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ian.battersby.io

Architect, Programmer, and Hacker. Cloud Native. Zero Trust. Penchant for Rust and neovim. Director of Cloud Infrastructure @ GSKOnyx.tech. Formerly of Salesforce and Advanced. Married to an amazing wife. Proud father to M (12) & W (8).

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An advance look at “On Parade,” David Plunkert’s cover for next week's issue. #NewYorkerCovers

submitted 2 days ago • 895 comments

Google is raising my Google Workspace pricing claiming all the “AI value” added. I turned off Gemini in Gmail and Docs because it just doesn’t work / do anything useful for me. So why am I being charged more? Having costs b/c of AI is not the same as generating value with AI…

submitted 6 days ago • 38 comments

I’m so done with Google Workspace subscription increases justified by ai features I simply don’t want.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

RIP Bill Atkinson. One of a kind www.wired.com/story/bill-a...

submitted 8 days ago • 16 comments

(🧵) THREAD: I am shocked at how many people here think Trump has the upper hand in his feud with Musk—and I am convinced that it is the urgency of the media narrative in this direction that has made so many take this counterfactual position. As a biographer of both men, I’ll outline the situation.

submitted 8 days ago • 94 comments

live to the Conclave!

submitted 38 days ago • 5 comments

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

submitted 39 days ago • 2313 comments

Me hardly drinks for 6 months. Me picks up random beer can in M&S as I fancy a beer later. Me drinks beer later thinking how happy it’s making me. Me looks again at can, and it’s 8.4%

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

We've tried something a little new this week...visualizing @lbc.co.uk's "American Week" so you can watch it as well as listen to it. All feedback gratefully received! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rd71...

submitted 51 days ago • 29 comments

Not sure how to support trans folks in the UK at the moment? The GoodLaw Project have a fighting fund: goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

A helpful guide to the current state of US trade policy:

submitted 64 days ago • 216 comments

I miss #Severance.

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

"You boy! What tariff is it today?"

submitted 67 days ago • 79 comments

I’m not really a football person. But Feck Me! 😳

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

She died in binary. That’s dedication. RIP.

submitted 76 days ago • 127 comments

Can someone tell J D Vance to STFU? Thanks.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

I wouldn’t mind paying more for #Plex subscription if I wasn’t constantly trying to avoid the crap they’ve trying to shove on me.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Right now there are a lot of new eyes on Signal, and not all of them are familiar with secure messaging and its nuances. Which means there’s misinfo flying around that might drive people away from Signal and private communications. 1/

submitted 82 days ago • 143 comments

lol

submitted 85 days ago • 6 comments

OMG! #Severance

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

The good news is that there are people meeting the moment. youtu.be/EJxRtjma7lc

submitted 88 days ago • 1200 comments

I don’t even.

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

Thousands of people are ditching Tesla. Here’s one of them with a message you can see from space. Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK Led By Donkeys is 100% funded by small donations.

submitted 90 days ago • 544 comments

“On the one hand, it’s a necessary tool and a solution that exists in a lot of rural areas, especially with the poor investment in infrastructure. But on the other hand, we have now got to deal with Elon – to put it politely – being a twat.” 😂 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

★ Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino

submitted 95 days ago • 92 comments

Corey Doctorow: "Even by Amazon standards, this is extraordinarily sleazy: starting March 28, each Amazon Echo device will cease processing audio on-device and instead upload all the audio it captures to Amazon's cloud for processing, even if you have previously opted out of cloud-based processing"