The list of sexiest professions has been updated and the top 3 are: healthcare, teaching and emergency services. I'm sure my legal followers will be delighted that they are in fourth place. Techies are seventh with 17%! (despite the jokes about undatable geeks, I actually found my profession wasn't an issue for most women when I was using online dating - and I was upfront about what I did / was interested in). https://metro.co.uk/2025/01/27/singles-arent-looking-a-man-finance-this-sexiest-job-2025-22439366/
Apparently White Van Man really doesn't like it if you respond to his pavement and double yellow lines parking with 'what if I had a wheelchair?' (I could barely squeeze past and I am about as slender as you can get)
Fellow geeks are making fun of people who don't get the 'you can have the same username on different servers' part of the Fediverse, but non-techies don't get IT. I used to use company@mydomain.com as my email address so I could filter incoming mail and track if anyone sold my details or got hacked. Quite often the person who saw the address would comment 'oh I didn't know you worked here' because I had the company name in my email address. (it even happened at Bletchley Park of all places...)
Did a 100km round trip taxi ride today and asked the driver how the different booking options were as I'm considering switching. Local firm: Driver gets more but there can be favouritism in terms of giving out bookings. No support if things go wrong, sometimes passengers don't pay. International app: Lower prices but they make up any loss due to damage etc. No failed payments. Overall he said he preferred apps to local firms, despite bad rep over employment rights etc.
Not saying I'm behind with listening to @npub12qh7...k48x but I just followed the sponsor link in the episode I'm listening to and it went to another site because they've been bought in the meantime...
I'll be giving a talk on Advent of Code at 14:00 today (UK time / UTC) at the Manchester Linux User Group. Everyone is welcome, but please check the website or DM me if you want the Jitsi details as we don't publish them widely to avoid gatecrashers. If you can't make it, the talk won't be recorded but the slides will be online. I'm open to giving the talk elsewhere if there's demand (remote-only and sensible overlap with UTC).
ManLUG Manchester Linux User Group - new site - testing - build version 0.07
 #AdventOfCode #ManLUG
On the subject of IPv6, is there any pressing business reason for a residential ISP with mostly non-technical customers and a lot of IPv4 addresses to deploy v6? If customers have more devices that doesn't mean more IPs (because of NAT on the customer's router) and most ISPs are not going to massively increase their customer base (so don't need more IPs). #IPv6
@npub1t2qa...n4vh Your latest release notes for iOS asked if anyone reads them - I do and consider them useful and important (and much better than 'fixed some bugs'). 😀
Does anyone know if there's a way to do case-insensitive search + replace in PHP, but retain the original case, for highlighting search keywords? For example, if I want to make the search results bold, searching for 'paul' in 'Paul Waring' should return: <b>Paul</b> Waring and not: <b>paul</b> Waring str_ireplace does nearly everything I need, but doesn't retain the original case. Maybe preg_replace with capture groups? #php