gwl

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Enter a postal address, I think you'll find it near-impossible in c/baduibattles@lemmy.blahaj.zone

Clock but we saved DB space by just returning the index of the array of DigitNames in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

Ah, I must have forgotten to turn my VPN back on

Enter a postal address, I think you'll find it near-impossible in c/baduibattles@lemmy.blahaj.zone

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

That's actually not mine at all, that's from codepen.io

I've also never seen it before, I think it's as simple as following the steps in "More Details" though

You've not disabled JavaScript or something? It's required for it to run

Enter a postal address, I think you'll find it near-impossible in c/baduibattles@lemmy.blahaj.zone

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Oh my god

Enter a postal address, I think you'll find it near-impossible in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah that part I was particularly proud of.. It's so unusable

Enter a postal address, I think you'll find it near-impossible in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 weeks ago

I reckon someone should try that

A UK government department spent hundreds of millions upgrading its systems to Windows 10 - just in time for its official end of life in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago

Both possible tbh

Clock but we saved DB space by just returning the index of the array of DigitNames in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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A UK government department spent hundreds of millions upgrading its systems to Windows 10 - just in time for its official end of life in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

Mostly they use it due to vendor lock-in tbh

Microsoft and Apple both use a sly tactic of offering the OS for cheap, and some products for cheap, but with the express intention that everything is so interlinking you can't replace just one thing, you have to replace it all.

Which is too much time and effort for most governments

A UK government department spent hundreds of millions upgrading its systems to Windows 10 - just in time for its official end of life in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago

FOSS

A UK government department spent hundreds of millions upgrading its systems to Windows 10 - just in time for its official end of life in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Nah, Balkanisation is more likely

A UK government department spent hundreds of millions upgrading its systems to Windows 10 - just in time for its official end of life in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 2 weeks ago

Funny thing is, only about 5-10 years ago, the UK government was trying to do "ALL FOSS EVERYWHERE"

But the pushback from old fogies unwilling to change was so hard that they basically did like one department (Department of Work and Pensions) before they rolled it back.

It did save that one department a lot of money though.