Gentleman Programmer

Good news.
"The House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Act 2026 ... removed all remaining hereditary peers from the House of Lords on 29 April 2026."

I somehow missed that, maybe because it wasn't reported by news media. We still have bishops in government though.

"Numerous members of the House of Lords have said that other elements of Lords reform should be prioritised, such as the abolition of the Lords Spiritual, pointing out that the only other sovereign state where clerics are automatically granted a legislative seat is Iran."

House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Act 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Lords_%28Hereditary_Peers%29_Act_2026?wprov=sfla1

#ukpol #LordsReform

Who is Freddy Verse, the sidekick of John Mastodon?
#johnmastodon

Seems like an HTML div with display:grid cannot be suppressed by using the 'hidden' attribute.
#html #css

Nobody in the media or in government is able to connect the actions of Israel with a rise in anti-Semitism.
#ukpol

@fedilore@mastodon.social @taylor@social.axfive.net Thank you for the link. It says this.

backup archives are stored without a direct link to a specific backup payment or Signal user account.

It doesn't seem to be specific about how the payment details are separated from the Signal user account though. Maybe they use the anonymous credentials mentioned here. https://signal.org/blog/signal-private-group-system/

@fedilore@mastodon.social @taylor@social.axfive.net Could it be like this.

1. I enter my credit card details in Service One (S1).

2. S1 generates and stores a secret account number, SAN in a table with the credit card details.

3. S1 generates and stores a hash of SAN, HAN, and stores it separately as a paid account.

4. S1 gives me HAN, and I enter it into Service Two (S2) which stores it with my email address.

S2 can now verify that the account is paid, by querying HAN. But there's no way to get SAN and the credit card details from the email address.

?

@fraggle@social.coop @bagder@mastodon.social @gruber@mastodon.social To me the following have different meanings.

• runtime is a noun referring to, for example, a library that is embedded in a program.
• run time means when the software is running, for example in contrast to build time.
• run-time is an adjective form of run time.

@bagder@mastodon.social

Or perhaps they are all just too busy implementing the next AI feature we don’t want.

Maybe suggest they address this vulnerability with an AI solution?