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If there isn't a Doctor Who trailer tonight then what is even the point of the Wimbledon Finals?

OK gang! You can now buy @openbenches merch with a 15% discount at:

openbenches.myspreadshop.co.uk

Every t-shirt, mug, hat, and water-bottle sold goes to keeping the project afloat.

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Whether you've been coding for 2 years or 20 years, you'll never fail to bounce between "I am a god" and "I am the stupidest person alive"...sometimes within the same 5 minutes.

The High Court has quashed regulations introduced under Kwasi Kwarteng to allow employers to undermine strikes by bringing in agency workers, calling ministers’ approach and lack of consultation “so unfair as to be unlawful and, indeed, irrational” theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/j

#WorkersRights #EmploymentLaw #Strikes #IndustrialAction

After *many* years of work (e2e time), on Monday, I'm turning off m.bbc.co.uk & m.bbc.com.
They did their job when they were needed but that time has passed. Here's been our process for decomm:
1. 301 m. to www. (> 1 year)
2. 410 m. with custom "please use www" message (~6 months)
3. Delete all monitoring/graphing
4. Delete DNS for m.
5. Delete CDN/server configs
6. Remove m. from cert renewals
7. Remove m. from docs & processes
8. Remove m. from IP allocations

@Edent think you might be surprised at how fast the template based approach balloons out to huge number of permutations

@neil as I've seen it described, these are just (new?) Ubuntu-specific security patches, and they still provide the same old security patches from upstream.

It is, however, a message designed to get you to sign up for their Pro service in a deeply manipulative way.

Have you ever edited #Wikipedia? :blobhaj_thinking:

I can see the value in proprietary apps and platforms that make it easy for users. I can also see the value in a well-kept turnpike or toll bridge.

But.

There is even greater value in open source, non-proprietary networks and protocols, just there is greater value in the public highway being open to all.

But law and policy, like politics, is the art of the possible.

Rather than building another bridge or road, removing the toll-booths on the current ones may be a good approach.

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