@ssamulczyk Matter is based on ipv6.

From what I’ve seen personally with Matter devices generally, I don’t have the new ikea stuff just yet, it can take a little while for devices to register with the border routers and get recognised.

Getting ready to start another year of being treated like a criminal because I choose not to tie myself to a particular employer and instead negotiate my own financials with respect to work. (I.e. I’m a mercenary IT bod).

The government decided a while back that I couldn’t be trusted to pay the right amount of tax (despite me having to employ accountants and the recent onerous introduction of making-tax-digital) … and are forcing me to work “Inside IR35” … to do this, I must work via an agency (said agency is owned and controlled by a chain involving no less than 5 additional companies and the one at the top, apparently has no one with ‘significant control’ … all six companies have the same directors listed). Company is registered in the UK, but seem to only employ staff in Poland… for reasons I’ll let you guess at.

This agency also insists I cannot be trusted, and must work via one of four ‘Umbrella Companies’.
Two of the four are wholly owned and controlled by parent companies that are either dissolved or dormant.
One of the four is owned and controlled by a company that is owned and controlled by a company registered in the Isle of Man (and therefore pays no tax on profits to HMRC, these profits appear to be over £9m at last count).
The final one of the four was hacked several years ago and simply failed to pay its contractors for several weeks, despite apparently having enough ‘cash on hand’ to make premier league footballers look positively destitute. Oh, and its CEO is registered as living in the USA… despite running about half a dozen London registered companies and having his LinkedIn profile stating that he lives in London.

But of course, I cannot be trusted to pay my tax.

Just linked my #pihole to #tailscale and it feels so good.

Adverts, be gone!

@ChrisMayLA6 Have been thinking this since the reports came out.

Sounds harsh, but it should be a case of “you’ve left, get over it”.

RE: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116159602850585685

Official announcement has dropped!

@anon_opin They already do... by allowing any children to attend a school and the imposition of stupid academic standards whilst insisting on an outdated and reductive curriculum they almost certainly guarantee (un)healthy levels of sales of alcohol to secondary school teachers and other staff members.

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@RedRobyn The USA is concerning for a great many reasons right now.

After reading up on age of consent laws globally, I need to go do something different and fun, as it’s a depressing read. Especially in Europe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent_by_country

@RedRobyn @WiteWulf @anon_opin I know, I was being slightly sarcastic.

It’s terrible that we put people in harms way, but we are only human. And in some cases, without those folks being put in harms way, an awful lot more harm would occur.

As for the States and its age of consent to marry, apparently us British have to hold our hands up there. According to Wikipedia the age limits (with judicial consent) were originally set by English law that was copied into State legislation… it seems that some states never repealed those laws post-independence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_age_in_the_United_States

@anon_opin I don’t think it’s the job of fresh recruits to “understand risk”… it’s military leaderships responsibility to understand the risk … and then commit their troops anyway.

If we avoided all risks, then we’d have to avoid all wars … which would be great, but hardly realistically practical.

@ChrisMayLA6 We do seem to have a weird thing in this country of “don’t go after him, he’s dead … have some respect” …

If the man actually was a rapist and a people trafficker, we should be forming orderly queues to urinate on his grave, not leave him to everlasting peace.

@underseamonkey Was expecting a 2016-style "oh god, really?" Wake-up this morning, so pleasantly surprised.

Still a low turn-out, for what might be a nationally important by-election.

I've wondered if the Green Party could tempt the youth vote with a campaign based on "Do you know what would really piss off the boomers? Vote Green."

@robpumphrey Not just software... I asked a team member to share a tracker document with me today. It's got tracking progress through a list of devices that need configuration applying... several entries in the list use a red font for the host name, everything else is in a black font.

Nothing in the doc explains what the red text is for.

@ChrisMayLA6 Or is it that UK investors don't like owning UK things because they can't then hide from HMRC?

Unless they live in Monaco.

@ChrisMayLA6 We visit Settle quite often and always end up in the Nettle for a breakfast and dinner. Amazing food, the chef is a genius and the staff are always lovely.

Git won't track empty directories (because at heart it only tracks files). Common advice is to add a '.gitkeep' file so the directory isn't empty and git will make the directory.

EVEN BETTER ADVICE: put a README in the directory explaining what the empty directory is for and what will eventually be there.

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We plan to decrease operational costs for our AI model by building custom servers that are immune to cosmic radiation, then spending trillions of dollars launching them into space. Yes, our CFO did tech themselves math using ChatGPT, why do you ask?

@paul I was recently given info on and links to "the code in a GitHub repo" for an Ansible module.

It didn't exist. The link 404'd and the git history never contained the entry described.

When questioned, it told me my Internet connection must be to blame.

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116128127129603860

Over 20 years since ... ... no, wait ... it can't ...

You ... shut up... just shut .. ...