Sometimes when people run a forum or even on social media the long time participants will notice that they answer the same questions over and over and over... this may lead to forum rules that ban posts that are repeats of old questions.

I think this is almost always a mistake if you are trying to build a community. It's helpful and good to link to similar older posts, but nothing makes a community feel insular than being told none of your questions are new and RTFM.

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#privacy #digitalsovereignty #kidsact #chatcontrol

Milestones needs a laser quest night!

It would be fun if more revelations meant Five Million Farage pulling out of his big beautiful by-election, leaving only the (other) joke candidates.

"synthesising user feedback" 🤦

Ye fucking gods, just like how techbros keep reinventing the bus, it seems in solar circles, the idea of putting solar panels in transport surfaces is an idea that a) should never had be got off the fag packet sketch, b) keeps coming back.

We had the trial of a 100m long 18KW install in Switzerland. Which unsurprisingly, did generate power. Noone is surprised by that. It's quite hard to fuck up a solar install so you don't get power from it. But. Does it mean it's a good idea ?

Fuck no.

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Everyone's laughing at binface now but will they be laughing when Trump helps Farage launch his triumphant anti-establishment referendum campaign?

Will there be a televised debate for Clacton? Or failing that, binface on Question Time instead of Five Million Farage for a change?

I'm sure Five Million Farage will work as diligently for the Manor of Northstead as he did for Clacton.

Past me ordered some aluminium shade cloth thing in the last heatwave. Some garden cane and clothes pegs have turned it into a very passable living room shade, which is nice.

They're being somewhat thwarted by our naff mobile signal, which is ironic.

An engineer has arrived to turn the internet off and on again.

I guess you could argue that Five Million Farage's stunt has boosted Clacton's economy. Maybe he's planning to do it every summer.

I indirectly touched on cost, so here is the bit I've always struggled to reconcile:

These are organisations where requests for a single £5/seat productivity tool for three people with demonstrable positive impact ends up costing £3.5k in internal discussions before ending in the inevitable, "it's not in the tooling budget for this century, try again in January 2101"

Most of this is surviving on them having free tokens thrown at them in return for having their name on the "extensive use" list.

What I would very much like to find out is whether binface would keep wearing the bin in parliament.

"I'm the most physically attacked MP of modern times" claims Farage, seemingly forgetting that two MPs have been literally murdered in the last decade.

The man has no shame.

Instead of a unity candidate, it would be nice if everyone (even binface!) called Five Million Farage's bluff and just let him return to parliament uncontested.

Will any of the MPs who defected to Reform UK be triggering by-elections?

Has Five Million Farage announced that he's standing in the Labour leadership contest yet?

GitHub cuts short offer to burn repos on CD after mockery ensues
https://www.theregister.com/devops/2026/07/06/github-cuts-short-offer-to-burn-repos-on-cd-after-mockery-ensues/5267113
A purported jab of Sony’s physical media phase-out blows up on GitHub itself.