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I've got two small projects on the go right now! The first is a piece of small charity / business governance tech. I'm a trustee of a small charity in the UK, and my wife has been …

Two reasons really. First, there have been instances of bot networks allowing people to buy stars on their repos. This was more common back a few years ago but I'm sure they still …

I'm not sure the star count means much these days. Regardless, the tool seems interesting. Thanks for adding the videos into the readme as well, it seems quite polished from those …

GitHub is big. They'll be doing lots of things all at once. This is probably just a case of some normal component replacement for some maintenance reason. I'm as frustrated as anyo…

My alert thresholds are $8 and $10 because I only use aws for some backups to S3. It was reporting my actual spend as $425 billion, and forecast at $777 billion. I thought it was a…

The British constitution is unwritten and based on centuries of convention which are so old they are considered law... Sort of. From what I can tell there isn't anything about iden…

It's also worth noting that he's being investigated by the Parliamentary Standards Committee. Now that he has stepped down as an MP, that investigation would ordinarily be paused (…

All of these are the problem of the business, and negatively impact the employees ability to disconnect and enjoy their free time. If you need an executive assistant to be availabl…

I think the messaging is just a bit confusing. You've said this had no ads and no subscription, and then people see you want them to create an account. If there's no money being pa…

I spent several years working for a competitor of Ticketmaster. The industry is really difficult to break into. First, there's the chicken and egg problem of content (events) and c…

The Turing test is to test whether a programme exhibits intelligence. Turning complete is a measure of whether something can be used as a programming language to run as a universal…

I don't think we're anywhere close to the downfall of GitHub. It'll be a very slow decay. The fact is, lots of people are very happy using AI tools, and most of those hook straight…

As an expectant first time parent, this is the bit that I'm bracing for most.

If their technology choices are holding them back it just means the product becomes more turbulent as they desperately thrash for a way to make more money. A protocol isn't a good …

Cal.com has always had an open source community edition, I've been using it for some time. Is this just a rebrand of that line?

Seems like a nice way to raise a bit of money for the foundation, and the problem of children needing email addresses is a real one. I just don't understand how reserving an email …

Could you elaborate on the issues with their S3 compatible storage? I've been considering it and haven't seen too many issues in my testing, beyond the lack of identity control.

Absolutely not, that would prevent profits to big political donors. Instead we should ban bash oneliners, or ID gate them. No loops or pipes (etc) unless you've handed over governm…

Google pay Mozilla hundreds of millions of dollars each year to place Google as the default browser. It's by far their biggest income stream. In 2023 it was reported as 75% of thei…

Great for shareholders, terrible for consumers. This is what we get when we allow rampant consolidation and throw out the idea of regulated competition.

At university in the UK it's almost always maximums rather than minimums. It's damn hard as well, you never get the word count you actually need to fully cover the subject and alwa…

I've been on a similar journey this past month, although it sounds like mine went a little more successfully. I've managed to get a repo setup which contains a nix flake with nix-d…