UKMT Summer 2023 - Too fat and woke to fight

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Dabir: Nov 10, 2012

The Question IRL posted:

A friend of mine said that there should be a national service, but it should be "work in the retail sector" for a year. Just so you learn to empathise and not abuse retail staff.

Honestly I don't think he's wrong.

In this diseased loving country it would just teach people to be more abusive to retail staff, cause I got shat on when I was doing that job, so it's normal and expected and why should they have it any better

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# ? Apr 27, 2024 22:07

History Comes Inside!: Nov 20, 2004

It also unfortunately teaches you that most of the time you have to be an absolute oval office to get what you want out of most customer service interactions because if you�re nice about it you�ll just be fobbed off.

# ? Aug 31, 2023 11:43

Mega Comrade: Apr 22, 2004; Listen buddy, we all got problems!

DesperateDan posted:

okay so we just did zombie knives again, nice bit of the ol' tabloid fear campaign bringing back a recent popular hit

now it's some gritted teeth and pronounced vein nostalgia-wanking over national service by folk largely born a decade+ after it ended

what's next on the hatescreen-

air gun/crossbow armed teens?

"thugs" on skunk?

Romanians eating swans?

I swear they just have a loving roulette wheel somewhere

Gotta print something to try and desperately cling on to every falling readership.
Within 5 years every paper will be like the Independent, just stories on what ever tiktok video is trending or Reddit post is popular.

# ? Aug 31, 2023 11:45

Jakabite: Jul 31, 2010

The Question IRL posted:

A friend of mine said that there should be a national service, but it should be "work in the retail sector" for a year. Just so you learn to empathise and not abuse retail staff.

Honestly I don't think he's wrong.

I�ve never done retail but I�ve done a lot of hospitality and I�d have been mighty pissed off to have a bunch of Young People And Their TikToks who were being forced to be there foisted on me.

# ? Aug 31, 2023 12:10

fuctifino: Jun 11, 2001

https://twitter.com/christopherhope/status/1697005173934010726

:allears:

# ? Aug 31, 2023 12:51

Failed Imagineer: Sep 22, 2018

fuctifino posted:

https://twitter.com/christopherhope/status/1697005173934010726

More pegging than you might think

# ? Aug 31, 2023 12:53

happyhippy: Feb 21, 2005; Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup; Pillbug

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/apr/05/dozens-of-aristocrats-claim-under-uk-furlough-scheme

quote:

Dozens of members of Britain�s land-owning aristocracy have claimed under the taxpayer-funded furlough scheme to pay staff at their ancestral estates and personal businesses.

The latest snapshot reveals that claimants including companies owned by the Duke and Duchess of Rutland, who are divorced and live in separate parts of the duke�s ancestral home, Belvoir Castle, which sits in 15,000 acres of Leicestershire parkland and has featured in The Crown.

Treasury disclosures suggest that the pair made four claims of up to �10,000 in December, increasing the amount to between �10,000 and �25,000 in January when a national lockdown took hold.

They also own the Engine Yard Cafe & Bistro and a clothes shop, the Duchess Gallery, which claimed up to �55,000 between them over the two months.

The duke, a former Ukip supporter, was listed as having an estimated wealth of �125m in the 2013 Sunday Times rich list, although he sold an item from his art collection, a painting by Van Dyck, to fund the estate�s upkeep.

Full nazi, worth �125 million, scammed the govt during covid, complaining how its hard it is living like they are.

# ? Aug 31, 2023 12:57

sinky: Feb 22, 2011; Slippery Tilde

Forensic pissing away of �300,000

quote:

Labour costs pass �500,000 in lawsuit over leaked antisemitism report

The total includes �300,000 spent on a failed application to gain access to Murphy�s private emails. The party has been refused permission to appeal.

A legal source with knowledge of the case said: �Labour will be facing a bill of several million by the time this saga ends and a media-fest airing Labour�s dirty laundry just before or during a general election.�

# ? Aug 31, 2023 13:20

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

History Comes Inside! posted:

Yeah ‘external’ RAID is achieved with a NAS (or if you want something even less technical, a DAS which connects over USB instead) box with more than one drive in it, you just buy the enclosure then just 2 drives of your desired size and you’re away.

My hope (and maybe this was a misunderstanding on my part) was that I could buy 2 5tb HDDs, plug them both in, set them to mirror, and then if a sector on one fails, the other one has it backed up. But like I say, I have no idea which manufacturers are good, what price range is reasonable, what features are needed etc.

It's not the space I need so much as the reassurance that if I wake up one morning to find out a drive has carked it at a hardware level, it means just buying a new drive and a bit of setup rather than being like the goon who lost all their photos (and I'm assuming docs / movies / porn from back when :filez:

was easier).

