054034945/photo/1
Oh for fuck sake.
Finally got around to upgrading to @ubuntu 22.04 and @firefox has moved into a #snap.
That'll be my password manager extension broken then. Grr
@moiracathleen@Dirtfarmr@PaddyBriggs@BorisJohnson@POTUS@polit2k@Sysparatem Every little helps. It'd also help if the govt reversed cuts on renewables funding, subsidising solar to help run those ASHP and reduce demand on the grid etc.
Unfortunately they currently think reducing taxes will help those who already don't pay much (if any) tax with the cost
@Frances_Coppola It's hard to come up with a word other than negligent for this, especially given they've then tried to push the blame onto the consumer.
@moiracathleen@Dirtfarmr@PaddyBriggs@BorisJohnson@POTUS@polit2k@Sysparatem Oh no, they're not going to *steal* it. They'll jam things in the fans, chuck stuff over the heat exchangers, see whether they can knock it over etc.
I had concrete thrown over my motorbike for no other reason than someone left a bucket out down the road.
@Dirtfarmr@PaddyBriggs@moiracathleen@BorisJohnson@POTUS@polit2k@Sysparatem Yeah it's more the ledge than the window to be fair, but you're also going to want a bit more clearance between your door + ASHP than would be tolerated with bins.
Just for completeness: in a lot of places, even if you could, you don't want your ASHP outside in easy vandal reach
@Dirtfarmr@PaddyBriggs@moiracathleen@BorisJohnson@POTUS@polit2k@Sysparatem Because the ASHP is wider than is is tall, we can't just turn it sideways.
From experience, the back is often even more limited.
The mid-terraces are screwed - the end terraces are the only ones likely wall space they could use (but may lack rights to the land they'd overlap)
@Dirtfarmr@PaddyBriggs@moiracathleen@BorisJohnson@POTUS@polit2k@Sysparatem The other side of the window has the same issue (and would need the phone line moved to boot).
There's space under the window (ignoring the airbrick), but the ASHP is too tall: 31 inches - about 5 inches shorter than the bins.
Above the window is also too small
@Dirtfarmr@PaddyBriggs@moiracathleen@BorisJohnson@POTUS@polit2k@Sysparatem If we wave that away, and check space.
The ASHP you linked is nearly a foot deep. So it's going to encroach onto public land by 1ft.
Those wheelie bins are about 45cm wide, each. The ASHP is 36" so a little more than 2 bins. The bins overlap the window there isn't room there
@Dirtfarmr@PaddyBriggs@moiracathleen@BorisJohnson@POTUS@polit2k@Sysparatem OK, so firstly: the planning exemption only allows for one, so you need planning permission for any additional. That 1 must be >= 1 metre from the property boundary, so you can't fit to the front of the pictured houses at all, and if you could cannot be fitted above ground level
@Dirtfarmr@PaddyBriggs@moiracathleen@BorisJohnson@POTUS@polit2k@Sysparatem How small do you think our bins are if you think there's enough space there?
It's not just wallspace though, most homes also need new pipes & radiators for a ASHP, so that's floors up etc. Then the house needs to be extremely well insulated.
It's a complete non-starter for many
@8none1 From what I've seen, there's a hell of a waiting list, so if you pull the trigger now you *should* still have plenty of time to rethink if prices somehow magically recover.
You'll also have time to put some away to reduce the size of the loan you need.
@Scott_Helme@sjmurdoch@TheRealRevK@YesCompSols You need a license to make denatured alcohol (think Meths etc), but you're not adding anything that'd make it unfit for consumption, so wouldn't apply. In effect, you're just refining the alcohol - can't find anything that's likely to apply as long as you don't then adulterate
@TheRealRevK Dropping the temperature on washers will still help - most of the heat isn't radiated into the house but flushed down the drain. But, yeah, everything else at least contributes to room temperature
@TheRealRevK Good article - it's also worth making sure you use kitchen appliances in Eco mode (if they've got one). I ran the numbers a while back and did a write-up for dishwasher + washing machine. Also kettle + smaller amounts, but you've got that.
@PeterCarruther7@TheRealRevK > boiling water at full heat, even though it can't cook any faster than a moderate boil.
A surprising number of people don't seem to get this.
@SeanWrightSec According to the bit at the top, the coolest ones are "the most in-demand by employers", so I suspect that's their definition.
That definition also means till operator is the "coolest" job in retail though...
@northoxford I bought the item, but I don't trust the post-office, please hand deliver it to my remote location in the highlands, for the same price.
I had a few in the past where the winner was awkward and ignored things like "will only ship inside the UK" or "Payment via Paypal only"
@suziefbrown@SangitaMyska@supertanskiii@LBC@MimiJ9 She mentioned Marcus Rashford too. He was born.... In Manchester. I wonder what about him motivated her to single him out alongside Sangita as "come on UK TV and Radio".
Positively ignorant...
@hines_stephen As far as jaywalking goes, I stand corrected on the definition. But, it's not exactly in widespread use here, given it's associated with the criminal meaning. As a cyclist, do you really want to push for terminology that arises from cars being given dominance over the roads?
@hines_stephen This isn't a motorway (R6). The road user still has a significant duty of care (R204). In the video we're commenting under, it's the cyclist who's at fault (See R198). Also has too much speed when approaching a bend he can't see round in a pedestrianised area
@hines_stephen@robtelford@MikeyCycling@robskicyclist Then you've used an incorrect term. Jaywalking is specifically about crossing in contravention of traffic rules.
We don't have a name, other than "careless" for what you describe - and they *still* have right of way, it's your responsibility to account for them
@cybergibbons Talk about clutching defeat from the jaws of victory. Rather than pointing out the cyclist was wrong (speed, right of way etc etc), he's reached and missed
@alexbloor The farm full of sheep etc felt a little out of place, but yeah, it made for a nice stop, especially after years of seeing the signs and saying "must go there at some point"
@alexbloor Nice.
I once saw a Heron pretending to be a Penguin. We stopped at Birdworld off the M3 (to finally found out what it was like). There were a pair nesting above the penguins, and at feeding time one would stand still amongst the penguins hoping to snaffle some fish.
@MarinaPurkiss@DPJHodges These guys are always on about the bounceback - build back better etc.
They never look to prevent the disaster, only to tell us how golden it'll be after people have had their lives destroyed.
@BiscuitTin15@prestwichpapers@SkyNews If you're currently fixed you can't really compare yourself to the people who are impacted by the price rise. You'll be impacted when your fix ends though.
My gas+electric was a little higher than yours - about £90/mo. Now it's closer to £300
@Abster_1983@SkyNews To put that into easy terms, the difference in the energy cap between Summer last year and October this year, is a couple hundred over your monthly take home.
They've basically taken an entire month out of your entire yearly budget.
Scary.....
@Richard14098926@supertanskiii Yeah pretty much this - getting in early and having conversations about how people like Tate are complete fucking knobsacks that spread poison & lies to try and cultivate hatred. It just rolls in with the other aspects of being safe on the internet to be honest: recognising lies.
@Frances_Coppola They'll be sprinkling salt across the boundary next.
Have they started campaigning against the places that have curtains instead of doors yet? Or are those OK because men aren't generally interested in curtains?
@M_Kacz_M@alexbloor Your problem is here
> av€/kW - 0,23€
You're replying to a UK person, commenting on a UK centric article.
Electricity prices here are currently more like 0.58€/kW, which turns your maths on it's head.
As people have been pointing out in this thread and the other
@jimcyl@neil_neilzone@eBay_UK Thanks, both explanations would seem to make sense.
I've got comms open with them anyway (though they're very slow to reply) so I'm going to try and get some clarification at the same time.
@lizzieBusey@imtheis@Frances_Coppola@marksandspencer When everyone is reading your paragraph and saying "WTF?" it's not generally the reader, but the author who's at fault.
That you've had to clarify it separately highlights that.
@SarahRosemary3@danwootton That's a bit longer than the word that pops into my head when I see him.
Thanks to the government he's so happily propped up, we all need to make efficiency savings, and I'm saving letters by only using 4
Although they don't say *what*, following a #GDPR deletion request, @eBay_UK retain some data for purposes including "exercising the right of freedom of expression and information"
Seems a bit weird: it's supposed to protect journalism, academic, artistic & literary expression https://twitter.com/bentasker/status/1562855969440567296/photo/1
@kafkaswife The number of them complaining about the UK pension being the lowest in Europe, whilst reading the Telegraph, so presumably voting for the Tories again, and again, and again.
@alexbloor Bloor Street sounds like you've started your own soap.
I look forward to the episode where Frank gets caught stealing & selling your lenses for funds to secretly invest in W3W
@GussyJackson@ChannelUK1 Not sure of the relevance of your link though. Did you think I don't think Lavery is a nutjob?
It's possible, believe it or not, to not like Boris and not be a Corbynista.
Also doesn't change that the OP didn't seem to have read the article they tweeted
@GussyJackson@ChannelUK1 That wasn't so hard was it - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-62546712
> Presenter Sally Nugent challenged him after Gordon Brown made remarks in the Guardian about politicians going on holiday during crises.
Maybe Boris provides more opportunity, especially given he's the PM?
@ChannelUK1 Did you actually read the story, or just the headline?
They mis-stated how records would be held.
It's a bit like claiming something's been buried when in fact it's on the front page - inaccurate, but not exactly news worthy
@ChannelUK1@cybergibbons Hahahaha you think he's a student? Mate, I've got news for you, you're not the credible one in this thread, by a long long shot. One of you shows their working, the other makes whatever claim pops into their head.
And the front-page isn't exactly buried.
@NJ_Timothy By these people you mean Telegraph authors right? Maybe if we did send a few client journalists over they'd stop supporting this bollocks and focus a bit more on the failures of the government
Of course, I might be looking at it the wrong way: the site might be part of a police sting. Based on the content of the site, I don't think so, but if it were the failures are (IMO) even worse as it risks exposure before it's even started (and nicks my template to boot)
If you're inclined to adopt a handle rather than use your own name, you almost certainly don't want your safety (or the security of your job) reliant on a third party's willingness to share the information that you're leaking.
If you're allied to a team, all the more so
- Be aware of any identifying data your system might leak
- Make sure your test devices are connected to the network you think they are
- Make sure your VPN/Tor is actually active before testing
And for god sake, if something in the template says analytics, turn it the fuck off
There are some Opsec lessons here:
- If you're using someone else's template (stolen or not), review what it does.
- Don't leave unnecessary 3rd part deps
- Avoid testing by opening files directly from the FS (it can leak paths and usernames), or do it in a dedicated VM
The result isn't just that I know roughly who he is - his site is absolutely *riddled* with clear references to me (https://bentasker.co.uk/). So anyone trying to find out who he is is likely to come my way: he's then entirely reliant on how likely I am to resist whoever's asking
So, we've got a guy in SEA touting his OSINT services, but in the course of development has managed to
- leave (obvious) external probes and references active in the template
- leak his name, (rough) location and mobile ISP
- accidentally test the site from a police network
The new site is almost exactly the same: an image has been changed, the alias has changed, but the same (non-english) language is used on both and the same webhost is used
There are some other bits which strongly link the 2, but I can't share them without risking identifying him
The original site disappeared shortly after I emailed him.
