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Founder, Monad Ticketing. Trustee, The Maltings Berwick. T1 Diabetes. He/him. Berwick-upon-Tweed. Searchable […] [bridged from mastodon.social/@bencurthoys on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy/ ]
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I use Visual Studio to develop web applications. For debugging, the web applications are hosted by local IIS. For this to work, Visual Studio needs to run as local administrator. To make this easy I configured my Visual Studio shortcut to always Run As […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot of Visual Studio that show projects not having loaded because the update has broken it AGAIN.
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Just listening to The Rest Is Entertainment discussing a castaway island TV show format for the legion of semi-cancelled men, and they have missed an open goal: put all of them on an island, and then don't send a camera crew or speak of them ever again.

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Go on then @bloor @revk , tell me why I should spend £55 / month with you instead of £36 / month with GoFibre or £40 / month with Zen to get ~300Mbps.

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I'm starting to think that even if they turn round tomorrow and tell me they're ready to hook me up, they might be INCREDIBLY SHIT AT CUSTOMER SERVICE.

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They said "I can confirm the build completion for Berwick-upon-Tweed is due to be finished by the end of July 2024." on 20th June They said "Our current timeframe for Berwick upon Tweed is to deliver our service to every home before August 2024." on 28th June And now it is 30th September.

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They "started digging" on the 9th April and invited orders. They said "We’ve got your order and will carry out the next steps to arrange your installation." on the 10th April. They said "Your property isn’t quite ready for installation just yet. We’re carrying out the final works to extend our […]

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High winds damaged my phone line at the weekend, and whilst I wait for Open Reach to send out an engineer (Wednesday! Fucking Wednesday!) I can't help but think about the order I placed with GoFibre.

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@cstross "In a surprising turn of events, Marvel and DC failed to respond to court requests for more time to address the charges. This led to a default judgment in favor of SuperBabies Ltd. The court’s decision effectively deemed the term generic, stripping it of trademark protection and […]

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Iain Banks had such a great turn of phrase.

'Fergus, you're a Tory. When Tories say freedom they mean money; the freedom to send your child to a private school means the money to send your child to a private school. The freedom to invest in South Africa means the money to invest there so you can make even more. And don't tell me you're interested in freedom unless you support the freedom of blacks to come here from abroad, which I know you don't, so there.' Kenneth clinked his glass against Fergus's. 'Cheers. To the future.'

from The Crow Road by Iain Banks.
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Ben Curthoys
@bencurthoys.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Founder, Monad Ticketing. Trustee, The Maltings Berwick. T1 Diabetes. He/him. Berwick-upon-Tweed. Searchable […] [bridged from mastodon.social/@bencurthoys on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy/ ]
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