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If they ask to open my suitcase and I say 'no' that is suspicious. I've done a lot of travelling and have been questioned more than once: being candid and transparent has always be…

To everyone who thinks this is somehow a violation of rights: if you were being questioned by border officers, and were asked 'Sir could you please open your suitcase', and you pre…

'Is a thing' - obviously, stalled due to red tape. As an immigrant to Australia I am repeatedly amazed at how long anything involving the the government takes.

The more I interact with the real world and mature as a person the less respect I have for temper tantrums such as these. Even if everything you say is correct, coming across as em…

I don't like ads either, but there are ad-free corners of the internet. If you don't like Facebook then don't use it.

This is the classic 'things were better back then' crap. It was easy to let people set up their own website on your platform when CSAM was unheard of. It was easy to host a website…

The LLM secret techbros don't want you to know.

What makes a company founded by an non-MBA have a soul? Only a true Scotsman deserves a billion dollar exit presumably.

'Were'? There are still people claiming that fronted isn't real coding. It is deeply embedded in human nature to define an us v them, and if skin colour is off the table substitute…

I had a mysterious bug related to environment variables being different in managed (csharp) and unmanaged code. I told GPT 5.4 'here is how to reproduce the bug' (it only happened …

No, however it does include a Microsoft entra/Azure AD/Microsoft 365 login for that clients tenant. It is also a newly registered domain so I can understand why it looks suspicious…

I am a solo developer. I recently created a new web app for a client. Google has marked as phishing so they can't use it. Obviously I can't do anything about it except report error…