Tootfinder

Whoever thought it would be a good idea to rely on a handful of companies from a single country to maintain the UK’s digital infrastructure?
Well, the government for one.
https://www.computing.co.uk/feature/2026/why-cloud-first-has-…

Why cloud-first has meant sovereignty last – and how to fix it
Whoever thought it would be a good idea to rely on a handful of companies from a single country to maintain the UK’s digital infrastructure?

Pupils in North East England get hands-on with history https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/pupils-in-north-east-england-get-hands-on-with-history/

Pupils in North East England get hands-on with history - The National Archives
Our first education service delivered locally with North East Museums will allow young people in North East England to work with our historic records without having to travel to London. This new opportunity has been made possible by an exciting partnership with Tyne & Wear Archives based at Newcastle’s Discovery Museum. Gillian Johnston, Education and […]

Pickens thrusts himself into the Cowboys' record books in his first season https://insidethestar.com/pickens-thrusts-himself-into-the-cowboys-record-books-in-his-first-season

Use DraftKings promo code to get $200 bonus bets by targeting Texans-Chargers, Packers-Ravens, LSU on Saturday

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/use-dra

Everybody's favourite "save me from myself" git hook (https://github.com/pimterry/git-confirm) has the first new major feature in nearly 5 years: it'll now validate and catch unintended git pushes too 😀

60 years ago tonight, the merry pranksters' first informal acid test, held at ken babbs's place outside santa cruz, where the grateful dead did not play (& all purported flyers are almost certainly fake). below text from dennis mcnally's bio & i wrote about it for the 50th.

It’s funny how many people have no idea how to buy used stuff for non-inflated prices.
Here’s some tips to get you started (for eBay):
1. The first thing about eBay is that most things listed as “buy now” are overpriced—otherwise someone else would have bought it already. You have to always look at sold listings to see what things are actually worth.
2. Use saved searches specifically limited in price and distance.
3. Always sort by newly listed for “Buy Now” and ending soonest for auctions.
4. Look for older buy now listings and make offers. The older the listing the lower you offer. Some tools like flippah.net show you the listed date directly without having to dig deep on the eBay website. You can make offers even when the button isn’t there, just send a message.
5. Never buy anything from sellers with 0 feedback or less than a 98% or so rating.
A general thing to remember is that unless you buy new stuff or see a listing from a store (some categories have a lot of stores, e.g. cameras) you’re likely to deal directly with a private seller and a human being. Be polite and respectful but don’t be afraid to say no. Don’t make insulting offers.

Wow. Finally a truly good article about moving away from big tech in the national news here in Denmark. And yes, Mastodon is in it. It’s not a perfect list, but it’s the first good one I’ve seen outside of personal blogs. https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/viden/teknolo…

@… they were the very first captchas and if you got it wrong you had to reformat your entire computer