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No, this has been top 5 headline news in the UK for the last week. Basically every major media outlet has been covering it, including BBC, guardian, Telegraph, daily mail etc.

(Absolutely baller move for LSL to hire that guy)

A friend of mine in Iceland literally just set up a UK ltd company today - I'm a shareholder, took 5 minutes to verify my identity - by linking it to my existing companies house account.

I have much more freedom with Shopify, it's not even comparable. It's not even apples to oranges, it's apples to calculators.

Amazon places a lot more restrictions on everything, from products, product descriptions, images, it's quite difficult to list original products on Amazon (took me 2 weeks of work to register our product backlog when I started selling via Amazon, despite having GTINs and everything already in place). Cashflow etc is not comparable in ANY way.

Just wanted to call out a blatantly wrong comment.

That would be the mature and professional response which ensures continued sales for you, sparkfun and PJRC.

And for Christ's sake stop arguing business issues on social media and messaging boards. What are you doing, man?! :)

That argument breaks down if the person hiding their identity is doing malicious things. If you hide behind anonymity and you're harassing people and sending threatening or hateful messages, disclosing their real identity is a public service.

Or could I set up an anonymous account, doxx people all day long for the lulz, and then cry wolf when you doxx me for being a prick? :)

And these people run major businesses?

And the complaining about doxxing because he posted the person's email address? Grow up, mate.

How the hell did Ring/Amazon not include a radio-frequency transmitter for the doorbell and chime? This is absurd.

To top it off, I'm trying to do my quarterly VAT return, and Xero is still completely borked, nearly 20 hours after the initial outage.

Go to Hagkaup or Samkaup on a Saturday (or just after midnight on Friday night, where you'll usually bump into a gaggle of teenagers in their pajama bottoms, out on a candy run) and get yourself a massive bag of pick'n'mix for half price. It's one of the few things I miss about Iceland.

the pick n mix bars can get pretty huge: https://yummy-iceland.blogspot.com/2025/06/nammidagur.html

I remember as a kid, I'd get 100 kronur (probably about $3 USD in today's money) on Saturday morning and go to the store to buy sweets. You'd meticulously choose which items to put in the bag to make sure you got the best value for money :)

A classic case where anti-terrorism laws were used against... Iceland.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/08/revealed-anti-...

Anti terrorist laws used to track and prosecute fly tipping and people parking in disabled parking spots.

These laws were also designed to only be used in extreme cases. History repeats itself.

I use it a lot to track down original sources of videos and photos on Reddit, to check authenticity. I also use it to search for hardware components other manufacturers use, that I'd like to buy. Things like specific switches, knobs, faders, displays etc. (I build audio gadgets). I just highlight the part on the picture and then restrict my search to Alibaba, digikey or mouser. It's GREAT.

Lens is highly underrated.

Why not? It's a great chip, even if it has some limitations. I use it in several of my pro audio products (a midi controller, a Eurorack module, and a series of guitar pedals). they are absolutely perfect as utility chips, the USB stack is good, the USB bootloader makes it incredibly easy for customers to update the firmware without me having to write a custom bootloader.

I've shipped at least a thousand "real" products with an RP2040 in them.

I've definitely noticed this myself when I was working my last job (quant finance in London, startup fund). We were getting premium talent applying for roles that we never dreamt of getting before then. A lot of them were ex Meta, ex google, ex Palantir etc. Guys who were very good but went to work mindless jobs for big tech for that 300k pay package. Now they're asking for half that, and desperate for a job.

Literally 90% or more of the viewers are just there to look at half-naked bodies. Exactly what the article is talking about.

I don't think anyone could pretend that "I just run a fashion channel" or "I just post videos from my kids gymnastics sessions" doesn't know who's really putting views on their videos. It should be blatantly clear to anyone, especially the creator who has more in-depth tools to monitor their audience. These people 100% know what they're doing and they're willing to keep going.

Btw he used to be known as Lord Buckethead but had a trademark dispute over his name, and rebranded as Count Binface.

At the height of this panic, there was talk of the bugs spreading to the UK, and that is was prevalent on tourist-heavy rail lines coming from France.

I used to take the train that goes through Gatwick airport up to Victoria, to go to work every day. Within a couple of days of seeing the headlines, I spotted several bedbugs on the train, including one time, one was just sitting on my bicep. They were definitely bedbugs, before you start questioning it, I managed to rake a photo of the one on my arm before smacking it off and changing seats.

Coincidence, maybe. But I've never seen a bedbug before and never seen them after. So I'm not completely willing to write this off as a conspiracy theory.

But if someone grew an actual dragon in a lab by splicing together DNA fragments, that would still be a major feat. Similarly, training a neural net to play grandmaster level chess is simple in theory but extremely difficult in practice.

That's literally it. Inside man.

It must be intentional even if nobody admits it, and it's a way to drive out people. Ironically, it also drives out the people that know they have better options, while you're left with the worst workers who are desperate and don't think they can get another job. But they don't care as long as the headcount target is met, and they can get that performance bonus.

I'm sorry, what? Credit cards are available and accepted basically everywhere in Europe. I've been to 15+ European countries and never had a single issue paying with a credit card. Credit cards are also widely owned and issued all over Europe.

Why would you make this statement? What am I missing?