edent

OP here.

Fuck off.

Yours etc,

They both have received significant opprobrium. But she's the one funding a massive hate campaign.

I'm in IT right now having travelled through FR, DE, NO, PL and half a dozen more countries. When selecting the EN option on a website it is almost 100% of the time with a GB flag. The spelling is mostly en-GB as well.

The Applicant Support Programme makes it significantly cheaper (if they qualify).

See https://newgtldprogram.icann.org/en/application-rounds/round...

And https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dotmeow/meow-next-round...

Android used to have an "office hours" setting which would prevent specific email accounts from notifying you outside of your specified times.

I had my work GMail set to notify only between 0800 (so I could check for a "don't come in" message) and 1700 Mon-Fri. Of course, it didn't account for holidays / sick leave etc, but it was good at prevent me from panic checking every ping.

I wish that was a feature on modern Gmail. Or, indeed, WhatsApp and Signal. You can manually mute, but there's no way to silence specific notifications at specific times.

Regardless, employees shouldn't be expecting employees to be on-call without compensation. But users also need ways to manage this themselves.

You can use the JSON-LD for your movie reviews even if you're not a big site. I use it on my site for reviews (books, games, movies) and it seems to show up in most search engines with the star rating etc.

I'm not sure. On GitHub I see plenty of bug reports which say "this is broken" with references to other repos. Those backlins are useful when someone does figure out the fix.

That said, I'm very much in favour of people and projects moving away from GitHub.

> A project’s issues and pull requests are only useful for that project.

I don't think that's always true. A bug in library A might be referenced in project B with a fix in fork C.

Yes, a hyperlink works to show you where to find info. But it doesn't alert you when a PR on C is merged by A meaning that B is now unblocked.

Because it is useful for most people to see that they're receiving a call from their bank, insurance company, hospital, whoever.

The hospital's call staff might not be in the same building as the doctor - so showing a familiar number is useful.

In an ideal world you would be able to trust that number but, as per the above, that isn't always the case.

The mechanism is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STIR/SHAKEN

But it is slow to roll out.

I used to work at two (UK) telcos. There's a historic reason and a modern reason.

The historic reason was, just like the Internet, the international phone network was built on gentlemen agreements by engineers who largely trusted each other.

A big national telco is unlikely to attack its peers, so there was little need for safety measures. As smaller telcos came in to the mix via deregulation, that understanding changed - but it was hard to retroactively fit controls.

The more modern reason is outsourced call centres. You want outbound calls from your Philippines based staff to show as if they were calling from a local number. When large and reputable entities were doing this it was fine. Just like showing a different reply-to address on an email.

If you were designing a modern network, it wouldn't be like this. But international telephony is over a hundred years old and has a huge amount of legacy technology and legal agreements.

This one. No separate charger, just plug the USB-C cable in to the toothbrush.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0F8BD3922

This one - https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/08/i-bought-a-16-smartwatch-ju...

No need for a magnetic dongle. I literally shove a USB-C cable in there, charge for a couple of hours, then get a week+ of use. Does step count, notifactions, calls, etc.

There's more to the world than Apple and Android watches.

I've basically stopped buying any portable electronics unless they take USB-C.

Currently travelling with a laptop, watch, toothbrush, eReader, camera, bug-bite treater, and phone - all charging from the same power brick.

I'm guaranteed of getting a replacement cable / charger wherever I am in the world if I need it.

The only slight snag is some cheaper itema refuse to use PD and insist on plain 5V/2A - buy most decent travel chargers have NON-PD ports.

Amusingly, most of the buses I've taken recently also have USB-C ports on them for ad hoc charging. Perhaps one day EVs will use USB-PD-Max rather than CCS :-)

Ok, so what? Whether it is the server, the ISP, the CDN, or whatever - if I can't utilise the speed, what's the point?

The author (who I understand to be incredibly handsome) has a family, multiple devices, servers, VR headset, and too many smarthome gadgets.