I emailed him again about this latest activity, but he never replies and the site is still up (in fact, he was active again last night).
He previously did the same thing on a different domain (which no longer serves anything), with a different alias (and a contact email)
I know the two are related because, in his initial localhost testing, the page title was that of the original site.
The site in question is very simple, but contains his hacking alias as well as the name of the team he aligns himself with.
This also isn't the first time I've seen traffic from him
He also tested from a Galaxy Note 20, but it wasn't tethered or VPNd, originating from an IP smack in the middle of the address space allocated to a NATIONAL POLICE agency in his country of origin.
It looks like he tested whilst at work and forgot to check which wifi he was on
He tested from multiple devices: His Windows box, a linux box, and a Samsung A13.
The Windows box is obviously tethered to the A13. He sometimes uses a VPN and/or Tor.
There was no VPN during the initial testing, and no consistent use after.
He started by editing the page & loading/testing it locally on his Windows machine, so analytics logged a file path including his username (his name). There are repeated hits from the same mobile ISP over 48hrs
Eventually he switched to loading it from hosting via a fqdn https://twitter.com/bentasker/status/1562040721049280513/photo/1
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There's a guy in South East Asia who ripped the template from one of my sites. He's left the analytics probes active, and has even left the https://schema.org/ markup declaring me as the author of the page.
He's advertising his #OSINT services
@ledredman@edwinhayward Yep, we've got a couple of halogens left. The kitchen spots are all LED bar one, the driver needs the load and I'd need to pull the floor in the room above to get at and replace it. One left in the shower extractor fan too.
@bicycal_life@MikeyCycling@markvauxhall@UB1UB2 The only issue I have with this is that it relies on too much faith in that sort of driver. The limiter won't stop them trying, they'll just still be on the wrong side when they hit the blind bend
@gracepetrie And yet, when talking about something that's clearly coming down the line, you still get people saying "ah, they'll never let it happen" as justification for doing nowt.
It's not just here either, the second nearest venue is 20 miles away in a big town, also no appointments until to Dec.
You used to be able to more or less just walk in, now it's being run like it's an exclusive club.
Madness
It really amazes me just how hard they've made it to @GiveBloodNHS. Next available appointment is December. they're next here in October, but are out of appointments, because they only seem to do 30 appts per visit
I was only a month or so back we were being told of shortages.
@NexusUKOrg@neil_neilzone@edent I can pay to set up a redirect from my old address to my new though, and that can be done indefinitely. Phone numbers are a much more finite resource than domain names - the address space is dialing code + 6 digits, whereas a domain name can be 255 octets
@NexusUKOrg@neil_neilzone@edent Although not quite the same thing, I don't remove subdomains that I've used - if I no longer want to serve the content I return a 410 (ideally with pointers to similar stuff), so that anyone following external links knows it's gone rather than broken.
@NexusUKOrg@neil_neilzone@edent I tend to disagree. If your old email is published places you can't remove it, it makes sense to keep the "idle" domain with or without MX records pointing somewhere that means you'll get (or bounce) the mail.
Otherwise someone emailing "you" may reach someone less pleasant
@NexusUKOrg@neil_neilzone@edent Isn't the point though, that @edent wants to keep paying for it, but doesn't want the periodic risk of forgetting/failing to renew?
I.e. pay x up front for multiple decades of use and then don't need to worry about it again.
He never said anything about keeping it for free
@opinions_txt@k8em0 There's a section in that story about him using a pulse monitor during arguments to show his heart rate hadn't risen, hers had, and therefore she was being irrational.
In an article full of awfulness, it stood out as a massive alarm bell about his underlying character
@cillic@humanhacker Not sure about US defamation law, but presumably Defcon only need to show a good faith belief that the complaints were true? If so, redacted records would show the investigation.
Which'd backfire massively on him because the substance of the allegations would then be known
@lorenzofb Unfortunately, some services are starting to *require* a verified phone number, even though there are better/safer options available. A certain large secondhand marketplace comes to mind. It's thoughtless and helps enable attacks like these
@alexbloor@NexusUKOrg That's what I run into, I can easily park and charge. But, I no longer do nearly enough miles to make it worth the switch - the breakeven for cost (£ and environmental) would be way, way out.
When I was doing mileage, range would have been an issue (though things have improved)
@FactsParamount@jo_is_jo@hannahposts We used to stop off for a fag on the way back, but other than that there were no real issues at my (rough) school either. The ones most likely to vandalise generally wouldn't turn up for the lesson in the first place, and the rest of us wouldn't take the piss too badly
@WebDevLaw Aside from the irony of the anti-snowflakes being the one's constantly complaining, I've never really understood the mindset behind it - we had it hard, so how dare you make life a little easier for those that follow?
@RobertJBateman There's very little good that comes from collecting, them, and a lot of bad that comes from them leaking.
Signal would work just as well using a handle based system. 2FA works better and more safely without phone numbers etc etc
@RobertJBateman They shouldn't be required. The whole Twilio thing was possible because someone somewhere leaked the phone numbers + names which could then be correlated with info about Twilio employees to pick targets.
I wrote recently about how the industry needs to stop collecting numbers
@SeanWrightSec One small saving grace, they do at least let you change your email (you need to do it on the team too though), so I've been able to proactively block the one that was leaked
Exactly this - Signal's design perpetuates the issue. If they'd not used phone numbers as an identifier, they wouldn't have been there to compromise.
It's a vicious circle as an industry we need to break it.
https://twitter.com/jzikusooka/status/1559232642054344704
@torysleazeUK@forexposure_txt this seems like it fits well with your normal fare, fancy "aggregating" this tweet justifying ripping other people's tweet off?
@supertanskiii@miffythegamer The system he's using probably doesn't sign in as him, so won't see the block. Pretty sure what he's doing is against the ToS though, so might be hitting Report.
@llegrastratton@supertanskiii It's automated - https://dlvr.it/ is a platform for automating social media posts. Normally you'd point it at a RSS feed or similar source, looks like they've pointed it at a bunch of large Twitter accounts instead
@k8em0@JLLeitschuh But, if you accepted and subsequently breached the NDA, wouldn't they need to present it in open court to show what you agreed to? If it genuinely is sensitive then someone screwed up the drafting
@neil_neilzone That was my thinking when I read it earlier too. When I was younger, I asked a bus company to provide CCTV from the bus where a bunch of lads tried to go for me - wanted it in case they tried again - but Bus co told me that as I wasn't a copper they wouldn't even bother checking.
@lanux_mage@MariusQuabeck@popey I've written about it elsewhere, but also, Gitlab's SEO isn't great, so there may (I've not checked) be a better chance of a github repo popping up in search engine results
@lanux_mage@MariusQuabeck@popey Mainly the size of the userbase. What numbers I could find suggests that Github has 73million users, whilst gitlab has 30m.
Github also does the feed thing, pushing repos they think you'll like. I hate it, but it does help discoverability.
@hgodden00@lanux_mage@MariusQuabeck@popey No, but there's a much, much better chance of someone having a github account than there is of them having an account on some other platform (even the public gitlab).
Of course, Github can be used as a SSO provider, it's possible to mitigate (but still suffer in dicoverability)
@lanux_mage@MariusQuabeck@popey Projects are also more discoverable, leading to an increase in users (who wouldn't have found your stuff otherwise, even if they would have happily contributed had they known about you)
@lanux_mage@MariusQuabeck@popey My experience has been that GH attracts more contributors. People can chuck a PR in easily - no creating an account on your platform, or emailing diffs - removing that barrier to entry means you get more fixes for small but annoying stuff rather than getting "I should, but cba"
@alexbloor I logged in yesterday to check mine - provider doesn't show an up to date balance. I can see where we were when billed in March, but the next bill won't be 'til November.
I've got out readings, so gonna have to do some fag packet maths
@onesambutler@n0rtr0n@RayRedacted Yep, seems the outcome is what we both expected: the ICO's taken no action because they're satisfied with Barclay's claim that it's essential for security reasons.
@SaifUlI25919743@BleepinComputer Worth noting it's not just stuff like Duo/Oktapush that's affected - the same techniques can be used (and are arguably more effective) with SMS 2FA as well, just another reason no sane company should be implementing it
@SaifUlI25919743@BleepinComputer Though in this case, sounds like they combined it with voice phishing. So they bombard you with prompts and then phone with "hi it's Roy from support, there's an issue with your account, you might have seen the prompts. If you click allow it'll stop them while we fix this"
@SaifUlI25919743@BleepinComputer Overloading the user - chuck prompt after prompt at them. Eventually they'll click allow, either accidentally, or in an attempt to shut the prompts up.
It's a fairly major flaw in prompt based MFA tbh, better to have you enter a TOTP code (or press a dongle etc)
@onesambutler@n0rtr0n@RayRedacted However, I did get mailed a few months back by someone who had put a complaint in with the ICO about it. I should really follow up and see how they got on
@onesambutler@n0rtr0n@RayRedacted Unfortunately not, I got stuck in a loop with them. The response to my complaint was them replying with how to raise a complaint (which you can do via that form, via online banking etc).
Life kinda took over, so I never followed up beyond that - normally I'm more bloody minded
@neil_neilzone Agreed, and if that wasn't bad enough, there seem to be endless reports of the energy companies raising DDs much higher than actually needed - the last increase they tried on mine was overinflated by £200/month.
@neil_neilzone Some companies are better than others - I've had reasonable success when EDF have tried to raise my DD - I take their projected unit price, run it against last 2 years usage, and tell them to drop the DD to whatever price it comes out at.
Sounds like some companies won't tho
@neil_neilzone Splitting hairs is important here: the cap applies to bills/charges. Despite the headline, bills won't increase before October, but the direct debit amount that energy companies take out in anticipation of future bills will.
It's still utterly bollocks though.
@dangoodin001@ErrataRob There's a apparently a similar tactic used with company social accounts. You tweet out complaining about your ISP, and quickly receive a DM from their "help" asking for details. The real account might reply publicly to your tweet a bit later, but by then it's too late.
@AmazonHelp Yeah, treated it like a phone routing system and just typed OPERATOR at it til it gave in :)
Looks like this is the same old story - Amazon sticking the Prime label on stuff it shouldn't. Given the inflated price of Prime stuff, it's borderline scammy behaviour IMO
@AmazonHelp Sorry that's no use. Your autobot tries to make me contact the seller, what I want to know is whether Amazon logistics actually have it, and whether it's actually going to turn up.
If not, I'll likely want to cancel and I'll buy from somewhere more reliable
Sigh, looks like today's another example of @AmazonUK Prime being useless when not fulfilled by Amazon (even if Amazon logistics are involved).
