BoxOfRain

Huffman's giving us all a masterclass in how to be absolutely atrocious at PR, seriously how on Earth did Reddit as a company allow this to go ahead? It's like the tech industry equivalent o…

I wonder how well Matt Hancock's supposed discussion during the pandemic about having the government kill all British cats would have gone in practice? I suspect it would make Partygate look very…

It was still far more usable than the enshittified ‘proper’ version of the mobile web that does nothing but nag you to use the even more aggressively enshittified app.

I've been tentatively looking at Lemmy, obviously nowhere near the activity of Reddit but it's not a ghost town either and the Fediverse aspect is a big plus in my book.

Reddit's official app is one of the most blatant examples of 'enshittification' to date in my opinion. I definitely would like to see Reddit be replaced with decentralised forums, I…

There's some in the town of Malvern in the West Midlands too which I think are specifically perserved. I like having a bit of living history kept around!

Once they get rid of old.reddit.com I'm off for good, their new UI is just so frustrating to use it's not worth it.

In the UK we did mandate that a pedestrian must walk in front of the car with a red flag to warn of the approaching vehicle though for a while! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_f…

ChatGPT is great for quickly getting the bones of a script but you still need to know bash reasonably well, ChatGPT will sometimes merrily write stuff that looks correct but is actually a foot-gun and…

This is what I do, it's pretty effective.

We still buy milk and draught beer by the pint in the UK and mph/yards are used on the road. Height is almost always in feet and inches whereas body weight might be stone or kilos depending on pe…

I'm not particularly well-versed in the technology but is there any reason the UK isn't utilising tidal power more? We have areas with some impressive tidal ranges including the Severn Estua…

I have a soft spot a mile wide for SpaceHey, there's just something about the whole idea that's really nice. I'm not sure how much of it is because building a whole social media platfor…

I have such a core memory of reading in the back of the car by the yellow sodium lights that take the colours out of everything. They're really efficient even by modern standards but the bulbs ne…

I quite like the mirror image of this too, all laws that are actually passed have a built-in expiry date of 25-30 years at the maximum so each generation is forced to re-debate them and see if they&#x…

Wasn't a fragment of the True Cross rumoured to have gone down with the Moskva last year?

For a case study in this phenomenon the UK made use of nudge theory during the covid pandemic and I think one of the outcomes is some people distrusting the organs of state in a way they didn't b…

The problem is people take this perfectly legitimate bit of reasoning and apply it to the point the site ends up like your average British local news website; there's a good reason nobody bothers…

I currently work in Oxford, where is/was this place? It sounds cool, I might pay a visit and see if it's still around!

Interestingly there can be similarly large tides in the UK, the Severn Estuary has a range of around 50' too.