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esskay··on So my ISP was hijacking my DNS
How do you think that conversation will go? You phone them, get put through to the call center and surprise surprise its not covered by their script.
esskay··on WTF Ubuntu?
These recent burst of major security issues really have shown that paid security updates from the likes of Ubuntu and CloudLinux really aren't worth the paper they're written on.
esskay··on Price rises for some 16GB Raspberry Pi products
I know they cant really help it but they really have managed to kill their product. Thats about the third price hike this year. So much for the $25 computer.
esskay··on BYD sold more EVs last month than the US did all quarter
No, that is not very typical.
esskay··on Landline phones will switch off across Britland in 100 days, no extensions
Yeah for mine I've got the unifi cloud fibre gateway but currently use its sole poe port for a u7 lite. Thats on an APC UPS which will give me 3-4hrs life. Then for the ONT I've just picked up a relatively cheap Eaton UPS that should give it approximately 3-5hrs. TBH any outage longer than that and I'm out of the house for the day until its fixed!
esskay··on Postgres 19 is late because so many more bugs are being found now
Likely a huge amount. The recent PHP ones are a prime example of this. But it also means now more than ever they cannot be ignored or dismissed as "nah thats too hard for someone to figure out how to break in" as it's simply no longer true.
esskay··on Landline phones will switch off across Britland in 100 days, no extensions
You wont have a battery. In the UK they stopped providing a battery backup when they switched to the newer ONT quite a while ago, and routers typically do not include one either.

There are a few generic router battery backup products on the market but none specifically get advertised as working on the ONT, but many do. Realistically though they're utterly pointless when you can pick up a vastly superior APC UPS for the same price.

esskay··on Raspberry Pi Zero 3W and Pi 4 Model A spotted in device trees
It's hard to get too excited about anything coming from Raspberry Pi these days. Their anti consumer moves, weird accusatory social media positioning and obscene pricing just makes it all feel a bit like their relationship with B2C has gone very sour.
esskay··on CSS-Tricks has a new owner
The tailwind ones slightly misleading. They laid off their staff, posted on twitter about it, opened a sponsorship program, made approximately $2 million, and THEN joined shopify.
esskay··on Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclear
Then theres something wrong with your nose.
esskay··on IKEA – 3D Guide
Built one in 2001, there were lots of discussions about it on I think it was the Audiogon forums at the time, a whole thread of a good few hundred people building them. I seem to recall a few had been using them since the 90s as well.
esskay··on GLP-1 may slow biological aging
Or put another way, "Let me pluck one of the rare side effects and make it seem like its a common one because I know nothing about this"
esskay··on GLP-1 may slow biological aging
Not everyone gets nausia. On .25 I had zero side effects. At .5 minor sulpher burps that lasted a few days and then again down to zero side effects. In the online communities of people on GPL-1 very few people have side effects.

Why on earth would having no side effects suck? As long as its working (weight loss) then thats the ideal scenario.

esskay··on Tiny Little Office
if you're babysitting a modern server you're doing something very wrong, or more likely don't know what you're doing.
esskay··on Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome
Nah I switched to Brave. Firefox is still slower than any chromium based browser.
esskay··on Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome
Why would i switch to a browser that only gets one update a year, and a minor one at that? They've lost the plot.
esskay··on The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s
Yeah this doesn't answer the question does it. It's not even what this topic is about. Closing something a couple of months ago isnt moving the needle on the post literally talking about since the 1970s, which is the point I was very clear about making to hopefully avoid someones "well last month X happened" argument which as you full well know is nothing remotely to do with the topic at hand, however sad it may be that people have lost their jobs, which is also not the topic at hand.

Please debate in good faith.

esskay··on The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s
Energy has only been expensive recently, and there has been zero issue with power supply beyond silly tabloid fear mongering. So between the 70s and lets say 10 years ago, the argument for expensive power really does not hold true.
esskay··on The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s
Which industries? If you're going to make that claim be specific. The UK has deindustrialised since the 70s which was nothing to do with electricity costs or availability. Any recent industries leaving are not covered by the stats here so would be pretty irrelevant, which means you're not talking about those, you're talking about something else for it to cover the period between the 70s and now.
esskay··on The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s
Explain. Nobodys going without power.
esskay··on The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s
They arent going without. Blackouts/brownouts are exceptionally rare in the UK.
esskay··on Apple HomeView
what a weird product. I'm all in on the Apple ecosystem but this seems like an obvious miss. Presumably the low price point is because its internals are incredibly basic, i mean its just not got a lot to do really has it so doesnt need anything other than probably a bunch of old binned chips.
esskay··on New gTLD Application for .lan
and most people dont use it because its an incredibly poor name.
esskay··on House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k
tbf all of it now has planning permission it was just retrospective, the docs are still published the same way
esskay··on House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k
Quite easily, even retrospectively. It has no impact on his neighbours, doesn't create an eyesore, etc. He had the planning folks round, had them speak to his architect. It's all legit and done the correct way.
esskay··on Penguin Mail – open-source Rust email client for Linux with AI
Amazed anyone here isnt using an ad blocker for youtube tbh, it feel like the first thing you'd want to avoid the mess.

Ublock is still a thing. Or use Brave as thats got baked in ad blocking which can be combined with ublock to make it even more effective. Then adguard or pihole on your local network so no analytics/tracking data is still being pushed out.

esskay··on Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back
Sure if you've fried your brain so much you're incapable of doing anything at all for yourself.
esskay··on Two-tier encryption in the UK
They dont really need to pull out, instead on every single piece of marketing material where they talk about anything remotely close to things affected by this they mention that unfortunately they cant give it to UK users due to the governments desire to erode privacy protection, and really hammer home how bad it is.
esskay··on SAML: A fractal of bad design
I hope its referred to as "this is the article idiots who know nothing about modern php reference in a futile attempt to make it appear they know what they are talking about" as every time someone mentions that article it seems to be when they want to show everyone how daft they are.
esskay··on Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM
so you fell for clickbait.
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