Is it dispatched, or is it not? Maybe it will be here by 9pm, but they normally turn up around lunchtime, so I'm guessing not https://twitter.com/bentasker/status/1557403377696489472/photo/1
@alexbloor You can't see the end of the sign, they're talking about multiple parsnips but the gap to the next letter is wider because there's an apostrophe there.
The full sign says make parsnip's great again
@domwhist@JolyonMaugham I saw a claim a while back that whilst on a school board she tried to reject a valid FOI request on the basis that it wasn't phrased politely enough. A little bit of power and all that.
Unfortunately, it doesn't make her any less dangerous
@RupertMyers Is it the belief or the action that's being punished though? You can't sanction the belief, but you can sanction untoward behaviour arising from those beliefs.
Simply not adopting a preferred pronoun is very different to repeatedly using a different pronoun to cause discomfort
@AndrewYee2 It's to try and get you to establish contact - helps avoid their account showing up in stats as sending a lot of DMs (and/or then getting reported). Once you contact them they'll proceed as normal with their pitch, phishing or whatever their intent is.
I wonder if @fesshole tested this before publishing?
Otherwise in a week there might be a new one: "I told fesshole that you could fit a large costa into a regular cup, and people across the country tried it and made a complete tit of themselves in their local garage" https://twitter.com/fesshole/status/1556677879970275329
@supertanskiii@DPJHodges I feel like there was a time when Dan at least tried to hide it a little. Nowadays he comes across as though he's a male version of Nads, completely besotted with Boris and whatever he says or does.
"The ultimate price", talk about hyperbole, he's on holiday still being paid.
@neil_neilzone Try setting UseDNS no in the server's config. If you're getting a full timeout it's probably not that, but it's quick/easy enough to exclude it.
Does the tcp connection establish ok?
@neil_neilzone Does the ssh connection fail over v4 or is it just slow as hell to establish?By default openssh does a reverse lookup on connecting clients - I've had issues in the past where that slowed things down to the point it looked like it was hanging
@pjk_software@HannahAlOthman The statistics are very much against you. Ignoring the callousness in your comparison of Baby P to a late stage abortion, the very fact that we know that name is a sign of how rare cases like that are. Maybe don't criminalise healthcare on the basis of a few extreme examples?
@pjk_software@HannahAlOthman Outside of mistakes like this one, a woman who has a late term abortion was *by definition* expecting to have a baby & might even have a name/clothes ready. No-one has a late term abortion simply by choice. All that happens is people in desperate situations are criminalised
@markjhooper@Frances_Coppola yep, it's really just a question of who's likely to make repairing the damage harder.
Despite reality, I'm holding onto a small & naive hope that they're both really a pair of liars saying what they think they need to to win, and that both lack the capacity to actually implement
@alexbloor It really is quite terrifying - we're slowly proceeding towards the abyss as there's nothing we can do to stop it. Even the 200K who can do something can only mitigate it a bit, but based on polling, they seem to prefer her promises of cheese today.
@neil_neilzone No email either - most mail servers are going to connect out using TLS nowadays, and there's no disputing the email is communication.
What a nasty overreaching thing this is.
@MuteDialog@latikambourke Most newer phones are dual SIM (or single sim and e-sim) so there's no need to constantly swap SIMs and sideloading is a piece of cake. It might be annoying to have to stick money on payg, but seems like a no-brainer if the other option is no access
@25deadbatts@StOnSoftware@latikambourke True enough, the darknet gets a bad rap on that front. But, it's still a problem for the govt: implementing AV pushes kids from a (loosely) regulated space to an entirely unregulated one. Regardless of the availability of extreme content on the clearnet, that's a massive own goal
@kalisana@latikambourke If politicians start referring to web filters as "basically being like desalination plants", you're going to have a lot to answer for.
@25deadbatts@StOnSoftware@latikambourke That was actually one of the risks identified in the govt's assessment of age verification - that it'd risk pushing kids onto the dark net where they'd be exposed to more extreme stuff.
They identified the risk and then basically ignored it
@MuteDialog@latikambourke Your suggestion of appending an under-age header only works with the system browser. Kid would just install (side-load if necessary) Firefox, Opera, Brave, etc.
Without that, they'd also be signalling they were underage everywhere they went, which might have nasty side effects
@MuteDialog@latikambourke Limiting data traffic after 11pm just means browsing happens earlier, *or* they nab themselves a PAYG SIM that isn't on a kid plan and use that instead, or piggyback on someone else's wifi etc etc etc
@MuteDialog@latikambourke Mobile operators already offer filters (and adult filters have been enabled by default for years), but network level filters are of limited use in the age of DoH. Any filter on the device itself is useless because the teen has the device in their possession
@MuteDialog@latikambourke You can't rule out "this is impossible" on the basis that you've made suggestions that won't actually work in practice. Plus, the govt isn't interested in making things "a bit of an effort", the OSB pretends that near-absolute coverage is possible
@neil_neilzone Now hang on a sec, I don't think you've thought this through... there was some stuff on Teletext that wasn't kid suitable they used to carry classifieds including semi-adult personals. We clearly need multi-tier Teletext too
@0DDJ0BB@Ret0n I like later in the thread where it basically says if you're setting boundaries then it's time to quit because your heart obviously isnt in it.
Grade A bullshit. A healthy worklife balance is essential to wellbeing
@Chillbilly31@lockdownurlife As well as this, I tend to set up OpenVPN/Wireguard on a server before leaving, and then once I'm in country enable it on everything I've taken with me.
There are a huge range of mature options available to implement things like authentication (e.g. #2fa), so the mandatory use of #SMS for this purpose is hard to justify, given the potential consequences of a mistake.
Anti-harassment laws are very welcome, but are only useful when the harasser is within legal reach. It's very difficult to do anything about foreign harasser
The law is really only a defence of last resort
So, the bar for justifying collection should be much higher than it is.
No matter how well data is protected against external threats, the risk posed by an #insider is much harder to guard against.
And, once a number's out there, there's very little that can be done.
It really is hard to overstate the psychological harm that can be done if your phone number falls into unwanted hands.
One of the way that that happens is data-leaks from services that hold your number. Just this month, Twitter has allegedly leaked the numbers of 5.4m users.
Valid phone numbers are an absolute gift to #harassers and #stalkers, and thanks to the greed of certain mobile providers can even be used to track the physical location of the phone. When combined with other details #scammers can present a more convincing story to a mark
@AmeliaRocket1@Twitspice@Chuddmeister So mean :) It's been years and I still miss them at times, not least because the pain I was taking them for hasn't gone
@Twitspice@Chuddmeister@AmeliaRocket1 The irony is, I was switched over to Tramadol because they'd discovered co-codamol could be addictive after a few days, and I'd been on it for months. At the time, tramadol was sold as non-addictive...
@Twitspice@Chuddmeister@AmeliaRocket1 That's how I found out: went to the dr because I was feeling ill over xmas holidays. Did bloodtests & found nothing, then it went away by itself. Next holiday off work, it came back. Figured out I was sleeping in in the mornings and missing the morning dose as a result
@KonstantWeddige@arthurian_red@GossiTheDog Agreed, storing indefinitely is not OK. But, although the chain was years ago, it was only deleted a few months ago - well within a reasonable backup retention period.
@KonstantWeddige@arthurian_red@GossiTheDog Does deleting a DM constitute a request for erasure under GDPR though? I'm not sure that it does as a request should be made verbally or in writing.
It's probably not reasonable to expect an org to rewrite their backups every time someone clicks the delete button on a DM
@Shadow0pz I think there's an element of luck with timing too - I've tweeted out links to stuff that I thought was nbd and it's gone big, and I've tweeted stuff that I thought would go (quite) big and it's been near radio silence
@Shadow0pz I think part of it is frequency of tweeting - quite a few of the bigger accounts I follow tweet *all the time* (even if it's shitposting). That leads to more visibility/ engagement, so they're more likely to appear in non-follower's timelines (because someone they follow liked)
@neil_neilzone@KathRella@Deadbolt84 I have 2fa enabled on LI. When I sign in it prompts me for the TOTP code from Authy, but also inexplicably emails me to ask me to... input the code from my app.
I don't think their mails are an attempt to drive traffic so much as a lack of joined up thinking
@Jinom@Frances_Coppola Whatever it is, I'm more concerned that she thinks it's *worse* than all the scandals that have happened in the decades since, including Willowbrook infecting disabled children in experiments.
Adding a silhouette to a logo is worse than that?
@neil_neilzone It'll be interesting to see if they start claiming that it's simply not mathematically possible for them to implement without severely compromising other things that policing is used for.
@Turloughc@AdrianChaffey@MarinaPurkiss This. He said it was not pre-arranged, he did not say it was unexpected.
He's using dodgy language - officials knew of the party in advance, but he presents it as if they knew about the meeting in advance.
Same with his declaration of the stay - it only notes hospitality
@TheRealRevK@ispreview I suspect at some point there'll be a story in the paper about how residents wanting fibre have been quoted an "outrageous" amount for connection, which'll completely fail to mention this story.
@Interpipes@alexbloor@neil_neilzone Based on her general competence, I'd imagine when deployed the only effect it'll actually have is to block her own website.
@MarinaPurkiss Did you find it odd that Truss "not seen it, not doing twitter" was the first to mention Claire's (saying she didn't think Chris had been) and then later said "hows she know where I shop?". Noone actually said Nads had said they were from Claire's.
@damocrat Even if they were willing, answering it honestly would lose them the contest. That's the cost of a system where the decision's left to a bunch of headbangers nutty enough to pay this lot membership fees.
@Maggie_Perhaps@IanDunt I'm not sure peanut butter on a snap trap is the best idea when there's a daxie about. Doesn't matter how well you stash the trap, they find a way to get to them
How do people work with Macs all day, 5 minutes and I'm cursing the thing.
"You're running the latest version - [outdated version]". Reboot "oh, there is one".
It's like Apple used Windows ME as an example of their quality goals.
@neil_neilzone@Siftah@ninkosan Yep. There's some DNS weirdness too - there's a coredns container that until recently used DoT to send queries to Cloudflare rather than the DHCP provided resolver, so using local hostnames in automations wouldn't work. You either fit the intended usecase or you don't
@SwiftOnSecurity > Understand that nothing in the computer is magical
Apart from the magic smoke, which we've all accidentally let escape at least once
@ninkosan@Siftah@neil_neilzone I've used the ovh and really didn't get on with it.I use it on a pi now largely without issue. The project sometimes makes odd choices that you can't avoid with hassOS though
@supertanskiii I'm not sure they care about how much money they can get out of it, it's about their twisted desire to exercise control.
They'd go for you even if you only had a quid
@SpacePootler@cybergibbons See, I think I'd get served first.
But, I think we're probably both suffering from a sort of observation bias - when we listen to it, our brains seize on the bits that seem familiar and flush the rest out.
As you say, local dialect will play into it a bit too
@SpacePootler@cybergibbons If you and I walked into a shop in Spain now, assuming they hadn't heard UK/US variants before, and tried to order by simply saying the word - who do you think would get served first?
