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by gnfargbl 3y ago
I'm not sure we do have that law in the UK? The relevant legislation seems like it would be https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/36/section/48 ; but that makes it illegal to either intercept or
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
Me too! The situation isn't helped by the registration of "Duck Tape" as a trademark for a specific brand of tape -- but that appears not to have happened until 1981, well after both names were in common use: https:/&#x
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
This article links to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesta_Stoudt , which links to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_duck , which explains that the word "duck" here comes from the Dutc
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
The initial/subsequent encounter coding seems to refer to the encounter with medical personnel (for the specified issue), not the number of times the same issue has been encountered by the individual. Which is maybe a good thing for re
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
As I understand it, Openreach charge their competitors a fee for duct and pole access, so there is some way for them to extract value from their ownership of the network. Whether that's a better detail for the taxpayer than nationalisa
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
In the UK, we have a similar system, and for a decent time it actually did deliver low energy prices for us. The way this worked was that a new energy provider could easily set up and offer low tariffs, backed by private investment and a ga
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
> I believe the best way to make this work is by keeping the network itself in public hands and then having a competition of contributors to the network - e.g. electricity providers that add energy to the grid. One area -- in fact, the
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
I'm sorry for your loss, and I hope fatherhood brings you joy.
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
> 5th January 2023: Found out Rebecca was pregnant. > 7th February 2023: My father passes away. That's right up there with For sale: baby shoes, never worn .
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
I think the listing of "non-obvious" functionality is interesting. For instance, would you have expected to be able to use gimp to get a reverse shell? Would you have thought of using lp as an exfil tool? Or just bashing your
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
The main point of this article is that you can pay humans to solve CAPTCHAs, via a company which acts as middle-man. The company in question (Kolotibablo) has a website at https://kolostories.com/ which argues that paid CAP
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
> What kind of hubris could look past that huge red flag? I don't think it was outright hubris. I think it was commercial necessity, driven by the business model that OceanGate used: Rush needed rich tourists to fund the business,
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
Wagner keeps the media focus on Ukraine, but their real business is in Africa [1]. My cynical suspicion is that this whole affair was really about Prigozhin finding a way to keep the buckets of money that he has been making from smuggling A
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
> While classing agencies are willing to pursue the certification of new and innovative designs and ideas, they often have a multi-year approval cycle due to a lack of pre-existing standards "...and although that approach is perfe
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
For anyone not in the UK, Purplebricks was an online-only estate agent with a similar (but not identical) model to this platform. The market had high expectations for the company, but it didn't do particularly well and was sold for £1
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
Check out Tranco [1], which uses Cisco Umbrella, Majestic and also now a list sourced from Farsight passive DNS [2]. They're "working on" adding Chrome UX and Cloudflare Radar. There's also a list from Netcraft [3]. [1]
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
One of the authors lists the paper as 2023 on their homepage [1], and the naming of a preprint [2] suggests summer 2023. It's a recent paper. [1] https://casa.rub.de/en/research/publications/detail/e
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
Subscription is free, though.
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
This is obviously a neat project, and I'm excited to see it. But... I spent a couple of minutes scrolling through the summarised posts and my main takeaway was that it was extremely boring compared to the normal experience of reading
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
> "Professional embarrassment" isn't really much of a punishment. That really depends on the profession. If you're a line cook at Waffle House and you get fired for coughing on the eggs, then that's probably no
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
I'd be concerned about the health risks. Poultry can spread a few nasty bacterial diseases to humans, and in a closed and isolated environment like this contagion is surely something to be strenuously avoided.
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
The article author is non-technical. I found it interesting that things are apparently now broken enough that non-technical audiences are starting to get upset. Their complaint is really twofold: (a) search used to work but now doesn't
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The internet is unusable now(newstatesman.com)
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
The Imperial College researcher who builds these things describes his research here: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/centre-for-cold-matter/research/q... The page claims that this device attempts to measure acceleratio
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
Can I still buy one? I don't mean some kind of box file nonsense. I want a small wooden device which will sit on my desk, as per the advert shown at the bottom of https://isabellaalden.com/tag/frank-smiths-office-t
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
The set up of this article doesn't make a lot of sense. It describes a case where "not a good fit" was in fact exactly that; the candidate wanted an open workplace where he could express opinions and grow his skills, the hiri
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
Looking at it again I think the problem is that both X and Y are of the same type which makes the overall sentence confusing, even though it is technically correct. In a more normal construction ("food voucher support for kids") i
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
"X for Y" isn't a new thing ("Windows for Workgroups", 1993) but I think the phrasing is possibly more common in the tech world than outside it.
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
Unfortunately, this seems to be the pattern that people offering the same service as you experience. Take a look at https://major.io/2021/06/06/a-new-future-for-icanhazip/ , if you haven't seen it al
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by gnfargbl 3y ago
Cash only, no phones? This is what we in the UK call a "Sam Smith's pub". It's not typically that fun a time, though the beer is cheap.

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