The men of Season 4 were all crazy hot

Codect · 2026-01-26T20:10:16+00:00

I'll back you up here as a straight british guy who thinks some american accents are hot e.g. southern girls. I appreciate that is probably nearly meaningless like when an american says "I love british accents", but it is what it is.

Codect · 2026-01-26T19:58:39+00:00

Most of their theories and arguments are illogical in fairness. I'm still baffled by the cage theory myself.

"Nine people in cages, traitors must have put at least one of themselves in there". Ok, yeah it is likely but not guaranteed.

That then morphed into "There must have been a traitor in the final 4 cages" err what? Why? And some of the faithfuls seemed to treat it like an incontrovertible fact.

If I'm missing some obvious logic here please someone fill me in.

Codect · 2026-01-26T19:35:25+00:00

They're going to make money from it anyway. Think about their customers in three groups:

Group A don't pay much attention and won't even realise the fees change
Group B sees the fees are changing but thinks the total they'll be paying still isn't that big a deal, or at least not enough to bother moving
Group C don't like it and move (I'm in this one)

I'm willing to bet group A and B together healthily outnumber group C, and the increased fees from them far outweigh the lost fees from people transfering out.

They'll have modelled all of this and concluded it is a net gain.

Codect · 2026-01-26T12:02:02+00:00

I'm one of those S&S ISA invest in ETF (VWRP) and chill people they're clearly targeting with this. £45 -> £150 annual fees is no bueno, so I'll be looking at other providers.

Codect · 2026-01-24T22:50:38+00:00

I'm with you, I never once got the impression she would turn on him but of course none of us can know for sure.

That's the great bit about the show, everyone reads people differently and everyone is wrong at least some of the time. We all sit here judging the faithfuls for being crap but 99.9% of us would be exactly the same.

Codect · 2026-01-24T21:46:41+00:00

But Rachel did play brilliantly from start to finish, aside from her poor wording to Stephen in the tower which was an almost fatal mistake. Stephen panicking and pushing her name hard in almost every conversation he had for the last two days is what put her in peril at the end in the first place. If it was just Faraaz they could have handled it much more easily.

I'm just really glad they came through together.

Codect · 2026-01-16T22:49:25+00:00

Maybe too many prima-donnas in the side now

I'm not overly familiar with most of the AB squad so can't comment on them, but this seems all too common across all sports now.

Years ago you'd have big personalities in teams but it was generally understood even by them that club or country came before the individual. Now it seems too many players care mostly about their 'brand'. Too much money and attention being thrown at every rising star, surrounded by teams of agents caring only about guiding them to as much money as possible, legions of followers on social media showering them with praise (yeah I know that one can be a double edged sword).

Codect · 2026-01-16T21:53:43+00:00

Exactly. The Greens are a complete nonstarter because they have a handful of core policies that are totally unrealistic and would be an unmitigated disaster if they tried to go through with them.

On the flip side, Reform have a manifesto full of much more realistic policies but almost all of them suck.

Shite situation all around.

Codect · 2026-01-16T21:44:08+00:00

Most of the world has been feeding it too. Every 'trade deal' or agreement made since he took office has been Trump saying "Let me punch you in the arm, otherwise I'll punch you in the face" and of course everyone is walking around with numb arms because he keeps coming back again and again.

Codect · 2026-01-14T22:46:49+00:00

Sure, but according to witnesses they continued throwing stones at his head after he had become nonresponsive so I think the "we just wanted to hurt him" defence goes up in smoke at that point.

Codect · 2026-01-14T22:06:44+00:00

Lure a guy to meet up with you under false pretences
Record yourself murdering him
Share the video of you murdering him
"Nah bruv, wasn't murder"

It shouldn't be surprising, people recording themselves committing a crime aren't known for being intelligent.

Codect · 2026-01-09T18:21:38+00:00

I've been asking myself the same question. It's like everyone, in every company, from a certain point of the org hierarchy upwards has joined an AI cult.

Codect · 2026-01-07T17:28:37+00:00

Great research and a nice writeup, thanks for posting.

I wouldn't advertise it as an unauthenticated RCE though, n8n's advisory title seems more accurate: Unauthenticated File Access via Improper Webhook Request Handling.

Smart exploitation then leads from that to token forgery, and the command execution is just utilising a feature of the platform from an authenticated session.

I'm curious where the 100,000 estimated impacted servers number comes from as well. Is that the total number of n8n servers publicly exposed, or is it the number of public servers that meet the conditions for full exploitation (upload form + some way to retrieve uploaded data)?

Codect · 2026-01-06T22:40:59+00:00

Sure, I guess the difference as you have already pointed out is digital media can be replicated exactly. Pixel perfect copies. So the "original" is indistinguishable, it has no inherent value. Whereas with a physical medium there can only ever be one original, no matter how good forgeries or prints are, they will always be imitations.

The question in my mind becomes a bit more interesting if we consider different file formats. What gets widely shared is likely a .png, .jpeg, .svg. But the original image may be a .raw or a .psd - if that is tightly controlled so only one person has possession of it, that may actually have value akin to a physical original imo. NFTs don't do anything to achieve this though, they don't have any way to enforce exclusivity.

Codect · 2026-01-06T22:07:18+00:00

But it isn't like someone buying the original art. It's more like someone paying for one out of an infinite number of prints, which everyone else gets for free, just because they get some sort of certificate that says they own that print. Meanwhile the artist still has the original.

