Going by my eldest’s social media habits: His university forced him onto Facebook in order to organise various social things at the very beginning, but the entire student body promptly decamped to Di… (View Post)

It’s not just wages - as I understand things a lot of these places where playing the IR35 shuffle dance & forcing their employees into being self-employed 1 man companies, or else putting them on… (View Post)

It does seem that the German government has been corrupted top to bottom by the Russians. Slow rolling weapon deliveries is the least of it - there was no need for them to attach themselves so firmly… (View Post)

Culture wars work when you can convince the target audience that they are under threat. They work less well when your target has other worries & you banging on about whatever culture war you’ve l… (View Post)

Modern computing hardware is in fact ridiculously fast. Most of us are unaware of it, because computers don’t seem to have got quicker to the end user but, for parallelisable tasks like password hash… (View Post)