@SpacePootler@cybergibbons You can't talk about something uniting all UK dialects and then complain about generalising :)
There's more to words than the number of syllables - US pronunciation sounds nothing like the spanish example I shared. That they have a common number of syllables doesn't change that
@SpacePootler@cybergibbons It could take a long time even not in text :) You realise as a nation we're known for arguing whether it's pronounced scone or scon? Then, of course, once you've ordered the things there's an argument about whether it's cream or jam first
@SpacePootler@cybergibbons That, I believe is actually a myth - Elizabeth David noted that you could get olive oil at a chemist, but it was actually available in posher grocers etc.
@SpacePootler@cybergibbons I work with Americans all day, and haven't noticed "gone" as different (maybe it's not come up). How are you pronouncing it?
@SpacePootler@cybergibbons Although her pronunciation is closer to correct for UK than US, the joke still makes sense because she reads it slowly and in a tone that implies it's new to her.
@SpacePootler@cybergibbons That's not the US pronunciation I've tended to hear, that'd be oreg-ano. ore-gano is how it's said around this part of the UK.
Just as I'm thinking of a different part of the US, you're prob thinking of somewhere else in the UK, but I've never heard any one pronounce it gone
@alexbloor You thought you'd got lucky the 3rd time round, but actually the courier has all the watches he needs. What he needed today was power, so he's used yours to charge the ones he had.
@cybergibbons The comments under that video... "it's alright because $bollocks" really do highlight how some give the rest a bad name. Particularly "the speed would be fine if the infra were different". Well, yes... I could have fun parking outside the house if the road were a skidpan instead
It's easy for things to sneak in that a system wasn't designed for. A *good* design accounts for this and includes procedures to deal with anomalies.
Amazon, it seems, haven't designed in processes to deal with what feels like an obvious (if brazen) exploit of the system https://twitter.com/mjj122/status/1550601652780126209
@AusterfieldM@neil_neilzone If they decide not to use you for a hearing, you generally have to sit in a room waiting for them to select for the next hearing, so you still end up spending 2 weeks out of work and stuck in a court building
@KrampusSnail > “He all of the sudden appeared in front of her car, and she was unable to stop,”
Or more accurately, she performed an unsafe manoeuvre with insufficient visibility and found out, at someone else's cost, that there was a human in the area she was putting her car into.
@neil_neilzone@AlecMuffett Wasn't there a case a few years back where a guy was pursued for having received an unsolicited video of a tiger* having sex with a women
* IIRC they had to drop the case when it turned out to be a man in a suit
@sridhar_kondoji@nutanix In the short term, Nutanix objects will end up using an out of date MinIO version. I would guess they'll do what they should already have done, and engage to rectify the licensing issues though.
Seems really odd that they hadn't already though
Insulation helps keep the heat out for a bit, but once the heat gets *in*, that insulation - by design - keeps it in for as long as possible.
I've got a fan pointing out of the window, but that'll take a while to help as everything in here is radiating heat (including me)
Over the last few days, a few UK peeps have mentioned how the level of insulation in our houses makes the heat more unbearable.
As an example of this, the outdoor temperature has been < 20 for over 12 hours. Current temperature in my office? 27. Heating's not been on https://twitter.com/bentasker/status/1550019480834695168/photo/1
@MisterShades The portion of membership who was screaming blue murder at the slightest possibility the rules might change to allow a second vote want to change the rule that says he can't stand?
Hypocrisy at its finest
@tkyocum@amazon Can't find one from a quick search in FF's extension store.
I think you could greasemonkey a warning in on the product page, but don't see any way to strip from search results unfortunately.
FFS. Managed to order a "prime" item that's not fulfilled by @amazon, so despite it promising delivery by 8pm today, it's not even been given to the courier yet.
I'd have ordered differently if not for the next-day promise.
@urikmej@disputed_proof@STR58435918@sgodofsk@toad_spotted There's a point before that where you can end up paying ~60% on part of your income. Once you hit 100,000 your personal allowance starts to taper off at £1 for every £2 over.
But, most in that position will normally sacrifice into their pension to bring them below the threshold
@Diogenes1@NadineDorries I'm fairly sure that at some point, someone's told her that DCMS stands for "Disinformation and Completely Madeup Shit" and she's fully embraced it every since.
@alexbloor I assumed he meant "don't vote for Sunak in the leadership elections" - Sunak got 115 votes yesterday, so it ties in nicely with the beginning of the sentence too.
@OSINTDojo It previously had a miner injected on tcp/3001, using an iframe to display the real content. Taking the id from the coinhive embed and searching shodan for that reveals others including 180[.]245[.]209[.98] and 125[.]163[.]252[.]184 https://twitter.com/bentasker/status/1548938415449710593/photo/1
@neil_neilzone@carlheaton I still self host some stuff & the public facing stuff straddles that - it's all in self managed VMs/VPS. Troubleshooting connectivity becomes my provider's problem, but maintaining the system is on me - I'm willing/able though because it gives me flexibility, where others aren't
@neil_neilzone@carlheaton IMO self-managed is potentially worse - you need to deal with application updates etc without control of the underlying systems (and/or you application's dependencies): that's ok with a decent host but hell with a poor one
@LessCrime@cybergibbons Yep, I was told it at school too. The logic was that the starter had to charge and fire - I'm sure the habit the had of making noise reinforced peoples belief
@AusterfieldM@PennyMordaunt It does make you suspect the NHS use number 181 multiple times a day and she doesn't want to acknowledge it.
But it's equally likely it's as made up as what she was trying to say
@twitter Why the fuck is the i's story "Red Wall Tory Voters back Penny Mordaunt" being given time in "What's happening"?
It's based on a focus group which consisted of *five* first time Tory voters.
100% of people in my kitchen said they're all muppets https://twitter.com/bentasker/status/1547948383368650755/photo/1
@d0rkph0enix I remember having a similar argument (it's ok to try etc) with someone, when our gay co-worker piped up and said to him "so you'd be OK with me doing it to you?". Somehow that was *completely* different...
@JoshuaPwnage@CPetersen_CS@AlyssaM_InfoSec Did you actually read the thread? The guy wasn't talking work, but insisted he'd seen her at kink parties. That's really not the same as asking someone if they fancy sharing professional experience/skills over a drink (still a step too far IMO).
@whvholst China are probably less likely to sell that data back to the UK govt (taking my data for granted & getting some of my tax money to boot) than a US company. Depends on the data though: some data is more "harmful" when it's in the orbit of a govt that can get physical access to you
@cybergibbons@jonathandata1 It's incomplete unless it's got a little PHD certificate to go with it - how else are you to claim others aren't qualified to "asses" your work?
@neil_neilzone Reckon it would it count as circumventing a technological protection measure if you rewired the seat to use a newly added switch bypassing the factory ones (and by extension the subscription requirement)?
@riskymanag3ment@medus4_cdc I used to use the back of the top shelf in the cupboard - it's out of their eyeline and they'll find something else before getting that far up.
Except, of course, kids get taller with time. Once they realise that's where the good stuff lives, they go straight to it too
@cybergibbons The inside of my office hit 26c at 08:30 this morning - thankfully it's dropped a couple of degrees since.
I'm really not looking forward to this week
@danieldurrans@neil_neilzone More than a few people use chain blockers, so it might also be that you follow someone who upset/offended/annoyed them and you (and all that other persons followers) got blocked as a result.
@neil_neilzone@aaisp@ispreview Most of the time I forget there even is a cap. Because of the rollover our limit tends to sit around the 9TB mark so it's just not something I'm conscious of
@christopheleroy@thyliorus@girlhacker It's after being on for that period of time, whether interrupted or not - the counter's cumulative and doesn't reset at power off.
@lockdownurlife > don't use encrypted messaging, it's not secure.
That's odd advice, people are determined to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Use encrypted messaging but treat it as if it isn't secure (i.e. get the benefit of encryption, but don't treat is as a panacea)
@eBay_UK imposed a requirement to have #SMS based #2FA enabled, and their advisor suggested this is the result of the @TheFCA's#SCA requirements.
So, this post explores how #gdpr applies, as well as how Ebay's implementation aligns with the FCAs guidance.
@alexbloor He'll never get in though - by now they must've driven pretty much anyone even semi-sane out of the party, so he's not going to be too close to reasonable to get past the parliamentary party.
@ComradeEevee There're more than a few who've argued that smart contracts mean we don't need lawyers anymore - the contract is whatever the contract does (code is law and all that).
I think of them every time something like this happens.
Putting in an @ICOnews complaint.
There's a 1000 char limit on the form, so tune my wording to come in under that.
On submission though, they convert special chars to HTML entities, so it gets rejected because apostrophes have gone from 1 char to 5 (')
@alexbloor Do you remember when he got sacked as Foreign Minister and then stayed on in the house saying he had nowhere else to go?
Makes this a little less surprising
@neil_neilzone You about to launch a new No-Win-No-Fee offering?
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@supertanskiii Even if he wasn't lying, isn't what he's claiming worse? We investigated, substantiated the claims but then took no formal action... not exactly a ringing fucking endorsement, even before the constantly changing statements kick in.
@Manawyrm@alexbloor@WigglePig Yep. If I was writing it's pronunciation I'd probably spell it wah-wey rather than Wowee, but that probably depends on what corner of the UK the reader's in anyway.
@dag22_@narstybits@Frances_Coppola Only parts of it - they seem to have disposed of protections (like being able to reverse fraudulent payments) well enough and kept only the worst bits of the system.
@cybergibbons More likely to be a tractor round here, slower than cyclists and more deathy for whoever hits them.
Yet, we don't have a constant stream of deaths, presumably because sane people don't pelt it into a blind bend.
The guy's a twazzock
@alexbloor > So far nobody has ever indicated they “got it”.
Sounds like their food is good but their delivery service is unreliable
I'll get me coat....
I think we all, sometimes, get a little bit carried away and let stuff slip through that shouldn't, especially if we're feeling passionate
What you have to remember though, is the devs at the other end aren't just receiving your 1 message, they're getting it from others too
El Reg had an analysis on toxicity in online communications this morning.
This is an unpleasant but timely reminder of just what people doing things they're passionate about have to put up with.
Hounding someone until they don't want to talk about their work is utterly shit. https://twitter.com/SkilletDoux/status/1542333041887961088
@WillBlackwater2@duke_prunes@anewid2021@thehistoryguy So, no, it doesn't show how nonsensical the EU rules are - it shows another reason why leaving the single market was a silly idea that wasn't properly understood by many of those who supported and voted for Brexit
@WillBlackwater2@duke_prunes@anewid2021@thehistoryguy The carnet prevents you paying tax for "importing" the laptop back into the UK - it's basically permission to take the kit out & back.
It didn't apply when we were in the EU because it was all one market.
Blaming the EU is like blaming your neighbour for you dropping something
@WillBlackwater2@duke_prunes@anewid2021@thehistoryguy "EU rules" - the ATA carnet predates the EU, and we were one of the early signatores. Whichever middle eastern country you're in presumably isn't part of the system, but there are some that are.
