BoxOfRain

To be fair given how miserable the education system often makes kids I think it’s a bit harsh describing them as sociopaths for wanting to avoid it. The fact literal retirees are known to still have o…

Perhaps I wasn't as clear as I could have been, it's time flexibility that I'm after more than anything. I'd prefer my day-to-day schedule to be in my hands rather than my boss…

I keep seeing adverts for what's basically a bedsheet with £5 worth of copper wire in it sold at a ridiculous price as an "earthing mat". Not only is this shamelessly a scam, it also pl…

I'd love this, cookie banners are a plague and the ones that get through my adblocker get manually blacklisted on sight. I get the intention, but the lawmakers couldn't have got the wrong en…

Anecdotally, this has never been a problem for me. My side project is even registered as a company in the UK and being directors of it has never been an issue for the full time "real" jobs m…

Definitely going to take a look at this. I'm one of the few traditional developers in a company that's got a lot more analytics and database people than application or web people. In such a …

I really think that it should be more common to limit meetings to around this length, or at least have a five minute break every 40 minutes or so. My team's weekly meeting has got inexorably long…

Why would I mention it? It’s not relevant, the issue is about inappropriate censorship and incompetent moderation. What difference does it make if they’re transgender or not? There’s no aspect of Chal…

>Ideal situation is 2 to 3 days of work a week, with very few zoom meetings, scrums, or other bullshit. Wouldn't it be nice if you could trade pay or hours for avoiding arseache like you can n…

>Would you mind expanding on this? I don't follow Reddit dramas any more. No worries! Aimee Challenor is a very minor political figure in the UK who's mostly known for the fact she hired …

Most subreddits would be better as things like HN in my opinion, a lot of the negative things to do with Reddit are down the way the platform is run rather than the format itself. A decentralised netw…

A better example would be what happened with /r/ukpolitics and Aimee Challenor I think, it was a truly shameless display of how incompetent Reddit has become in recent years. The whole episo…

I know it’s the Daily Mail so it goes with the territory, but that website is truly obnoxious on mobile. It’s a masterclass in why having multiple content-covering boxes which are hard to dismiss is a…

>Now when they remove a video for "violating content guidelines" This is why I'm keeping an offline digital music collection for the first time in over a decade, it's because I&…

I really don’t miss Reddit, I’ve deleted the accounts I had there and am much better off for it. I’m not sure when the real tipping point was but that platform has really lost its way.

The holy hand grenade of Antioch might be a powerful weapon but someone should tell those ancient patriarchs that feasting on fruit bats is a foolish thing to do.

LinkedIn is absolutely atrocious for sending unwelcome emails. I actually filter them all, at this point I’m motivated by pure spite towards the kind of companies that think they’re entitled to my att…

The way I understand it is that if you don’t trust your ISP then a VPN is a suitable choice, if you don’t trust your government then much more serious technological measures are required and even then…

>and also feel hungry all the time That's basically how low-carb works for me, if I eat fewer carbs I'm less hungry and miserable all the time so I eat less calories too.

Cheers! And yeah I started around the same sort of time in my life, about 17 years old. When I was at uni me and my mates bought vapes because around the time they hadn't been banned by most pubs…

>(via Electron, in part) Electron is basically the digital equivalent of coal-rolling in my opinion, technologies like React Native are a much more elegant way of achieving what Electron tries to.…

There is an absolutely enormous archive of fan-taped Grateful Dead shows out there, someone with much more time and money than me needs to train a network on that!

I'm not against people quitting cold turkey if that's what works for them, addiction is different for everyone and if that's the most effective way of quitting for a person then fair en…

I think scientism is best summed up as the fallacious idea that science is a priesthood rather than a process. Some people really struggle separating the politically neutral idea of using the scientif…

I can't speak for Juul but I credit my smoking cessation entirely to vaping. I've not had any nicotine since 2020, vaping or smoking! I think there's a real attitude among a small numbe…

Yeah, I know this is an anecdote but most people in my life just put up with a constant stream of buzzing and pinging. I’m very much in the habit of not allowing any notifications to begin with, espec…