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by alibarber 4mo ago
I was recently looking at a Python project to learn a bit about RTC and just generally hack around and try something out. https://github.com/aiortc/aiortc It was fun and I found the code nice and helpful. I clicked on
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by alibarber 4mo ago
I remember vaguely from interning at a bank that there you were actually obliged to be totally isolated from the company for a continuous period of time by policy. The thinking was that if you were cooking the books of doing some dodgy deal
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by alibarber 4mo ago
Yes - and realistically, if you're $BIGCO who's shipped a billion devices with some obscure curl vulnerability you just discovered, then the hard part is going to be rolling out a patch to all of them anyway, which is still a &#x2
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by alibarber 4mo ago
Such a shame - in America they give you $95 for not getting Siri apparently https://apnews.com/article/apple-iphone-siri-artificial-inte...
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by alibarber 4mo ago
I'm afraid that it looks as if there are plenty of other contenders for those who might wish to undermine the EU, now and in the future.
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by alibarber 4mo ago
Yes I have also received payments for refunds of PAYE automatically within a month or two of no action on my part.
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by alibarber 4mo ago
Some banks in some parts of the EU have - SEPA instant was only mandated in January 2025, only for Euro payments.
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by alibarber 4mo ago
Selling a car usually does require a report to the government. Why would the seller care what happens down the line to the buyer?
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by alibarber 5mo ago
Don’t let facts get in the way of a good narrative it seems.
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by alibarber 5mo ago
I’ve never submitted a tax return in the UK as a simple PAYE employee. In another European country where I work (Finland) it’s as you describe but it’s still more than doing absolutely nothing that I did in the UK.
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by alibarber 5mo ago
This is about illegally dangerous products (banned chemicals, dangerous baby toys, crappy mains chargers) specifically. The stuff that makes for exciting viewing on Big Clive's YouTube channel. Local importers, shops and marketplaces s
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by alibarber 5mo ago
I'm delighted about this and also really hated the debate that had surrounded it. Bring up WebSerial and WebUSB and oh no, all of a sudden, my 'document browser should not be accessing hardware' - yes we get it, you think the
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by alibarber 5mo ago
From what I gathered from the article the person who got off was a resident of Tristan? They have such limited shipping options that this might have been the only way for them to travel from any mainland. Not sure though, but I don't t
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by alibarber 5mo ago
> (albeit over Teams) Would be great if this irony was taken note of at this level.
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by alibarber 5mo ago
Obligatory 'works fine for me', but I did have an issue earlier with using another ISP (timeouts) but switching to mobile data solved this, so maybe some connectivity issue?
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The Fast Way to Sweden – BGP Routing Experiments(alastairbarber.com)
1 points by alibarber 5mo ago|0 comments
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by alibarber 5mo ago
> The same way you fine drivers for traffic violation, but not the road. Eh - my new car has an EU mandated speed limiter in it that takes over the cruise control. It uses a combination of GPS and vision to determine what speed limit to
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The Fast Way to Sweden – BGP Routing Experiments(alastairbarber.com)
4 points by alibarber 5mo ago|0 comments
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by alibarber 5mo ago
In ham radio - we have a 'Q code' (abbreviation) for man-made noise: QRM (QRN is naturally occurring: thunderstorms and such). This is used mainly to refer to electrically noisy transformers, vehicles, misconfigured transmitters e
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by alibarber 5mo ago
Let that sink in.
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Shoppers falsely identified by facial recognition system struggle to clear names(theguardian.com)
3 points by alibarber 5mo ago|0 comments
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by alibarber 6mo ago
So - it sounds like you are doing exactly what is suggested, taking sensible steps to ensure your retirement and making the most of the available savings plans? The 100k is just a number that means 'doing well for yourself in the local
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by alibarber 6mo ago
I feel like this is a bit snarky, it simply means plan for your retirement and invest in your own future, take advantage of government / employer backed savings plans. Plenty of these exist over here. Don't waste your money. Every
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by alibarber 6mo ago
Yes for the most part Finnish bureaucracy works fairly well but some parts don't make sense. To get a bank account as a non-EU foreigner just follow these simple steps: - Receive the residence permit card. This is good enough for the m
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by alibarber 6mo ago
Neither of the two countries I’ve opened bank accounts in, the UK and Finland, have a free form of ID available for their citizens (and absolutely not for immigrants!), and yet the banks have certainly wanted to be sure of my citizenship an
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by alibarber 6mo ago
Having opened accounts in two different European countries, the more surprising thing here for me is that the US banks _didn’t_ already do this.
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Adventures with Anycast – Building a Public Anycast Network(preview-anycast.oh2xab.pages.dev)
2 points by alibarber 6mo ago|0 comments
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by alibarber 6mo ago
And thanks for the feedback - I've really been trying to write more so always nice when someone takes the time to read :D
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Wikipedia: AI or Not Quiz(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by alibarber 6mo ago|0 comments
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by alibarber 6mo ago
Forgive my ignorance - but what's the payoff for fraudsters in getting access to a generative AI service for a short-ish period of time, before they get cut off? With EC2 / GCC credentials, I could understand going all out on bitc

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