Fairly average cider but in a cute videogame bar.
Drinking: Skamløs Eplesider
By: Skamløs Bryggeri
At: Chiruto
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#untappd

This tram in Oslo is undergoing a firmware update!

🆕 blog! “The UK Government's Low Value Purchase System is a Waste of Time”

It can be hard running a small business. If you want to sell to a large organisation like the UK Government, there are forms to fill in, checks to comply with, tenders to bid on, and a hundred other things.

Luckily, there's the RM6237 Low Value Purchase System…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/the-uk-governments-low-value-purchase-system-is-a-waste-of-time/
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#FoI #government #rant #statistics

This museum exhibition has the strongest point-and-click videogame room energy.

🆕 blog! “Gadget Review: Chuwi Minibook X N150 + Linux”
★★★★☆

I needed a small and light laptop to take travelling. Something with a larger screen than my phone so I can use the Big Internet™. Nothing too expensive and something that uses the same USB-C charger as everything else.

So I settled on the Chuwi Minibook N150. It's literally small enough to fit …

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/gadget-review-chuwi-minibook-x-n150-linux/
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#gadget #laptop #linux #review #usb-c

🆕 blog! “GDS weighs in on the NHS's decision to retreat from Open Source”

Within the UK's Civil Service you occasionally hear the expression "being invited to a meeting without biscuits". It implies a rather frosty discussion without any of the polite niceties of a normal meeting. In general though, even when people have severe …

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/gds-weighs-in-on-the-nhss-decision-to-retreat-from-open-source/
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#AI #gds #government #nhs #nhsx #OpenSource

🆕 blog! “UK Government Kicks Out Palantir”

The UK Government, for all its faults, is pretty good at publishing contracts it has awarded. That's why I get depressed when I see rage-bait nonsense about how companies have been award "Top Secret" deals.

Right now you can go to https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk and search for whichever bête noire has you riled up. You …

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/uk-government-kicks-out-palantir/
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#government #OpenSource

🆕 blog! “The Unintended Consequences of Gamification”

This is a necropost - resurrected from the now defunct blog of a previous employer. Sadly, most of the screenshots have fallen down the memory hole. So use your imagination. We'd launched Drive To Improve which put a "blackbox" in drivers' cars and gamified their safe driving.

I’ve recently taken part in the D…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2012/10/the-unintended-consequences-of-gamification/
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#gaming #necropost

I have a daft question about #CopyFail and #DirtyFrag

I have some old Linux appliances which aren't getting updates any more (security cameras, amps, Android tablets etc).

Assuming I can log in as a normal user, does this mean I can get root on them?

I guess they need to be sufficiently modern to have these vulnerabilities - but in theory it should work, right?

#CyberSecurity