edent

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by edent 5d ago
No one is being "replaced" - that's just a racist talking point. You can look at the ethnicity statistics at https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/uk-popula... But, of course, ethnicity doesn&#x2
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Don't Be Nice(roe.dev)
86 points by edent 6d ago|79 comments
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Infillion Buys Foursquare(app.dealroom.co)
5 points by edent 7d ago|0 comments
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by edent 7d ago
Symbian and LiMo were both available at the time. It is hard to say they were good alternatives though. Windows 7 - even with the weight of Microsoft behind it - wasn't able to attract enough hardware manufacturers.
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by edent 7d ago
Contactless payments do work on Graphene - but only with the Curve app. It also requires the card-holder to be from the UK or EU.
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Moving Share Homes for Ukraine data's code to open source(mhclgdigital.blog.gov.uk)
1 points by edent 8d ago|0 comments
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by edent 11d ago
I'm in London right now. May I politely invite you to fuck off with your racism. Indigenous? What the fuck are you talking about? Seriously? Why are you so happy to be racist in public? Stop getting your news from social media. Come ov
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CSS-Tricks in Limbo(vale.rocks)
247 points by edent 11d ago|107 comments
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by edent 12d ago
I am one of the dozens of people who don't live in the USA.
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by edent 12d ago
Here's my blog post about how I cooked them. https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/05/lets-eat-banana-peel/
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by edent 14d ago
Banana peels are delicious if cooked correctly. You can make a surprisingly tasty "facon" with them.
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by edent 14d ago
Go down to literally any 2nd hand phone store and buy a refurb. None of your money will go to Google and you'll have your phone at a fraction of the new price.
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by edent 15d ago
He's literally calling for ethnic cleansing. What word would you use to describe him?
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2026: The Global Top Websites Use Valid HTML(meiert.com)
1 points by edent 16d ago|0 comments
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by edent 19d ago
I agree in those specific cases (and I've spent a long time inside Government trying to encourage more adoption of .gov.uk and .NHS.uk). But when you get a text with "your Amazon parcel is delayed plz visit amazaoncom.parcel-delay
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by edent 19d ago
I dont see how org.ukpaynatwest-online is any easier to spot as a scam. Take a look at many of the domains you see in phishing emails / texts. They're all pretty obvious if you spend all day looking at domains and considering thei
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by edent 19d ago
There are some gTLDs like .bank which require a high level of verification. The applicant has to be a financial institution etc. The problem is twofold. I've never seen a .bank domain in the wild and users generally don't looks a
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by edent 19d ago
The author (who is handsome and talented) is based in the UK - so tries hard not to be US centric. Hence the use of €. As for the contradictions - yes. There's a famous aphorism "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to en
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Site Is Closed on Sundays(v7.robweychert.com)
101 points by edent 20d ago|130 comments
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40 years later, are Bentley's "Programming Pearls" still relevant?(shkspr.mobi)
3 points by edent 23d ago|0 comments
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by edent 24d ago
Perhaps they complain because that's literally the only way to get Google to take notice? Let's be real, AOSP doesn't exist any more. Google have closed down nearly everything. All the development happens in private, you&#x27
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by edent 26d ago
OK, so I have a legitimate domain. I can add any subdomain I want without recourse. projects.example.com or new.cool.thing.example.com So nothing stops me from registering a legitimate domain, using it for a bit, then launching the subdomai
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by edent 26d ago
I think the "actual objection" is the hardest part. The UK Government might legitimately object to the registration of `dwpgov-uk-payments.pizza` but should they be allowed to object to `dwp-gov-uk-stole-my-payments.fart`? One mig
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by edent 26d ago
England have just scored the winning goal in the world cup and I want to celebrate by launching my personal tribute on Lionesses.rock Why shouldn't that go live instantly? A disgraced pop star has just been found guilty. I couldn'
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by edent 26d ago
I have some experience of dealing with this when working for .gov.uk A registrar can accept an anonymous payment for taxgovuk.gtld and have it live within seconds. The spam messages go out instantly to the victims. By the time the certifica
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by edent 27d ago
WordPress powered a huge number of websites. Yet the crawlers all go straight for the HTML of those sites rather than the more efficient and structured JSON API which all WordPress sites have. If these crawlers are so smart, why aren't
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by edent 28d ago
The silver bullet is caring. There must be someone working on that app who notices those pain points. "The turtoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs, trying to turn itself over but it can't, not
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by edent 29d ago
Yes. It offers cryptographic proof that you physically have the passport with you. It also gets a digital copy of the photo and other biometrics held on the NFC chip. From a user point of view it reduces the number of typos entered.
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by edent 29d ago
They even called it "Physical Web". It was a lovely concept - even if it did abuse Bluetooth beacons somewhat.
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by edent 29d ago
NFC reading is one. That's why lots of Governments publish apps - it's a reliable way to check your passport if you need a visa etc. It might be coming to the web - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs&#

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