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Brianna Ghey's mother Esther says Online Safety Act does not go far enough(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by daveoc64 3y ago|1 comments
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by daveoc64 3y ago
This is probably because the promotion of Alcohol is restricted in Scotland, but not the rest of the UK.
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by daveoc64 3y ago
I tried looking for something like Sparkle on Windows a few weeks ago. Now I know it exists - thanks!
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by daveoc64 3y ago
That's what's offered here in the UK, but there have still been a lot of problems with the transition. Typically the battery backup only lasts for 1 hour.
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by daveoc64 3y ago
I'm in the UK, so our implementation of the PSD2 regulation may be a bit different (in came in while the UK was leaving the EU), but I get SMS 2FA codes from American Express all the time in the 3D Secure process.
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by daveoc64 3y ago
> Ubuntu 18.04 is EOL, unless you pay for extended support. How many people are paying for that support? The extended support is free for consumers.
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by daveoc64 3y ago
It's a lot faster to just give them a code than to read a complicated order. It's especially great for making substitutions and tweaks to your order.
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by daveoc64 3y ago
Many banks and card issuers are using SMS for 2FA in Europe.
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by daveoc64 3y ago
As a European, the idea of paying to receive a call or text is alien to me, but I understand it happens in the USA. I'm pretty sure it's illegal for an EU network to charge for receiving a standard SMS or MMS - even while roaming.
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by daveoc64 3y ago
Looking at the comments here, the UK is incredibly cheap for car insurance compared to the USA. Some of the monthly prices mentioned in the US are similar to an annual price in the UK, and a lot more is covered on a UK policy.
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by daveoc64 3y ago
You can register a Nectar card (giving name/postal address/email address/phone number/date of birth), but I'm not sure how much verification of these things they do. I am not sure, but I think you might need to regi
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by daveoc64 3y ago
Like Tesco, Sainsbury's has prices that are exclusive to Nectar card holders. They also have some personalised prices, where you get targeted special prices if you have a Nectar card. Not using a Nectar card in Sainsbury's will me
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by daveoc64 3y ago
The system originally worked on an overnight batch processing basis. Each store would have a local copy of the card balances - but only for cards that had been used in that store in the past 12 months. The first day you scanned your card in
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by daveoc64 3y ago
My mother's Nectar card was stolen by the cashier in Sainsbury's about 12 years ago. The cashier was taking cards with a high points balance (she had the equivalent of over £100 on the card), and swapping them with a new, unregist
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Since when does Windows support forward slash as path separator?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
3 points by daveoc64 3y ago|0 comments
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by daveoc64 3y ago
It's been reported that Google has been preparing an iOS version of Chrome using the Blink browser engine for a while - as they had assumed this would eventually be allowed.
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by daveoc64 3y ago
Some apps provide genuinely useful notifications (like shipping updates), but also send spammy notifications that are just ads.
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by daveoc64 3y ago
In the UK, most of the supermarkets now sell "wonky" fruit and veg - it may look less appealing, but it's safe to eat and cheaper.
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by daveoc64 3y ago
The core of the .NET runtime is cross-platform. You do have the option to use platform-specific APIs or frameworks, which will make your app only work on that platform. In the case of this app, it doesn't use anything platform-specific
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by daveoc64 3y ago
In terms of Microsoft products, I think they have a bit of an understanding with Microsoft* that they won't host any Microsoft OSes newer than the Windows XP betas. Microsoft probably doesn't see much threat from people downloadin
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by daveoc64 3y ago
I have an LG Washer/Dryer with smart functions. As others have said, the notifications are useful, but you can also track the wash/dry cycle and see what it's done so far, what is left and the estimated remaining time. I like
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by daveoc64 3y ago
I think it would be difficult to truly list all of the actors in a particular film, let alone establish when they all died. Do extras count? Many of them aren't going to be listed in the credits. Perhaps you could only count those acto
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by daveoc64 3y ago
> I don't understand what youtube is gaining from this, there are so many stories like that. As others have noted, the Content ID system is in place to show that YouTube is proactively trying to do something about piracy - this make
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The Stasis of E-Ink(allenc.com)
17 points by daveoc64 3y ago|10 comments
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by daveoc64 3y ago
Just clicking on some of these at random, it's depressing the garbage that people are exposed to by accounts that have somehow gained their trust. A lot of it isn't even political, it's just lazy clickbait.
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by daveoc64 3y ago
Companies word it carefully, like Spotify Premium: "Enjoy ad-free music listening". They still get paid to promote particular artists/songs to you on the home page.
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by daveoc64 3y ago
Amazon leaves stuff on my porch most days in the UK.
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by daveoc64 3y ago
I have been using Kagi for a few months now and generally enjoy it, but I do think it's biased towards returning results from sites in the US, despite having "United Kingdom" selected in the search criteria. I think Google UK
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by daveoc64 3y ago
It's a paid service, so you need to authenticate to use it. You're a paying customer, not the product.
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by daveoc64 3y ago
What you've said is correct, but it doesn't stop the attack vector described. If the question to Apple or Google is "who received a notification from Signal at 17:15 UTC?" then even if the notification is “hey, something

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