David Reader

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21.11.2024 12:01 — 👍 13    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0

Identity Verification is hard.
Identity Verification at scale is really hard.

I don't think this is a bad compromise.

It's a dramatic improvement over the other place .. where a blue tick mostly means "verified idiot".

18.11.2024 11:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh, ok, you mean using a misleading domain name to decieve people..

Not at all a new problem, let alone a blue sky problem.

18.11.2024 10:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I must be missing something obvious to you..

What do you mean by illegitimate here?

The user must be associated somehow with the domain to be able to use it.

18.11.2024 10:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The need for approval within an organisation is arguably a feature, not a bug.
Note it can be done by serving a file by HTTP rather than a DNS record .. and that likely works better for orgs with many users.

18.11.2024 10:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's quite hard to insert a publically-available DNS record into an "invalid domain" .. whatever that is, and a TLS certificate proves nothing these days, unless it's an EV cert.
The need to serve a record from the domain does verify the user has some control of it.

18.11.2024 10:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Wow .. not seen one "in a while" .. one of these - IIRC actually given away unwanted at the end of a factory bankruptcy auction - was the inspiration behind one of my father's industrial control systems .. essentially similar enclosure, 286 (later 386) baby-AT, mono 9" CRT, FDD, 4x4 keypad & e-stop.

16.11.2024 23:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Landrover Discovery 2 TD5 : pipe from radiator to expansion tank

In case this is seen by anyone who recognises it .. yes, I discovered how&why that top pipe is routed wrongly.
Now fixed.
It's a new pipe replacing an old, long-ago-bodge-repaired, one - that had been tie-wrapped on the different route.
Also repair here is studs fitted in place of self-tap screws.

16.11.2024 14:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I am really quite impressed by a new ̶t̶o̶y̶ ̶ ̶ .. tool .. I mean tool .. definitely tool 😇..😄

This is the Hikmicro Mini2 v2

16.11.2024 13:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It's a bit disgusting, but it works.

I may re-do this when the appropriate tools aren't 250 miles away.

But, for now, here has a working washing machine again. Yay!

14.11.2023 00:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This evening's challenge..

Replace this SMT IC using only this vintage Weller iron & failing eyesight.

Miele washing machine. Common fault.

14.11.2023 00:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

My own bike is Halfords & not completely awful, but last I looked the kids bikes were still horrid.

Kids have outgrown that stuff now anyway, indeed I ought to try to sell on the Frogs as we approach Xmas.

27.10.2023 17:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Except Frog, other kids bikes are more cumbersome than adult bikes.

I suspect it's just very difficult to compete with Halfords et al flogging overpriced cheaply made crap.

27.10.2023 17:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Cease of sale The UK's premier range of British designed high quality balance, first pedal, multi-purpose, road, cyclocross, gravel, mountain bikes and award-winning e-bikes for adults and kids of all ages, includi...

This is sad.

My daughter had an Islabike a few years ago.

Excellent product.

A sad reminder that a good product often isn't enough .. and it'll be those pushing inferior goods who survive longer.

www.islabikes.co.uk/pages/cease-...

26.10.2023 22:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1

America also kills people.

Presuming this imbecile is American, he should be asked why he hadn't killed himself first.

26.10.2023 14:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

When passing face-to-face, risk of COVID infection peaks within 5 seconds: Japan study TOKYO -- The risk of coronavirus infection peaks within five seconds of passing an infected person, a research team from the University of Tsukuba has

Ha!

I've been doing similar from the outset purely on grounds of instinct anyway:

"holding one's breath within five seconds of passing a person, keeping a distance of at least 1 meter, and standing upwind of them are effective measures to prevent infection."

mainichi.jp/english/arti...

26.10.2023 10:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hello World

Déjà vu?
Something about a dead bird, maybe.

20.10.2023 21:57 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0