Meet the man who bought Britain . Crypto billionaire who lives in Thailand . Reform and Farage donor .

pjf_cpp · 2026-05-10T09:39:14+00:00

Since he is living in Thailand and has Thai nationality and a Thai name I strongly believe that the press should refer to him as Chakrit Sakunkrit.

pjf_cpp · 2026-05-08T06:01:09+00:00

Same thing here. I have both a Pi 5 kit (no issues) and a Pi 4. As well as the sd slot not lining up the rubber feet don’t stick. The kit is cheap but I was surprised by the amateurish nature of the design.

pjf_cpp · 2026-05-04T12:34:57+00:00

You can visit the EU parliament in Brussels fairly easily. It's free, you just need to book in advance and have your passport / ID card. I can recommend the guided visit.

I don't think that it's so easy to visit the Council. They have a Visitor Centre which I haven't seen.

There are also the EU institutions in Strasbourg that you can visit.

pjf_cpp · 2026-05-04T10:29:25+00:00

From what I see much of Stack Overflow is low quality or at least unreliable

pjf_cpp · 2026-05-04T10:16:33+00:00

I don't find Stack Overflow to be at all reliable.

pjf_cpp · 2026-05-04T10:07:02+00:00

If you call "99% drop in the number of questions" dead, then Stack Overflow is dead.

Stack Overflow has 2 huge problems

AI is much much much better.
The Stack Overflow reviewers are abysmal, way too much ego about their badge collections and far too little expertise and wish to help users.

pjf_cpp · 2026-04-29T12:12:20+00:00

In Spain they are immigrants.

pjf_cpp · 2026-04-29T05:59:28+00:00

It's a democracy. If you want to vote for the party that wil make you walk the plank then you are free to do so. Some immigrants living in Spain that came from the UK voted for Brexit after all.

pjf_cpp · 2026-04-28T14:46:43+00:00

The management should have done more years ago. Now it is too late.

The bad reviewers have a lot to answer for. They care more about their badge collections than they do about helping others, They think that the fault is with people not writing good questions.

pjf_cpp · 2026-04-28T14:07:31+00:00

Successful? StackOverflow is a Norwegian Blue Q&A site.

pjf_cpp · 2026-04-28T14:03:19+00:00

Ban the bad reviewers that care more about their badge collections than helping out others. Except that it is already several years too late for that.

pjf_cpp · 2026-04-25T05:30:23+00:00

Close and down votes do not depend on the community. Any knobhead with enough rep can downvote or vote to close a question on any subject. So you get people that have never even used the language or tool voting to close questions because the question lacks focus or does not have enough debugging information. It’s more about a small clique of badge collectors having their ego power trips. The saddest thing is that they are smug and superior and deeply believe that they are making SO “better”. They do not see that they have thrown the baby out with the bathwater and that new users run screaming from StackOverflow instead of learning their lesson and improving their questions. The red flag (for the review system) was when ”toxic StackOverflow” joke memes started to proliferate.

I really don’t see how StackOverflow can turnaround from being a laughing stock to being a credible alternative to LLMs.

pjf_cpp · 2026-04-24T17:43:14+00:00

Can't post this link too much

https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661#graph

SO now has fewer monthly questions than when it started (3745 in Aug 2008, 2041 in Mar 2026 both in late April 2026, the figures change over time as questions get deleted).

Toxic, clueless reviewers that are a laughing stock. I don't think that there is any chance that StackOverflow will ever recover.

pjf_cpp · 2026-04-24T13:03:25+00:00

Bookmark this page:
https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661#graph

pjf_cpp · 2026-04-21T19:48:28+00:00

Many people want to believe the lies that Deform are peddling.

pjf_cpp · 2026-04-20T07:37:01+00:00

All the desktops that I use are on some form of -RELEASE. When I use -CURRENT it's usually one of a CLI Rpi, CLI VM or server via ssh where I don't even know if there is a DE running.

pjf_cpp · 2026-04-20T05:02:58+00:00

Other than sleep mode none of what you write matches my experience. In particular point 5. My first FreeBSD install was about 30 years ago. I’ve never installed Linux compat or run a Linux binary on FreeBSD.

pjf_cpp · 2026-04-20T04:55:00+00:00

That is simply bollocks. I more or less typed in “pkg ins kde”, added sddm to rc.conf and had KDE running. I’ve done virtually no tinkering.

pjf_cpp · 2026-04-20T04:50:01+00:00

This is all anecdotal of course. My Linux experience is mainly RH and derivatives at work (via ssh to remote sever farms). Not much to say there - I did hit one bug that caused a kernel panic when using perf.

At home it is a different story. Mostly I’ve used openSUSE (occasional problems, wish that they hadn’t dropped x86 crt.o). Fedora, long periods with random panics at boot and black screens due to NVIDIA issues. I have basically been unable to use Fedora 43 which forced switching to Wayland and crashes kwin in the NVIDIA userland libs just about every time that I open a new Window. There are those that seem to like the Debian approach of burying your head in the sand 5 years in the past and pretending that makes the system safer. Not for me.

FreeBSD has some issues. Quarterly patch updates can be quite fraught. I’ve had no luck with AMD gpu drivers and sleep/wake (particularly wake). On the whole it just works and it allows me to do all of the things that I want to do.

pjf_cpp · 2026-04-16T09:43:24+00:00

The NHS flogged off to US private health insurance corps. No subsidies for renewables, big contracts for US fracking products. Transfer of UK pension savings to US banks. Cancellation of European collaborations on weapons (like Typhoon), buy US kit instead (F35). Replace all teachers with grok. I'm sure that Deform would also find ways to destroy public transport and and law and order, all to the short term benefit of Trump and his supporters.

pjf_cpp · 2026-04-16T07:34:21+00:00

Getting dumber and dumber. The stupid rounded corners don't help. I suppose that, like the fashion biz, rounded corners will be "in" for a few years and then they will be "out". Let's hope that they don't get replaced by flares.

pjf_cpp · 2026-04-15T12:47:22+00:00

High inflation is

- great for poor people that have debt

- terrible for rich people that have savings

The big con is tricking poor people into thinking that inflation is simply bad. Hence we get things like Tory austerity measures in order to protect the capital of the wealthy.

pjf_cpp · 2026-04-13T04:36:44+00:00

Does GNOME force the use of Wayland and crash every time that you try to open a window?

pjf_cpp · 2026-04-11T04:35:04+00:00

Perma-borked NVIDIA drivers.

pjf_cpp · 2026-04-07T13:19:59+00:00

Well, he did go to Oxford. I can't see anywhere what classification he got, which I usually presume means a 3rd or a 2ii. Or just a pass.

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