Paul

I got very cross about the Supreme Court judgement on the meaning of 'sex' over the Easter weekend and wrote a fairly lengthy blog post about it, including how the Supreme Court operates (e.g. interveners, statutory interpretation):

Supreme Court judgement on meaning of ‘sex’ – Politics Geek

Had a look at my Pi Hole blocked queries list and there are entries for: incoming.telemetry.mozilla.org I thought I had disabled all the 'phone home' functionality in Firefox, but it appears to be still sending telemetry. about:telemetry claims it is disabled but there are several telemetry settings set to true in about:config. I don't know how to turn these off in settings, the only option seems to be to set: toolkit.telemetry.server to an empty address. #Firefox

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.