I think unix signals are a bit lacking for your use case now. I’d consider having the daemon also have a web interface that you could then have the web server message. You mention systemd also, so could also consider MQ message queuing or D-Bus. Getting these to scale across computers isn’t as simple, hence my http suggestion initially. HTTP should also then be OS agnostic

How would you solve it then? I’m not saying Ofcom are right, but should it be left wholly on parents to police the whole internet?

Great news indeed then, go Mastodon!

Lemmy has the same issues I believe. Lots of people not exactly happy with the two core devs either

Given the concern, it would be good to be explicit in the blog post. What other assets does it genuinely need? The code is open source, people are free to host instances

No mention of the name Mastodon and copyrights which I seem to recall is one of the bigger complaints

Pretty fucked up. Is it not international maritime law to render aid to those in need? And with respect to any migrants in your waters, sure you can contain them to evaluate their refugee status and deport them, but I’m pretty sure they have to take them ashore

So with british law, the intent of the law is as important as the written texts. Listen to the debates which can and are used by judges from the commons and the lords to decide upon intent. It’s not for tiny forums, but I’m also not a lawyer. Significant most likely relates to not just user count, but also other reporting from other media, it’s significance of significant users, anonymity, and ability to break bigger stories. Try codifying any of that (and more!) in a law

I don’t believe it would target any of the fediverse currently. No instances have significant volumes of users or target markets. This is designed to target facebooks, tik-toks, and twitters. Services that do influence populations. Essentially, making these services actually responsible for their algorithmic output and akin to publishers in the UK

Simple. Don’t be a company. Companies exist to sell stuff: the fediverse doesn’t. There are a few other structures in the UK alone to circumvent this potential law, which is designed to combat large social media companies. And it won’t affect outside the UK either, and with brexit - will anyone else bother enforcibg?

Usually the sites where they come ashore are well known, but the cables in between often not so much. But obviously not the hardest thing to find either with a dredger

Fey creatures in general. High level fey are where things start to get tricky though. Pixies that are police for instance, obsessed with checking peoples’ papers. Or how about gnomish pacifists. Hags are also fey, so an easy addition, I’d perhaps go with them as the potential allies - they are usually unaligned and wouldn’t want to side with elves or a kingdom

I thought everyone knew this? When real honey costs 2-4x as much, what do people think supermarket honey is?

Hey, aren’t you that starfleet officer that started out a goofy ensign?

If ever there was a starfleet officer who loved Java. It would be Brad. Followed closely by Spock I suspect

Test Driven Development. The route to programming nirvana includes a stop at this station

If you don’t know, ask a stupid question to yourself. Then ask it again in a more intelligent manner to a rubber duck. Then a real person. One of these three will give you an answer

TDD is the answer to the second part. Seriously, just try it. Don’t do it for every task after, but do try it!

Notes, tickets, knowleadge bases, READMEs, well written code that is easy to understand, tests that are descriptive, ADRs. Nobody can remember it all, the hard part of programming is making it easy for the next change. Remember it’s likely to be you, be kind to your future self

And imposter syndrome never goes away. And this is a good thing - “don’t get cocky kid”. It does get lesser though, and then you get more responsibilities! But really, if you aren’t questioning why and what you are doing, how do you trust your past self? Embrace the imposter, realise we are all imposters to a lot of extents

LTS is supported!

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel

Corporation tax is the route. The flat tax that it currently operates in sees tiny companies paying a much bigger slice of income relative to conglomerates which play tax avoidance. We have to raise it, to encourage investment instead of buybacks and dividends (this is usually wages, most businesses are people businesses. But could also see technology investment into automation), and close the offshoring of profits. Easier said than done, but if you operate in the UK, selling to UK customers, and pay <1% tax - looking at you Bezos, but also Asda, and Dyson, and plenty of others. You need to pony up, invest, and play on a level playing field with mom & pop

I honestly can’t believe it wasn’t curses based already

I use EndeavourOS btw

Great to see OpenAPI being even more embraced. It truly is fantastic for multi-team engineering

Looks ready for actual use now, rather than tinkering with. Package management was my biggest gripe (URLs are literally what it used before). I would like to see TS as the first class citizen however, with JS being deprecated essentially.