Read Paddy Power and Betfair to pay £2m settlement after failing to protect users by Rob Davies

Sorry, how many seconds of income does this “penalty” equate to? Oh, it actually says in the article:

The £2m settlement agreed between Flutter and the Gambling Commission is equivalent to slightly less than two hours worth of takings for the company

So, that’s like me getting a £50 fine. For more context, the (maximum) fines for littering in central London range from around £200 to £500…

I’m have a pretty keen interest in tech but I am worried I am getting old because I don’t even know what Rust is and can’t, honestly, really be bothered to find out…

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My son is 13 and, like me, he has . One of the ways this manifests is extreme reluctance to engage with “new” things outside his current hyper focus. Fortunately, my brother is exactly the same, so I have some experience of working around it (though for decades we didn’t understand what we were working around). However, it can still be really hard when I want either of them to try something I know they’ll love. I have to time the recommendation perfectly, or perform some sort of inception, otherwise they bounce off the idea like a fly hitting a window.

Mostly this has been around playing video games. Despite the Venn diagram of our three VG interests almost being a circle, the chances of us aligning to enjoy a game together (for more than a single session) are virtually zero.

Recently, though, my struggle with my son has been with movies. For example, with Rob’s death, I desperately want to recommend he watch Stand By Me. It’s the perfect coming-of-age story for boys coming-of-age. I don’t even want to watch it with him. I just want him to see it and feel it in his own way and time. But I’ll have to leave him to find his own way to it, which, I think, is as it should be.

Rest in peace, Rob Reiner, and thank you.

According to my , I’m a “Butterfly”, I “frequently replied to other people’s posts, pollinating Mastodon with new discussions”. Well, if that’s the case, I hope I did more good than harm.

A yellow version of the Mastodon mascot, with purple butterfly wings.
I do not strongly identify with this image

I’ve been watching Pluribus on Apple TV, which I’ve enjoyed, but the problem is the main character is called Carol and now I have a dreadful Neil Sedaka earworm

I’ve worked professionally with data for 20 years. Today I am working with literally the worst data set I have ever come across. It’s published every week by CQC. There are formatting errors or typos in either the filename or the headers every other week. Sometimes the order of the headers or the headers that are included change. It is virtually impossible to automate. For example: https://www.diffchecker.com/3Lhlr6SF/

I have a Christmas playlist playing on my tablet in the next room. So that when I leave my desk, and my focus headphones, I remember it’s Christmas 🎄#adhdhack