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Brendon Boshell

Founder at Recoreo - Operator of online brands. Acquiring small media and tools websites and scaling them up. https://recoreo.com/

Founder at Gym Geek - Health and fitness website. Providing free workout routines, exercise guides and weight management calculators. https://gymgeek.com/

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beejiu··on Supermarket freezers across Europe hit by second suspected cyber-attack
In other words, it went into a defrost cycle.
beejiu··on Supermarket freezers across Europe hit by second suspected cyber-attack
Some large supermarkets (in the UK at least) sell their capacity to the National Grid so it can be balanced in times of demand. They agree to turn off their freezers for a set amount of time to create a "virtual battery".
beejiu··on SIGSALY: Churchill's top secret hotline to the president
The UK doesn't have a president, so it normally refers to the US president in general context.
beejiu··on An ESPN producer who quit because of sports gambling
Restricting it to physical premises and non-digital (aka betting shops pre Internet) would solve most of the issue.
beejiu··on An ESPN producer who quit because of sports gambling
Incentivize who? The consumer?
beejiu··on An ESPN producer who quit because of sports gambling
You outlaw (/regulate) the marketing of and sponsorship related to. Target the incentives.
beejiu··on AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware
Did we forget about Snowden?
beejiu··on AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware
It's the spy agencies you hear nothing of you should worry about.
beejiu··on AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran
The SLA excludes force majeure.
beejiu··on England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C
Splitting hairs, but the public health bodies are separate from the National Health Services (so there exists Public Health England _and_ NHS England). Public health is slightly different to healthcare, but of course they work together.

Oddly, Public Health Scotland is part of NHS Scotland; but Public Health England is not part of NHS England, it's a parallel department.

beejiu··on England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C
A lot of powers are devolved away from England to each other country in the UK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devolution_in_the_United_Kingd...
beejiu··on England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C
Each country also has their own Public Health bodies, so pretty much everything related to health is devolved
beejiu··on London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service
You give them the keys, then they go to the site to collect your item.
beejiu··on Weightlifting beats running for blood sugar control, researchers find (2025)
"In this model, mice lived in specially designed cages where food was accessed through a hinged, weighted lid. To eat, the mice had to lift the lid while wearing a small shoulder collar, causing a squat-like movement that engaged the muscle contractions people use during resistance exercise. The load was gradually increased over several days, mimicking progressive strength training."

So the study doesn't really show that weighlifting per se is beneficial, but putting food behind weighted hatches is?

"Voluntary wheel running (EEX) was conducted as previously described in single-housed mice with access to voluntary running wheels and food and water ad-libitum,"

And the runners could each as much as they liked?

Sounds like bunk.

beejiu··on Trains halted across Germany because of communication system problem
Yes, and just yesterday a passenger train was routed into the path of a freight train due to some points failure. It does make you wonder. https://www.railmagazine.com/news/points-failure-results-in-...
beejiu··on Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school
A bit part of education is (should be) independent learning with textbooks and reading. You don't need to be "tutored".
beejiu··on Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school
When I was 8, I could use the Internet at school but every website was whitelisted.
beejiu··on UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s
I'm probably going down a conspiracy theory, but it's notable when all the Five Eyes countries seem to start talking about the same problem and pushing through legislation. The US would probably do the same if not for the constitution.
beejiu··on Getting arrested in Japan
Of charges, not arrests.
beejiu··on Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
Are your UUIDs generated client side or server side? If it's client side, it could be due to a crawling bot. Googlebot for example executes Javascript using deterministic "randomness".
beejiu··on Credit cards are vulnerable to brute force kind attacks
In Europe, the max interchange fee is 0.3%. In the US, the average is 2%. So the relative impact of fraud is much higher.
beejiu··on Is my blue your blue?
I got a 98-percentile result and realised my Mac had Night Shift turned on.
beejiu··on Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet
If you're using R in 2026, you're probably invoking code compiled from Fortran from the 70s/80s somewhere along the line. It's a foundation for a lot of numerical computing.
beejiu··on UK intelligence censored report on global warming and homeland security
The UK is consistently amongst the lowest household expenditure on food in the entire world. Only 3 countries in the world are self sufficient in food. If this "reasonable worst-case" scenario happens, surely the UK is one of the better placed to deal with it?
beejiu··on LinkedIn is illegally searching your computer
LLMs didn't invent the "Rule of Three".
beejiu··on Men are ditching TV for YouTube as AI usage and social media fatigue grow
GB News gets a lot of criticism, but I watch the odd show and I've always found it to be balanced. There's a lot of political and regulatory pressure against them, so much so that GB News took Ofcom to the High Court and overturned illegal actions that Ofcom had taken.
beejiu··on Men are ditching TV for YouTube as AI usage and social media fatigue grow
I can only speak from a UK perspective, but all broadcast media here is regulated. So the things you might see in the US just can't happen and don't happen here. Everything has to be editorially balanced. Online media doesn't fall under the same regulations.
beejiu··on Men are ditching TV for YouTube as AI usage and social media fatigue grow
Because you can't get doomlooped into right-wing podcasts and "citizen journalism" on the TV.

Sample quotes from men in the study:

"Who tells me what's right and what's wrong... is it true or is it not true? Some of the things on YouTube are independent. I find I would listen to them more, because they're on the ground. They're telling you the story. "

"If you see something on social media, whether you believe it or not, you can go to the comments and see everyone's points… If most people agree with it, you know you should be at least somewhat agreeing with it. "

"It seems to everyone that it's an agenda, like the government's behind an agenda… it's like a brainwashing tool for the government. An illegal immigrant killed someone in the street the other day, stabbed them to death… And it's all over Facebook, all over YouTube. And the news hasn’t even said anything about it"

Only one man mentioned using YouTube for entertainment.

beejiu··on Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban
I didn't even realise it was an article. I thought the grid thing at the top was just an index page linking out to other pages.
beejiu··on Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables
Not only is it insanely lucrative, but the government enters into "contract for difference" contracts that guarantees a price per MWh that are generally above market rates, taking out most of the financial risk.
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