But they need to get to 2035 in order to survive by 2035 🤔

Never mind that, what is ‘coated poultry’? A chicken in a puffer jacket?

In the case of the UK and utilities, at least, public ownership.

I hate how, over the last 30 years, the burden for people to not be ripped off by companies has shifted to the individual. Why must I use my limited free time and mental capacity to shop around for car insurance, contents insurance, buildings insurance, rail travel, energy suppliers and now vets? To hell with ‘free market capitalism’.

A really nice essay, I agree with the sentiment of it. We don’t need European tech billionaires, we need government support for open source

Hmm, doubt it’s for security. Seems more likely they’re looking for backdoors in order to spy on users. There are far too many governments desperate to backdoor encryption and messaging apps to trust any government’s stated intent when it comes to technology

TPS evaluations, you say?

The rise and fall and rise of RIM. Blackberry, here we go!

Oh, you didn’t tell us how long it would really take, did ya? Oh, laddie. You’ve got a lot to learn if you want people to think of you as a miracle worker.

I love the way you delivered the punchline - very reminiscent of Douglas Adams

How do we persuade our elected politicians to stop trying to speedrun authoritarianism and fascism?

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Looks nice, but at £50 it’s a hard no from me

I believe that any entity that witnessed me taking a dump would be truly terrified

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Arthur C Clarke is an excellent author and the Rama series is one of my all-time favourites. I’d recommend anything by Philip K Dick, though honestly I think a good reference would be to pick works listed in the SF Masterworks collection, it’s how I found many of my favourite SF novels.

If you fancy venturing into modern SF classics, my favourites are by Peter F Hamilton, Iain M Banks and William Gibson; though does Gibson count? He doesn’t even have a middle initial 😄

Wireless Application Protocol. I can no longer say on my CV that I ‘worked on WAP in the early 2000s’.

Do plants die of old age though? Now that question has been put in my head, I need to know.

Be back in a bit, going down a rabbit hole.