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by Lio 1y ago
I can’t speak for others countries but here in the UK special “VIP lanes” were used to steal billions using fraudulent PPE contracts. I’m not just talking about Baroness Mone either. PPE Medpro was the tip of the iceberg.
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by Lio 1y ago
Really? I think Renault are on a roll at the moment. The Renault 4, Renault 5 and Megan seem really competitive. The new Nissan Leaf (made in UK) also looks pretty good. VAG seem to have lost the plot (“let’s replace all the controls with a
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by Lio 1y ago
The funniest bit is Strava suing Garmin for breaking its patent for heat-maps when, as Ray points out, Garmin had heat-maps 6 months before Strava filed for their patent.
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by Lio 1y ago
They're at it again. On the heels of the Online Safety Act and the new digital ID. As the former head of Crown Prosecution Service Starmer really loves mass surveillance: "Show me the man and I will give you the case against
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UK government resumes row with Apple by demanding access to British users' data(theguardian.com)
7 points by Lio 1y ago|2 comments
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by Lio 1y ago
If the Tory government hadn’t reserved the market for cable TV exclusively for two US companies, NTL and Telewest, BT would have rolled out fibre to the home in 1990. I don’t think I blame BT for not wanting to invest in a market it was bar
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by Lio 1y ago
I think it's 100% about the data. I beleive that Labour see this new ID system as the solution to all the age verification questions now required by the Online Safety Act. e.g. access to things like Reddit, BlueSky messaging, Spotify.
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by Lio 1y ago
If he doesn't realise that then he probably also doesn't realise that all this dictatorship tooling he's installing is more than likely going to fall into the hands of Reform at the next election. He'll have to live with
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by Lio 1y ago
I’m not sure how about illegal immigration but, coincidentally, it’s really handy for tracking people’s online activity when combined with the Online Safety Act. You know, coincidentally. (Oh, hold on I guess it helps with immigration numbe
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by Lio 1y ago
Well for starters it’s not compulsory to show your passport every time you get a new job or buy a train ticket. Nor do you have to show your passport to read wikipedia or Reddit which is where this legislation is clearly headed.
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by Lio 1y ago
I wonder if it’s possible for to sensibly short stock based on RTO announcements? Generally people don’t push for redundancies is companies growing organically. If this is a signal I wonder what the lead time is before it starts to bite?
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by Lio 1y ago
Joking aside, for my old LG washer/dryer there was some kind of baroque incantation buried in user manual to turn the sound.
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by Lio 1y ago
No. That was the first thing I disabled on my washing machine. I want it to be less intrusive and irritating not more.
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by Lio 1y ago
Part of the reason this is difficult maybe that there's an ongoing problem in the UK of foreign gangs using faked documents to steal inheritances[1][2]. I'm skeptical though whether a compulsory ID card for British nationals would
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by Lio 1y ago
Labour (and the Tories before them) seem to be pushing very hard to stop any anonymous internet usage in the UK with the justification that the government knows best and have a duty to track everything we do[1]. I really wish that they woul
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by Lio 1y ago
> Airlines want to remove the requirement to provide automatic refunds when flights are cancelled or significantly altered. This is wild. Are they really asking to be able to take money for a flight, then cacel it and keep the money?
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Estimate the lifetime CO₂ emissions of most UK Cars and Vans(carfarts.uk)
2 points by Lio 1y ago|0 comments
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by Lio 1y ago
That's a good point. Personally, I compensate for that by drinking slighly less water each day. It's a trade off but I think it makes perfect sense after a few nights of not-sleeping directly on the ground under a miniture dyneem
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by Lio 1y ago
You're budgeting for the weight of a safety razor? Surely the hunting knife you use to kill your dinner when combined with the mirror you use for starting your forraged twig fires, that would be the ultimate solution. ...or just not sh
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by Lio 1y ago
> Meta has described the book as a “mix of out-of-date and previously reported claims about the company...” Sounds like another way of saying stuff they acknowledge is true. :P
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by Lio 1y ago
Apple make an excellent UK 20W charger with folding pins. Physically the design is pretty much the same as this new 60/40W version, so I would expect them to eventually offer a 60/40W folding pin UK charger too. https:/&#x2F
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by Lio 1y ago
This is a very bad move. Once again the goverment is putting relationships with foreign businesses ahead of domestic firms. It's just more tech we can't independantly rely on.
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by Lio 1y ago
I absoluetly adore Giant Redwoods. Obigitory link to https://www.redwoodworld.co.uk/index.html for an index of where to find some of them.
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Giant redwoods: largest trees 'thriving in UK' (2024)(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by Lio 1y ago|2 comments
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by Lio 1y ago
Ruby Central really need to come out and explain what they are doing here. At the least this looks like a very destructive and poorly communicated move.
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by Lio 1y ago
I can’t speak for anyone else but I’m quite happy without a system tray. Having everything behind the meta button works well IMHO.
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by Lio 1y ago
Ha! Great minds think alike. We have something that makes genuine links look malicious at work too. I think it’s called Microsoft Safelink or something. Its purpose is to go through your Outlook inbox and obscure the origin of every link be
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by Lio 1y ago
LOL this is why I don’t buy Samsung products of any kind. They have interesting hardware but their software is so egregious I never want anything to do with them.
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by Lio 1y ago
If they really wanted to stimulate growth the UK government would concentrate of giving us the cheapest electricity in the world. Going someway towards that would boost almost all sectors of the economy.
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by Lio 1y ago
It seems to be mostly about mass survellance. The quote I've seen from Danish Minister of Justice, Peter Hummelgaard seems to make that clear: > We must break with the totally erroneous perception that it is everyone's civil

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