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Personally the experience getting tickets at the moment is horrible. Endless queues, scalpers grabbing tickets within a second. Having to wait days/weeks periodically checking to s…

As long as your workload can handle resuming again and your instances aren't heavily in-demand (looking at the eviction rates), the cost saving for us is substantial enough to take…

The pricing may need to have a revisit! Enterprises would probably be the most keen and also find better alternatives for the cost.

I know some of the LG domains should probably begin with a wildcard, as I’ve seen gb.lg etc that’s not in the list. When I bought my first smart TV (mainly due to lack of dumb scre…

So you know it will consistently fail in some cases and yet still use it?

Would like to do the same myself.. sadly my domain regsitrar is Google, not too sure if I'll need to register another name (a .dev tld) or if there's an easy route of changing regi…

This isn’t the free service though? It’s for the Google Maps API which does have a cost? I remember trying to find some sort of point of interest API and having to quickly rule out…

This is relatively normal standard operating procedure for this Government. Throw out loads of policies at the exact moment something bad for the cabinet is starting to gain tracti…

Whenever I need to make an argument against IoT, I just point to Shodan and the vast amount of broken/open but still connected devices. Really doesn't take long to find some indust…

I believe that's where the advice to hand an AirTag to the authorities come from? From here: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT212227

I’m surprised by how much of the “internet” seem to be affected by a single AZ going down.

Speaking for London, although many feel safe in the city. Most people (including me) aren’t stupid enough to get involved in a violent altercation if you happen to stumble across o…

Something I can finally contribute to on HN! There’s probably a few causes for how we abuse alcohol in the UK. 1. Most pubs close relatively early (11pm-1am), so after work you don…