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by daveoc64 1y ago
Note that the children's commissioner is only an advisor to government. The government itself has said it doesn't believe VPNs should be outlawed - that's even stated in the article.
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by daveoc64 1y ago
Adobe threatened Microsoft with an antitrust lawsuit when Microsoft wanted to add PDF export functionality to Office 2007. I can't imagine how Adobe would react if they built a whole PDF solution!
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by daveoc64 1y ago
Are there still pedestrian crossings? That's often overlooked with ideas like this.
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by daveoc64 1y ago
American Express has always had stricter policies about adult content than Visa or MasterCard. They don't allow their cards to be accepted by pornography sites.
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by daveoc64 1y ago
The Online Safety Act enjoys high support with the UK public, because it targets a range of things that the average voter agrees should be restricted, to name just a few: online scams, pro-suicide content, cyberbullying, and allowing under-
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by daveoc64 1y ago
>Are the tap&pay NFC? -- I thought it was different tech under the hood. Yes, it's a form of NFC!
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by daveoc64 1y ago
I can't think of a single retailer in the UK that takes card payments, but doesn't support contactless (including Google Pay and Apple Pay). Ignoring very small shops that don't take cards at all.
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by daveoc64 1y ago
Payments to your service from users in the UK could be blocked. It's also possible for the owners or employees of the company to be held liable if they ever visit the UK.
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by daveoc64 1y ago
> They don't care what the citizens want Polling has shown that the Online Safety Act had 70+ % of the population supporting it. Something like 60% don't think it goes far enough.
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by daveoc64 1y ago
Is this a relevant topic? Anyone who has purchased the item would be able to download it again for free - it's just new purchases that would be discontinued.
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by daveoc64 1y ago
It's really an on switch. The feature is off by default in Windows 11 and was not offered in any previous non-beta Windows version.
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by daveoc64 1y ago
Governments (certainly in the UK) aren't willing to pay enough to make this work for vendors. An escrow approach is quite common to protect the government in the event of a vendor going bankrupt or similar.
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Can you see circles or rectangles?(theguardian.com)
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by daveoc64 1y ago
>I'd wish Fairphone offered partnership with GrapheneOS The makers of GrapheneOS have indicated that Fairphone doesn't meet their security requirements: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114737139118874
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by daveoc64 1y ago
What makes you think you could do this?
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by daveoc64 1y ago
I pay for both YouTube Premium and Spotify Premium, because I don't think that Google's music offerings have ever been that good. There's no desktop app for YouTube Music for starters.
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by daveoc64 1y ago
Unless you have the 2020 Intel MacBook Air, no Tahoe for you. So less than 5 years of OS updates.
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by daveoc64 1y ago
If something is able to be scraped, it isn't private. There is no technical reason for chats people have with ChatGPT or any similar service to be available on the web to everyone, so there is no way for them to be scraped.
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by daveoc64 1y ago
That is covered in the link.
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by daveoc64 1y ago
O2 has claimed that the problem is now fixed: https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2025/05/o2-uk-fixes-vo...
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by daveoc64 1y ago
Some plans in the US charge the recipient of an SMS. That is unheard of in Europe, so makes no sense to you - hence the confusion. It's also often the case that prepaid plans or smaller carriers in the USA don't offer internationa
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by daveoc64 1y ago
Yes. I have been called by a variety of restaurants and drivers 7 times since March 2023 while using Deliveroo - who all came through the same London phone number. I don't even live in London. A search online for the number (020 3871 3
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by daveoc64 1y ago
These apps don't usually give the driver or restaurant access to the customer's phone number. They use a proxy system where the driver has to call a standard number provided by the app and then input a code to identify the specifi
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by daveoc64 1y ago
The post is over a year old (January 2024).
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by daveoc64 1y ago
>I never understood why the HTTP Do Not Track header wasn’t used to signal cookie preferences. You aren't really giving preferences related to cookies with these "cookie banners". The laws in the EU require companies to ge
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by daveoc64 1y ago
>That's insane to me, in the EU anyway it's not permitted to only accept electronic payments.. That's not the case. There are individual laws in each country that govern this. https://fullfact.org/online&#x
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by daveoc64 1y ago
It says in the article - you can send them a scan or photo of your ID if the face check doesn't work (or if you don't want to do the face scan).
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by daveoc64 2y ago
>People living in those dwellings were informed that it is therefore illegal for them to say anything against abortion in the privacy of their own homes. Quoting easily debunked nonsense like this makes it clear that you aren't gett
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by daveoc64 2y ago
>Why are such technologies still possible, even after we've learned lessons from email and other legacy tech over the past several decades? The alternative seems far more disappointing from an engineering and architecture perspectiv
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by daveoc64 2y ago
>Windows is over. I moved to Apple silicon a while ago and never looked back. Even though macOS has its warts, it's not hostile to its users. It's also very naggy about signing up to iCloud and using an Apple Account. It doesn&

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