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by daveoc64 4y ago
Seems like a the labelling rules overall are bad. How things work in the UK (and presumably the EU too) seems pretty good to me. Allergens have to be highlighted in bold (or uppercase) in the ingredients list. If a product may contain an
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by daveoc64 4y ago
> UK Government’s Plain English website: That website has nothing to do with the government.
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by daveoc64 4y ago
We have sensors in the UK that detect when pedestrians have walked away after pushing the button (so it can cancel the pedestrian crossing cycle). They're really unreliable.
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by daveoc64 4y ago
I don't see how that's misuse. If the "ed tech" site was detecting what you're doing 24/7, that would be a problem. But for the 2 - 5 hour period of time that you're taking an exam and have their web page
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by daveoc64 4y ago
They did, but they're tiny so the government doesn't care about them.
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by daveoc64 4y ago
Sorry, I don't see the fuss here. It's widely known that UK ISPs and mobile networks put filtering in place by default. They did this to avoid the government passing a law to make it mandatory. This often blocks VPNs and sites tha
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by daveoc64 4y ago
I've been a Spotify user since 2009 and I've never seen something I used to listen to removed from the Spotify library.
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by daveoc64 4y ago
Slouching in a chair feels great right now, but I might regret it in 25 years time.
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by daveoc64 4y ago
> Is it not enough that a person feels very strongly that one way is more comfortable for them? Well, no. If people think something is helping their eyesight, but it's really making it worse, that's a problem. A lot of dev an
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by daveoc64 4y ago
It's because there's a common trope online that people say seeing something in light mode is "blinding" or "makes my eyes bleed". I think it's therefore important that the actual benefits of dark mode are
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by daveoc64 4y ago
Assuming the untrusted and unreliable CA actually follows the rules and publishes things to the CT log.
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There are APIs that can provide that information.
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What would that word be?
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by daveoc64 4y ago
Overwatch isn't on macOS. Older games released by Blizzard might have a macOS release, but not the franchise they are pushing the most right now.
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by daveoc64 4y ago
Why do you need the answer to this? If your follow up question will be "how can the EU do anything against a company that operates outside of its jurisdiction?", then the answer will be "by making it difficult for people in
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by daveoc64 4y ago
It's about technical capability. In this case, Discord is a very centralised service. They store all of the messages centrally, so can easily comply with the request. Other services like email may not be able to do that, so they could
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by daveoc64 4y ago
Seems like Elon's tweet is just referring to individual accounts, rather than those from businesses and government organisations: https://twitter.com/esthercrawford/status/159038860835962880...
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by daveoc64 4y ago
It will be interesting to see how they approach these layoffs in countries like the UK or most of the EU, where you can't just fire people for no reason. I have seen some reports of Twitter employees in the UK being told they've b
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by daveoc64 4y ago
While I am personally in favour of feature sniffing, rather than user agent sniffing, I think it's worth remembering the debacle about how the SameSite attribute on cookies was handled by the browsers a few years ago. Several browsers
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by daveoc64 4y ago
I've just got a router with Wi-Fi 6E and it is just about able to offer the full 1gbps of my broadband connection wirelessly. Ethernet on the other hand just works for high speeds like that, and offers low latency that can't be be
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by daveoc64 4y ago
The only thing I know of for the UK that's sort of similar (but not really), is this one: https://www.telecom-tariffs.co.uk/codelook.htm If you put in a landline or mobile telephone prefix, it can tell you which networ
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by daveoc64 4y ago
Do homes in the US have an abundance of coax cable? It's used by cable companies here in the UK, but it's not something homes come with as standard.
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by daveoc64 4y ago
That's a bit weird to me. It's often the case in the UK that the mobile app/website in restaurants has full allergy information, including filters to only show items that match certain criteria.
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by daveoc64 4y ago
Why would they switch? What benefits do you think switching would offer these groups of people? What downsides would switching bring?
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by daveoc64 4y ago
I would really like to see Apple publish how long they will support their devices and their operating systems for. While they often support devices (particularly iOS devices) for a long time, I always seem to get the iPhone or Mac that gets
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by daveoc64 4y ago
You've missed the footnote next to the word "Britain": >Usage is mixed. The Guardian and Telegraph use Britain as a synonym for the United Kingdom. Some prefer to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain. The British Cab
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by daveoc64 4y ago
In the previous contest, there were many viable candidates, of which two went through to the final stage. This resulted in a ballot of all registered members of the Conservative party. This process took weeks and was criticised as a waste o
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>Edit: also your pedantry is extremely obnoxious; no one expects a headline to include the phrase "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland." Well no, that's why people say "United Kingdom" or "U
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by daveoc64 4y ago
Some people consider that Britain refers only to Great Britain, therefore excluding Northern Ireland.
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It would be great if the reviewers could copy and paste a username correctly.

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