UK seems to totally lost it ways? The politicians seems to be doing everything they can do to harm normal people. Anyone know why UK have chosen this direction?
It's less the people of the UK have chosen this and more of general apathy towards the state of the world today. The lack of unity and mobilization of the proletariat class to secure our rightful share of the productivity gains of recent decades has left us in a terrible bargaining position, and technology these days is such a huge force multiplier that it feels hopeless to go against governments, and to a lesser extent the huge corporations and elites that influence them (or totally control, according to some). Sometimes I wonder if we've already crossed the point of no return and that they've won and just nobody realizes it yet, and we're doomed to descend into some flavor of corporate dystopian hellhole future.
The Online Safety Act enjoys high support with the UK public, because it targets a range of things that the average voter agrees should be restricted, to name just a few: online scams, pro-suicide content, cyberbullying, and allowing under-18s to access adult material.
There are issues with the legislation as it covers so many things, but many of the aims of it are popular.
The funny thing is that none of those aims will be achieved with this act. The only way to make the net safe is by turning it into a heavily-sanitized cage, where only government-approved players are allowed; an outcome that the average voter would likely not support (but who knows - fascism is back in fashion, after all).
All legislation will have "issues" until it's made physically impossible for a website to be accessible unless the government approves it. Until then, it's just a way to promote VPNs across the general public, which will have a bunch of collateral negative effects (since it will become much harder for the security services to actually monitor actual bad guys).
Brit here. I'm ambivalent about it. We'll have to see how it works in practice. I don't think the idea is that it's impossible to access harmful content, just that it's trickier so kids see less porn, self harm advice and so on.
So far the only thing I've noticed was Reddit asking how old I am. We've had a 'ban' on piracy sites for years which remains trivially circumvented.
We also ban online paedophile networks but I think all countries do that? That one you go to jail for.
I remember being on a session with the pragmatic programmers (ie the people from the book) and they recommended making a compile error on purpose as the last thing one did before leaving work. The next day you compiled the code and get an error, fix this and they continue working. You are already doing work. This sets your mind on the right track from they day before. I gave used this a bit and it works pretty well.
It's better compared to a blauberg vento or lunos e2. That product probably gets poor efficiency, I have not checked the technical sheet but if they say 80% that means at the minimal flow levels, which are only 10 cfm or something. The TW4 gets >85% sensible and comparable latent efficiency, at 60 cfm. It also has twice the maximal flow of that device. It's got many other features as well, and is more durable. Ultimately, it's about return on investment. You have to make a spreadsheet and see which one is best, given the actual tested values for efficiency flow, maintenance cost, etc. If that's not possible, it's a shot in the dark.
Would it be possible to use a device like Google Nest Hub 2. for the similar purpose? It is quite a bit cheaper, I have an old mother which still is clear in the head but often have problems with her mobile phone. Would also be easier for us to share pictures of her grandchildren and such.
Was a bit surprised to see that Cold Drinks Now Represent 75 Percent of Starbucks’ Sales. I am guessing most of these cold drinks contains an huge amount of sugar and other sweeteners.
It is game changing that you can include Mermaid diagrams in Azure DevOps and Github markdown files. Makes it easy to include a chart or diagram and keep it under source control.
What do you mean? If you need an upgrade from the default DI, then YOU should ask yourself why do you think you need it, gather requirements, identify what is missing from the existing solution, and chose one of the many DI container based on your needs and findings. And most of those containers can be used with MS existing DI pipelines.
Looks like a great starting point with good choices of technologies. I see the database is sqlite in development as default, but it is not possible to use it in production as described in the documentation. Would be great with the option to use sqlite in production also since it is easy to use and require less resources.
