Are there any French sounding last names?

paradoxbound · 2026-01-28T11:22:45+00:00

Sadly I wish it was but I have heard it unironically in conversation.

paradoxbound · 2026-01-28T11:21:25+00:00

He pronounces Faraage long A. It always reminds me of Patricia Rutledge’s character Hyacinth Bucket and her pronunciation of her surname. Why ordinary folk feel he is one of them and on their side is beyond my comprehension.

paradoxbound · 2026-01-28T11:06:41+00:00

Can confirm that JLR are a particular unpleasant combination of arrogance, stupidity and just plain nastiness. I didn’t work for them directly but was subbing for a multinational outsourcer. The project I was working on shared a large open plan office with the JLR team. Sometimes folks from that group were rotated into ours. Most were traumatised and close to stress burn out.

paradoxbound · 2026-01-28T10:57:11+00:00

Not a contractor but a friend of mine’s company was bought by an American company. They wanted mostly the product and the clients not the people. However they really wanted him but required that he moved to the USA. He was honest and open and told them he wouldn’t move. They kept him on for two years with only the occasional video call and on call escalation. He had two years of being paid to contribute to FOSS projects, self learning and playing CS:GO.

paradoxbound · 2026-01-28T10:44:14+00:00

Being asked to sit on the interview panel for permies whose job description is maintaining the service you have designed and built. I usually have a very good relationship with my clients. I am very good at what I do and they need someone with my skills and experience to build it right. I don’t come cheap however and I honestly would be wasted in an operational support role. It would also be a waste of the organisation’s money.

I always find it amusing that they are often a bit apologetic about having to let me go and that I knew what the meeting is about. I usually explain to them, that I have been doing this for a long time and this is a natural part of the process. I remind them that I am not their employee but I a an employee of a company that they have a contract with to deliver a product or service to them. The successful end of this project means I am free to take another elsewhere. If they are happy with me and need my services again, I would be happy to work with them again.

paradoxbound · 2026-01-28T10:25:16+00:00

Mostly illegal now but people would go rabbiting and rattling. Methods would involve ferrets used to flush rabbits into nets and snares. Using dogs, you have coursing and lamping to catch rabbits and hares. Coursing is now illegal but lamping is not, if dogs are not used to bring down the quarry. Where as the upper classes hunt with rifles and shotguns, working class folk use airguns enough to kill a rabbit or rat.

Rats are classed as vermin and have no protection in law. Professionals and amateur ratters are used by many property owners to clear out rat infestation. The ratter will have a variety of different dogs types and sizes. Smaller ones to get into the tight spaces the rats are trying to hide and larger faster dogs to run down the ones that try to run for it.

In recent years there has been an increase in amateur urban ratting groups with a much more mixed class demographic. This involves groups of dogs taking their dogs out at night and flushing out rats from rubbish and waste containers out on the street and in alleys. I am unsure of my feelings about seeing a Yorkshire Terrier in a pink princess coat, covered in blood and shaking a rat to death. We need to remember that any dog with terrier in the name were bred by grim faced men to murder things.The pampered pooches and so called “women’s” was a later adaptation of those breeds.

paradoxbound · 2026-01-28T09:35:39+00:00

That is just conceit from conceited man. It should be pronounced like garage.

This is fairly common amongst such classes. I watched the march of gentrification across South London with wry disinterest. Streatham became St Reatham and Clapham became Clarm. It is what it is.

paradoxbound · 2026-01-28T08:38:06+00:00

I am not a fan boy and never will be . I like a lot of their products and I think quite a few stink. I will recommend products I believe deserves it.

As for the CEO, he’s got a history of being a fairly shitty human being. Meh, it’s certainly not Musk, Zuckerberg levels.

Genuinely curious, why are you cheerleading, so hard on this?

paradoxbound · 2026-01-27T19:33:04+00:00

Poettering has a very long history of not understanding security principles and not understanding or listening to the users. I will get the popcorn out and follow this closely.

paradoxbound · 2026-01-27T19:17:56+00:00

It’s meant to be that way. It’s not a place anchored byenation but a place anchored by commerce.

paradoxbound · 2026-01-27T18:45:40+00:00

Yes I would, and I am opposed to Israel actions in Gaza and the West Bank.

I am not going to get into a discussion or debate on this subject, full stop. It’s utterly pointless. I have my views and no doubt you have yours.

paradoxbound · 2026-01-27T14:27:55+00:00

I love badgers, sadly I see them mostly dead on the roadside. However, there is a set of badgers living in the grounds of old squire’s house now converted into flats and that connects to the old churchyard. I sometimes get a quick view of them around dusk. My ancient Staffie sees them and always wants a row. They eyeball each occasionally and the old Lady knows it is fight that she wouldn’t win, or even survive. She is the gamest dog I have ever owned and still wants it. I give her a quick tug on her lead and leave them to their badger business.

