clojure-uk

A place for people in the UK, near the UK, visiting the UK, planning to visit the UK or just vaguely interested to randomly chat about things (often vi and emacs, occasionally clojure). More general the #ldnclj
djm 2021-04-12T06:02:58.181500Z

👋

dharrigan 2021-04-12T06:09:24.181700Z

Good Morning!

dharrigan 2021-04-12T06:24:02.181900Z

Snowing dawn sawth

djm 2021-04-12T06:31:51.182800Z

It snowed here yesterday (and in other parts of the West Midlands on Saturday), but it was very light and didn't stick

djm 2021-04-12T06:32:09.183300Z

I think at one point it was a bit heavier, and started to, but then it disappeared pretty quickly

thomas 2021-04-12T07:49:11.183500Z

mogge

jasonbell 2021-04-12T08:05:56.183700Z

Morning

2021-04-12T08:50:09.183900Z

Morn'

mccraigmccraig 2021-04-12T09:05:15.184100Z

måning!

dharrigan 2021-04-12T09:57:18.184500Z

Sometimes, you have to wonder, just who in government is IT savvy? <https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56713017>

dharrigan 2021-04-12T09:57:43.185100Z

The UK government broke their own agreement with Apple and Google. I guess nothing new there cough brexit cough

alexlynham 2021-04-12T10:26:12.185300Z

morning

2021-04-12T11:18:34.185400Z

what a weird ending, "What this underlines is that governments around the world have been forced to frame part of their response to the global pandemic according to rules set down by giant unelected corporations."

dharrigan 2021-04-12T11:18:53.185600Z

Yes, I don't like the way the journalist framed the last part

dharrigan 2021-04-12T11:19:10.185800Z

He's almost saying it's Big Tech's fault for trying to perserve privacy

2021-04-12T11:19:32.186Z

yeah, exactly that... what a load of crap

djm 2021-04-12T14:34:07.186200Z

I wonder if more people in the UK own an Android phone than voted Tory

djm 2021-04-12T14:38:38.186400Z

A little googling and a little maths, suggests that there are 30+ million Android users in the UK (and about the same for iOS, and they got just under 14 million votes

djm 2021-04-12T14:39:06.186600Z

So what's the will of the people here? :thinking_face: