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by alexfoo 7mo ago
It does but my point is that your settings are applied to all activities. Here's a few examples that might help demonstrate my point: I used to do parkrun regularly. I had no problem sharing my Strava activities for parkrun because me
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by alexfoo 7mo ago
I would expect that most nations are performing some kind of surveillance like this. Finding people who serve on carriers shouldn't be difficult. That kind of information can be plastered anywhere over FB or similar. Many of their frie
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by alexfoo 7mo ago
Or it was disinformation and the carrier is/was somewhere else. Faking GPX tracks can be done in a text editor.
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by alexfoo 7mo ago
Sure, but many people want to use Strava for more than one purpose. a) Analysis and tracking of your own personal goals. (Some of the tools are better than the stuff available on the device itself.) b) Sharing and socialising some other act
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by alexfoo 7mo ago
I think this more about it coming from a higher authority than the school itself. Many schools have similar bans but they don’t get support from many of the pupils or their parents as both groups have members that just believe it is the sch
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by alexfoo 7mo ago
Offsetting part of the punishment to the parents (having to get them to come in to the school to collect the phone) is going to help get the policy reinforced from home in most cases. My kid’s school had a similar policy. I didn't mind
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by alexfoo 7mo ago
That’s a very simplistic view. Granted it won’t work for 100% of people but I’m sure it would work for lots of people. Something as simple as a button you have to press to disable it is often enough of a barrier to prevent people from doing
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by alexfoo 7mo ago
I gave my 16yo ADHD kid an mp3 player with hours of “ADHD focus” music on it. It’s proven very useful a few times where a few ND-unaware teachers have confiscated phones that the ND kids use to help them focus. They don’t get it to use it w
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by alexfoo 7mo ago
> They should ban that too. Technology MUST be fit for purpose in a classroom and most of it isn't. Absolutely agree. It’s just bad luck that your kid is in a school that can’t get it right. My 16yo kid’s (state) school is far from
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by alexfoo 7mo ago
I think the correct response in terms of the British legal system is to simply say: "Dear Sirs, In regards to your recent request, can I refer you to the reply given in Arkell and Pressdram (1971). Yours etc,"
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by alexfoo 7mo ago
> > arrested in the UK for holding blank signs within vicinity of Palestine marches. > Got a source on this one? Not quite arrested but the closest I can find is someone threatened with arrest if they wrote certain things on the bl
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by alexfoo 7mo ago
Not quite. They're debating whether to get rid of some jury trials, only for trials that have an "either-way" decision and carry a sentence of less than 3 years. Ref: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles&#
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by alexfoo 7mo ago
Cloud based home security cameras are the next likely source for Flock-like ALPR mass-surveillance. Amazon and Google will love this extra revenue stream, if they're not forced to give it up to the Government anyway. Luckily many Ring
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by alexfoo 7mo ago
A lid is a must.
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by alexfoo 7mo ago
This was in the context of replacing broadband with a 5G dongle.
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by alexfoo 7mo ago
Not at all. The majority of the cost is subsidised by the Government who acts as a central purchaser to minimise profiteering and keep prices down. Everyone pays a little bit towards it all via general taxation but if you prefer a system wh
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by alexfoo 7mo ago
Yeah, mine would have been £50/mo if I’d been private according to the receipts I never had to pay on RTC. Luckily I only had to wait about 9 months from referral to RTC to diagnosis and starting titration. I know some people who have
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by alexfoo 7mo ago
Ah yes, forgot about that. The regional differences are quite odd. I got my ADHD diagnosis via Right-To-Choose, so it is considered an NHS diagnosis and I get my medication via the NHS (and therefore cheap). But the RTC pathway isn't a
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by alexfoo 7mo ago
I guess that's because many/most countries don't have the concept of a private emergency department. It doesn't really matter how much money you have if you have a broken leg as you'll be queuing up with everyone el
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by alexfoo 7mo ago
This always baffles me. There’s so much rampant profiteering in the US healthcare system it’s unbelievable. Other countries look at it from afar in utter disbelief. I’m glad I had no serious health problems when I lived there 25 years ago (
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by alexfoo 7mo ago
UK is a bit more expensive than that but not silly. I can get close to £10/mo but that's because I'm already paying that carrier ~£30/mo for two separate SIMs (mine and my kid's). The £9/mo deal offered below i
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by alexfoo 7mo ago
Three in Hitchin? My personal mobile is on EE. My wife's is on Vodafone. My work mobile was on O2. (We don't have a fourth device that was on Three unfortunately, otherwise we'd have all of the major carriers covered.) There
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by alexfoo 7mo ago
> the sheer reliability was legit 5-9s That made me think about mine... a) FTTC: 25 months and only outages were 17m36s, 47m7s, 31m22s gives ~99.991 b) FTTP: 16 months and a single 40m11s outage gives ~99.994 (Both using 30 day months, t
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by alexfoo 7mo ago
Depending on a whole bunch of things but a 200KB photo once a minute might be in the realms of LoRa. You could get the data out for free. The 500Kbps of Starlink would be close enough for a 500KB photo every 10 seconds or so assuming typica
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by alexfoo 7mo ago
https://bidb.uk/ is an awesome tool for looking at both broadband and mobile providers with good (but not perfect) coverage data for both.
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by alexfoo 7mo ago
Sure, but my reply was specific to the parent comment about Unifi though. Most people who buy into the Ubiquiti/UniFi world want to keep within that ecosystem wherever possible, the integration between components is very good, it'
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by alexfoo 7mo ago
Spendy though. The Unifi 5G modem for the UK [1] is £378 (~USD500) and that's just the hardware, you still have to pay for a suitable SIM. I can see why some people are drawn to the Starlink option at 1/3 of that price. 1. https:
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by alexfoo 7mo ago
Every so often I do the numbers on a backup Internet connection and decide that it's not worth it, but understand that it is useful for peace of mind reasons. My Internet is just too reliable. When I'm out of contract with my curr
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by alexfoo 7mo ago
And the local power outage takes out the 4g/5g mast too.
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by alexfoo 7mo ago
There's a nuance here. Consider these two positions that both mean that the UK Government does not currently recognise lootboxes as a form of gambling: A: The UK Government has decided that lootboxes are not gambling. B: The UK governm

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