Also, it's not the EU enforcing it - it's the UK.
@alexbloor@neil_neilzone The person going down an dark alley is committing no crime and had a reasonable expectation of safety (and the law acts as a form of guarantee). The person talking crypto in NK is subjecting themselves to local law + control with all that that entails
@alexbloor@neil_neilzone The key bit, in my mind, is that what he intended to do (speaking at that conference) itself risked legal consequences. If you then factor in putting yourself in the hands of a despotic regime who want to milk you for info, then its hard to characterise as anything but foolhardy
@alexbloor@neil_neilzone It's situation dependent IMO. Walking down a dark alley is a reasonable thing to expect to be able to do. Someone with family in Iran visiting, also reasonable.
Going to a regime under sanctions to speak about a technology that can evade sanctions, not so much.
@alexbloor@neil_neilzone Yep, that's my takeaway as well. There was no likely positive outcome of that trip. Even if the claim of being "Just a speaker" is true, you're going to a country under extreme sanctions and speaking about something you know could circumvent them.
Naive doesn't cover it.
The post that this article - https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/27/7zip_compression_tool/ - relates to really is quite odd.
It misunderstands what open-source is, makes odd claims suggesting no commit history == backdoors and links to a thread that's a decade old as "evidence" for things that happened 4 years ago
@k8em0 At the core, they have no real beliefs, it's just tribalism and nastiness, blindly following those who do what they do in pursuit of power & control dressed up as morals. It really is beneath contempt. There really are no words beyond fuck them
@k8em0 Wish I could say I was surprised that you'd get pushback, it's a sad reflection on society. Bet more than a few of them were "muh rights" about businesses, gays and cakes though. They'll use whatever argument suits them at a given point in time, consistent or not
@pathhandwaving@AlyssaM_InfoSec I don't think he's mistaking it, I think he knows the difference but is trying to mislead people with his wording. "I've committed no crimes" != "I've done nothing wrong" but can easily sounds like it.
@AlyssaM_InfoSec@notshenetworks Not sure it matters if they were at the con or not anyway - now that the trust is burned, they're not likely to attend the next one with a mystery guest on the listing, so from a con's point of view their complaints are just as valid because it means decreased attendees.
@belonibeloni@justcharliew@DeborahMeaden He tries to hide it with the way he speaks, but yeah. Generally when he says something in latin, you'll later find threads explaining why what he said was wrong/nonsensical.
@neil_neilzone I won't ruin the end for others, but the beginning of that penultimate paragraph took me by surprise even despite the questionable nature of the rest of it.
Seems a really strange hill to die on...
@its_johnmartin I do. I hate bananas. I'd ask the dinner lady if the custard had banana in and she'd lie and say no before dolloping out a massive portion. Then you'd get evils from the other dinner ladies when you scraped the entire portion into the bin where it belonged.
@IanDunt At least when they're asleep they're less likely to do something twattish that lands you with a big vet bill. Guess what my biggest expense has been the last 2 weeks...
https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/17/cookies_crumble_in_uk_data/
A less generous assessment would be that they intend to undermine the very core of data-protection by talking about something that sits only at the edge of it.
It's a sleight of hand, intended to benefit certain deep-pocketed businesses
I used to buy chocolate based primarily on taste, but now I buy on the basis of "can I open the wrapper without the dog hearing from another room?"
@ritter_sport unfortunately failed that test this morning :(
@neil_neilzone I got called on this when I was younger: I objected to a residential parking fine & noted it obviously hadn't been considered an issue for months. Was told, in no uncertain terms, that I should consider myself lucky to have had that "free" period as a result of not being caught
@neil_neilzone > the last fine I had was 35 to 40 years ago
People's relationship to time is weird. There's a lot of luck involved in offences like this, as the chances of getting caught are low.
It might just mean you've been getting away with things for decades.
@MaxSanna@Pobtastic@AdamHug@CityWestminster@VanessaOnAir The underlying problem is they file/store products by claimed product rather than also separating out by supplier.
You're actually better off using a route that isn't fulfilled by Amazon
@MaxSanna@Pobtastic@AdamHug@CityWestminster@VanessaOnAir Amazon's binning practices mean that this isn't true. If San-Disk supply 2GB memory cards with PN 1234, and I supply (fake) cards described as Sandisk 2GB 1234, they go into the same bin in the warehouse.
Your order was on a page listed as Sandisk, but Amazon may send my card
@CDML@Helen121@Jacob_Rees_Mogg research? have you forgotten who you're referring to? No research is needed, he just emits something and worries about technicalities like facts later.
@alexbloor@neil_neilzone@aaylett@rachel_norfolk When our generation get old, can't help think our equivalent of very slowly counting out coppers at the till is going to be repeatedly trying to use a fingerprint sensor that isn't there
@cybergibbons In my younger skintrr days, I once brushed on left over grease from the kitchen as I had nothing else. A little flingy but worked well except for the fact that whenever I left the bike I'd come back to find it covered in cats.
@asda OH NO.
It turns out, although I never approved it (because I wasn't able to), the first shop went through I've got two confirmation emails with different order numbers.
The second was £4 cheaper too, I've missed something off it.
Fun related fact - if you get distracted figuring out why you can't checkout, and leave the tab on the checkout screen @asda will have "technical problems" and wipe your cart.
So not only could I not initially pay for it, I've got to do the entire shop again.
We really are back to the bad old days of "best used in Internet Explorer" aren't we - except nowadays it's Chrome that everything's built against.
The exact same mistakes are getting repeated years later... sad
The root of the issue though, seems to lie with a company called @CardinalCommerc - they appear to provide the checkout code, and in Chrome it's their modules which trigger the 3DS call
They load different stuff for Firefox and that change earlier in the flow breaks the 3DS call
If I do it in Chrome, I get a 303 rather than a 200.
FF also complains about the response, but then it doesn't look like we're actually supposed to be getting a 200 back, so no-one's bothered to set a content-type header https://twitter.com/bentasker/status/1536068893567070212/photo/1
Interesting.... getting a white box where there should be 3D secure auth during a checkout process - thought @monzo were having issues (as it's their domain in thaat frame), switched to another card, frame uses that provider's domain... whitebox.
200 with an empty response https://twitter.com/bentasker/status/1536068888726843392/photo/1
@ninkosan@neil_neilzone I've got a GDPR complaint in with a certain large selling site who've recently changed to require SMS based auth. 2022 and they've launched a project that only supports a broken model
@neil_neilzone I've got a U2F one plugged into a USB output switcher that my keyboard and mouse are plugged into. So, my KB, mouse and yubikey switch between machines with me which is convenient as hell.
TOTP is now pretty much just a fallback anywhere my yubikey is supported
@cybergibbons It's an odd opinion. If someone said "I cut of all data connections into the datacentre", noone would be congratulating for their threat-modelling abilities - there'd be criticism of the fact they've failed to model.
Not going is the right choice for some, but not for all.
@been_wild I've seen it on transparent caches (quite some time back now), caused quite a hoo-ha because of the country it was in and the content that was put into the cache.
The cache had protections, but the customer had turned them off against advice.
Apparently I'm lucky enough to be in the first 10% of a rollout by @eBay_UK.... and I've just put a GDPR complaint in with them about it.
Going well, clearly
@SarahHemm@MarinaHyde This is a man who claims he can't stop to make a brew without getting distracted by thoughts of cheese. Any sentence he uses with the word "work" in is worth about as much as one of his promises
@Gillian11750575@sophielouisecc Assuming this is a serious question, if the court found it was unlawful, the Government could not proceed. But, the Government could then ask Parliament to update the law to make it lawful.
Neither the law or courts care about Govt policy, nor should they: Parliament is supreme.
@Sweet5hark@8none1@popey And, I want them to be doubly sure, so my red arrow must not be the clickable element, make them find another arrow and click that instead
@rsmck I'm staying where I moved to - moving it back would be quite a bit of effort, and I expect they'll remove/cripple the personal use one eventually anyway. Also means we've reduced our Google dependency a little more
@Frances_Coppola@arunsdevine So, IIUC correctly, the difference is that I *must* accept £ to pay a debt, but if someone offered to pay in a stablecoin I could say it's not an acceptable form?
I.e. I'm obliged to accept legal tender as a form of payment, everything else is effectively a form of barter?
@Frances_Coppola Oh, and the agent's advice? Don't sweat if you can't find another place, it'll take time for her to evict you.
Because finding a new place with your previous reference being an actual eviction isn't going to cause *any* problems?
@Frances_Coppola We had to go with what was available, so ended up moving 10 miles away, increasing the cost of getting littlun to school and burning our savings on the costs of moving (van rental etc).
The govt really needs to sort the rental market out and ensure tenants are protected
@Frances_Coppola We had one where the LL decided she wanted to "move her daughter" in. She'd included a requirement to clean the gutters in the tenancy agreement, so we had the cost of that despite them having been done that long before.
She re-let through another agent at a higher price
@christopherhope@Jacob_Rees_Mogg It sounds like his office isn't really properly equipped and he'd probably be more productive if he worked from home.
Lecturing civil servants on work ethic is a bit rich coming from a man who apparently classes eating creme eggs as a good day's work.
@0xggus@torproject Nice. Was just going to set up reachability checks, but looks like onionprobe collects some extra bits. Got a task (at some point) to break load times down and see where improvements can be made
@jerryaldrichiii@johnjhacking And even then only between 23:00 and 23:45 (timezone not specified), all tcp sequence numbers must be even not odd and source port number must not be multiple of 3
@alexbloor@neil_neilzone Me too, I'd probably "misread" it as them all being optional and wear a t-shirt. Either you're there for what you say/impart, or you're there as decoration - I'm definitely poorly suited for the latter.
@neil_neilzone Not that there aren't issues with "Big Tech", but they seem do be the thin end of more than a few wedges. The EU place of supply rules were focused on Big Tech (Amazon in particular) but ended up screwing over quite a number of small businesses.
@gsuberland@k8em0 I was wondering the same actually - some of my replies do sometimes get a bit long, though there's no aggression or nitpicking, so I assume not.
@Shadow0pz On smaller projects I've found most contributors are OK - "I don't have time to implement at the moment, but if you want to create a PR I'll be happy to review and merge" is often enough to nudge those who know how into contributing rather than requesting.
@Shadow0pz It's a fairly low energy approach, but you *need* to be comfortable with the fact that someone may fork your code and go their own way if you aren't receptive to whatever they're asking for.
@Shadow0pz You can always half/half it - opensource it in the sense you're developing it in the open (on GH or wherever) but not in the sense you're actively seeking out contributors. You'll get pull request from time to time which you can review on their individual merits
@neil_neilzone To be fair, it's a motive for putting traffic lights onto roundabouts that had never occurred to me before: to increase the chance of them actually reading the advertising boards
@PaulOckenden@alexbloor I'm not actually averse to the principle of smart meters, it's the current implementation that I object to. IHDs showing incorrect readings is a minor issue, in the schema of things, but it doesn't exactly help build confidence about something that can remotely disconnect
@PaulOckenden@alexbloor The commercial imperative is the same though
ISTR seeing recently (tho can't find it, so maybe not) that some providers were shortening the low-tarrif hours on their EV tariffs?