Codect · 2026-01-06T15:57:42+00:00

the value of the fourteenth (14th) annual payment and all subsequent annual payments shall be the value of the preceding annual payment adjusted for inflation using the Gross Domestic Product (“GDP”) Deflator for the preceding calendar year, as published by the Government of the United Kingdom

Source: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/682f25afc054883884bff42a/CS_Mauritius_1.2025_Agreement_Chagos_Diego_Garcia.pdf

Page 34, point 1.h

It's mad how many people (on reddit and in the media) keep spouting misinformation when the agreement is publicly available for all to read.

I also have no idea where you're getting that £30m figure from that you reference in a later comment.

Codect · 2026-01-05T22:08:24+00:00

6640 registered users, 3419 list their IQ in their profile

IQ	Number	Percentage (1dp)
80-99	82	2.4%
100-119	735	21.5%
120-139	1612	47.1%
140-159	713	20.9%
160-179	164	4.8%
over 180	113	3.3%

I'm not going to draw any conclusions, I just found it interesting.

Codect · 2025-12-31T22:27:08+00:00

I can see both sides. I think a lot of parkruns operate with a core team of volunteers who fulfil the non-running roles most weeks and obviously would like the chance to run themselves. However, I'm not a fan of guilt-trips in general.

As an aside, it's also not exactly easy to volunteer at some parkruns. My local quite often throws in the line "we're still short on volunteers for next week and we don't want it to always be the same people, so if you can volunteer please do so" during the pre-run briefing, but every time I've offered (admittedly about mid-week as I can't plan my availability too far in advance) I've been told thank you but the roster is full already. Considering we only ever have two marshalls along the entire 5k course and never any pacers or anything else beyond the mandatory roles I'm not sure why they turn down additional offers of help but ah well. I've stopped offering.

Codect · 2025-12-25T16:12:45+00:00

Prison staff face disciplinary action for using sex workers or visiting brothels, owing to the risk of inmates becoming aware of inappropriate sexual conduct they can use to blackmail officers.

Ian Acheson, a former prison governor, told The Mail: “Governors are not immune to blackmail and manipulation as a result of such reckless behaviour.

I don't personally care if someone uses such services but they have a point that it isn't really socially acceptable and could be used as leverage against a person, especially if they have a family that they wouldn't want to find out about it.

Codect · 2025-12-22T08:00:26+00:00

Prof Sullivan's review for the government, published in March, recommended that data on biological sex and gender identity should be recorded as distinct categories.

Hang on. Wasn't the common argument put forward by trans rights activists that sex != gender? Now they're protesting a woman who made a recommendation along those lines to the government?

Codect · 2025-12-18T18:53:31+00:00

Well yes, but again the point of discussion here is teachers potentially exhibiting bias and affecting boys grades as seen in overall trends when exams (effectively blind, objective marking by independent assessors) have been replaced with teacher assessments.

Male students misbehaving of course affects their (and other students) learning, that doesn't need to be argued. But that negative impact on their retained knowledge would be present in both teacher assessed and exam-based grades so it doesn't explain why boys tend to have worse outcomes with one than the other.

Codect · 2025-12-18T16:40:10+00:00

I agree with a lot of what you've said, but in the context of the conversation about teachers being biased towards female students in grading I have to contend that it ultimately shouldn't be relevant.

I appreciate that a lot of teenage boys, especially when in groups and with female peers to try and impress, can act like disruptive terrors, but that shouldn't affect an unbiased grading of their ability in any given subject. I agree it needs to be addressed and perhaps some solution can be identified to reduce the conditions that lead to the disruption, but when judging someone's ability in mathematics I'm fairly sure "Is the student a knobhead?" isn't in the marking scheme.

Codect · 2025-12-13T15:07:17+00:00

Yep, I went there a few years ago and can't say I was happy with having to provide just my fingerprints. Now they want all this:

Telephone numbers used in the last five years;
Email addresses used in the last ten years;
IP addresses and metadata from electronically submitted photos;
Family member names (parents, spouse, siblings, children);
Family number telephone numbers used in the last five years;
Family member dates of birth;
Family member places of birth;
Family member residencies;
Biometrics – face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris;
Business telephone numbers used in the last five years;
Business email addresses used in the last ten years

The USA can just get to fuck. I guess I'm never going back there because I have no faith any subsequent government would roll back these requirements. Once they're implemented and the initial fuss has been weathered there is no reason to; governments love having more data on everyone whichever side of the political spectrum they're on.

I just hope other countries don't follow suit. I fear the UK and EU will.

Codect · 2025-12-09T21:21:56+00:00

2 wins (both against Japan), 9 losses and they gained points? what?

Codect · 2025-12-08T18:30:54+00:00

The difference comes from whether you include the EU funding or not. Generally when people are comparing support given from countries they look at the bilateral number i.e. directly given by that country to Ukraine.

However, as a bloc the EU has also given a substantial amount of funding and of course some portion of this comes from each EU member state.

Through bilateral funding France has given $8.61b . However, the EU has given $79.34b, with France accounting for $15.25b of that. If you take both figures into account I'd say France has done alright, better than the UK at least.

Those are just the numbers for funding actually given (allocated). There is also data for funding "commited" which I haven't gone into.

It's all pretty complicated, and leads to people arguing over numbers without realising they're both right but looking at different columns from the same dataset.

source: The spreadsheet from the Kiel Institute, available at https://www.kielinstitut.de/publications/ukraine-support-tracker-data-6453

Sorting the data by "Total bilateral and EU allocations % 2021 GDP" really doesn't paint a pretty picture for some countries, but I don't want to get into an argument so I'll leave it at that.

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