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by gib444 6mo ago
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/10/google-meta-big-tech-6-billi... : > April 2025: Apple fined €500 million for failing to comply with "anti-steering" obligations. Meta fined €200 million under the
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by gib444 6mo ago
> how you have selected post-2008 government after another to completely tank the economy and destroy key British institutions Yup. Thanks Russia.
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by gib444 6mo ago
There are massive exemptions for the prevention and detection of crime And https://gdpr.eu/recital-49-network-and-information-security-... : > Recital 49 - Network and Information Security as Overriding Legitimate Intere
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by gib444 6mo ago
On becoming anti Google, I blocked Google's ASNs (shortcut to block all their IP addresses) on my router the other day as an experiment. It's a little eye-opening. Obviously you immediately realise just how often you !g in DDG, us
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by gib444 6mo ago
Oh man as if we still live in those times
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by gib444 6mo ago
Hm Finland, with the 38th highest suicide rate in the world? Well above the UK, in 117th place. I think you need our help :(
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by gib444 6mo ago
Well, Spring (Boot) is so hard to avoid running into at day jobs. And Spring is hell.
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by gib444 6mo ago
Ding ding ding
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by gib444 6mo ago
Far north hemisphere, unite? A Canadian-British-Nordic partnership.
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by gib444 6mo ago
God I miss Eastern European tradespeople. British tradespeople in my experience are duplicitous, lazy, unmotivated, low quality, cocky and expensive.
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by gib444 6mo ago
Companies have so much data on employees/products/customers etc these days the EM's opinion is just noise.
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by gib444 6mo ago
Love it. You go man. You and I would get on LOL
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by gib444 6mo ago
I didn't abuse anything fwiw. I just returned it within a a few days, exercising my legal rights when purchasing an item over the internet. I wasn't that impressed with the device for the money having had the opportunity to demo i
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by gib444 6mo ago
To which small subset of Europe are you actually referring?
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by gib444 6mo ago
You can even buy half a baguette from a baker in France lol (They're already relatively small!). Love it - great for single people.
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by gib444 6mo ago
I've been to Costco (UK) a couple of times. It mostly seems to be: 4x the quantity for 4x the price (i.e. same price as any other store). I don't get it? I honestly think a large majority of people think it being in bulk MUST equa
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by gib444 6mo ago
> Why would you let America take 2-3% of your transaction volumes? And spy on every single transaction
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by gib444 6mo ago
Good on you Curious about email though - do you mean you don't use it for signups/logins etc or you don't use it in any capacity? You send a lot of letters I guess? Sounds like one of those things which sounds impossible to g
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by gib444 6mo ago
> men look more leadership-material by dressing simple and consistent, for women it's the opposite This made me think back to the people I've seen rise through the ranks: the women started off dressing very conservative and as
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by gib444 6mo ago
I'm really appreciative of how much spin I learn on this site, should I ever want a career in PR or marketing
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by gib444 6mo ago
And to lease it, receive government benefits And I wonder how much of that £3k is just saved up benefits... Which disabilities require an Audi or BMW btw?
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by gib444 6mo ago
This sounds like my ideal job. How do you land such gigs?
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by gib444 6mo ago
> It's worth noting that the "obvious dismiss button" ... is a legal requirement > Of course in reality enforcement of this is non-existent Indeed that was of course worth noting
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by gib444 6mo ago
Bills become Acts btw. Not entirely sure which ones you're referring to I'm no Blair fan but criticising someone for doing something to stop decades of 'serious terrorism' isn't the criticism you think it is. I&#x2
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by gib444 6mo ago
Are you in Europe? It's so prevalent here that would usually mean not using the web at all...? I've also noticed blocking consent/informational banners of sorts when connected to a US VPN becoming more popular
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by gib444 6mo ago
We have a lot of big dealer groups who are not tied to a specific manufacturer. Independent franchisees tied to a single manufacturer are uncommon I believe. Even within each sub-brand of the group, they often work with different manufactur
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by gib444 6mo ago
> louder than a well maintained ICEV would be at the same speed ffs why can't we have nice things?? The amount of 'eco' things that turn out worse...
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by gib444 6mo ago
> They're also quiet As someone who lives near a busy road, I'm 100% all for them for this reason alone The boy-racers doing 2x the speed limit with their loud exhausts and poppin can go do one
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by gib444 6mo ago
Minor point: The id.Polo isn't released in the UK yet and prices are not confirmed. VW are not shy about price rises either I believe, so I wouldn't imagine the £21.7k figure in the media lasting more than a year if that price-poi
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by gib444 6mo ago
It's also misleading to treat it just like another independent private company too (not just because Motability consists of both a limited company and a charity (or two, IIRC)). The limited company reinvests revenues or transfers to i

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