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most of my machines use unnatended-upgrades Increasingly software is distributed by "curl dodgysite.com/get.sh|sudo bash -", no different to running "install.exe" on windows Surely Windows Update is a vetted repo as
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Only reason LG doesn't have adverts is by forcing it to use a pihole, but even that needs updating -- recently they've managed to push things through and I need to do another investigation to see what needs blocking. Trouble is I
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by iso1631 3mo ago
LG's own code is quasi-malware
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Shocking suggests something unexpected
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You need to account for carbin import/exports in manufactured goods and services If the UK imported all its electricity from Poland, it would reduce on a per-capita basis but would increase global
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by iso1631 3mo ago
> This is shocking Is it really? Have you been asleep for the last decade?
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Oh don't be silly Private companies take whatever information they want and sell it to any bidder they want and you get no say It's freedom. It's not like its the government that is doing the collection, so that's ok.
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A neverending land tax to a private company because the state can't keep a record of who owns what
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The US system is more the oddity, its the legacy England system from pre-19th century. England and Wales adopted and modified an Australian system, and its adopted a fair bit across the commonwealth. In other developed countries a lot are v
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by iso1631 3mo ago
majority of countries don't need an airside transit, from Bhutan to Kazakhstan, Indonesia to Venezuela, hell even North Korea. A US citizen flying New York to London to Egypt does not need to pay £20 for an ETA "visa waiver"
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by iso1631 3mo ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg15ev0347o
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Sods law would be the only bank not affected would be those I owe money to
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by iso1631 3mo ago
No, you land at Heathrow you don't go pass passport control if you change onto another international flight. You go through security and then into the departure lounge. Obviously if you land at Heathrow and fly out of Manchester then s
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by iso1631 3mo ago
For any US visa you do, and you can't take electronic items or bags with you. Costs a lot more too. A reason I refused to go to Syria a couple of years ago. A colleague who did go said "oh I have a US (i) visa so I'm fine&quo
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by iso1631 3mo ago
So it's a "lightweight" visa. The information you need to provide as an Iranian after a P1 visa is not remotely comparable to a British citizen after a B1 visa either.
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by iso1631 3mo ago
ESTAs used to be instant for me, but last time I got one (2023) it took 2 days The US is particularly bad as you need an ESTA to transit. I had a friend nearly caught out by that on a flight from London to Lima which involved changing in Mi
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by iso1631 3mo ago
Its changed in the last year or so. Officially it started in October 2025, it's been a bit of a disaster in terms of implementation. It's called the Entry/Exit System (EES) I've had my fingerprints taken every time I&#x2
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by iso1631 3mo ago
You're making an assumption that 1) spending more time handcrafting the code makes it less likely to crash 2) That the cost of the crash is more than the cost of the artisinal crafting
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by iso1631 3mo ago
There was also the pattern of "closing as already answered" with an answer from 6 years earlier which wasn't actually answering the question when you dig into it. Certainly in the code stacks.
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> If you fly between European countries there’s no border check _at all_. (Your airline may check but that’s different). On the flip side I was asked for a passport on a train from Denmark to Germany last year, Schengen allows them to de
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And it is true for a lot of people. It's also true for the people paying my salary. If you're making a plane, crashing 1 in 1000 times is terrible, if you're making some administrative thing which if it crashes costs 5 minute
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I wrote some software nearly 20 years ago, haven't touched it for over a decade. The code was terrible, but I don't care, it did the job, and people still use it despite a whole team of people who have tried to replace it with &qu
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by iso1631 3mo ago
"a similar agreement could be done with Gibraltat belonging to Spain, which I would consider fairer" Take your colonial desires and stuff them back in the 18th century where they belong
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After 500 days? No After 500 years? Yes Somewhere between is reasonable to debate, but many people won't even agree on the principal of self determination, at least not consistently. Personally I wouldn't put the threshold longer
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Time and time again the Gibraltar people tell Spain they don't want to be part of Spain Time and time again Spain complains Time and time again hypocrites I don't mind if you believe that "land makes right" or if you bel
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by iso1631 3mo ago
Of course there aren't passport checks on planes or boats between Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland, but that only applies to Irish and British citizens. On planes/boats between Northern Ireland and Great Britain there are
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And places like London, Manchester, Liverpool, Bristol, York, Warwick voted 60% to remain but still got taken out. Places like Oxford and Cambridge were over 70% remain. What should have happened was the ability for any person to retain the
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I assume you're also in favour of Ceuta and Melilla being given to Morocco over the wishes of the people whos ancestors have lived there for centuries?
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It belongs to the people who live there. While you may think places like Point Roberts should be forcibly moved to Canada, or Ceuta should be forcibly moved to Morocco, I'm of the opinion of self determination, as is the global view ba
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> - Netherlands, WWII: The Dutch civil registry meticulously recorded religion. It’s a major reason ~75% of Dutch Jews were killed, the highest rate in occupied Western Europe (vs ~25% in France, where records were poorer). Records were

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