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I mostly stopped caring about the quality of stuff I don't have source code for some time in the last millennium. It's just fundamentally unfixable.

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I don't know if it's greediness or just rampant incompetence. They just seem to have no engineering discipline at all. And no shame.

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Apparently it's not normal to have an Intel NIC with AMD CPU, an AMD GPU with an Intel CPU, an Intel IOMMU with an AMD CPU. Or some such nonsense.

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David Woodhouse @dwmw2.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

They just don't care. I'd be ashamed to be part of their engineering team. Windows guests happily initialise an Intel IOMMU and then feed it MSI messages constructed for an AMD IOMMU, and they claim it's not a bug, and ask for "business justification" for fixing it.

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Yet simultaneously, they give younger people the wrong idea of how *slowly*...

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Mick Lynch "Nigel Farage is a racist." RT if Mick is right.

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Elon’s unwanted IVF daughter @supertrue01.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Dark ages #2 coming at ya!

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Politics in the U.K. @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Ian Hislop brilliantly explains which 'farmers' will actually pay 20% inheritance tax - the landowner’s name at the end will shock you. #ukpolitics

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David Woodhouse @dwmw2.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

A few years ago I was in New Zealand and got 4am phone calls from MBNA on two *consecutive* nights asking if I wanted to do a balance transfer. Closed that card the moment I got home.

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David Woodhouse @dwmw2.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

People who phone my mobile unsolicited will generally be greeted with the questions, "Where am I? What time is it for me right now?". And when they don't know, I'll demand to know what was so urgent that they had to risk waking me at 3am instead of just sending email like a normal person.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

It’s all in the telling.

Dear Santa:
When I was a child, my father cheated on my Mom. Later, my parents divorced.
Soon after, my mother died in a car accident My brother and I could only live in my grandma's old house.
Grandma's sister was an alcoholic. The whole family lived on my grandma's savings. Grandma recently died.
My Uncle Andy is barely keeping himself out of jail from day to day.
My brother left home and won't talk to us any more.
Dad, now 74, had to go out to work to support the family and eventually he is going to want me to do the same thing.
Yours sincerely.
Prince William

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TeeDixie ✊🏼 @teedixie.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

It’s FRIIIIIIIDAAAAY!!! People, if you hate racism, misogyny, injustice, disinformation and lies then please, follow me and share this post so we can all connect better on here! #FridayFollows #NoRacism #NoMisogyny #NoInjustice #NoDisinformation

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a man wearing sunglasses says thank god it 's friday in blue letters

ALT: a man wearing sunglasses says thank god it 's friday in blue letters

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God @thegodshow.com · 22/11/2024

There IS a left-wing agenda, and it’s to prioritize compassion over greed. Kindness isn't a limited resource.

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Colin Sydes aka Lord SydesJokes #FBPE #FBR #Resist #Resistance @sydesjokes.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I have started collecting names for #FBPE Starter Packs and Top 500/1000 follower league and will do daily follow back posts. Like and/or Repost in you would like to be added. This is be opt-in only.

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

So pleased Kemi B has chosen Alex Burghart as her stand-in at PMQs. She clearly understands how much people enjoy watching a shouty Tory Boy caricature getting his arse handed to him by Angela Rayner.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Yair Lapid, of the centrist Yesh Atid party and leader of Israel’s opposition, described the warrants as a ‘reward for terrorism’. I have to agree with him, Israel commit terrorist war crimes, and it got the reward, arrest warrants.

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True, they should have had an exemption like this from the start.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

This part seems eminently sensible. Most people know to give assets to their family when they expect to live for another 7 years. If these rules are changing, it seems reasonable to grant an exemption to those who are statistically likely to have missed that chance.

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An international arrest warrant has been issued for Netanyahu. If you want him arrested, Like. If it needs to be right now, RT.

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It would have been much better to call it off for now and try again with an actual plan, in a few years time. And there was certainly no "democratic" reason not to do just that. 12/12

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Even if it made sense to leave the EU, it didn't need to happen then, after the government had spent three years incompetently frittering away the negotiating time without a plan, even coming up with ideas like the backstop, agreeing to them, then going back on their word. 11/12

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Remember, we are a sovereign nation and we could have left the EU at any time we wanted to. The Scots waited a little bit longer, came back with a better plan that actually had enough public support, and got their devolution. 10/12

By 2019 the result of the referendum HAD been respected, despite the fact that they didn't need to. We had the right to choose what to do next; whether to proceed. There is no sense in claiming that the 2016 result binds MPs' choices three years later; it didn't even bind them at the time. 9/12

But you don't send a negotiator in with a blank piece of paper, signed and postdated three years. It is absolutely right and proper that they come back to us with what they've negotiated, for us to approve (or reject) it. 8/12

And in fact, the result was honoured at the time anyway. MPs didn't have to, but they chose to trigger Article 50 and negotiate our departure from the EU. 7/12

Don't let people lie to you that "democracy is at stake", and that ignoring the result would set a bad precedent. It would be entirely in line with precedent, and also with the letter of the law and the spirit of our representative democracy. 6/12

So when people say the referendum was advisory and MPs weren't bound to implement the result, that isn't just weasel words. If it'd been binding, it would've had extra conditions which it would have failed, like the Scottish 1979 vote. It would have been behind us long ago. 5/12

Well, Parliament explicitly discussed it, and other safety checks on electoral fraud or requiring a ⅔ supermajority. But decided that they didn't need to predict all the pitfalls in advance because MPs themselves were the safeguard — because the referendum was advisory. 4/12

That is the democratic precedent in this country. So, why didn't the 2016 vote have that same threshold? 3/12

Because the turnout was too low. For such a big and irreversible change, which could happen at any time, we needed 40% of the electorate to turn up and vote in favour — not just to stay at home because they're OK with the status quo, and not bother to engage. 2/12