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Simon Wood

@hpoom

Passionate geek with a love of Javascript, APIs, and Cloud. I am Associate Director Technology at Holiday Extras.

 Ashford, Kent UK
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Joined March 2007
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Here's a slightly odd take on the #OnlineSafetyBill I'll allow every message I ever send to be publicly available... if *every single conversation* by MPs, PMs etc is too. We won't access it all the time, just when there's suspicion of wrongdoing ;)
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⌛️We're running out of time to save encryption in the UK. This tech keeps our conversations secure, but the #OnlineSafetyBill includes powers to scan ALL of our messages. This week, the @UKHouseofLords must oppose these Orwellian surveillance powers.
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📣 Important! 67 preeminent U.K. cryptographers & computer scientists speak out against the perilous magical thinking of the Online Safety Bill’s mass surveillance provision, explaining its dangerous misunderstandings and its rights-chilling implications.
Martin R. Albrecht (@martinralbrecht) profile pictureMartin R. Albrecht@martinralbrecht5 Jul 2023
68 (UK affiliated) researchers working on security and privacy have raised alarms about provisions in the UK #OnlineSafetyBill: "our concern is that surveillance technologies are deployed in the spirit of providing online safety." Read our letter here: haddadi.github.io/UKOSBOpenl…
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68 (UK affiliated) researchers working on security and privacy have raised alarms about provisions in the UK #OnlineSafetyBill: "our concern is that surveillance technologies are deployed in the spirit of providing online safety." Read our letter here: haddadi.github.io/UKOSBOpenl…
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Local elections are not about party politics. I did not vote for a party, I voted for a person who works hard to improve my local community. In my strong view party politics has no place in local councils.
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Furthermore local results tell us very little about potential outcomes at a future general election. Many of us don't vote the same locally and nationally. The media is drawing conclusions that just are not there!
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@noampomsky25 Feb 2023
I don’t say I’ll google it anymore I say I’ll google reddit
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Meetings are the worst! They burn people out and nothing gets done. My tweet on meetings and burn out last week hit a nerve. It resonated with a lot of folks. These are 7 steps I follow to aggressively reduce meetings. A short 🧵
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No one writes code comments today like we wrote code comments in the 90s
Jeff Wilcox (@jeffwilcox) profile pictureJeff Wilcox@jeffwilcox28 Apr 2022
Blast from the past: making sure multimedia apps work great on all the Windows at the time.
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Why is the Ticketmaster website so broken and so crap? Surely they make enough money to build a decent tech solution?
This is awesome news for Ashford. kentonline.co.uk/ashford/new…
Brompton bikes reveals plans for huge factory

Brompton bikes reveals plans for huge factory

Bike maker Brompton has revealed plans to move its global headquarters to Kent and build a multi-million pound factory, creating thousands of jobs.

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Can somebody please report on energy prices as price per unit. Instead of this misleading "average household". Just tell us pence per KWh of the old price cap and the new price cap!
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@elonmusk8 Dec 2021
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LGR@lazygamereviews16 Sep 2021
Ahh man, RIP Sir Clive Sinclair! theguardian.com/technology/2…
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All your UK videogame companies today were built on the shoulders of giants who made games for the ZX Spectrum. You cannot exaggerate Sir Clive Sinclair’s influence on the world. And if we’d all stopped laughing long enough to buy a C5 he’d probably have saved the environment.
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Sir Clive Sinclair, the creator of the Zx Spectrum has passed away. His influence on the UK games industry was huge. How many of today's developers coded on one of the machines he developed?
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Home computing pioneer Sir Clive Sinclair dies aged 81 theguardian.com/technology/2…
Home computing pioneer Sir Clive Sinclair dies aged 81

Home computing pioneer Sir Clive Sinclair dies aged 81

Creator of the landmark ZX Spectrum and the less commercially successful C5 died after a long illness

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We have lost one of the pioneers of modern computing. Such sad news! theguardian.com/technology/2…
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