Same at work. I had all the vendor and infrastructure status pages to hand and it often saved a lot of troubleshooting if I could tell people, it's not our fault, XXX is down. Same on pb come to thin… (View Post)

When I worked in the game, I had two ISPs at home and our datacentres had three. It never fails to amaze me how many who should know better have the resilience of a china plate. (View Post)

The counter-example fresh in everyone's mind is Iraq where the Baathist civil infrastructure was removed and the place dissolved into anarchy at best and civil war at worst. Someone has to run normal… (View Post)

The whole EV system needs more thinking about than either I or the government can manage at 6am. Subsidising EVs to get polluting ICEs off the road is undoubtedly good. Subsidising the car industries… (View Post)

Your phone has wrongly autocorrected less to fewer and donor to owner. (View Post)