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by edent 3mo ago
There's no such thing as a "legal name" in the UK. For example, Boris Johnson's first name isnt actually Boris - that's just what he goes by.
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by edent 3mo ago
I had thought to use homographs. Sadly, all the models I tried were able to decode something like: "ﾌㄖ乇ㄚ ᗪㄖ乇丂几'ㄒ丂卄卂尺乇千ㄖㄖᗪ" However, I have noticed that voice assistants have a hard time understanding homonyms. Saying "
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by edent 3mo ago
If you shut down, I want to still be able to run the software. OK, if you're running something with a cloud component, I might not get all the functionality. But if you decide that you don't want be in the app business any more, I
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The teenage millionaire hacker from Tower Hamlets who took down TfL(londoncentric.media)
5 points by edent 3mo ago|0 comments
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by edent 3mo ago
OSM does have a pictures layer. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Panoramax I use https://mapcomplete.org/ to add images of artworks to OSM objects.
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by edent 3mo ago
OP here. Fuck off. Yours etc,
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by edent 3mo ago
They both have received significant opprobrium. But she's the one funding a massive hate campaign.
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by edent 3mo ago
I'm in IT right now having travelled through FR, DE, NO, PL and half a dozen more countries. When selecting the EN option on a website it is almost 100% of the time with a GB flag. The spelling is mostly en-GB as well.
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by edent 3mo ago
The Applicant Support Programme makes it significantly cheaper (if they qualify). See https://newgtldprogram.icann.org/en/application-rounds/round... And https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/d
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by edent 3mo ago
Android used to have an "office hours" setting which would prevent specific email accounts from notifying you outside of your specified times. I had my work GMail set to notify only between 0800 (so I could check for a "don&#
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Teens who hacked TfL were known to police years before cyber-attack(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by edent 3mo ago|0 comments
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by edent 4mo ago
You can use the JSON-LD for your movie reviews even if you're not a big site. I use it on my site for reviews (books, games, movies) and it seems to show up in most search engines with the star rating etc.
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Computer Programming for Everybody(python.org)
4 points by edent 4mo ago|1 comments
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by edent 4mo ago
I'm not sure. On GitHub I see plenty of bug reports which say "this is broken" with references to other repos. Those backlins are useful when someone does figure out the fix. That said, I'm very much in favour of people
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by edent 4mo ago
> A project’s issues and pull requests are only useful for that project. I don't think that's always true. A bug in library A might be referenced in project B with a fix in fork C. Yes, a hyperlink works to show you where to fi
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by edent 4mo ago
Because it is useful for most people to see that they're receiving a call from their bank, insurance company, hospital, whoever. The hospital's call staff might not be in the same building as the doctor - so showing a familiar num
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by edent 4mo ago
The mechanism is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STIR/SHAKEN But it is slow to roll out.
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by edent 4mo ago
I used to work at two (UK) telcos. There's a historic reason and a modern reason. The historic reason was, just like the Internet, the international phone network was built on gentlemen agreements by engineers who largely trusted each
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by edent 4mo ago
This one. No separate charger, just plug the USB-C cable in to the toothbrush. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0F8BD3922
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by edent 4mo ago
This one - https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/08/i-bought-a-16-smartwatch-ju... No need for a magnetic dongle. I literally shove a USB-C cable in there, charge for a couple of hours, then get a week+ of use. Does
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by edent 4mo ago
I've basically stopped buying any portable electronics unless they take USB-C. Currently travelling with a laptop, watch, toothbrush, eReader, camera, bug-bite treater, and phone - all charging from the same power brick. I'm guara
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Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight(mohkohn.co.uk)
1278 points by edent 4mo ago|569 comments
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What Yahoo killed when it bought Maktoob(lr0.org)
3 points by edent 4mo ago|0 comments
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RFC for 700 HTTP Status Codes(github.com)
2 points by edent 4mo ago|0 comments
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by edent 4mo ago
Ok, so what? Whether it is the server, the ISP, the CDN, or whatever - if I can't utilise the speed, what's the point?
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by edent 4mo ago
The author (who I understand to be incredibly handsome) has a family, multiple devices, servers, VR headset, and too many smarthome gadgets. Even when I was on 500Mbps, I never noticed a slowdown while things were accessing the net simultan
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by edent 4mo ago
The author (me) does play games. I'm on PC, Oculus, and console. The console downloads are limited by the upstream. The VR games are limited by WiFi. I've never noticed the PC games getting close to the max download speed I have.
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by edent 4mo ago
The author (me) is English, living in England.
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by edent 4mo ago
In my experience, the Sony servers can barely saturate a 500Mbps pipe.
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by edent 4mo ago
Google Jam Board (and other digital whiteboards) had high upfront capex and lowish opex. Probably close to the price for how often they were used before being killed off. Same with the MS surface(?) tables (not tablets). I saw load of compa

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