Nursie

25 ms·

541.
by Nursie 1y ago
Agreed, but unfortunately at times when things seem not to be going so well in general, people are prone to electing the person that promises them large positive changes by throwing out the stale old rulebook. Even if it’s not credible. Eve
542.
by Nursie 1y ago
I mean I guess this new thing is going to be free? I also don't live in the UK any more, still a brit and not yet Australian, but I have had to adjust to it being necessary to carry your license here when driving. It means I can't
543.
by Nursie 1y ago
I think that the boats thing stirs up ideas that migration is out of control, that the government is unable or unwilling to get a grip on the situation, that the system (even if they don't know what the system is, or even if there is a
544.
by Nursie 1y ago
I don't think any of that matters any more, the issue is so firmly in the public eye that Labour need to show that they've solved it whether it's a 'real' problem or not. > unlikely to gain them many Farage suppo
545.
by Nursie 1y ago
Though this is the exact opposite of the strategy of the Prime Minister at the time - he specifically did not want to make plans for Brexit so that very uncertainty could be used to scare people away from it. He and the rest of the pro EU s
546.
by Nursie 1y ago
While there is almost guaranteed to be an aspect of this, the UK is going through a period where immigration is in the news constantly and the populist party "Reform UK" are on the rise. The Labour government has realised that w
547.
by Nursie 1y ago
I can think of several, which problem were you thinking of? In lots of countries you need a specific right to work, and people who are on holiday visas or who are making asylum applications, or have simply entered the country without the ri
548.
by Nursie 1y ago
In the UK it has never been compulsory to carry ID, even when driving. At a traffic stop the police have the option to require you to present documents at a police station within seven days if they think something is fishy. And people do se
549.
by Nursie 1y ago
There was a big backlash and they eventually caved in and cancelled the scheme when the government changed. I lived in South London at the time and sent a letter to my MP to protest about the creation of a database state and increased surve
550.
by Nursie 1y ago
To expand on my previous answer, the rules about non-dom were - https://www.bbc.com/news/business-32216346 "If you are a non-dom ... and you choose not to pay tax in the UK on your overseas earnings, you must pay
551.
by Nursie 1y ago
It is/was several years for “non-Dom” status people. That’s one of the reasons it was seen as such a scam. You’re living there like everyone else yet using this niche status to avoid paying tax.
552.
by Nursie 1y ago
Not really, no. And when the measures very occasionally pass, oh look, nobody actually packs up and leaves.
553.
by Nursie 1y ago
2 comes up in Australia a lot in regards to levying taxes on the resource sector, whose business model is digging up bits of Australia and selling it overseas. Any/all attempts to levy more taxes on their vast profits are met with clai
554.
by Nursie 1y ago
So a few years ago I hacked up this sort of thing. I bought a generic epaper display from aliexpress, a 5.8 inch 648x480 one that could do white/black/red with an SPI interface, then I wired that to an RP2040 board, then wrote a b
555.
by Nursie 1y ago
It certainly looks interesting. You would definitely be living in his style. Compelling as his films were, I'm not 100% convinced I'd want to live in his house that clearly has some very personal motifs. Also you are never going t
556.
by Nursie 1y ago
I lost someone, a good friend and lover, when I was young. 27 years ago now. Grief still occasionally hits me. Not so often these days, it’s a long time in the past, but after some reminders of that time of life on social media a couple of
557.
by Nursie 1y ago
They are! But the systems that have been built around them are bad. Firstly in issuing these ‘root’ tokens at all, and secondly in not checking the claims properly. A JWT is only as good as the systems it’s used by.
558.
by Nursie 1y ago
To add to the other replies, the SNP have been the biggest political driver of the independence efforts and they seem to be falling out of favour at the moment. It made me laugh when Nicola Sturgeon, who was the leader of the SNP for a long
559.
by Nursie 1y ago
The UK didn't exactly get left out, it just failed to invest in growth and productisation. Some great research comes out of there and then moves overseas or gets bought up (like ARM). If there are any chips on shoulders, it's more
560.
by Nursie 1y ago
Back in the 90s it certainly had some features that made it easier to do so, yes. On ext2 file systems (no journaling or other advanced features) it had some method to browse unlinked inodes that were still on disk so you could recover them
561.
by Nursie 1y ago
Yeah, the answer was there in the question really :) That was not a good day, about a week before submission was due. I unmounted the disk the second I realised what I'd done and started to look for guides on finding lost ext2 inodes.
562.
by Nursie 1y ago
I can see how that reads like I'm an app developer! I'm not though, I just meant the apps from my bank that I use. That looks like an interesting and useful capability. I don't believe this will satisfy the crowd who want com
563.
by Nursie 1y ago
I haven't used this for a long old time. Back in the day it was the only way to recover your university dissertation when you'd rm -rf'd in the wrong directory. Go on, ask me how I know ... I've not had much cause to use
564.
by Nursie 1y ago
Sailfish is the successor. Their core is apparently based on Mer which was a reconstruction of Meego, which was what came after Maemo, merging it with Moblin, IIRC. It's a bit tenuous, but you might want to look at Sailfish as carrying
565.
by Nursie 1y ago
Now if we could just wean some more of the ecosystem away from the framework fetishism... there's no reason java programs have to be so huge, unwieldy and slow to start. No reason apart from the framework epidemic that's supposed
566.
by Nursie 1y ago
> ... and ...? Personally I prefer the device convergence rather than having to have another thing to keep track of. Plus the added factor of biometrics over pure hardware 2FA. But you do you, as they say, the point is there are tradeoff
567.
by Nursie 1y ago
I had a Neo Freerunner. It was a terrible experience. I bought it with the impression that it had calls, texts etc working fine, and they were looking for developers to come along and add apps, games, whatever to round out the experience. I
568.
by Nursie 1y ago
Ha. Fair enough. That sort of thing is almost exclusively done using bank transfers here in Aus. I did receive one check this year, a refund from a company who had screwed up billing on a medical scan. For some reason they couldn't jus
569.
by Nursie 1y ago
> What government apps do people run? There are a bunch of them here in Australia, and there were several in the UK. Here there's a secure ID app for government services which is used as 2FA on the web interface, and various apps to
570.
by Nursie 1y ago
A lot of major banks worldwide have apps, and they usually require un-rooted phones. People here seem to think this is some sort of Orwellian attempt to control them, but the reasons are more mundane and technical - many of them (mine inclu

More ›