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midasuni··on The growing inequality of who gets to work from home
To emphasise she probably didn’t realise their was background noise. I don’t phone call centra much but the background noise in some is very frustrating.
midasuni··on Retired teacher's pension stopped as provider refuses to believe she is not dead
It mentions crapita, surely you aren’t surprised?
midasuni··on US government opens 22M acres of federal lands to solar
Not as weird as using all those acres to park metal boxes for 23 hours a day though
midasuni··on US government opens 22M acres of federal lands to solar
In hot climates the cooling benefit alone is worthwhile
midasuni··on VMware Kills Off 56 Products
Looking forward to when aws does this. Lock in and tighten the screws.
midasuni··on Is A.I. The Death of I.P.?
Is the answer “yes” or “no”?

I suspect the actual answer is “those with wealth will continue to amass it and those without will struggle more”

midasuni··on Electric vehicles will need 'battery passports' to enter EU from 2027
And thanks to you the clothing companies say “why pick on us when you import horrendous batteries”.

The car market is about the same size as the clothing market, your 20:1 ratio is way off. Allowing the car market to become as bad as the clothing is not a win.

midasuni··on Electric vehicles will need 'battery passports' to enter EU from 2027
“EU decides that goods made using slave labour should not be allowed into the EU”
midasuni··on Electric vehicles will need 'battery passports' to enter EU from 2027
Remind me to make some stuff in Iran and ship it through a third party to the US and see what happens.
midasuni··on Electric vehicles will need 'battery passports' to enter EU from 2027
The vin is a unique key in a database which contrails the data. Sure you can forge the vin, just like you can today, but that can be discovered and comes with a ton of risk
midasuni··on Ask HN: Does Cloudflare block HN comments if you have code blocks in a reply?
If cloudflare have thr certificate’s private key and are advertising the A record they have access to everything you send, from emails to credit card numbers.
midasuni··on ICO fines HelloFresh £140k for spam texts and emails
Check here to receive outlet newsletter. Pre checked.

Or one that’s only checked when you fill in your email, but is at the top of the form so you don’t even see it.

Any legal solution will be bypassed before it’s even in place, or of course ignored

midasuni··on What Was ISDN?
Still use it, and there isn’t really a replacement at the price point or reliability. When all you need is a single voice circuit for a radio station to be able to contribute from the middle of nowhere, it fits the bill very well.

Obviously it’s going (how soon? Well we will see shortly if 2025 is kept to), and it will be a sad day. International isdn is pretty much dead, and has been for some years, but in the U.K. it is still reliable and functional.

midasuni··on Bosses are using RTO mandates as a way to blame employees as a scapegoat
“Return” to office. The mandate people travel to a specific location to perform a task. The idea is that people can’t perform that task from anywhere else.
midasuni··on 90-seat Elysian airliner: 800-1,000 km range on batteries alone
When Ba38 crashed at Heathrow it was blocking the runway end for 3 days
midasuni··on The Early History of the Channel Tunnel
Another brexit bonus?
midasuni··on 32GB of RAM is becoming the standard
I remember buying a ram upgrade to take my internet connected computer to a massive 16MB
midasuni··on Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees
Politically it’s a master piece. Take the credit and move blame to the next guy.
midasuni··on A TV Show Forced Britain's Devastating Post Office Scandal into the Light
A worrying spin-off from this is the constitutional change. Allowing Parliament to overturn a decision by the courts is unprecedented and a worrying change.
midasuni··on ChatGPT for Teams
You could argue that Microsoft’s claim on common words (Teams, Windows) is the problem here.
midasuni··on Timeline to remove DSA support in OpenSSH
Telnet uses double rot 13 encryption.
midasuni··on ChatGPT for Teams
The page title is “ChatGPT for teams”
midasuni··on Amazon Lays Off 'Several Hundred' Staffers at Prime Video and MGM
Double dip and you’re in shit. I’m not the only one who has cancelled when they started charging for adverts, and that impacts the larger Amazon ecosystem too as I now no longer instinctively buy everything from Amazon.
midasuni··on Austerity Is an Antidemocratic Strategy to Boost Capital
FT is hardly a left wing rag

https://www.ft.com/content/1670a3d2-880f-11e2-8e3c-00144feab...

https://archive.is/t1wU0

Hindsight is wonderful, in 2010 the choice was austerity, austerity or austerity, there was no alternate voice, but that doesn’t mean it was the right move

midasuni··on Austerity Is an Antidemocratic Strategy to Boost Capital
It was also what all three parties proposed. I remember an IFS report showing actual cuts were less than both Tory and labour plans and slightly more than Lib Dem plans, but if you go back to 2010 you had a labour chancellor promising to cut more than thatcher.

It’s common in hindsight to say “if only labour were elected”

Also worth remembering that in 2015 the country said “we want more Tory”. The coalition wasn’t Tory enough.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/mar/25/alistair-da...

midasuni··on Alaska 737 cockpit voice recorder data erasure renews safety debate
Given the problem here is Boeing, and has been for years, it makes sense to record indefinitely every conversation made while working for Boeing, especially on the golf course.
midasuni··on United finds loose bolts on plug doors during 737 Max 9 inspections
I’d expect rail to cost far more
midasuni··on Higher fees, more ads: streaming cashes in by using the old tactics of cable TV
Sky TV shows adverts. Their annual report shows subscription income outweighs adverts by about 10:1.

I don’t subscribe to sky hell I don’t watch ITV but at least that’s only adverts, they don’t try to double dip.

midasuni··on Higher fees, more ads: streaming cashes in by using the old tactics of cable TV
For me one ad is too much. And they’ll be losing far more than my prime fee - I’ve just bought £130 worth or stuff from Argos instead of Amazon because of it.
midasuni··on Higher fees, more ads: streaming cashes in by using the old tactics of cable TV
The irony is if they’d have sent out an email saying “prices going up, but we’re launching an ad supported one at a lower price” I’d have been fine. Instead prime got cancelled, and that means I deleted the Amazon app from my phone, which means I’m going to be buying far less from Amazon (probably nothing)
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