George Wood

@gwo0d
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👾 Computer Scientist
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George Wood (@gwood.dev)

👾 Computer Scientist 🎓 PhD Candidate 🚑 First Responder 📷 Photographer #LongLiveFilm 👈 Proudly Left of Centre 💭 All Opinions Are My Own 🏳️‍🌈 Be Kind, Always. 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini 🌍 gwood.dev 🪪 he/him/his 🗣️ /ʤɔːʤ wʊd/

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@OliverNoble possible? Yes. Practical? Not really.

You’re quite right that people may have legitimate reasons to check more than one postcode.

Also, as the service is fully anonymous, it would mean I’d have to set cookies, which a user could easily clear, defeating the purpose.

@OliverNoble it’s my pleasure. Thanks for engaging, feedback is always appreciated!
@OliverNoble good points all around. However, quite intentionally the site will never tell you where the protests are happening, just a distance from you as the crow flies rounded to the nearest kilometre.
@achadwick alas no. A better developer may find a way, but I’m an academic, so software is more of a hobby. Also, candidly, I don’t want to be landed with that GDPR can of worms.

@OliverNoble out of interest, how do you think it could be harmful?

I don’t mean to be argumentative at all, I’m genuinely asking from a place of curiosity.

I was very careful to ensure data can’t be exfiltrated from the service, using rate-limiting, server-side processing, and CORS. I did all of that to make sure it leans more towards “help” than “harm”.

What’re your thoughts?

In case you haven't seen it, what's happening right now on Twitter is hilarious.
Elon Musk is carrying on with his ludicrous accusations about the U.K.- Civil War, Immigrant driven societal breakdown, two tier system, white lives matter, yada yada yada.

He's tagging U.K. Prime Minister Kier Starmer into every post. Starmer's ignoring him, all Starmer's ministers and MPs are ignoring him. It's absolutely driving Musk nuts.

It's beautiful. Musk has turned into Starmer's Reply Guy.

#UKPolitics

Major nations warn citizens to stay away from Britain because of danger riots

More countries have joined Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia and Nigeria in warning their citizens either living in or visiting the UK amid the ongoing scenes of violence

The Mirror
@gwo0d Irrespective of the law, it nearly always seems to be the case that accountability is in inversion proportion to wealth.
@Heskie very regrettably, I think you’re quite right about that.