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Cyber Incident

philbarr — Sun, 04 May 2025 18:17:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.coop.co.uk/cyber-incident

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43888381

Points: 3

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New comment by philbarr in "Did you know Git was originally created in 10 days?"

philbarr — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 15:10:28 +0000

"Subversion was slow and clunky"

Lucky you, you never used clearcase or Visual SourceSafe!

New comment by philbarr in "Touch Pianist"

philbarr — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 12:59:28 +0000

Let's hope it doesn't have the third movement in it or else we'll be needing new keyboards.

New comment by philbarr in "Touch Pianist"

philbarr — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 12:56:47 +0000

This is a great kind of thing for getting people into music. There's a piano in my local pub and when people say they "can't play piano" I'll play a 2-5-1 in C and tell them to hit any of the white notes. People love that they can make up their own tunes having never played before.

New comment by philbarr in "macOS command-line tools you might not know about"

philbarr — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 15:16:22 +0000

caffeinate is on Mac.

  caffeinate -d -i -u -s

New comment by philbarr in "So you've installed `fzf` – now what?"

philbarr — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 14:02:11 +0000

I had to add the fzf plugin in my .zshrc to get this to work

New comment by philbarr in "Something Pretty Right: The History and Legacy of Visual Basic"

philbarr — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 11:23:33 +0000

Aaah - back in the day when we used to link 26 Access databases together, one for the first letter of a customer's surname... :)

New comment by philbarr in "The Door Close Button"

philbarr — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 15:52:02 +0000

you're right. Open dev tools and add it yourself. :)

New comment by philbarr in "Oldest and Fatherless: The Terrible Secret of Tom Bombadil (2011)"

philbarr — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 15:33:07 +0000

No Saruman vs Gandalf rematch in the original films. It was included in the director's cut but then you could see why they left it out.

New comment by philbarr in "An intro to finding things in Linux"

philbarr — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 19:33:29 +0000

I can't believe I didn't know this for all these years. I was just guessing/remembering bits of info.

New comment by philbarr in "Italian ‘king of absentees’ allegedly skipped work for 15 years"

philbarr — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 09:56:50 +0000

That sounds the same setup as Nice Guy Eddie has in Reservoir Dogs. Probably you don't want to meet the people who had those cards as they might have a penchant for chopping people's ears off and setting them on fire.

New comment by philbarr in "Google pushed a bad Android WebView update that crashes apps including Gmail"

philbarr — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 10:48:49 +0000

Yeah same here. Noticed it late last night UK time, multiple attempts at reinstalling webview made no difference. New update now fixed everything.

So the faulty version was up for a good few hours?

New comment by philbarr in "[dead]"

philbarr — Fri, 27 Nov 2020 15:39:35 +0000

this is just an advert for a product? do we allow that?

New comment by philbarr in "Visual and interactive way to learn Git"

philbarr — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 17:57:52 +0000

The best way I found to learn git is to read the first 3 chapters of Pro Git. Yes it's a pain, yes you're going to have to sit through the "distributed source control" speech again, but the enlightenment of realising why it works like it does is great.

When you realise it's nothing more than commits and a bunch of special labels it starts to make sense.

EDIT: Meant to add that sites like ohshitgit might help in a crisis but you're only a few hours reading off working out WHY those things work.

New comment by philbarr in "R U OK?"

philbarr — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 14:15:29 +0000

I went on holiday to Spain once, bought an inflatable dinghy and paddled with a friend for a long time around the coast until we got to a beach. On the beach was a naked man. After we had convinced him to get some pants on (mickey mouse boxer shorts) he told us his story.

Basically he'd gone on holiday exactly like us once, found this beach, and just thought, "fuck it" and stayed. Fuck the job, fuck the family, fuck the friends, everything. He lived in a cave near the beach, the locals gave him food and he did the odd job when he could be arsed.

Ever since I've thought, "if it ever gets so bad I want to kill myself, I'm just going to get up and go back to that beach."

That simple thought alone has got me through some rough times.

As we paddled away from the beach other people started coming out of other caves to come and watch us leave.

New comment by philbarr in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2020)"

philbarr — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 17:00:32 +0000

so you wrote some code that generates a link to a github gist with your bio on. if HN said your post was too long, you could have just posted the link....? :)

New comment by philbarr in "The pope just proposed a universal basic income"

philbarr — Sun, 12 Apr 2020 22:47:25 +0000

Fine, I'll employ myself.

New comment by philbarr in "Show HN: Gifcap, a browser based client-side GIF screen recording tool"

philbarr — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 14:53:34 +0000

Looks like it depends on WebRTC javascript apis which Brave browser might not support?

EDIT: More specifically, it needs to support getDisplayMedia()

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MediaDevice...

New comment by philbarr in "Coronavirus: Prime Minister Boris Johnson tests positive"

philbarr — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 13:25:33 +0000

Possibly completely unrelated: PM chief advisor Dominic Cummings seen running out of Downing Street in the last hour

https://twitter.com/AllieHBNews/status/1243520576007872513

New comment by philbarr in "Ask HN: Are there good self-hosted video conference tools?"

philbarr — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 12:22:42 +0000

You can try setting up https://www.kurento.org/

Note that all modern browsers support WebRTC. I wrote a simple server to setup WebRTC sessions between browsers that worked, but it's probably easier to use kurento.