Northfield highstreet is full of slightly grubby and very soggy flags wrapped limply around lampposts. The occasional gust of wind briefly reanimates them and then they flop back down again.

It's the fact that it's bigger than all the other tags too, like this is not a Star Wars garment that's flammable, it's a Flammable garment that's Star Wars

But at least we wouldn't lose 1/3 of the internet for half a day when something went down.

There are a tiny handful of examples of season passes being done without any monetisation, and being fun actually, but it's so incredibly rare it barely feels worth mentioning

Our focus groups conducted at the rally say that would put them off voting Labour

"The artwork has already been concealed by large sheets of black plastic and two metal barriers".

Of course it has. That is how the British state deals with problems, just cover them up and don't let anyone get close.

Not to mention the uniformed guards.

They done a Google

Whenever I see these articles I just want to ask the people running these companies where they think they're going to get new senior developers from if they stop hiring juniors and sadly I think they're just hoping AI tools get good enough before it becomes issue (it won't)

For a while I assumed they just didn't want to upset Musk - and by association Trump - by removing the whole government from Twitter, but now Musk is virtually in hiding that doesn't hold up any more, so I have no good excuses for them.

I bought a £30 conbee usb dongle, plugged it into my pi with an extension cable, and started pairing stuff to it. Only caveat is the IKEA pairing instructions are "wrong" if you're not using their app so you have to look up how to pair them.

Still zigbee

All my HA stuff is IKEA, totally offline, doesn't have any cloud dependencies, doesn't matter if they kill off the product line

Doesn't need a round trip to some server in China to turn the lights on

This explains why I was tackled to the floor by security the last time I took my wife bra shopping.

I don't disagree, but then make that argument, don't try and pretend it's illegal and that's the reason we shouldn't do it.

That's without even addressing the substance of their claim, which would also rule out a bunch of other countries (unclear borders, unstable government, etc).

It *might* break a convention we're not a signatory to needs a real leap to get to "breaking international law"

They're still sticking to that line too. Tech minister basically said this week that if you disagree with the law or use a VPN to bypass the checks you're a child predator