Ben Harris
I’m Tired And Everything HurtsI miss the days when NFTs were the stupidest thing I'd ever heard of.
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Rich Wareham
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@kinnison The reason for this is quite interesting: https://dafyddvaughan.uk/blog/2025/why-some-dvla-digital-services-dont-work-at-night/
Why some DVLA digital services don't work at night
Every few months or so, somebody asks on social media why a particular DVLA digital service is turned off over night. Rather than answering it every time, I’ve decided to write this post, so I can point people at it in future. It’s a great case study to show why making government services digitally native can be quite complicated.
@fanf I think you probably wanted this link, which is the (probably) concluding post in the series: https://ionathan.ch/2026/02/16/angzarr.html
@sil @jimmac This guide? http://jimmac.musichall.cz/stuff/private/icontut/index.html - I remember reading that a good long time ago.
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Neil CraigAs if we needed more reminders how dangerous relying on unchecked AI content is:
"In preparation for the force response to the HMICFRS inquiry into this matter, on Friday afternoon I became aware that the erroneous result concerning the West Ham v Maccabi Tel Aviv [UK football] match arose as result of a use of Microsoft Co Pilot."
World Basement ClassicNew year, new password reset at work...
My new password is "NCSC advises against regular password expiry"
Actually TBF that was my old one, my new one is "NCSC advises against regular password expiry2"
@cmsdengl @bytebro confer AWS where you can get a (comparatively) bullet proof asynchronous application up and running with Lambdas, Load Balancers, Route 53, Aurora RDS, SQS and SES without ever touching a VM. (Or Cloud Run, Cloud DNS, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub on Google. Although Google notably lacks an SES equivalent.)