David Groves

@2147mill How big is my mortgage ?

Would you rather have your mortgage paid off or £300,000 in a Stocks & Shares ISA?

@kmcnam1 I've got autocommit off so I need to at least type COMMIT before using the footgun and I can unshoot myself fairly easily.

@levelsio @spaceMonster @jamespotter Yes, but its two different sessions. Client -> Cloudflare. Cloudflare -> Origin. It is kind of mandatory to implement a CDN and features like WAF.

@spaceMonster @jamespotter The connection between Cloudflare to your server in most cases is also HTTPS though if you use Let's Encrypt

PSA as this one passed me by at the time. If you use Starlink, your data is probably being used to train Grok. It's opt-out. Absolute scoundrels.

@orestistzo @British_Airways @jamesmyers1978 I'm not one to normally defend BA, they get a lot wrong, but they actually don't advertise it as a benefit. Even the Oneworld site notes you don't get it on BA. #benefits" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">oneworld.com/travel-benefit…

@British_Airways @jamesmyers1978 What an extraordinary response! Priority baggage is advertised as a benefit of a certain travel class and priced in the ticket. If the service is not available it should come off the price. You don’t pay for a set 3-course menu if dessert isn’t offered 🙈

Dear @British_Airways whats the point of priority labels on luggage if its gonna come out last? So annoying after a #delayedflight #britishairways

@CarolSibbald2 @British_Airways I'm in the lounge now. Where were you sitting and I can check if it is still here and hasn't been handed in.

Hi @British_Airways I am on a flight to London which is currently boarding. I think I have left my glasses in a black case in the BA business class lounge in Edinburgh. Can someone please check for me? Thank you.

@OverclockersUK Hollow Knight, and apparently a fairly common problem. Had two false starts where I tried to follow the hype but just never got into it. Then once I broke the barrier I 100%'d it over the next couple of weeks.

Which game was this for you? 🤔

@JannyWoman @LeeHurstComic There are only 3 entities that have any kind of actual self determination in this current world. The USA, China and the EU. They are all fragmented in some way, but Britains current condition needs it to ally with one & hope it picks well because sitting on the fence won't work.

@LeeHurstComic Neither. I want the seemingly impossible of a Britain that truly rules itself. But if forced to choose it would be 51st state simply because I could then sit and watch the spontaneous combustion of the Mass Hysteria brigade.

Gun to your head… Rejoin the EU? Become the 51st US State?

@Christo7850 @lembitopik @61_bauhaus Love how this is both correct and also clearly one of the dumbest things I've read in weeks at the same time.

@lembitopik @61_bauhaus NO CARBON DIOXIDE.…NO LIFE…simple as that! These brainless egotistical primadonnas have obviously never heard of PHOTOSYNTHESIS or have they!!

Britain has enough oil, coal & gas to last generations. Sadly, we haven’t got politicians smart enough to use it. Carbon dioxide isn’t killing our way of life. Government is

@lauriewired Does an Android phone cancel itself out with the (largely) C kernel and the (largely) Java userspace ?

with that in mind, I wonder what the average person "touches" more in a given day. Java or C

the most mass produced computer in history is likely a SIM card

@AskYoshik Honestly. "Google Alpine 3.16 DNS resolver bug docker image". Second result shows they ignored the TC flag. Check if what was broken would be big enough to need TC and check EDNS UDP bufsize support. Prove the root cause, swear at Alpine, and run a non broken base image.

Interviewer: Your Kubernetes cluster just failed health checks on 40% of pods. All failing pods are running Alpine 3.16 base images. DNS lookups to external services timeout after 5 seconds. Pods on Alpine 3.15 and 3.17 in the same namespace resolve DNS instantly. Restarting the pods sometimes fixes it for 10-15 minutes, then failures return. How will you debug?

@AaronBastani At this point I've got to assume you are on Huawei's payroll.

The same right that nuked 5G in this country with the Huawei ban - and was basically gleeful about it - cheered on a global energy crisis. They support wars displacing millions. Is it any wonder that, after 14 years of Tory government, the country felt immensely poorer by 2024?

@robert_cubitt @cezthesocialist Scotland still has some 24x7 shops (inc Sunday), due to different Sunday trade laws. Even got rid of the "ceremonial closures" that used to be needed to avoid the store becoming a right of way if it had two doors. Not just big cities too: storelocator.asda.com/scotland/grang…

@cezthesocialist There is no law preventing 24 hour shops in the UK (except on Sunday). Supermarket chains experimented with 24 hour opening but found that the lack of demand after midnight and the expense of dealing with drunks didn't justify the cost of staying open.

Why does the UK not have 24-hour shops? Even a town of about 1k people that I stayed at in Poland had one. And there’s about 30 7-Elevens alone in the town of 25k that I’m in right now. Surely the UK is not the only place in the world where they aren’t profitable.

@levelsio Chicken and Egg. YOU can't stop people spoofing your IP, but an ISP can their customers spoofing your IP. BCP-38 was written in 2000, but is sadly still far from universally deployed due to the cost being on me, the benefits being on you. Read this internetsociety.org/blog/2014/07/a…

Any way I can avoid my IP getting spoofed? Can hosting providers check if abuse reports are based on real or spoofed packages?

@jackpot100cid @mindloz08 @historyinmemes Greyhounds can go a bit faster than that. Low 40's for top speed. Still getting dunked on by the cheetah, but silvers still good !

@mindloz08 @historyinmemes cheetah is 2 times faster at 70 mph, thats insanely fast. winstons top speed is 35 which is still crazy fast

Meet Winston — the fastest dog ever recorded to run.

@Adidotdev The classic failing the job interview as you're scared the new guy will steal yours :)

@pumplekin No you confused me man

Interviewer: If HTTPS is encrypted… how does your network still know which site you opened ?

@haha_girrrl It better not be instant. Because then the hash algorithm is instant, and you can brute force check the hashes (even with salt that disallows precalculation) very quickly. Your hash algorithm should be (somewhat) computationally expensive and operate in fixed time.

Interviewer: If passwords are hashed... how does a site know you typed it wrong instantly?

@RupertLowe10 You realise this means you will deport nobody as orcs aren't real ?

Restore Britain will, without apology or fear, deport the third world orcs who break into our country, rape young women and then expect the British to tolerate their presence. There is finally a political party that will defend our home, our people, our shires. Restore Britain.

@curiosityonx I'd be trying to calm everyone down. If the moon was going to crash into the earth like that (even at that speed), there would have already been massive tidal effects, earthquakes, tsunamis and all other kinds of chaos. They fact there aren't means we can be sure its fake.

What would you do in this situation?

@phmay_sg @thealepalombo Not being a Schengen member when you are an island isn't really a big deal at all.

@thealepalombo The goal of the EU is harmonisation. When taxes are harmonised EU-wide Cyprus will have little competitive edge. As for now it is not even a Schengen member. Many investors will realise that life on a small, isolated island is not the European lifestyle they wanted.

I think 80% of families looking for a European base will end up in Cyprus. Here's why. 15% corporate tax. A 17-year non-dom regime that eliminates tax on foreign dividends and interest with just 60 days of presence. English everywhere. British common law. No wealth tax. No inheritance tax. 340 days of sunshine. EU citizenship after 7 years of residency. Direct flights to London, Dubai, and most of Europe. Healthcare is affordable and high quality. International schools in every major city. And with €300K in real estate, you qualify for permanent residency if you prefer the investment route. No other country gives you this combination at this price point. Some people find it boring. As Portugal cools down, 80% of globally mobile families will most likely end up choosing Cyprus. What's your take: how's life in Cyprus? Is it really as boring? Please share your honest pros and cons.