mattowen_uk

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Buy now, pay later in Microsoft Edge(techcommunity.microsoft.com)
2 points by mattowen_uk 5y ago|0 comments
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
Horrible though it is, you need to include all the Opengraph tags for Facebook and Twitter, as a) thats how the preview cards are built when sharing over social media, and b) google uses them as good SEO markers. Google have also said in
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
Hi Akouri, we are the same - we only need digital signatures on an ad-hoc basis, so we use Signable: https://www.signable.co.uk/ You pay per document, there's no monthly fees.
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
> Hard to agree that vinyl sounds like rubbish. Well, the recent resurgence of vinyl has had a lot people buying substandard all-in-one-decks from online stores. For vinyl to sound good you need to invest a significant amount of mone
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
Ok, let's say I'm a tech savvy Windows user. Assuming I have something like Visual Studio installed, would this compile correctly off the bat? I doubt it. (I've not tried tbh) Personal experience, most of the source I downloa
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
Meta is the company, Facebook & Instagram are the products.
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Radio Garden(radio.garden)
6 points by mattowen_uk 5y ago|0 comments
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
I live with someone who has Aphantasia, when they recall their dreams it's in the form of 'words', not images. They have no concept of 'visual dreams'.
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Russian node module docks with ISS(spacenews.com)
2 points by mattowen_uk 5y ago|0 comments
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African CDC’s Statement regarding the new SARS-CoV-2 virus variant B.1.1.529(africacdc.org)
4 points by mattowen_uk 5y ago|0 comments
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
Hi, Thank you for the suggestions, and thank you for taking time to answer my Ask HN :)
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Oregon-born gray wolf dies after 'epic' California trek(phys.org)
3 points by mattowen_uk 5y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: How to improve my typing accuracy?
2 points by mattowen_uk 5y ago|2 comments
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
For a long time I thought Grammarly was rubbish due to how hard they try to sell it everywhere online, until a co-worker started using it to help with professional writing, and I have to admit it's pretty good at fixing bad or poor Eng
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Fines and a ban on default passwords in new UK law(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by mattowen_uk 5y ago|3 comments
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
This is news to me, and I like classic ADVENT type games. I've bookmarked it for future investigation, and maybe tackle the broken LOAD/SAVE in the pure DOS port.
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
A less hostile [article] link: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/329258-winamp-prepares... And: According to AudioValley, which is the parent company of Winamp and Shoutcast, the new app is going to "become t
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
As hobbyist Linux [server] user, I've been using which, with hit and miss results, and 'find' never really worked for me (I clearly don't have the magical aptitude for it). I've just given whereis a go - and that&#x
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
> Gambling ads across much of Europe. It’s pervasive especially around football ad breaks This. It's awful in the UK. Non-stop gambling adverts everywhere. They have to have a disclaimer on them and link to https://www.
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
Ok, I'll my anecdotal comment to the stack... I work on large global identity management systems. These systems tend to be connected to many other systems in many datacentres and offices. These all have firewalls on the network connect
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
If you dig deep enough, Word can still directly publish to blog sites such as WordPress using the MetaWeblog API as well as native SharePoint publishing (but who uses that?!)
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
There is a 'Web Page, Filtered' Save As option in Word, which saves the document in MUCH cleaner HTML than the standard 'Web Page' version. Granted, it's not as good as it could be, but it's definitely way bett
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
Most IDEs allow you to define your own colour scheme - have you tried doing that and setting it all to one colour?
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Worldometer – real time world statistics(worldometers.info)
28 points by mattowen_uk 5y ago|14 comments
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
Ooh, we SO need something like this for the UK. Edit: Clicking the link, takes me to uk.bookshop.org ... and a search does bring up UK bookshops. Nice!
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
Ah but, for most people it's easier to get a low-limit credit card in the UK, than it is to get any other unsecured loan. I also didn't say 'you need a credit card to get a good credit score', I said not having one will
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
The BBC are running with it[1], so it's must be true . /s -- [1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59306200
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
London has a much higher [wealthy] international populous than the rest of the country. Amex business model is all about having a card that is accepted globally, and comes with lots of nice perks for the [wealthy] traveller.
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
> Never owned a credit card, don't have the slightest wish to do so. Bizarrely, never owning a credit card will negatively impact your credit rating.
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
NatWest have recently informed me that my Visa Debit card will be changing over to Mastercard Debit at the end of the year. Feels like a lot of places are shunning Visa at the moment. Other than getting a new card number (which some could s

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