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JMS2021··on Netflix’s bad habits have caught up with it
Enjoyable is subjective. White Lotus was terrible in my opinion.

Not sure why you are arguing? People have stated that's the reason they have quit, and yet you are somehow suggesting that we are wrong? Or because another service does it?

Accept that some people are tired and bored of having unrealistic plots and characters that are only there to "tick boxes".

But sure, recasting the queen of England as a black woman is obviously fine.

Let's do a series on MLK and get a balding white guy to play him, or perhaps an Asian person?

JMS2021··on Netflix’s bad habits have caught up with it
In the children sitcom 'No good Nick' a female chef ignores feedback from her employee by accusing him of 'mansplaining'. The daughter accuses the white dad of 'cultural approriation' when he suggests taco Tuesday for the restaurant. And that was only the first minutes of one episode.
JMS2021··on Netflix’s bad habits have caught up with it
I cancelled, after being a member for 10 years. Three of my friends have gone back to torrents.

The main reason... Almost everything has some fringe minority edge, a gay lead, a token trans friend and most of the stuff is "victim porn" with the usual white male protagonist.

100% reason why I cancelled and the same for my friends.

Netflix, or Wokeflix is basically trash.

JMS2021··on Give me back my monolith (2019)
Unless you are a PHP developer
JMS2021··on Elon Musk says he would reverse Twitter's permanent Trump ban
I see Reddit is leaking here
JMS2021··on Mygov is a ‘huge disappointment,’ key architect despairs
UK Represent... https://alphagov.github.io/
JMS2021··on Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
So you need a third party tool to make an official device work properly?
JMS2021··on An Ode to Shell Scripts
The latest stable one, except Mac's because they aren't reliable *nix machines anymore. Bash is a third class citizen on MacOS now.
JMS2021··on Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words”
I'm guessing the UK. And I agree.
JMS2021··on Netflix to introduce ad-supported plan
Yo do realise that they'll increase the prices slowly so the price you pay for ad-free now will become ad-supported. You'll definitely be paying more than you are now to keep no ads.
JMS2021··on Netflix loses subscribers for the first time in 10+ years
LGB, sure. I know loads. Ts? Don't know a single one.
JMS2021··on Is Twitter biased against conservatives? A Study
Hunter Bidens laptop was fact checked by various outlets but we found out later that was a lie. Who owns the fact checkers?
JMS2021··on Ask HN: Does a tool like this exist?
Literally any project management tool. MS Project for example.
JMS2021··on How we secure Monzo's banking platform
You wouldn't run or develop code locally. AWS keys would be secrets managed by Vault or something.

If you have AWS keys on staff laptops at home, you've already failed.

We don't allow any code at all on local machines.

JMS2021··on Why doesn't the Metaverse look as disruptive as it should?
Wouldn't ever happen. We don't even have to have video calls enabled. Those fancy background effects are basically server-side. I don't want MS or Facebook analysing the background of my calls for marketing purposes because my employer decided to use Teams.

I wouldn't be surprised if video calls were made entirely optional EU wide for data protection.

No way I'm wearing any form of VR kit to attend a meeting. Zero.

JMS2021··on Incident with GitHub Actions
Action Runners are basically NodeJS applications packaged self-contained. You can run Action Runners on a RPi if you want.

GitHub.com (not GHE) use Action Runners deployed using K8S. This can be done anywhere that supports K8S.

Obviously MS used their own server infra, but to imply GitHub Actions needs Azure is plain false.

JMS2021··on Ask HN: Can anything make Git as popular as Subversion?
It's still decentralised. GitHub is just one remote. I can copy/move an entire repo with history and all to a new remote with 2 commands.

This isn't possible with Subversion as the Subversion remote is the only single source/remote.

JMS2021··on I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer
We have to take laxatives as well. The night before the appointment usually. That's when you must start fasting.
JMS2021··on I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer
UK here for context. We only have to fast for 12-24 hours prior to the colonoscopy. You can drink water or plain tea (no sugar, cream or milk).

They offer "gas and air" mainly. You don't even have to have that. You are fully awake during the procedure, laughing at the live HD video feed from inside you on the big screen.

You can be fully anaesthetised but that's very rare here in the UK.

After the appointment, it's a free cup of tea, and some biscuits. You have to wait for a couple of blood pressure tests, but after 15 mins recovery you can leave and go home. The entire process from entering the clinic unti leaving is about an hour.

The process is mildly uncomfortable but not really painful. Nothing like childbirth for example.

Don't be scared. It doesn't hurt too much. And as other commenters have written, any polyps they remove could have become tumours in 10 years, and afterwards, you are effectively safe from colon cancer for a decade.

If the NHS (UK) find and remove any polyps, they'll add you to a watch list for regular colonoscopy procedures. I have one every 2-3 years, others have them annually.

Get that camera up you... It might save your life.

JMS2021··on Reddit blocks posting any .ru links
Correct. Elon Musk has said he will ignore EU law and not block Russian internet on StarLink.
JMS2021··on Single binary executable packages
Except the version of docker that ships with Ubuntu apt is out of date. The snap install doesn't add your user to the docker group.
JMS2021··on Show HN: I made a web game called Almost Pong
Flappy Balls... Like mine in old age ...
JMS2021··on ARJ Software
Or DMS with XCopy
JMS2021··on Should Apple Continue to Ban Rival Browser Engines on iOS?
Safari is bottom of our compatibility list. It's junk for PWAs and so is basically treated like Opera was.
JMS2021··on Podman 4.0
Correct. We are not allowed any command line access to worker nodes or containers. If it isn't deployed using automation, it isn't deployed.
JMS2021··on Why don’t some people want to get the vaccine
Social Gentrification. You must all live by what I define as a good society and screw everyone in between.
JMS2021··on Ask HN: Does the Unix terminal have good UX?
For their intended purposes, they have great UX once the learning curve has been tackled.

Common operations are several times more quicker via the terminal if you know what you are doing.

JMS2021··on Show HN: Statusping.co – Website Monitoring Service
https://github.com/statping/statping
JMS2021··on Ask HN: Why is MS Teams so slow, do devs test Teams on less powerful machines?
Seen this. Docker Compose YML files with invisible spaces, because copied from a code block. That's the point of code blocks. No formatting. <pre> and all that. Caused us much pain.
JMS2021··on Ask HN: How can I secure my AWS instance's SSH access if I have no static IP?
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