JFingleton (u/JFingleton)

JFingleton commented on Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking? torrentfreak.com/uk-govt-... · Posted by u/gloxkiqcza

1oooqooq · 11 hours ago

rss is dead. and aggregating won't be your main issue anyway.

JFingleton · 9 hours ago

RSS is the technological backbone that enables the distribution and subscription of podcasts...which by the way is massive at the moment.

As others have stated, plenty of websites have RSS feeds.

JFingleton commented on Volkswagen locks horsepower behind paid subscription autoexpress.co.uk/volkswa... · Posted by u/t0bia_s

jqpabc123 · 9 days ago

Forget Netflix

Better idea --- forget Volkswagen.

This is just one example of anti-consumer antics bordering on extortion that have been building for a very long time.

The overall idea is simple --- reduce the sticker price to a competitive level and try to increase profits with prepaid maintenance, insurance, data collection and other "subscription" services. In VW's case, this appears to be an act of desperation.

Consumers don't have to "subscribe" to this sort of gamesmanship. There are alternatives --- as evidenced by VW earnings --- down almost 40% over the past year.

JFingleton · 9 days ago

I never trusted VW after the emissions scandal : https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn5r9rgg6yno

Now I trust them even less, if that's even possible .

JFingleton commented on UK government states that 'safety' act is about influence over public discourse bsky.app/profile/tupped.b... · Posted by u/JoshTriplett

ap99 · 10 days ago

For the Americans looking at this act, you're maybe putting it in the context of American politics and thinking who cares if the porn sites have my face or id.

But in the UK you can be arrested and jailed for saying something online that offends someone else.

JFingleton · 10 days ago

Here is more information about the arrests that are currently taking place:

https://freespeechunion.org/police-make-30-arrests-a-day-for...

JFingleton commented on Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England news.sky.com/story/facial... · Posted by u/amarcheschi

dathinab · 12 days ago

> The UK is quickly deploying surveillance state technology that people once decried China for.

they always had been or at least tried, for decades by now, the only thing which had been holding them back was the EU frequently being like "no wtf UK, that is against human rights, EU law, etc."

> Has society really become this dangerous that we must deploy these things?

no, and it also has a long track record of not only marginally improving your crime statistics. And especially stuff like facial recognition vans are most times not used to protect citizens but to create lists for who attended demos and similar. Which is most useful for suppressing/harassing your citizens instead of protecting them.

JFingleton · 12 days ago

> EU frequently being like "no wtf UK, that is against human rights, EU law, etc."

And yet they are still pushing [0]

[0] https://edri.org/our-work/despite-warning-from-lawyers-eu-go...

JFingleton commented on Debian 13 “Trixie” debian.org/News/2025/2025... · Posted by u/ducktective

rahen · 15 days ago

LXD was forked as Incus, and it’s an absolute delight.

Seamless LXC and virtual machine management with clustering, a clean API, YAML templates and a built-in load balancer, it's like Kubernetes for stateful workloads.

JFingleton · 15 days ago

Incus is fantastic. I think Proxmox is where everyone is migrating to after the VMWare/Broadcom fiasco, but people should seriously consider Incus as well.

JFingleton commented on Our European search index goes live blog.ecosia.org/launching... · Posted by u/maelito

johannes1234321 · 16 days ago

For me as a European despite all the flaws it gives me more democratic influence than America or China. There i got no vote at all.

And then, in a global comparison EU isn't that bad for what it is - a union of independent countries with quite different culture and history.

JFingleton · 16 days ago

When the UK was in the EU, hardly anyone I know voted in the EU elections, and equally they weren't covered by the media. I believe there was so little interest in the EU elections and it felt so far removed from the uk that I'm not sure it really counted as "democratic" (perhaps someone will correct me here?).

I'm hoping voters in European countries feel differently, I suspect not though.

JFingleton commented on GPT-5 openai.com/gpt-5/... · Posted by u/rd

apwell23 · 17 days ago

> At Aloe, we are model agnostic and outperforming frontier models.

what is your website ?

JFingleton · 17 days ago

A quick google gave: https://aloe.inc/

JFingleton commented on VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in ft.com/content/356674b0-9... · Posted by u/mmarian

Xelbair · a month ago

From tourist point of view UK felt to me like a police state, and I'm leaning more towards the former view. Cameras everywhere, non-stop reminders that you're being watched, being tracked everywhere(including which train car you're in now), constant reminders about possible dangerous bags being left alone etc.

Tracking would feel helpful and useful, if not for constant oppressive reminders that "Bad Thing could happen any second, be vigilant!".

While at the same time, it was vastly more unsafe than Eastern Europe.. and cities themselves were vastly dirtier.

Whole trip felt more like what i would imagine visit to mainland China would be like rather than a trip to a free western country.

To be honest and to give some context - they have been under threat of terrorism(due to The Troubles first - the name itself seems to reinforce this view, seems innocent..) roughly since end of WW2. well WW2 was a factor too.

To add a bit more context: this wasn't my first nor last trip to UK, and each time i visit it the worse it feels in every aspect: Cleanliness of cities, safety, and oppressiveness.

JFingleton · a month ago

I always thought a police state would demand identification at every street corner (perhaps I'm wrong?) and any minor breaking of the law being dealt with severe justice. The UK has always been against a "state ID" unlike a lot of European countries, so I'm not completely convinced the description of "police state" is accurate. In fact I think it's the opposite given people can freely break the law despite cameras being on every street corner.

The UK is basically an end-of-days advanced state: bureaucracy taken to the extreme, with a heavy dose of nanny-state "mind the gap" messaging.

Bureaucracy kills any kind of infrastructure project (see HS2), so don't expect any improvements any time soon.

We do have some nice cities: Manchester, York, Edinburgh, Oxford, Cambridge. (I've probably missed a few from this list). London feels pretty far from 30 years ago - and not in a good way.

JFingleton commented on Local-first software (2019) inkandswitch.com/essay/lo... · Posted by u/gasull

arendtio · 2 months ago

Regarding the no-spinners: I think it is the wrong approach to argue that just because you have data locally, you don't need any spinners.

Whether you need a spinner or not should be decided by the User Experience (e.g., when the user has to wait for more than 100ms, show a spinner), and not by the location of the data. I am a big fan of local-first apps and enjoy building them myself. However, sometimes your app takes a moment to load. With local-first, you eliminate the network as a source of delays, but there are other factors as well, such as large data sets or complex algorithms.

For example, when you have a project planning software and want to plan 100 work packages with multiple resource combinations in an optimal way, depending on the algorithm, this can take some time. In that case, a spinner or a progress bar is a good thing.

JFingleton · 2 months ago

A properly designed app would leverage multi threading to place any long running jobs in the background, allowing the user to carry on with other tasks.

Spinners should not exist in a local first app.