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  • The pornid thing is stupid. VPN use us widespread now. Our gov often gets lobbied by US big tech companies working on behalf of US gov unfortunately.

    IDing every user on every computer? What? Source?

    Social scores? Source?

    I’m oblivious as to what you watched on Telegram that twisted certain things into extremes.

    The courts thing is idiocy from Lammy. Not guaranteed. Starmer is toast and doesn’t have widespread support in his own gov. House of Lords can block anything not in a manifesto. Some shit has gone sideways, accepted, but your outlook is a little extreme. These battles are happening all over the world. There is mass techbro fascism at war with every country right now. Singling out UK is missing the overall picture.

    Plus our jury is quite separated from politicians. UK gov lost to Kneecap. UK gov having trouble with the Palestinian Action decision in courts. Rwanda deportation got blocked by courts also. Please do some research to understand how our courts actually function before you dismiss quite a reasonable system that does have independence from politicians.

    We have problems, but rn our jury system isn’t one of them. It’s the fuckheads in Westminster.













  • You must work in dreadful places. I’ve seen it a few times, but most places have been productive.

    It needs a good lead dev to set the culture though.

    Whitespace change debates can be avoided by using rule sets in IDEs and agreeing standards within the team.

    Good static code analysis tools in pipelines and IDEs handle most technical issues leaving reviewers to focus on design, maintainability, clarity and readability.

    You can avoid pickiness if you communicate why, so they learn and understand. If you use PRs as a training and learning tool they’re quite productive. If not sure, ask why something was done.

    And if you get picky comments respond with “personal preference and not part of team rules”. But also, you cannot be defensive in your PRS. You have to be open to feedback and points and happy to discuss. Be polite even when feedback is invalid. Defendivesness kills constructive feedback and no matter how old you are and how long you’ve been doing it, you can still improve. Oh and if you been doing it that long, you’re a senior or lead and can influence how things are done.