Test your backups. Test your backups. (View Post)

I also have an ad blocker - it's not aimed at the ads, it's aimed at all the trackers and insecure junk that comes along with the ads. Unfortunately there's no way to keep the ads with… (View Post)

Close England to immigration and bring in Open Door for everywhere else. Build the new Hong Kong in Northern Ireland. Once the population of England is less than the rest put together, *then* you can… (View Post)

Yes, "lessons learned" is always about what went wrong but it would also be good to learn lessons from how a government with an epic history of IT failures apparently managed to get the sys… (View Post)

Yes, to the extent that they had planning for the virus it was unfortunately a plan for the wrong disease, and the government boffins' refusal to let that small detail dissuade them from followi… (View Post)