Seperate question, why has the defence secretary resigned?

# ? Aug 31, 2023 13:31

History Comes Inside!: Nov 20, 2004

That�s not RAID so much as it is just backing up to two separate drives, which is just as valid an approach really if all you wanna do is keep your poo poo safe!

# ? Aug 31, 2023 13:38

DreddyMatt: Nov 25, 2002; MY LACK OF KNOWLEDGE OF CURRENT EVENTS IS EXCEEDED ONLY BY MY UNQUENCHABLE THIRST FOR PISS. FUK U AMERIKKKA!!

Depending on how much stuff you're looking to back up, you might find it more cost effective to just use a cloud backup service.

If it's just your photos and documents, then something like idrive is pretty cheap

https://www.idrive.com/pricing
10 dollars a year for 500gb, you'd get quite a few years peace of mind for the price of 2 hard drives (plus the cost of running them and replacing when required)

# ? Aug 31, 2023 13:48

History Comes Inside!: Nov 20, 2004

Bear in mind as always that �the cloud� is just �someone else�s computer� and is just as prone to failure and data loss as anything else sometimes, as a bunch of people found out last week.

If it�s stuff you can�t bear to lose having multiple backups is the way forward, don�t rely on just one type.

# ? Aug 31, 2023 13:58

Inexplicable Humblebrag: Sep 20, 2003

Bobby Deluxe posted:

Seperate question, why has the defence secretary resigned?

i thought he announced it absolutely yonks ago. he's not standing for re-election and is presumably going to go and be large and pink in the private sector for ungodly sums of money

# ? Aug 31, 2023 14:08

Skull Servant: Oct 25, 2009

It doesn't appear to have any significant reason apart from Wallace resigning. There's probably going to be another more significant one in the next month or two so they can rotate out all the people that are standing down next election.

# ? Aug 31, 2023 14:11

DreddyMatt: Nov 25, 2002; MY LACK OF KNOWLEDGE OF CURRENT EVENTS IS EXCEEDED ONLY BY MY UNQUENCHABLE THIRST FOR PISS. FUK U AMERIKKKA!!

History Comes Inside! posted:

Bear in mind as always that ‘the cloud’ is just ‘someone else’s computer’ and is just as prone to failure and data loss as anything else sometimes, as a bunch of people found out last week.

If it’s stuff you can’t bear to lose having multiple backups is the way forward, don’t rely on just one type.

Laffo
That's computers for you. Though if attackers were able to encrypt all prod and backup data, then you've gotta question what kind of Mickey mouse operation they were running.

You're right, of course, multiple backups in different locations and devices will always be best, but then you're back into price considerations. If you want to be reasonably sure your photos will survive drive failure, but don't want to spend a lot, it's definitely an option

# ? Aug 31, 2023 14:16

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Fair enough, I've been playing about with bing as a search engine and it notified me Ben something had resigned.

E: specifically it notified me last night, so I thought this was today.

Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 14:28 on Aug 31, 2023

# ? Aug 31, 2023 14:20

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

I thought he was a bit pissed off at cuts to the armed services budgets given Afghanistan etc in the past year or so.

# ? Aug 31, 2023 14:24

NotJustANumber99: Feb 15, 2012; somehow that last av was even worse than your posting

Just print all the photos out and put them in a backup album

# ? Aug 31, 2023 14:27

Just Another Lurker: May 1, 2009

I've been wary of computer networks and always made backups ever since i watched Battlestar Galactica years ago. :psylon:

# ? Aug 31, 2023 15:02

SixFigureSandwich: Oct 30, 2004; Exciting Lemon

Re: the cloud - also keep in mind that the major cloud providers will happily block you from all their services if they think you've done something wrong. No they won't tell you what that is. No you can't get your files back, better hope you still have a local copy.

# ? Aug 31, 2023 15:03

DreddyMatt: Nov 25, 2002; MY LACK OF KNOWLEDGE OF CURRENT EVENTS IS EXCEEDED ONLY BY MY UNQUENCHABLE THIRST FOR PISS. FUK U AMERIKKKA!!

Sounds incredibly incriminating

# ? Aug 31, 2023 15:05

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Just Another Lurker posted:

I've been wary of computer networks and always made backups ever since i watched Battlestar Galactica years ago.

Reminds me of that tweet about how people who know tech only from the consumer side have houses kitted out with networked smart appliances so their toaster can tell the fridge to order more bread; and people who work in tech MAYBE have their printer connected to the wifi, but also keep a loaded gun next to it incase it makes an unexpected noise.

