Ortwin: We have noticed the speculations created by a posting on the website of UK’s Company House with respect to Coutt’s security for our UK Tax Rebate advance, and we would like to provide you with the following insight to help prevent some of the misinformation we have seen.
Our UK companies are entitled to a Government Game tax credit rebate which we earn every month on the Squadron 42 development. These rebates are payable by the UK Government in the fall of the next following year when we file our tax returns. Foundry 42 and its parent company Cloud Imperium Games UK Ltd. have elected to partner with Coutts, a highly regarded, very selective, and specialized UK banking institution, to obtain a regular advance against this rebate, which will allow us to avoid converting unnecessarily other currencies into GBP. We obviously incur a significant part of our expenditures in GBP while our collections are mostly in USD and EUR. Given today's low interest rates versus the ongoing and uncertain currency fluctuations, this is simply a smart money management move, which we implemented upon recommendation of our financial advisors.
The collateral granted in connection with this discounting loan is absolutely standard and pertains to our UK operation only, which develops Squadron 42. As a careful review of the security will show and contrary to some irresponsible and misleading reports, the collateral specifically excludes “Star Citizen.” The UK Government rebate entitlement, which is audited and certified by our outside auditors on a quarterly basis, is the prime collateral. Per standard procedure in banking, our UK companies of course stand behind the loan and guarantee repayment which, however, given the reliability of the discounted asset (a UK Government payment) is a formality and nothing else. This security does not affect our UK companies’ ownership and control of their assets. Obviously, the UK Government will not default on its rebate obligations which will be used for repayment, and even then the UK companies have ample assets to repay the loan, even in such an eventuality which is of course unthinkable.
This should clarify the matter. Thank you.
I've been using New Tab Draft for a while. It's pretty minimalist, just a blank page (colours configurable) that I can make some notes on it I want to.
I work in Vim and tmux in WSL all the time and it works great for me. In fact, the only tool I've found that doesn't work (on the latest slow ring) is vim-plug.
> having serve operations spit out the server into the actual Windows browser?
I'm unsure exactly what you mean. But you can absolutely run web servers in WSL and connect to them from any browser running on Windows.
In my experience, you can connect to any network services running on Windows from Linux (for example, I connect to the Docker for Windows daemon) and vice versa.
I use a Surface Pro 4 daily and it's great. I'm a student so the writing with the pen made it pretty appealing and it's more than powerful enough to do any development work.
I do almost 100% of my work in Bash for Windows. Like one of the other commenters, I am on the slow ring insider builds, I needed this to get inotify support.
Using tmux and Vim, it's a really great environment. Before I started using Bash on Windows, I was still happy with the device, but developing on Windows was a bit of a pain.
Some of my work involves using Docker, which works surprisingly well - Docker for Windows runs Linux containers in Hyper-V without any configuration and I've never ran into a problem with that. Only thing I had to change was to make the daemon allow connections over tcp alongside the default named pipes. That way I can set the DOCKER_HOST variable and use it from within Bash on Windows. There are some minor niggles regarding volumes but it's otherwise perfect.
Outside development, using Windows on the device is pretty nice. I'd rather it didn't have ridiculous amounts of telemetry but it works great and the flexibility of the device is ideal for use around the house.
I agree with this. One of the places I don't mind advertising at all is podcasts. Typically it's a short 10-20 seconds, integrated into the content, products relevant to the audience and none of the tracking or security risks that come with traditional online advertising.
Some great examples of this are the TWiT network and the Co-Optional podcast.
It's hard because very few people know these things are going on. I'm in the UK, and I don't think I've seen this story (or similar stories like Snooper's Charter) being discussed on any TV news outlet.
It isn't as simple as creating the tool, read this blog post that was linked elsewhere in this thread that explains why they can't just create and delete the tool.
This couldn't be more correct. I'm a student at a UK University studying Computing Science and if I didn't learn in my own time and become passionate about the field then I would never have chosen to study this - secondary schools introduce students to Computer Science in absolutely the wrong way and kill off interest from the high achieving students who take other STEM subjects.