Economy-7 suffered from the same in the past.
But, leccy prices are dynamic, so you may be right
I'm told that rather than hanging for a few seconds, the page now hangs indefinitely. If so, they've made changes and managed to make it *worse*.
So, if you're trying to login and the console starts talking about https://we-stats.com/, that's Biocatch
@Barclays aren't the only bank to use Biocatch's solution, but they *are* the only bank (to my knowledge) who try to blame customers for failings in their own implementation.
The login page not working when it's blocked is crap coding, not a user or a biocatch problem
I wonder too whether @ICOnews might not be more than a bit concerned that @Barclays GDPR statement doesn't disclose this behaviour, and that the login page doesn't work if this functionality is blocked.
I think @Barclays might struggle to explain why their login page runs 3rd party javascript from a company based in a non-EU country.
It may not be a payment page, but it *is* the gateway to the user's bank accounts
There are new PCI-DSS guidelines. Whilst they relate to payment processors, I don't think it's unreasonable for us to expect that a Bank's account login page would observe the relevant ones as a matter of best practice https://twitter.com/bentasker/status/1514278968882610191/photo/1
@PaulOckenden@alexbloor True, but part of me wonders how long those tariffs are actually going to last, and there's only so much you can shift usage
It's still cheaper for me to be on water rates than on a meter - there's no reason to expect that leccy is going to prove to be much difference.
@PaulOckenden@alexbloor I had this happen on a IHD at one of our previous places. It shits you up a bit, you feel obliged to call the power company and say "I didn't use this".
Won't let them fit a smart meter here - I get any "benefit" that the IHD gives with a self-built thing & don't get the stress
@alexbloor If I was going to be extremely cynical, I'd predict that in the future, he'll refer quite vaguely back to this and say "whilst in Government, I increased the amount of tax coming into the treasury from non-doms"
If a company operating within the Digital Intelligence space can make mistakes like this, what chance does the average member of @The_AVPA have?
Accidents *are* going to happen, and it's ordinary people who will bear the consequences.
IMO, things like this need to be part of the conversation that's being had around the #OnlineSafetyBill and #DigitalMarketsAct. Anything which increases the amount of data held, or the chances of metadata leakage (no matter how trivial it seems) also increases the risk to society
@thegreatestdoc@Frances_Coppola That's why they tend to be invested in stuff that gives > inflation returns, to make sure what you save grows in real terms.
With tax relief and employer contributions, you're basically getting free money. So I wouldn't call it a scam.
@cybergibbons With the recent changes coming into effect, that's a fine and points straight off the bat for the driver.
There's basically no reason you can handle a phone whilst driving now
@davidallengreen One of my old colleagues meant to abbreviate For Avoidance Of Doubt in an email.
Except, rather than FAOD, he accidentally sent FOAD (Fuck Off And Die), followed by another slightly apologetic clarification
@troyhunt@NCA_UK Not that we weren't bollocked, of course, but there was little risk of it ruining the rest of our lives, and the result was usually that someone helped find a more constructive route for whatever curiousity had set us on that path.
@troyhunt@NCA_UK Not in this case, but talking of guidance I think there's a general issue in how severely misbehaviour is treated too. There's lots of stuff we got did as young teens that'd land you in serious shit now. Instead, we got guidance and "that's interesting, can you find a way to..."
@blackroomsec jfc...
Who-the-fuck quote tweet a tweet about lego and @'s the department of homeland security?
It *feels* like it might be a bad dose of paranoia - when asked what the lego stuff is about "Not sure what's going on, but people know and aren't talking"
@Leftisbest007@mrjamesob What gets really fun is when they start "explaining" that it's a ploughman's because men worked the field and women were too weak.
Then someone pops up and points out Ploughman's was invented in the 50s by the Cheese board
@neil_neilzone@davidareader@alexbloor Those stood out to me too - absolute madness.
Also seem to be lots of people saying "use xyz" and then having that ISP's vague T&C's pointed out to them.
Some people buy a label rather than a product, clearly.
@ianjmitchell@alexbloor Yup, same here - I set up monitoring of our usage via the little quota API, and we barely make a dent in it really.
I'd not want to pay more to have an "unlimited" label tagged on it, because we're not using it anyway
@RoyalLondonHelp Thanks, but there's no data protection issue here - in fact, filling out the form provides substantially *more data* to protect than the query (which is about whether you have any processes to merge an existing RL pension to another RL pension or if it's a standard transfer).
@neil_neilzone NAL, but IIRC GDPR says something is PII if it can be put together with a second source to identify someone (which is why IP's are PII) *and* specifically calls out Location data.
So, the answer to that should be "Yes" as the data's it's been sent to the wrong place/person.
@SnipingFrom@Frances_Coppola They seem to have focused on 'you use power to "charge" it' and skipped over the inconvenient question of how you then realise that charge.
If I smelt some tin into a "coin", the value of that coin isn't changed by the energy I used smelting, even if I barter it for power later
@ninkosan Yup. The curious thing is their subdomain naming convention seems to be [something].[product name].cellebrite.cloud.
But, I can't find a product with this name on anything relating to them. So it's either something undisclosed, or a break in their naming (either is possible)
Oh, and minor point - https://cellebrite.com/ (their public domain) and https://cellebrite.cloud/ use the same registrar (GoDaddy... wtf?) and AWS for their authoritatives.
They also both use GoDaddy as CA for their certs
Because it isn't a legitimate file on my service, I don't know *what* they viewed - something that's likely to bug me for a while.
But, I shouldn't even know that they looked, much less information about *who* looked.
It'd be absolutely trivial to detect and redirect to a page designed to collect as much information as possible about the browser.
Hell, presumably, I could enable something privacy hostile like Google Analytics and do it on the quiet.
That cellebrite allows Javascript to be executed *at all* is (IMO) a little concerning.
My site used to have a JS function that detected whether you were viewing via an authorised domain and redirected if not (I removed it because it broke the WebArchive)
This is an XHR request to fetch JSON sitemap for my snippets site - it's used to populate the "Related Snippets" module.
The IP is the same as for the other domains I saw accesses on. So, we now have corroboration across distinct domains. https://twitter.com/bentasker/status/1507694121338687497/photo/1
On the .onion, it relies on pulling in resources from another .onion (on the www it's just a subdomain), it would and should be _absolutely_ trivial to detect and block.
With the benefit of hindsight (and an IP), there are other requests that leak information too
The stuff I've got set up to alert me isn't particularly sophisticated - it's only really designed to make me aware if someone's trying to use my content in a clickjacking campaign (or serving their own ads etc).
Worse, I've also been given information that could help me find out who's looking. If I was a well connected criminal org, I'd probably be leaning on contacts in the customer's ISP to find out who has that IP (I can see it's a static allocation), or having someone pop Wowza
The bit that surprises me, given @Cellebrite's pedigree, is that I'm aware of this *at all*.
If I was a suspect being investigated (there's nothing on my site likely to prompt that), then I've just been alerted to the fact something's happening
Whoever that customer is, they're not on top of updates. They're exposing a years out of date Wowza install to the world. They've also got a management port open to the world on their Fortinet firewall.
I didn't probe much further than confirming it wasn't a VPN endpoint
I can even see how long it took the page to load on each occasion.
On Cellebrite's side the service is hosted in AWS Ireland. The page load timings are about consistent with what you'd expect given the RTT between AWS IE and the customer's IP.
I've got multiple pieces of corroborating evidence showing that Cellebrite's customer is in Peru - even their browser timezone is GMT -5h
Whatever that page contains, they accessed it a couple of times, on different days, allowing things to be confirmed across distinct sessions.
They've run *something* against it to create the file they were viewing. The filename of the page they viewed is more consistent with a generated report ID than any naming I've ever used on my site.
Nor are there any requests for that filename anywhere in my logs.
The page they were viewing doesn't exist on my site/server, but had successfully loaded for them.
Seemed worth digging into.
It looks like Cellebrite's customer was viewing my onion, but via a version that's been cached into Cellebrite's cloud
There's a certain irony in trying to apply data-protection to a query which doesn't really require it, by requiring a truckload of much more specific information.
Any chance you could get someone on the team to take another look please?
I really don't feel comfortable with the level of detail in that form being attached to a support ticket, it feels completely unnecessary.
Hey @RoyalLondonHelp I emailed a fairly generic question in and got directed here: https://www.royallondon.com/forms/data-security-form/
Why in the name of all that's holy, is a NI number a required field for a support request?
It's not actually necessary to verify who I am to answer the question I asked
@Shadow0pz Ugh. We had a message from the school once, complaining of some extremely uncharacteristic behaviour. I told them punishing was correct, but I was concerned they hadn't done any investigation so couldn't give any kind of root cause analysis. Sometime they just don't think
@TheJasonDomino@neil_neilzone The original name - the Online Harms Bill - was much more apt, because as it stand, it's going to inadvertantly perpetuate so much harm. This and the encryption related stuff alone have so many *predictable* negative outcomes
@alexbloor@Zoho@GoogleWorkspace They're going to move accounts from 1 May. I'll admit though, I keep forgetting April exists so it's a little longer than in my mind
@joshgreenblatt I had a recruiter grumble that this repo - https://github.com/bentasker/RemoveAMP - was public.
Apparently some potential employers had objected to the use of FKAMP (Fuck Amp).
The response "well fuck them then" wasn't _particularly_ well received.
@cuan_knaggs@alexbloor Whilst that's a possibility, in my experience it's actually more often that they've copied and pasted a "name validation" regex from Stack Overflow with no understanding of what it does.
Why am I complaining on Twitter rather than simply switching off that radio?
@creditkarma are a credit broker. We have no choice but to "use" them (because creditors pass data about us to them), but their approach to.... well, everything, is lamentable.
The *only* advantage to having to log in to see *if* my score has changed (why would I care if it has? This isn't the US, no lender actually uses that score) is that it allows you to push "Top cards" and "best picks" under my nose
Might have rebranded, but it's still the same old crap.
There's a reason my username is "fuckingnoddle" - it's because the process of getting set up was beset by fucking stupid things that no sane company should be doing. IIRC it was stupid username policies.
I'm signed up for "Credit Monitoring" alerts, at no point does the description of that say "email me shitty reminders to log in and see if my score has changed".
If something changes, email me, otherwise GTFO of my inbox https://twitter.com/bentasker/status/1505626300052086790/photo/1
@FCDOGovUK@10DowningStreet Maybe @FCDOGovUK might want to remind government that the reason Russians are able to access the truth is end-to-end-encryption, something the Online Safety Bill would try to stop.
