alicewales
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8 years ago
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on: Kate Middleton’s ‘luxury’ birth cost less than the average U.S. birth
You utter prat. My sister is an NHS midwife and went through three years of highly technical university education for it. It's a skilled job and she's saved lives when things have gone wrong. Should we all go back to living in mud huts instead of professionally-built houses, too?
alicewales
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8 years ago
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on: Kate Middleton’s ‘luxury’ birth cost less than the average U.S. birth
Private companies who provide services to the NHS also get @nhs.net email addresses. It's a secure email system so that patient and other confidential data can be exchanged between providers without it going out onto random internet mail servers.
An @nhs.net email doesn't mean "this person/organisation is a part of the NHS", it means they provide services to the NHS and need to deal with patient data.
alicewales
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8 years ago
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on: Chinese police use facial recognition tech to arrest suspect at a pop concert
alicewales
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8 years ago
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on: Our experience with Stripe Atlas (2017)
I've noticed a lot of people setting up UK limited companies for similar reasons - you can do it online for a few pounds and there seem to be very few checks done on your identity or business plan when you do so.
alicewales
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8 years ago
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on: Notice to stakeholders: withdrawal of the UK and EU rules on .eu domain names
At least pro-Brexit campaign group LEAVE.EU will have to find a new domain name. It's not just their domain, it's the name of their organisation as a whole...
alicewales
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9 years ago
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on: Living in the world's most welcoming countries
alicewales
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9 years ago
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on: NHS staff trigger Google cyber-defences
I work in the NHS and regularly get the "I'm not a robot" captcha. I know what it is and why it's there when I see it, but colleagues often complain that their "Google" has a "virus".
A lot of NHS traffic goes through a few large networks like THIS [https://www.this.nhs.uk/home/] which don't have especially large IP allocations.
alicewales
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9 years ago
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on: Debian 8.7 released
"Let's have a look at what you could have won!"
alicewales
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9 years ago
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on: Is your internet up to date?
I can get an unreliable 3Mbps with the wind in the right direction on Openreach, or anything up to 200Mbps on Virgin Media. I'd rather not use VM's heavily filtered IPv6-free zone, but it's not a question of not being able to afford a decent ISP, it's just practicality.
alicewales
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9 years ago
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on: Is your internet up to date?
> Is Your Internet Up-To-date?
Of course it isn't. I live in the UK.
alicewales
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9 years ago
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on: Private Porn Shoots
I guess in the case of pornography, both participants are being paid by a third party (the producer) for taking part in the sex act. This is different from a typical prostitute/client relationship, where one is paying the other for sex.
(I don't know if this is addressed in the article - the site seems to have fallen over.)
alicewales
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9 years ago
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on: An AWS Region is coming to France
There is fibre outside London, but most of the main end-user ISPs have just the one POP and it's normally in Docklands. Everything ends up going through there one way or another.
alicewales
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9 years ago
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on: An AWS Region is coming to France
It's hardly surprising. Everything on the UK internet goes through London anyway. If you have a DC in Manchester and an end-user in Liverpool, the link normally goes Manchester - London - Liverpool.
It's not a great situation, having everything so centralised on London, but it's a small enough country that it doesn't have a huge effect on latency. It would make no sense for AWS to locate in a non-London region when everything would then have to be backhauled to London.
alicewales
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9 years ago
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on: Switzerland is the world’s most competitive economy
I do that after a certain time at night and I live in the UK. I'd be mortified if I thought I was causing a noise to my neighbours and I'd hate it if they did it to me.
It's more a case of treat others how you want to be treated - I hate being on the receiving end of neighbour noise so I take care not to be the cause of it myself.
alicewales
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9 years ago
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on: Randstad buys Monster for $429M as recruitment consolidation continues
Indeed.com (or its national variants) seems to be the place a lot of these kinds of employer advertise.
alicewales
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9 years ago
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on: Randstad buys Monster for $429M as recruitment consolidation continues
I regularly get cold-emailed by recruiters I've never dealt with for jobs I'm unqualified to do in locations I'm unwilling to move to. (No, I am not going to be a PHP dev for a betting outfit in Leeds.)
I bin them, but I suspect there are at least a few people who will go "hey, I can wing that" and respond depending on their level of desperation.
alicewales
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9 years ago
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on: Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail
Try getting your mails from your self-hosted DO server into the inbox at Outlook, Gmail, Yahoo etc. The big mail providers have it all relatively sewn up - anything coming from the likes of a random VM provider like DO will end up in 'spam.'
alicewales
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10 years ago
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on: Starter VPS: New Affordable Variants
So this is a company selling VPS hosting - not sure why it's newsworthy. Their ARM servers were innovative, this not so much so.
alicewales
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10 years ago
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on: Fedora on non-rooted Android phones – 2016 update
I registered just to say thank you for WordGrinder! I used it for a long time when I was in a sysadmin non-job where there was very little work to do.
I used to write blog posts in WordGrinder in a terminal over SSH (so it looked like work) then post them when I got home. It kept me sane until I'd saved up enough money to quit and find something a bit more rewarding.
