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by daveoc64 5y ago
I'm not from the US, but this whole situation has become international news as Florida's approach with this has been seen as a big backwards step in Europe. The UK had similar legislation in the 80s and 90s, and it just meant that
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by daveoc64 5y ago
For me, the article is just a single page. There is no page 2. Perhaps the article has been updated?
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by daveoc64 5y ago
Of course, the current UK student loan system has several features that make it far more favourable to students than the USA: -Tuition fees are capped at £9250 per year (approx $12,100), even for prestigious universities. A typical degree i
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by daveoc64 5y ago
What would be the point? So they can track that you keep the TV tuned to HDMI 1 all day?
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by daveoc64 5y ago
Do you honestly believe that? The TV manufacturers will subsidise a cellular connection to allow users to stream hours of 4K content in exchange for a few pennies of ad revenue? Smart TVs don't make any sense unless they are connected
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by daveoc64 5y ago
Everything is about perspective. I'm from Europe, and to me this site is incredibly conservative, but I see a lot of people from the US that think the opposite.
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by daveoc64 5y ago
You seem to be attributing issues to cookies that are actually problems with what people are doing with them. Nobody dislikes cookies - when used correctly, users don't know they exist. This site seems to be doing a great job with them
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by daveoc64 5y ago
Eh? Cookies have very little to do with any of the laws like GDPR in the EU. The issue these laws cover is obtaining consent for using personal data for non-essential purposes. Things like authentication are typically deemed to be "ess
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by daveoc64 5y ago
I've read comments on articles about LGBT issues (often trans topics these days), and there are a lot of people that say things like "Being gay is a choice". If that's not denying the existence of a different kind of per
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by daveoc64 5y ago
It's probably a telemetry thing. I would imagine the number of users with the taskbar in a different location on older versions are miniscule.
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by daveoc64 5y ago
Some systems lock records while users are viewing them, so it can be helpful to send a request that unlocks the record when the user leaves the page.
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by daveoc64 5y ago
I've never had that happen. Your team is either incredibly rude, or they're too polite to say that they're zoning out because the meeting is a waste of time.
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by daveoc64 5y ago
Even on a laptop with plenty of ports, it's very convenient to be able to plug in just one cable and get power, video, ethernet, mouse, keyboard etc.
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by daveoc64 5y ago
The app is not designed to be used from a moving vehicle. It's intended to be used by someone outside of a vehicle at the side of the road.
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by daveoc64 5y ago
Things like an admin form in a web app - I might be setting the password for a new user account, but it's not my password, so I don't want my browser to store it. One-time codes or temporary passwords are another example where the
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by daveoc64 5y ago
I agree some of the choices are questionable, but they have done quite a bit of research in reaching what they currently use: https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-design-system-backlog/issu... https://desi
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by daveoc64 5y ago
It's a common misconception that Microsoft closed the Games for Windows Live service. Basic features still work: https://support.xbox.com/en-GB/help/games-apps/my-games-apps...
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by daveoc64 5y ago
>Why is this all the sudden a thing? I know Covid can potentially cause (maybe?) more damage than the Flu/or random colds but did people literally not get sick before Covid? Because it really seems like it. In my entire life, I cann
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by daveoc64 5y ago
I would like to see a real assessment of the concept of identity in the UK. Too many organisations rely on basic (and easily faked) paper-based documents to obtain "proof" of identity. Cases like the one where someone's house
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by daveoc64 5y ago
The UK government hates the BBC, for starters.
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by daveoc64 5y ago
This seems to be ignorant about what the law actually says on cookies. Some of the examples of why you need a cookie prompt are false. Cookies that are used to provide expected functionality (e.g. log in session cookies) do not require a pr
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by daveoc64 5y ago
Extensions like Decentraleyes and LocalCDN are doing things like this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/decentraleyes... https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/local
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by daveoc64 5y ago
The UK government has proposed making photo ID mandatory for voting (currently it's only needed in Northern Ireland), and it's been controversial for similar reasons to the USA. The legislation is currently progressing through par
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by daveoc64 5y ago
The title was not originally accurate. The changes apply only to England, not the UK or the "British".
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by daveoc64 5y ago
Pre-pandemic, LTE was just too congested in busy city centres and other high demand locations in the UK. 5G will help alleviate the strain on LTE networks in the long run, so I want (and have) it for that purpose.
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by daveoc64 5y ago
Having enough excess capacity in healthcare systems to cope with potential future pandemics is too expensive. You'd need a lot more medical staff, plus more equipment and hospital bed capacity. There would be a perception for a lot of
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by daveoc64 5y ago
The minimum wage in the UK is a little complicated, as it has differing rates based on age. The higher rates are known as the "National Living Wage", while the lower rates are known as the "National Minimum Wage". These
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by daveoc64 5y ago
Thanks for the tip. That works well enough for me, and it saves having another browser extension to configure!
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by daveoc64 5y ago
> Why does this matter, unless the only options for 2FA are insecure ones? Secure 2FA today won't depend on your phone number not changing. The issue is the same with any kind of 2FA software or device. If you lose, break, or replac
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by daveoc64 5y ago
Windows 2000 wasn't a consumer OS, and it is older than Windows XP which came out in October 2001.

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