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by alibarber 5d ago
Raspberry pi never sold them this product. Some random person is the vendor selling some unknown modification and isn’t providing support. Sure - if that vendor was proposing a solution, a modified EEPROM perhaps, then all is dandy. But the
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by alibarber 5d ago
Very fair point.
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by alibarber 5d ago
Yes. Except linked in this exact discussion is a thread where the person is asking RPi for remedy instead because the seller has been unable to assist (i.e. has run off with their money).
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by alibarber 5d ago
I dunno - I think the victims in a lot of these cases aren't stupid. They can't contact the seller because they bought it from 'some guy' who's disappeared into the night. They know they've been had and are try
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by alibarber 5d ago
It's tough but I'd still wager that more hobbyists and tinkers will complain when their 8GB Pi that they bought from Amazon, or anywhere really, won't actually run their project that they wanted to use 8GB for properly becaus
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by alibarber 5d ago
Absolutely agree. It's unfortunate, but given that there are so many ways you could end up with a poor quality knock-off (i.e. Amazon, sorry, 'third party marketplaces') it's probably something that skews the tradeoff qu
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by alibarber 5d ago
The memory that they are placing in it has to be cheap enough to be worth their while. Which in this climate is highly probably faulty memory, or memory that runs at a different speed/spec to the one advertised to come with the RPi. Th
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by alibarber 5d ago
In the GitHub issue posted as another comment it's clear that what has happened is: - 8GB Pi is out of stock / too expensive - due to RAM shortage - Someone bought a load of non-8GB Pis - Replaced the RAM with whatever they could
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by alibarber 10d ago
From having worked extensively in it, the VFX industry, apart from being near to Hollywood in terms of time zone, is surely just a tax rebate competition. Which is actually very non-EU philosophy; member states cannot simply subsidise local
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Secret Life of Circuits – Illustrated Guide to Electronic Circuit Design(nostarch.com)
2 points by alibarber 10d ago|0 comments
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by alibarber 16d ago
Note that these are interchange fees charged by the networks. Unless you're operating at massive scale, merchant account suppliers still charge the shop whatever they want. The shop is paying far more than 0.2 / 0.3%. 2.5% for cre
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by alibarber 21d ago
The assets are still there and frozen for the most part (in Euroclear). Some people would like to see them put to use in guaranteeing reconstruction and defence for Ukraine.
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by alibarber 1mo ago
But a public restroom that has effectively been destroyed isn't really any better than no public restroom.
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by alibarber 1mo ago
In this case I think the validation is the next step when they ask you to set up a DNS record on the domain you typed in, and have their system match it. Obviously if you typed Outlook.com this would be a challenge for you. Unfortunately th
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by alibarber 1mo ago
Bur the implication here in the parent comment is that for ‘real dev work’ to be done you must be running an LLM, and therefore you can’t do it on a MacBook anymore. Turns out you can still accomplish stuff with a text editor and compiler.
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by alibarber 1mo ago
You might have amazing operational security but lots of other people don't, and they make noise, which means governments write laws meaning that banks have to refund them for fraud. So as much as a bank might agree with your stance on
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The teenagers who wired Romania [audio](bbc.com)
4 points by alibarber 1mo ago|0 comments
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by alibarber 2mo ago
I don't understand. It's an article about England. They only have information to hand about England, from the authority tasked with dealing with health in England. If I read an article from them about crime in London, quoting the
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by alibarber 2mo ago
Given that Great Britain is an island, it is still much easier to drive down the M6/A74(M) or take a hike around the Welsh borders than say, take a flight or swim.
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by alibarber 2mo ago
Indeed but there are still different decision makers and sets of voters electing them.
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by alibarber 2mo ago
In this case it's health related and each of the countries in the UK have their own National Health Services (or Health and Social Care in NI). It's not a lapse here.
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by alibarber 2mo ago
I wouldn't have assumed this really because really the whole point of devolution is that they get to choose what to prioritise, so perhaps the other nations choose to do something they consider to be more pressing for their populations
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by alibarber 2mo ago
In places where we have that the scam is just money for transport, utilities, or whatever. Something has happened which means they cannot access their money and make the usual payment. We actually had an experience with a bank fraud team re
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by alibarber 2mo ago
I know this sounds awful - but perhaps hiring people that would turn their workplace into what you just described was exactly what they (as an organisation, not necessarily individually) wanted to avoid, just, perhaps not by overtly saying
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by alibarber 2mo ago
Same - in Soho on a nice (or even not that nice) Friday (or Monday, or Thursday) the whole place would just be one big open air pub. You'd meet so many great people - the atmosphere was just wonderful. Then COVID came around and I also
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by alibarber 2mo ago
Being from the UK I’m pretty sure they mean more unhinged. To be fair I did enjoy the ‘unhingedness’ but I’m also appreciating that being at least a decade younger was also great.
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by alibarber 2mo ago
Apparently, and I quote from the article (definitely not an LLM): "Decathlon didn’t just add a new payment button to its German checkout page. It handed European banks their first big-box sporting goods test case at a moment when compe
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by alibarber 2mo ago
* "This proposal for privacy signals is part of an EU law reform called the Digital Omnibus. Most other parts of this reform are problematic and would weaken people’s rights. We want to make clear that we do not support these other asp
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by alibarber 2mo ago
I’ll need a moment to let this sink in. It’s not just technology, it’s a movement.
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by alibarber 2mo ago
There's another quite good blog from Cloudflare about this here too: https://blog.cloudflare.com/enforce-first-as-bgp/

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