@Zigi4891@Frances_Coppola That's the thing that stood out to me, visa are at the level they're at not because they hit some kind of cap but because they haven't needed to scale further. It'd just be wasting money, kit and power for them to scale up until there was enough demand.
@weargdmnmask@josephfcox It's still sabotage - there's nothing in the definition that requires it be owned by someone else, it's simply to destroy or damage something.
If you part saw the legs on your chair, you still sabotaged it, despite it being your chair.
Have I mentioned how much I loathe websites that have keyboard bindings?
I was starting to type "although" but it turned out a @googlecalendar window was in focus and now it's gone into a weird thready view rather than a grid.
Found the option in the end, but FFS
When you send shit like this you legitimise some of the techniques phishers use to drive engagement.
Whoever did this needs to go sit in a corner and think about what they've done.
@DarknetJr Still on my todo list is a proper "howto" for the dual homing, but wanna give it a few days to settle so that I can spot any mistakes I've made along the way
@factgasm2@IanDunt But that's the point isn't it? They need to make sure they don't accidentally end up with spies in the general population when clearly they should be elevated straight into government.
The Home Office needs to be disbanded, it's been in need of aggressive action for a long time
"crisis actors","main stream media". Some of this should - but won't - feel uncomfortably familiar for a portion of western society...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/60589965
@MSH_Dave@d0rkph0enix Wouldn't normally show high space usage though, but you're right, that is a thing - you end up running out of inodes
df -i will show you inode usage vs inode availability
@peterjukes James Cleverly has made a career out of missing the point. He'd argue that day == night on the basis that it doesn't really matter, because you haven't got solar panels anyway
@cybergibbons Do it, but let people order popcorn first. Watch he doesn't "trace your IP" ;) If you can get him to threaten to DoS your bike, you get double points
@AlecMuffett@Reddit The word "Miscalculation" doesn't really do it justice. Foot-shooting-shitfuckery perhaps gets part way there.
Part of calling out disinformation is showing patterns between "different" sources. Being able to link to them is part of building that map.
@AlecMuffett@Reddit The world is slowly building an information vacuum in Russia. It's a really dumb fucking move, and one we're going to come to regret.
We're letting Putin fully control the information narrative in the one country we *need* to try and get information into.
@jammach@Cassetteboy@virginmedia The industry still hasn't changed much sadly. A decade or so ago, I dragged Tiscali through arbitration for exactly the same tactics.
Your hear that @virginmedia? Your behaviour is *Tiscali* level shitfuckery. Sort yourselves out
@JudgeMegapolis@Shadow0pz I agree, but a US company needs to abide by US law *or* risk consequences themselves. Given the current political climate I suspect they've chosen poorly.
This was always a massive weakness of cryptocurrency & will be unless and until you can widely use it instead of fiat
@JudgeMegapolis@Shadow0pz I don't disagree, but anything you put in place that allows citizens to side-step sanctions also allows the Russian Govt to do so.
Bombing a country also had civilian impacts. Military or economic, war fucking sucks and the quicker it's brought to an end the better
@Shadow0pz@JudgeMegapolis Exactly that. They need to be able to trade it for something with value. If it's only "worth" anything in Russia, they may as well continue with using Roubles as crypto doesn't provide any gain.
@Shadow0pz@JudgeMegapolis The problem for exchanges is that *they* aren't decentralised. They might be dealing with a decentralised network, but they themselves need to deal with restrictions or face the potential consequences. But, doing so will destroy their some of their customer's trust in them
@JudgeMegapolis@Shadow0pz I wouldn't say being an exchange, in the US, with Russian customers and saying "but our values" is the most forward thinking move right now.
@MENnewsdesk > they quickly add up over the year and could end up costing you hundreds.
Even assuming someone has everything listed in the article, the total cost is £36.25. You'd need about 6 of everything to reach "hundreds".
Why undermine a good article with needless sensationalism?
@cybergibbons Battering the fuck out of RT, or messing with Russia's TV stations is less likely to carry that risk, but also of less direct help.
It's all well intentioned, but potentially more dangerous than some realise
@cybergibbons Not just against a valid target, but also isn't targeted in a way that'll fuck up existing western access - want to target a weapons factory in Belarus? Great, except they then do a security review and may well find existing more covert channels.
@Shadow0pz@ProfWoodward Except rather than dancing with Paypal and the Police, they're targetting orgs like the fucking FSB. Well known, world wide, for their tolerance and sense of humour...
@Shadow0pz@ProfWoodward Whilst their hearts are in the right place, for so many of those "helping" it's not much different to the early days of anonymous - a bunch of over-eager people helping without any understanding, and then later being picked up by the police as a result.
@RobertMLee > Easier than many engineers make it out to be much harder than many cybersecurity people make it out to be.
T'was ever thus...
It's a lack of domain specific knowledge on both sides & is why teams work best: different skillsets combine to more than the sum of their parts
@AlecMuffett@DuncanWeldon I'm not sure I'd go quite that far, this is a very different challenge for them & their disinfo was never the entire problem: magically getting rid of it wouldn't have removed the societal/political issues we've seen in previous years. They widened gaps rather than creating them
@Shadow0pz Take care of yourself dude, there's a lot going on in the world and it's hard to switch off, but if you run yourself into the ground you'll be less help to anyone.
@edfenergy: You haven't booked your smart neter install appointment yet
No, I haven't. Take the hint.
Even if I wanted to, you have no appointments available anyway.
It's worth noting too that, like every abused blocklist, those most affected will be those least targeted by it.
Those who are trying to find that content will find ways to circumvent it. Those who aren't will simply one day find they can't visit their dentist's website anymore
Without the threat of blocking, the age-verification plans are utterly toothless, they become nothing more than guidance that can be ignored.
But, the cost of allowing that blocking is potentially extremely high, the power involved *will* be abused
It happened in Australia over a decade ago. Their blacklist of 3000 domains leaked, half of which did not contain CSAM: https://www.theregister.com/2009/03/19/australia_list_leaked/
Noone likes a visit to the dentist, but putting them on a CSAM blocklist is a step too far
It won't, of course, but this should serve as a cautionary tale for those who are cheering on the idea that @Ofcom should be empowered to order the blocking of sites that don't implement age-verification.
Sooner or later (history tells us it'll be sooner), the scope will creep
It's feels like a fairly intractable problem - you *need* transparency of what's being blocked (and why, who by etc) at any given point - along with some route of appeal.
But, you also don't want to provide/publish a list of "interesting" material for other people to find.
It's far from the first example. In the UK, we saw the perversion of the IWF blocklist - originally deployed to block child abuse content - into a tool used by Copyright holders to try and censor torrent sites.
They're only allegations, but this - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-60029508 - is a good example of what ends up happening when you implement "good" censorship. Sooner or later, it ends up getting abused.
@bootlesshacker Yup, whatever the reason for wanting to restrict to that set, they could trivially have included in the error message. The regex being buggy is bad luck
@bootlesshacker The regex checks that the password contains one of the permitted chars, but it doesn't check that it does not include the chars that they've not permitted.
So, as long as you include a permitted special char, you can include any other non-alphanumeral too.
After a *lot* of messing around, it looks like it's the old trap of them only recognising certain special characters.
I've not enumerated exactly what those are, beyond find that = is not, and ? *is* accepted.
Traditionally, HTML password fields are masked to help prevent shoulder surfing.
With that in mind, I don't know who at @GOVUK thought that this was the right choice, even before we get onto the fact the password it's written out in the clear meets the stated criteria https://twitter.com/bentasker/status/1495717477208236040/photo/1
@bearybloke@CathyVanLee Careful now, don't get the word "Fact" to close to that Daily Mail story, you'll cause a paradox that could destroy the universe.
@hacks4pancakes With a few exceptions, my littlun can open childproof stuff better than I can. The worst thing is washing pods - I can't work the childproof on the tub, so inevitably end up ripping the lid off trying.
Just had a mail land in my inbox from a recruiter "Software developer"
It's the usual exciting opportunity yada yada.
But, not once did they think to mention what language(s) they're looking for.
Not sure they'll net very many people with that...
Today in things that are never going to happen - https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/09/your_data_centre_ups/
I do wonder what job titles the various respondents had, and whether the questions were of the form "if it was guaranteed there would be no problems, would you...."
@Dragon2611@neil_neilzone@mdhardeman That sounds like the sort of technical question that needs to be handwaved away. The people pushing AV have very few answers about how any of it would actually be implemented in an effective manner.
The earlier DEA reports even noted it might increase Tor usage, but onwards!
@neil_neilzone True enough. I also found I didn't like that it abstracted things away, as you were then less aware of exactly what might or might not be misconfigured. I know the abstraction's the point, but.... don't like.
@neil_neilzone If you want to avoid all that bit, you can use something like iRedMail to install your stack. You still have to do a lot of other bits *and* if you want to make changes you need to figure out how iRedMail manages it, but it is simpler.
I still wouldn't, nowadays, though
@alexbloor@ramtops While we're at it, we should paint a unique number across pedestrians arses so that they can be identified. We could charge a yearly pavement tax too
@alexbloor@ramtops That's in the petition:
cyclists should also pay road tax and insurance to protect themselves and other road users. They should also have number plates and chassis codes
Even wants bikes to have VINs....
@cybergibbons I don't entirely agree. Damage to property is likely to be low, sure, but with a bit of extra bad luck mixed in you can still cause someone to need expensive medical care for life.
But, I agree, the probability of it is low and existing insurance stuff is probably adequate.
@DonaldFart8@Frances_Coppola Isn't one of the people who advanced that theory our current home secretary (question time IIRC) though to be fair, she does seem to have changed her public stance since.
@Frances_Coppola@stgsmith@nalepis I think you missed my point. Anyone is free to file a lawsuit for anything, just as anyone is free to make an ultimatum.
It's the *outcome* that matters.
@Frances_Coppola@stgsmith@nalepis It's like a lawsuit - you can try to sue anyone for anything. It doesn't mean your action will succeed, which is the bit that matters.
You're currently objecting to the attempt, not the outcome.
She's free to take her business elsewhere & to tell them what'd change her mind
@rogueturnip@GoogleWorkspace@Microsoft365@ZohoWorkplace I did debate updating MX records first and then doing the import, but didn't want to have to move stuff back if I aborted the import.
If I was redoing though, that's totally what I'd do - get the accounts set up, update MX and then run the import
@rogueturnip@GoogleWorkspace@Microsoft365@ZohoWorkplace No the cut over was pretty smooth - I dropped my MX record TTLs the day before.
Pure luck, of course, but I don't think I had a single mail come through on the Google side after cut-over.
@rogueturnip@GoogleWorkspace@Microsoft365@ZohoWorkplace That pulled the accounts over, and then I started the actual mail migration.
You specify the accounts to migrate into, so you could also create the users manually if you've only got a few.
@matthewbate The OT claimed they were used for veal, that's untrue, they're used to protect young dairy cows. Your replies about dairy farming, whilst valid, do not change that fact
@matthewbate Yes, they don't really affect that tweet's relevance to the OT. The claim, as presented, was a lie. Yours are fair, valid points, it's just a pity the OP went for a lie instead.
