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Omnivorous technology journalist. girl with the USB earring; author of the Cassidy At Large technomysteries. Buy me a ☕ @ http://lnkiy.in/IV9SD. she/her. Warning: contains opinions. #nohello
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There are laptops with two and three screens that fold out. There are multiple 2 screen phones in the European and Asian market and I expect Apple will eventually come along to invent foldable phones thus legitimising the market
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I have (I hope they proof read their CVEs better than their press release). I’m concerned it’s still in the US and I worry about bad actors taking advantage of the confusion with the transition and I eagerly await the governance details
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Still based in the US? Mmm
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I don't like that. I respect it but I do not like it!
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a more recent example happened here in DC last month:
bsky.app/profile/clim...
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And red jam in the middle and sliced banana. If the red jam is redcurrant, bacon
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Among other responsibilities: “Mr. Goldstein is also responsible for NOAA’s Homeland Security Program to ensure business continuity in event of a terrorist attack, major disaster, or other emergency.”
So that’s cool.
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There's nothing aspirational about the Commanders in Handmaids Tale, for example. They are small, scuttling little rapists with no imagination. There's no Wintermute. There's no Saruman with a badass staff.
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Lol ssl/tls certs are on a path to expire every 47 days
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It's going to take passing the sanctions that have the option of cutting off the cash
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we've had it so long that the UK registrar wasn't even really set up when the friend working at internic heard me joke about what a good domain it would be and pulled out their phone and registested it for us in the pub garden
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also Earl keeps getting a sandwich; that makes it totally a show to watch while eating!
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not dot com though, that's not us (nor is it work safe)
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as we are Simon and Mary our domain is SandM
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well, they're really going to need you! BTW make sure their IT folks have a good cert renewals process in place stat
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sometimes it's flat!
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but then the reason text messages were free from one of the majour UK operators long after the initial free month to get people hooked was they couldn't get their billing server integration to work...
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he was listening to a phone in show driving to work hearing someone talk about having had free mobile calls to America over the weekend and expecting to be able to check the logs and kick off some billing jobs and discovering the billing server had been down ALL WEEKEND
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we watch a lot of TV with dinner, I have got very good at turning my eyes away at the gory moment
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because it's so gooooood?
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friend who did consulting for mobile operators would do that when he had to reboot their billing servers: you know the ones that timestamp all the call logs for calculating billing minutes...
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I did learn one good lesson: always ask for the buiding plans and a list of modifications before designing wireless tests.
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I could get 10 different kinds of soy sauce within 10 minutes walk of our flat in London (supermarkets and ethnic convenience stores in a suburb), don't know how much that helps
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fries, riestafel (Indonesian food is *everywhere*), good beer *and* Indian food...