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Jon Wood

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Fucking Acast ads. “Your customers are scrolling past your ads, using ad blockers, and paying for ad free streaming. Well fuck your customers. Fuck their dislike of ads, get some in their ear holes while they’re driving down the road and can’t skip them.”

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Imagine your job is yelling "Good morning have you driven a hard bargain?" at a politician who is ignoring you a hundred metres away, fucking hell

@shadowwwind @mjg59 presumably without a centralised list of clients and their keys the client could just lie about that though.

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@sundogplanets @catsalad wow, that’s the same face I’d pull eating raw rhubarb.

Big sigh of relief on finishing a dry run of the interview exercise I’ll be running tomorrow and discovering I am indeed qualified to do my own job.

@SecurityWriter there’s always a ton of YouTube videos from the various production companies involved, some of them go into a lot of depth on what it takes to make Eurovision happen.

I was briefly surprised by how well mapped the car park I took a shortcut through was while trying to find the exit, it made sense when I remembered it’s the car park for Ordnance Survey headquarters.

A very happy Resonance Cascade Day to all who celebrate.

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Me, standing atop a cherry-blossom-swept bridge, re-sheathing my katana

@gsuberland tune in tomorrow for the next episode of SEO slop or LLM slop.

It’s the time of year when I can go out for 90 minute walk at 7pm, absolutely beautiful in the woods this evening, so beautiful in fact I didn’t think to stop and take a photo so you’ll just have to believe me.

And as ever, the culprit is a systemd subsystem I didn’t even know existed an hour ago.

You know things are bad when you find yourself reading the source code for NetworkManager 8 hours into the work day.

@pikesley “Immediately after that game, United fly to Asia for two post-season matches against local opposition in Malaysia and Hong Kong.”

I know it’s not the point, but this jumped out at me. You can’t have local opposition which requires flying to other side of the world to play against.

@marioguzman @eval every now and then someone reminds me what Aqua era macOS looked like and I lament the loss of both the playfulness and the functionality.

When did become ok to use the phrase “up to 100% [positive aspect]” in advertising? Could be 100%. Could be 0%. Who knows?

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Let's try something. I'm an English technology lawyer in private practice. I can help with tech contracts, software licensing (including FOSS), SaaS and the like, and data protection.

Unlike most lawyers I'm actually technically literate, in that I spent a number of years as a sysadmin before becoming a lawyer, and I've kept up my knowledge since.

I'm practical, quick, and my rates are reasonable. Maybe I could be useful to your business?

Boosts appreciated!

Do you want to play a slightly rubbish version of Flappy Bird? Well you’re in luck, because I just published a slightly rubbish version of Flappy Bird: jellybobuk.itch.io/crappy-bird

@q Damn it, now I want currywurst.

The really fun thing is that this phase has been inspired by the boy taking an interest in making games, so I want to stay far enough ahead of him to be able to help. Should be fine for now, it’s his first experience of non-Scratch programming, but I fear if he latches on I won’t be for long.

Back on my learning to make games bullshit, now in Godot rather than Unreal Engine because I am not a AAA game studio. I’ve decided to do a bunch of super simple ones just to build up confidence and form some muscle memory, resulting in a version of Flappy Bird I made in two hours this evening. I might post it online somewhere tomorrow if I don’t feel too self-concious about blatantly ripping off someone else’s game.

@internetsdairy My son’s school had a special lunch and could go in dressed in red, white, and blue clothes? (I did enjoy the irony of celebrating the end of a war by not having to wear uniform)

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Something to be aware of if you work in a Microsoft shop with security requirements: Copilot on Sharepoint will apparently allow ACL bypass without logging or alerting.

You can just ask it for things.

It looks like what's going on under the hood here is that Copilot introduces a new category of user account for their agents, who have expansive read permissions by default and Copilot doesn't know how to map what the agent can read/reply against user permissions.

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