Alun Jones

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UX tip: once the page looks like this, your user has lost any idea of "where I am", and will go somewhere else.

Wall Street Journal apparently has a Farage story, "This Trump Supporter Helped Crush the UK's Conservative Party". Sure, Jan. Don't forget the huge part played by the lettuce, either.

At some point, a realisation hits that you've already learned far too many new skills for this one stupid little project, but it's time to add another one.

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I said STOP THE CAR

"You're on with Annie and the Doc, and the next call is from someone who says their Penistone's gone red overnight, and wonder how long it'll stay that way..."

Every time I see "NGFW" on a security vendor's presentation, I think that it means "Not Gonna Fookin' Work".

Nothing says "I have a need to declare my power over something" quite like exploding very loud fireworks at half past one in the morning.

Fuck ransomware developers. Fuck cancer more.

The true impact of ransomware on healthcare: Cancer patient forced to scrap surgery after Qilin attack on hospitals Exclusively here www.theregister.com/2024/07/05/q...

The untold impact of Qilin's attack on London hospitalswww.theregister.com Skin-sparing mastectomy and breast reconstruction scrapped as result of ransomware at supplier

Trying to remember what the documentation for Visual C++ 1.52 (and the Windows SDK) was like - can't find photos of the box set anywhere. I'm sure it can't have been how I'm picturing it in my head... but maybe it was?

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Copilot's notes on the odds for the next Tory leader...

Labour gains Scunthorpe from the Conservatives, does that mean it's now Shorpe?

newsthump.com/2024/07/04/r...

Reform voters determined to overcome the challenge of drawing an ‘X’newsthump.com Reform voters are going all out to make sure they can draw a cross correctly on their ballot papers today.

There are 9 lights, but the listing says 8. I'm looking for a single board with 16 or so in a straight line, so this still isn't what I need, but it's an odd outlier.

LED Stick - 8 x WS2812 5050 RGB LEDwww.tinyosshop.com This is a FPC LED stick, a small chainable board with eight 5050 WS2812 RGB LEDs. The WS2812s are each addressable as the driver chip is located inside the LED. Each LED Stick has ~18mA constant curre...

I remember cracking the encryption on WordPerfect because someone had forgotten their password. The encryption got better. RIP.

Tech entrepreneur Bruce Wayne Bastian, co-founder of WordPerfect, has died at the age of 76 at his home in Palmdale, California. His obituary: www.theregister.com/2024/07/03/w...

RIP: WordPerfect co-founder Bruce Bastian dies at 76www.theregister.com Tributes paid to passionate LGBTQ+ equality champion

The law, in its infinite majesty...

"Serving Size" on this tonic bottle says "12oz". That's an awful lot of gin, and I'm not sure I'm up to the challenge. For a start, I don't have a large enough mug.

"Sort alphabetically"

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My new desk lamp giving off quite a comforting glow! #3DPrinting #Blakes7 #Liberator

Someone at Tesla is asking if they should send the recall notices to the customers or just directly to the garages already working on the previous recall notice.

"Accidentally"

Smith Tower Vaporized After Seattle Central Library Accidentally Turns Sunbeam into Death Star Laser: tinyurl.com/mubyn3cv

OK, @bsky.app , I know you can do better than this. O and 0, I and 1 should either not be a part of your character set for human-entered verification codes, or they should be accepted as variants. (Same goes for '8' and 'B', or other codes)

I should hire a bunch of people like myself, and advertise "Al-powered Cybersecurity".

If corporate America wants to fire people for getting sick, the least they could do is call on their rented congresspeople to institute public health care. Hard to feel much for an exec, though, when you realise Mozilla will likely have done the same to dozens of mere staff.

Firefox maker Mozilla is trying to push me out because I have cancer, CPO says in bombshell lawsuit www.theregister.com/2024/06/24/m...

Mozilla is trying to push me out because I have cancer – CPOwww.theregister.com Steve Teixeira sues Firefox maker alleging disability discrimination, retaliation

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Firefox maker Mozilla is trying to push me out because I have cancer, CPO says in bombshell lawsuit www.theregister.com/2024/06/24/m...

Mozilla is trying to push me out because I have cancer – CPOwww.theregister.com Steve Teixeira sues Firefox maker alleging disability discrimination, retaliation

Definitely looks like a semi from this angle.

Further study of pedestrians at Wilmot Gateway Park in Woodinville is needed.

Study Finds Heart Attack Risk Highest In People About to Be Passed on Sidewalk by E-Scooter: tinyurl.com/4c8h4h8j

Do not repost this where the Daleks can hear you!

Good news or bad news, depending on your outlook... Earth possesses "limited readiness" to "quickly implement" space missions to defend itself against a devastating asteroid strike, even with 14 years of notice www.theregister.com/2024/06/21/n...

NASA finds humanity would totally fumble asteroid defensewww.theregister.com Earthly politics and mission planning no match for fast-moving rocky orb

Mmhmm, that new keyboard smell...

Windows pissing in my cornflakes again. What the hell is it doing downloading ESPN? I have next to no interest in sport, and even less interest in watching it. I find it hard to imagine I could want an app less than this.