pastyboy's comments

pastyboy | 1 year ago | on: 'Danish Viking blood is boiling.' Danes and other Europeans boycott US goods

Greenlanders could be offered 10 million dollars each, the protectorate of the US and laws does not sound so bad to me, I would take it, currently living in a dystopian socialist Labour nightmare, the UK (could be worse, we could still be in the EU).

pastyboy | 1 year ago | on: U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts

"Stupid is as stupid does...", this is the same Home Office Minister, Yvette Cooper (Flipper) that says pointy kitchen knives and Amazon orders are the reason for knife crime epidemic in the UK. Next up x.com banned from the UK.

pastyboy | 1 year ago | on: Chat Control: Incompatible with Fundamental Rights (2022)

The Irony is in the UK we are about to get a socialist state, not renowned for their libertarian acceptance of other points of view. I am sure the new Labour government will make sure we have the same system in the UK in the name of co-operation.

pastyboy | 1 year ago | on: Chat Control: Incompatible with Fundamental Rights (2022)

That will be the end of whatsapp then and any other mainstream secure messaging platforms. Probably will do eff all for the real bad actors, paedos and deviants.

pastyboy | 1 year ago | on: Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac

Well on the one hand its very interesting... on the other a little dystopian, but I guess I am a luddite.

Everyone now will appear to be of a certain intelligence with proscribed viewpoints, this is going to make face to face interviews interesting, me, I think I'll carry on with my imperfections and flawed opinions, being human may become a trend again.

pastyboy | 2 years ago | on: Europe May Be Headed for Something Unthinkable – A Far-Right European Union

Wonder if people who voted Remain in the UK would want to rejoin, ironic just as we potentially get a more subservient UK government that would like to rejoin.

pastyboy | 2 years ago | on: Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas

Someone you know works for Meta ?

pastyboy | 2 years ago | on: Amsterdam preparing to lower speed limit to 30 kilometers per hour

Socialism has a 100 different flavours, there isn't one universal version. Social democracy maybe.

pastyboy | 2 years ago | on: Amsterdam preparing to lower speed limit to 30 kilometers per hour

Less pollution not so much, everyone will be in 2nd gear, less deaths perhaps.

pastyboy | 3 years ago

Bye then. What difference does it make who owns it ? You could have written all that diatribe on there still, without any censorship or suppression.

pastyboy | 3 years ago | on: No to Spy Pixels

If you don’t like the email technology used by the provider of the commercial content you are receiving… Unsubscribe, simple.

pastyboy | 3 years ago | on: The man who made the “worst” video game in history (2019)

Was the first game I ever played on a cousins Atari in 1982, I loved it and Superman, was absolutely fascinated by the game on the TV.

Got an Atari shortly after for Christmas.

The genre of movie based games has now completely turned on it's head, games are now made from movies.

pastyboy | 4 years ago | on: How to handle big workloads with minimal infrastructure?

Depends on the site... Cloudflare 200/mo you need minimal infrastructure behind the scenes if Cloudflare takes the hit, start small, scale up as and when things get busy.

pastyboy | 4 years ago | on: Using a mild Twitter addiction to get things done

Uninstalled twitter off my iphone, a great way to reclaim your life and your sanity, also noticed my stress levels dropped ;)

pastyboy | 4 years ago | on: Back to EU

Auf wiedersehen

pastyboy | 5 years ago | on: Australia's government slams Facebook's move to block news content

Absolute LOL, what the hell did the Australians expect. Interfere with the workings of the internet at your peril.

pastyboy | 5 years ago | on: CentOS Alternatives

This is a total disaster for the open source community. However you paint it, we are all being forced to chose a commercial solution, where we get rinsed.

pastyboy | 6 years ago | on: Let's Encrypt: an automated certificate authority to encrypt the entire web

acme.sh a master class in bash and a pretty damn good let’s encrypt certificate processor.

pastyboy | 6 years ago | on: An Extensive List of Everything That Might Be Causing the “Vaping Illness”

might want to look at who owns the vape companies and maybe understand why its in their interest to make users afraid of using vape's and going back to tobacco.

pastyboy | 6 years ago | on: Hong Kong Protests Live Updates: Police Violence Puts Government on Defensive

We trade with China so readily without even a thought of the kind of dark totalitarian regime reigns, anything for profit right ?

Feel very sorry for the HK citizens but there is nothing the UK can do, HK being returned to China was seen as part of the end of UK influence which (people wanted?), meaning we have 0 influence now.

However being under the sphere of China's political surveillance system is clearly not what anybody wanted.

I noted with interest how citizens binned all digital methods of payment and comms to avoid be prosecuted for being at the demonstrations retrospectively and presumably extradited to some prison factory in China if the extradition dictat gets through.

Anyway IMHO Trump has inadvertently tried to reset the balance and caused the Chinese alot of problems by starving them of tech know how and trade. But as we know Presidents come and go - Communist China is eternal - they will just wait for the next leader to turn around and sell out everyone.