@HSBC_UK It's very, very slow and has a tendency to hang :)
Takes it about 15 second to even do auth at the beginning
It's also quite inconsistent, sometimes you view an account & it includes a link to manage DDs/payments at the top, sometimes it doesn't.
@HSBC_UK Got it sorted by phoning your support thanks.
Just for the record though, now that I'm in, the new app interface absolutely sucks. The old one wasn't great, it's almost impressive that your dev team have managed to make it worse :)
@SeanWrightSec That's because there's nothing to "get".
They're conflating a second hand market for digital items with a need for NFTs. The former doesn't actually need the latter, but wouldn't have been able to piggyback on the modern goldrush. That failed though, so it's player's fault...
@rogueturnip@GoogleWorkspace@Microsoft365@ZohoWorkplace It took me a bit to figure that second one out - all the cells that evaluated true at import were working, it's only when you added a new row you got #VALUE back. I guess the result gets cached in the sheet.
@rogueturnip@GoogleWorkspace@Microsoft365@ZohoWorkplace Couple of things I've noticed this week tho:
You can set a mail filter action of "delete this in N days", that's a killer feature for me
I had to rewrite a bunch of spreadsheet formulas - Drive accepted a test of if(A123,"Yes","No") but Zoho needs if(A123 <> "", "Yes", "No")
@rogueturnip@GoogleWorkspace@Microsoft365@ZohoWorkplace Extract went really well. I did my account using a Google Takeout (because I was impatient), but all our other accounts using Zoho's migration tool. The tool worked well, and converted everything over.
@HSBC_UK apparently had an outage this morning. I've found this out *after* my account got locked out (creds definitely correct). Guessing they've knackered their auth systems...
Can't reset because I was 12 when I set the answers to my security questions, no idea what they were
@gammer91@DaDogGod@dafydd61@NStampar Did anyone suggest you had? What this thread is suggesting is that the *OTT* ones not be allowed, and there be some regulation around visibility/max-height.
Notice that your bumper on the ranger is likely to be much more rounded than the OP's - that's a pedestrian safety feature
@gammer91@DaDogGod@dafydd61@NStampar Seatbelts are an obvious example, but also, there's a reason our cars and lorries are the shape they are - there are specific regs in the EU and UK on vehicle shapes, intended to try and reduce harm to pedestrians.
No reason that couldn't be extended to pickup height eventually
@gammer91@DaDogGod@dafydd61@NStampar Given forward is precisely the direction being discussed in this thread, it kind of nullifies your point, dontcha think?
I don't fully disagree on your second point, but the same was said before a number of other vehicle related regulations got created
@DaDogGod@gammer91@dafydd61@NStampar Also, 1997 was 25 years ago - we've long since changed the rules to something less insane.
Plus, most transits and lutons don't have a bonnet extending ahead of the cabin in the way a pickup does.
Rear/side visibility may be reduced, but forward visibility is better, not worse.
@neil_neilzone I look forward to the anti-maskers screaming about how they'll boycott Sainsbury's without any awareness of how much more attractive it'll make it for everyone else.
> Boris Johnson again says he won't resign and insists his government "gets the big calls right" in its handling of the Covid pandemic
I'm not sure you can characterise "shall we obey the law that we wrote" as not being a big call.
@phinp@WebDevLaw This runs the risk of failing in similar ways to CLAS imo. They seemed to view it more like a pilots license - where you need to keep up your hours on given airframes to retain them - so over time, people just dropped off because they were working and didn't have the time
@softwarnet@hackerfantastic Though, really, it's not the security bods that'll lose out - the good ones can work remotely for overseas companies. It's the UK market who'll be locked out of any talent not willing to toe the UKCSC/Govt line
@softwarnet@hackerfantastic Is it lawyers, or is it policy makers who are fed up of seeing people point out the flaws in their plans?
Object to our suggestion that E2EE is harmful? You're struck off mate. Mock our ads as being facile? Good luck getting a job now
@hackerfantastic Reads as though they can't be arsed to look into why UKCSC has been such a failure and instead want to fall back on some legislative capture.
Because that works *so well* with many of the people you find in Infosec.
Can't strike me off if I never sign up in the first place
@analdank@PraxisCast@DuckTakes Yep that. And that's before you get onto whether "troublemakers" might get dismissed on spurious grounds so that you can then discredit them when they later speak out about the working culture.
@rogueturnip@GoogleWorkspace@Microsoft365@ZohoWorkplace For example, I've got a cronjob that sends status updates when it runs. It comes from "user@hostname" - I can't whitelist it because `hostname` isn't seen as a valid domain and `user@hostname` fails email validation.
Both are technically correct, but a filter could've matched it
@rogueturnip@GoogleWorkspace@Microsoft365@ZohoWorkplace One thing I have noticed is there isn't an action along the lines of "Never mark as spam" when creating mail filters.
I subscribe to quite a few mailing lists, some of which have a tendancy to get caught in spam filters.
Possible there's another way around it though
@neil_neilzone We don't see it used in those contexts though, because it's aim is to make us think that it isn't OK for it to be legal. It's an attempt at emotional manipulation.
Which is odd, because for non-consensual deepfake, that manipulation isn't really needed
@neil_neilzone It's such a meaningless term too - it's technically legal for me to have tweeted this. It's technically legal for you to do a food shop later.
Anything that isn't technically legal is... oh wait, illegal.
@cybergibbons I didn't see it, but now I'm picturing them pulling out a small flathead, popping a CR2032 out of a circuit board on the bomb and saying "It's safe, I've removed the bangy-bangy button" before walking away to cheers and applause.
@anotherJon TAKE A CYCLE TEST she screams, whilst admitting to doing stuff that'd be a fail on a driving test.
I don't get it. There *are* some cyclists round here who are utter twats, but I'm not going to go out of my way to soak or hurt them - pass by them safely & go on with your day
@rogueturnip@GoogleWorkspace@Microsoft365@ZohoWorkplace Nope didn't run across that. But, that'll be because I updated my SPF record before I even started the process - was worried I'd forget to do it before updating the MXs.
Still need to look at taking Google back out actually.
@rogueturnip@GoogleWorkspace@Microsoft365@ZohoWorkplace Yeah, I figured I could probably figure it out, but with it not being a supported route you leave yourself open to something changing in future - I might take that risk with some stuff, but not our main accounts.
And yeah, I really like Zoho's offering so far
@rogueturnip@GoogleWorkspace@Microsoft365@ZohoWorkplace Yeah, I considered O365. If it hadn't been for the dumb GoDaddy tie in for vanity domains, I'd probably have gone that way out of laziness (as we already have accounts to use etc). Worked out for the best in the long run though I think
@rogueturnip@GoogleWorkspace@Zoho@Google I've not got as far as playing around with aliases yet, but that's on my to-do list. Being able to send onward to an external mailbox would def be useful
Having tasted the grass on the other side, I can't help but think Google might come to regret motivating people to see what else is out there.
It's early days ofc, but I'd totally recommend Zoho to someone needing business productivity - there are other vendors too.
Price wise, it's about half the price of Google's standard pricing (so matches Google's time-limited discounted price).
For us, pulling our data out of Google was long overdue. Plus it motivated me to deal with the 41K unread mails in my inbox.
@neil_neilzone Side note: I like the "Driven NaN kilometres" in the ad. I guess they put a converter in there but forgot to check if a mileage had actually been entered.
So... although I actually wanted to switch to @Office365, it looks like the new home for my stuff will likely be @Zoho.
Just need to migrate out of AfD before @Google kill it. Well, and work out what's linked to the Google account,for multiple users... thanks for that Google
@Office365@GoDaddy It doesn't *appear* to be a requirement for the business packages, which suggests it's not for technical reasons.
And friends don't let friends use @GoDaddy.
Who at @Office365 thought it was a good idea to require that domains be registered with, hands down the worst registrar possible (@GoDaddy), to use a custom domain for email?
That's a dealbreaker, I'm not leaving a good registrar because some muppet struck an exclusivity deal
@alexbloor If they're after a feed of orders, presumably that's so they can bug people to leave a review?
As a customer, thanks for not going along with that :)
Part of the reason we're in the state we're in is because people treat politics like football: I've chosen my team and I'm sticking with it, come what may.
Just because you've always voted X doesn't mean you can't possibly vote a different way in future. https://twitter.com/bentasker/status/1483851062079598595/photo/1
There's no good reason to do it, if you want to track how many readings come as a result of the email, stick a querystring on the link to your actual site.
@edfenergy could you please stop using tracking links in emails to customers? If you're sending a meter read reminder, link direct to the portal rather than via some anonymous and hard to verify domain.
@neil_neilzone@AlecMuffett@WebDevLaw No worries. Post LGTM, only other comment I might make is
> "perfect security", I would suggest you are very wary indeed.
I agree, but I'd almost be inclined to differentiate that from PFS (Perfect Forward Secrecy) purely to remove potential for confusion later.
@JoshNeicho@georgeeaton Call me cynical, but it almost feels like this has been allowed through because they're hoping the can shift the narrative off Boris and onto something that can be defended with "it was just a hug".
@neil_neilzone The irony being that that person will probably end up doing it out of frustration at the number of marketing calls they get - the exact same reason that I don't give a real number.
I also don't give out my mobile unless needed. "So we can send shipping updates"? Sod off
@neil_neilzone It's occurred to me a few times that there may one day be a person out there with a unique ability to do nasty shit to some of my accounts: I tend to use the same fake number (so that I can remember if challenged). I check periodically if it works, but if it ever gets assigned...
@milk_imbiber@Powergannon@Rawwwb1 > You get to sell a marked up limited supply asset. It’s just a marketing tool for promotions.
Oh look, another usecase that doesn't need blockchain.
If game devs are collaborating anyway (to create the skins) there's negligible extra effort involved in setting up token mgmt
@embedded_iot@cybergibbons You know, I wonder if there's money to be made in creating an AI that can message McAfee style - you could license it to device makers.
Course, getting just the right balance of insanity might be a little tricky.
@neil_neilzone Takedown aside, it irks me that LCP are doing everything else wrong. It's "open source" but won't work without a non-opensource bit? And they're doing crypto, but consider the algorithm needs protecting as a secret? The only secret is supposed to be the key....
@cybergibbons Even the increase to $1000 feels like it comes with one of those requests bakers sometimes get saying "but think of the exposure you'll get, everyone will work with you"
And that's before you consider Bitfi's history of engagement...
@bertjwregeer@IanColdwater The bit that really messed with me early on, was the sleep interruption. Just couldn't drop off at night because that annoying dry cough ramps up.
Started having a couple of large glasses of southern comfort just before bed. Still feel knackered, but at least I've been to sleep
@bertjwregeer@IanColdwater This is exactly how I've been.
Not confirmed: Lateral Flow Test doesn't show anything, and can't get a PCR because there's a shortage.
Apparently if your viral load isn't high enough, LFT won't register
