grepnork

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by grepnork 6mo ago
TBH most of these seem like minor complaints. I've been using Apple since system 5 and I don't really see the issues you highlight as valid, they're annoyances to you but they're for other types of user. >Gatekeeping
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by grepnork 1y ago
Go ahead and post.
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by grepnork 1y ago
You mean idiots who went to private schools then?
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by grepnork 1y ago
>Here, if the cop sees someone overdosing, they immediately call the ambulance, not walk by and do nothing. This unevidenced claim is probably nonsense in any case, no police officer would simply walk by. They may very well walk by and t
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by grepnork 1y ago
They don't have "authority over you" unless you've committed a crime.
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by grepnork 1y ago
>identify the 17 kinds of priority illegal content that need to be separately assessed If you're a site with lots of child users, or if your site holds pornography.
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by grepnork 1y ago
I take it you didn't read your own link, the language used is "services". If you happen to be running the UK panty wetters forum from your own server, then you have a problem, but grandma Jessie's knitting circle is expl
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by grepnork 1y ago
>Then what happens if you don't have ID On arrest, you're required to provide your name and address, not proof. For the absolute majority of UK adults, it takes exactly 2 minutes to verify that data against public records - pas
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by grepnork 1y ago
>the copper could come up with some vague excuse for why they stopped you / want your ID. In which case, their sergeant will tear them a new one, right after the custody sergeant has finished tearing their own hole because the caree
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by grepnork 1y ago
You can't make an arrest on the basis of refusal to verify identity, unless a specific law is in play, or the Police officer has proof you are lying. If the police have probable cause to suspect you've committed an actual crime, t
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by grepnork 1y ago
Those 'niche' forums you mention are explicitly excluded from the Act. Apple made the change to advanced security in advance of the bill being finalised, now the government has gone in another direction. All the online safety act
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by grepnork 1y ago
Out of curiosity exactly who is this ruling class?
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by grepnork 1y ago
Overdosing is not a crime, it's not even the job of the Police to help, and possession of drugs is being ignored by most forces because an arrest takes two officers off frontline services for 4 hours, when it will most likely result in
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by grepnork 1y ago
Orwell turned in his friends and acquaintances. He was against totalitarianism and that is all.
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by grepnork 1y ago
All positives are verified by humans first before action is taken, all the system does is flag positives to an operator. Once verified, then the action movie starts. Match quality below 0.64 is automatically discarded >0.7 is considered
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by grepnork 1y ago
Currently, the police are catching up with shopping centres and entertainment chains who've been using this tech for years. The Police themselves have been using facial recognition to scrub tapes for far longer than LFR. Amusingly, the
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by grepnork 6y ago
In the UK Bolt is an alt-Uber app, which for some journeys is cheaper than Uber. I had an interesting conversation with a Bolt driver recently, after he remarked surprise that I was a 'decent' passenger; it turns out Bolt is the a
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by grepnork 6y ago
USB provided device portability over ADB and higher transfer speeds, lightning doubled the data transfer rate available to any other device available in 2011 and stopped ports breaking due to 'fluff', firewire provided faster tran
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by grepnork 6y ago
Because it's a great deal easier than replacing the logic board after the user ripped the Ethernet port out of it or filled the usb ports up with crap. I repair used macs. The number 1 problem on all the pre-2012 MacBooks is damaged po
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by grepnork 8y ago
Having spent this week doing compliance for my small business customers, the cost is not zero but it's really not much at all - I've done full compliance for six companies and it cost less than £250 each (one of those clients is a