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It's got to be pure marketing - the British media certainly loves a buzzword, but I suspect that's more to do with their clickbait strategy. ("What is blishing? Have I fallen for i…

I can't find any good information post-privatisation, but at least before 2013 the postcodes themselves were copyrighted by Royal Mail (likely Crown Copyright as with government da…

For context, Thameslink operates a route through central London, and transitions from overhead power in the north to third-rail in the south. This happens when stopped at stations …

I did this for a bit. The main issue was that air intake on my older model was through the keyboard, so clamshell mode was inadvisable - not sure if that’s true of the newer models…

At least in the UK, all financing arrangements for phones, laptops are with Barclays and PayPal Credit https://www.apple.com/uk/shop/browse/financing

Correlates with my experience of late 2013 MBP batteries (it might be the same model actually). My original Apple battery lasted until 2019. Both of the iFixit replacements have la…

> Nobody is forced to install the app at all (at least in the UK's case). Unfortunately, that's not quite right. Citing the latest rules: > The rules on what you need to do when a …

This feels like it's just designed to encourage rapid replies, like their chatrooms. I've always admired HN's time-delay on posting replies the deeper you get into a thread - it de…

Using Cloudflare with DoH is documented here: https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns-over-https/ You essentially run a little proxy server on your pihole setup, and configure pihole t…

Not OP, but I never got on with forced stops either. I had some success treating it like a mini-deadline to achieve flow-state - work on something for 25 minutes, and if I don't fe…

I migrated the company's services from AWS to OCI at the startup I was at. The trade-off is simple, if Oracle can say $product runs on OCI, they'll put you in front of the biggest …

At the bottom of the page they list availability of third party services used - Fastly has a warning symbol, and I imagine they put that CDN in front of everything.

Interesting details; it would be nice to see how those ulimit/networking numbers were arrived at. The title should have [2015].

Adafruit sell a 1-60,000 ppm equivalent-CO2 sensor for £15. https://www.adafruit.com/product/3709

Daftness aside, I think the courts/rights-orgs have just correctly identified registrars as the weak link - see the ease of which a number of right-wing sites had their domains dro…

Turns out 12.1.2 is the non-optional “your phone is updating tonight” I received Wednesday. (Appeared to be mandatory anyway).

Same experience here, perhaps there's a different agreement for social visits and commercial meetings.

How are you finding it? I've been looking for an alternative registrar - currently with 123-Reg in the UK, and would like to find a reputable, tech-savvy, UK alternative (but at le…

Thank you for sharing this; I infrequently have to write standalone shell scripts but every time I do I spend a while looking around for best practices and often just end up with s…

> But what is the user facing benefit? Syncing bookmarks, recently opened tabs, passwords, autofill(?). These are genuine benefits when you're working with laptops, desktops, phone…

A "population explosion".

I always liked Reddit's intended approach: downvote comments that don't add to the conversation. Sadly, votes are too easily mapped to agree/disagree or truth/falsehood - see the "…

My favourite AWS naming was when E became EC2, as in ECS.

This is important (though I'm oddly yet to run into this issue with pip; I've only had conflicts with npm and composer before). Freezing dependency sources in Docker images and usi…