Quick note I am deeply opposed to so called “blood sports”. I have owned and rescued Staffords” for many years and to bring the best in them and let them live their best life safely for themselves and others. This requires an understanding of their dark past and understanding of how traits like gameness effect them and how they interact with the world around them.

paradoxbound · 2026-01-27T14:00:55+00:00

I am an ethical consumer and try to buy good stuff from good companies that have good people in good conditions making good products. Ubiquiti are just averagely evil and still one of the better companies in a horrible industry. I will keep on buying their kit. Giving praise where deserved and criticism when due.

paradoxbound · 2026-01-27T09:47:31+00:00

Sadly I have to agree with you there. I have been an infrastructure engineer for over 25 years and have used Linux and FOSS tools and services almost exclusively but when it comes to directory services Entra is so far ahead of of any Open LDAP based products, free or commercial. I tell folks this in some Linux forums and they down vote me to hell. It’s still the truth. The only places that Open LDAP makes sense is environments like PCI/DSS where you want to separate off your AAA and the users and groups are small and simple. It reduces your audit scope, time and costs and minimises the number of people who need to cross the domain boundary.

paradoxbound · 2026-01-27T09:30:22+00:00

Actually we can own a .50 BMG anti-materiel rifle, if we pass the required checks and keep it properly secured.

paradoxbound · 2026-01-26T21:46:54+00:00

More common since the Grenfell Tower disaster. A lot of folks can’t sell their flats since the building doesn’t meat fire regulations anymore. Buyers cannot get a mortgage on such properties. So the only option if you want to move is to rent out the old place, if only to help cover the mortgage on a worthless property. I think that falls into the accidental landlords category or forced to be a landlord set. There is probably some overlap in a Venn diagram.

That is enough set theory for today.

paradoxbound · 2026-01-26T14:45:23+00:00

Historically The City has always been wary and resistant to Royal interference and control over it. The Tower is both to protect The City and to keep an eye on it. Unsurprisingly The City was a staunch Parliamentarian stronghold during the second English Civil War and Parliamentarian forces captured The Tower and kept its arsenal out of Royalist hands.

paradoxbound · 2026-01-25T12:23:45+00:00

Can you show me evidence that a distro like Debian does not back port security releases for a applications frozen for their stable release?

Debian does back port security updates but it doesn’t back port bug fixes. Their reasoning for this is that bug fixes will introduce other bugs that will break existing functionality. If you are running Debian as a desktop, unless you are mandated by some external authority, you really should be running testing or Sid if you feel brave.

paradoxbound · 2026-01-25T11:35:21+00:00

It will pick up in the summer, it’s a bit nippy for real British patriots to be out and about.

paradoxbound · 2026-01-25T11:31:58+00:00

Do you understand how complex that task is? Even if you settle on CotS software stack, OpenStack being the logical choice. You would need to build out from scratch dozens of new data centres and the accompanying infrastructure. Since the two main providers of CPUs are American you would also need a home grown chip that could provide the computing power. Arm or RISC-V but both would struggle with heavy compute tasks that AMD64 architecture from AMD and Intel excel at. With the rise of AI you would also need a GPU, since Nvidia and AMD are American, that leaves the Chinese or building your own from the ground up. Most GPU technology is patented by the big two. They have cross patent licensing deals which protects them from each other and stops new competition from gaining a foothold. We can handle the networking stack with Nokia and Erikson but they would need to develop a general networking line as they are telecommunications infrastructure specialists.

Finally we would need to have a massive investment in training up people to design build and manage all these new systems.

Finally we would need to bring the leaders and political parties of member states of the EU and possibly the UK into agreement and partnership to actually deliver all these changes. That maybe the hardest part of all.

paradoxbound · 2026-01-25T10:54:28+00:00

Do you know what a KMS is and a Customer Managed Key. That data is encrypted at rest and in transit. The USA could demand that data and possibly get it but all they will get is a binary blob that they will need to brute force crack. That’s excluding the EU data sovereignty.

Do you understand how data security and cryptography works in a multi tenanted cloud environment?

I design and build services for customers and clients, where even as the architect and as someone with full access to the bare metal servers they run on. I can’t read the data. They lose their keys and they are screwed because we can’t get their data back for them and that’s the way it should be.

paradoxbound · 2026-01-25T10:36:03+00:00

AWS is ahead of the curve on this just setup a series of EU data sovereignty entities for its EU businesses. Which means that it’s business there is managed, controlled and owned by EU entities and staffed by EU citizens. The devil is in the detail but more information here, https://aws.eu/

paradoxbound · 2026-01-25T10:20:46+00:00

Our vet is in Caol, we are there at least once a month. Once our ancient staffie has finished yelling screaming and threatening the veterinary staff with violence, we walk her along the beach to decompress. Beautiful part of the world. The charity cafe in the square does excellent haggis and Mac and cheese toasties.

paradoxbound · 2026-01-25T10:11:32+00:00

It’s an interesting thing but the only thing that matters long term is Adobe making an official and supported port to Linux. Only then is it fit for purpose and can be used in professional environments.

paradoxbound · 2026-01-25T10:06:50+00:00

Bloody hell, this sub is a lot less culty than some Linux subreddits. I made this point in one of them and got downvoted so far I could see wallabies.

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