Even when I was on 500Mbps, I never noticed a slowdown while things were accessing the net simultaneously.

The author (me) does play games. I'm on PC, Oculus, and console. The console downloads are limited by the upstream. The VR games are limited by WiFi. I've never noticed the PC games getting close to the max download speed I have.

But, to go to your edit. Is there a significant difference between waiting 90 minutes and 45 minutes? Either way, you set the download going, grab some food, have a bath, whatever, right?

The author (me) is English, living in England.

In my experience, the Sony servers can barely saturate a 500Mbps pipe.

Google Jam Board (and other digital whiteboards) had high upfront capex and lowish opex. Probably close to the price for how often they were used before being killed off.

Same with the MS surface(?) tables (not tablets). I saw load of companies buy into the hype and then discard.

Snap! The US only keyboard is a bit of a pain, and the trackpad sometimes glitches, but when travelling light this is excellent.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/gadget-review-chuwi-miniboo...

How many times do we have to go through this? Humans invent a new technology and think it applies to everything!

Imagine the brain as a complex series of clockwork mechanisms…

Society can be modeled as a complex series of hydraulic tubes…

Companies are really a set of APIs between different departments…

Sure, these are all somewhat useful metaphors in context. But no one has built a working brain out of Lego. Sloshing water around to model an economy didn't produce unending wealth. Most companies aren't shuffling data around SOAP endpoints and winning capitalism.

Everyone seems to think AI is useful for someone else's problem, but not their own. Is a company a series of algorithms? I guess if you squint. Really it is a set of social dynamics,interpersonal relationships, and imperfect decisions.

Given that the AI companies themselves haven't replaced all their marketing departments, accountancy, and CEOs with AI - I guess the rest of us should probably wait.

People like reading.

You could summarise all of Ender's Game in a couple of sentences but, guess what, that wouldn't be particularly pleasurable.

Not everything has to by hyper-efficient. More importantly, not everything has to be tailored specifically for you. It's OK that other people like reading long-form content.

Yes.

Everyone has a story about being stuck behind an irate American who can't understand why their currency isn't accepted abroad.

I've seen it in the UK - when a tourist tried to leave a tip in dollars for a bemused waiter.

We already do.

https://www.blackridgeresearch.com/blog/latest-list-top-larg...

https://electrek.co/2026/05/11/uk-delivers-europes-largest-v...

That's the same as MS Tag (dead). Anything which involves an online lookup is always going to suffer from a single-point-of-failure.

QR Codes work even if the publisher shuts down.

I used it for both GrapheneOS (it flashed a new OS to my Android phone) and for updating the firmware for a niche LoRaWAN electronics board.

The alternative would have been booting to Windows, downloading some dodgy .exe from an advert infested site, and running untrusted code which inexplicably required my admin password.

I'm pleased the Web is able to put a stop to nonsense like that.

I'm old enough to remember people grumbling when audio and video elements were added. Useless crap in a browser! Just compile your own MP3 player if you want to listen to music on a website!

Same as WebUSB - heaven forbid that a website can become more useful by flashing firmware to a device!!

The web is a platform. It will grow and mature into something we can't possibly imagine. It's OK for browsers to try new things to see what sticks.

I assume that Mozilla have done some research showing people like typing emoji but don't know how to use their system emoji picker. Even in an ultra-purist world where a browser does nothing other than render HTML (death to JS!!!) surely people will want to type into boxen and POST text somewhere?

The post is fine. People can disable whatever they want - I certainly do. But (at the time of writing) half a dozen comments were complaining about "useless cruft" being added.

Same as the AI integrations. There's obviously a market for them so FF has done some fairly sensible work to add them. And then people here explode like Mozilla has kicked their puppy.

I'm sorry, but that's bollocks. I browse exclusively in FF and I can't remember a single page in the last couple of years that refuses to work on it (unless it's a weird web experiment).