SixFigureSandwich posted:

Re: the cloud - also keep in mind that the major cloud providers will happily block you from all their services if they think you've done something wrong. No they won't tell you what that is. No you can't get your files back, better hope you still have a local copy.

There's an apocryphal story about a guy who couldn't access his office365 subscription for work because his son decided to have a heated gamer moment on his account. I think they seperate the accounts now, but there were a few stories like that in the early days.

Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 15:14 on Aug 31, 2023

# ? Aug 31, 2023 15:10

Failed Imagineer: Sep 22, 2018

Just Another Lurker posted:

I've been wary of computer networks and always made backups ever since i watched Battlestar Galactica years ago.

Any sufficiently-advanced toaster is indistinguishable from a Cylon

# ? Aug 31, 2023 15:13

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

Failed Imagineer posted:

Any sufficiently-advanced toaster is indistinguishable from a Cylon

Please do not gently caress your toaster to see if the spine lights up.

# ? Aug 31, 2023 15:15

Failed Imagineer: Sep 22, 2018

Darth Walrus posted:

Please do not gently caress your toaster to see if the spine lights up.

I wish I could promise that buddy

# ? Aug 31, 2023 15:20

fuctifino: Jun 11, 2001

https://twitter.com/BBCBreaking/status/1697245074474840354

:toot:

Over 100 schools are affected

# ? Aug 31, 2023 15:22

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Experiencing that familiar 'wait, this wasn't already the case?' sensation again.

# ? Aug 31, 2023 15:24

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

Darth Walrus posted:

Please do not gently caress your toaster to see if the spine lights up.

If you're holding on to earthed water pipes for balance while loving a toaster there's a chance that someone involved has their spine light up.

# ? Aug 31, 2023 15:24

Mega Comrade: Apr 22, 2004; Listen buddy, we all got problems!

For backups the gold standard is the 3-2-1 system.

- Three copies
- Two media types
- One copy being off-site

If you have a decent budget.
Then a NAS with a regular automatic cloud backup and weekly/monthly cold backups (ie a external harddrive) is excellent
A decent NAS with storage wiill set you back a £300+ though.

If you are on a budget then an externall HDD + cloud storage such as backblaze unlimited can be had for very little £5 a month and the external drives is £50ish depending on the size you need.

Always go with a cloud providers who's main business is backups. Companies that bundle storage as part of other products are less reliable and often change their terms on you.

# ? Aug 31, 2023 15:26

Fingerless Gloves: May 21, 2011; ... aaand also go away and don't come back

fuctifino posted:

Over 100 schools are affected

Are we not at the point where all schools are just portakabin slums in the playgrounds of the now unusable schools anyway?

# ? Aug 31, 2023 15:34

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

Socialism 2023 conference for anyone interested. 1st - 3rd September.

It's live in Chicago but there's a virtual stream alongside. You do have to register though.

All times for the programme (listed on the link) are in "Central Daylight Time" which I think is 7 hours behind us so 5pm Chicago time is midnight here.

https://socialismconference.org/virtual-program/

It's not free but seems you can get a virtual ticket for $7.18 ($5 + fee). Not quite sure how it all works!

Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 15:45 on Aug 31, 2023

# ? Aug 31, 2023 15:43

Dead Goon: Dec 13, 2002; No Obvious Flaws

The Cloud - Servers in someone else's building

# ? Aug 31, 2023 15:44

pantsfree: Oct 22, 2012

fuctifino posted:

Over 100 schools are affected

All of these school buildings are going to be full of asbestos, also.

Looking forward to seeing another opportunity to improve things get completely squandered.

# ? Aug 31, 2023 15:58

happyhippy: Feb 21, 2005; Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup; Pillbug

fuctifino posted:

https://twitter.com/BBCBreaking/status/1697245074474840354

Over 100 schools are affected

And that 'safety work' is to delete all Tory names from the receipts.

# ? Aug 31, 2023 15:59

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

pantsfree posted:

All of these school buildings are going to be full of asbestos, also.

Looking forward to seeing another opportunity to improve things get completely squandered.

If they are working around the asbestos they will likely remove it as well.

# ? Aug 31, 2023 16:00

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

They'll be replaced by cladding which will also have to be pulled down in a few years when it's finally proven to be just as dangerous.

By that point the construction industry will have moved onto another cheap and dangerous solution. Presumably L-shaped houses full of wires that eat you like the computer in Superman 3.

# ? Aug 31, 2023 16:02

Fumble: Sep 4, 2006

fuctifino posted:

https://twitter.com/BBCBreaking/status/1697245074474840354

Over 100 schools are affected

new uniform to include a hard hat and steel toecaped boots. but you have to get them from an online drop seller that puts a giant loving mark up on them.

# ? Aug 31, 2023 16:05