ShaneMcGowan | 3 years ago | on: EU lawmakers slam “radical proposal“ to let ISPs demand new fees from websites
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i_like_cake | 3 years ago | on: Met Police UK Live Facial Recognition
Time to start wearing my PII protecting, GDPR respecting balaclava when I go outside
ShaneMcGowan | 3 years ago | on: UK four-day week pilot begins: employees get 100% of the pay for 80% of the time
Great question!
4 days of stress was definitely better than 5 days of stress as I felt more recharged after the 3 day weekend. Also my output didn’t drop as I was feel less burnt out.
My original comment still stands though, a stress free 5 days is much better overall than the stressful 4
ShaneMcGowan | 3 years ago | on: UK four-day week pilot begins: employees get 100% of the pay for 80% of the time
Having worked a 4 day work week for 100% pay for 6 months in my previous job, I would rather work a low stress job for 5 days than a stressful job for 4 days
ShaneMcGowan | 3 years ago | on: Instagram Account Hacked – Phishing
Literally this exact same thing happened to a close friend of mine 1 month ago. All links to recovery information didn’t solve the issue and support seemed unable to do anything due to the email and phone number being changed.
My suggestion is to back up all your photos as quickly as possible, there are tools on GitHub for this. If your account was private you will need to get someone already follows you to help.
Unfortunately it is very unlikely you will get your account back
ShaneMcGowan | 3 years ago | on: Tether Withdrawals Top $10B
Exactly why I used the word "allegedly", lol
ShaneMcGowan | 3 years ago | on: Tether Withdrawals Top $10B
Since Tether is a stable coin™ allegedly backed by and pegged to the price of 1 USD.
So if the price is still $1 but the circulation has gone down by 10 billion, that means $10B worth of it has been cached out
ShaneMcGowan | 4 years ago | on: Google critiqued the practice of displaying ads above search results
This headline is misleading, the image in this tweet says you can't buy better search placement. Ads shown at Google are labelled as ads, the person is not buying a better search result placement. I do say this ignoring the fact that Google's labelling of ads has been getting more and more subtle over time but that is a separate unrelated issue.
This seems to be another attempt of generating hype around "google bad"
ShaneMcGowan | 4 years ago | on: In MySQL, use “utf8mb4” instead of “utf8” (2016)
This one is very fun to debug in production when you're on MySQL 5.8
ShaneMcGowan | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Where are you getting your money's worth?
Rider IDE for C# development, my god is it a dream compared to using visual studio
ShaneMcGowan | 4 years ago | on: Microsoft .NET Devs Anonymously Responds to Microsoft .NET Leadership
Even on high spec machines, visual studio feels so clunky and slow. Haven't used Rider but Intellij for Java development is a dream compared to visual studio for .NET development
ShaneMcGowan | 4 years ago | on: Steam bans all blockchain and NFT games on its platform
One could argue that's worse
ShaneMcGowan | 4 years ago | on: Steam bans all blockchain and NFT games on its platform
If you swap out the SQL DB for a Blockchain it's basically the same thing
ShaneMcGowan | 4 years ago | on: Steam bans all blockchain and NFT games on its platform
Yet the CS:GO skin trading remains
ShaneMcGowan | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: Time travel debugger for web development
How well does this play with something like Angular or React? I know there is a lot of internal logic going on in those apps
ShaneMcGowan | 4 years ago | on: Drug-dealers are finding the always-on culture a chore
Drugs sell themselves
ShaneMcGowan | 4 years ago | on: British right to repair law excludes smartphones and computers
Trying to find a good non smart tv is impossible now, I want dumb tv and dumb fridge
ShaneMcGowan | 4 years ago | on: Detection Script to help identify why your PC isn't Windows 11 ready
They simply didn't forsee this far into the future
ShaneMcGowan | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: I’m an introvert – made an app to help maintain connections with people
Relationship as a Service
ShaneMcGowan | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: I’m an introvert – made an app to help maintain connections with people
I can't decided if automated "love you" messages is dystopian af or cute
One could argue that the broadband provider should be the one paying for the infrastructure to …provide broadband