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by spzb 6y ago
Facebook's obsessed with showing me ads for some kind of plastic earplug for treating tinnitus and non-chafing underpants at the moment. What I don't get is who the heck all the people under the ad commenting about how great the p
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by spzb 6y ago
Pessimism. Expect everything that can fail to fail and code defensively to deal with it gracefully. Doesn't make you much of a joy to work with though
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by spzb 6y ago
She was also CEO of ISP TalkTalk when they had a massive personal data breach and told an investigation that she didn't know if the data was encrypted or not. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/people-
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by spzb 6y ago
Reminiscent of the old Slashdot template https://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=149826&threshold=4&c...
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Family wrongly accused of uploading pedo material – due to US-EU date confusion(theregister.com)
4 points by spzb 6y ago|0 comments
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by spzb 6y ago
But then they’d lose that sweet revenue
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by spzb 6y ago
So this basically amounts to “sign in with Facebook and the app gets a token with which it can control your whole account”?
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The 'serendipity mindset': how to make your own luck(theguardian.com)
3 points by spzb 6y ago|0 comments
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A human wrote this article. You shouldn’t be scared of GPT-3(theguardian.com)
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by spzb 6y ago
I would have thought Apple was a better strategic fit for Arm and likely to be able to pay bigger bucks too.
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by spzb 6y ago
I want to know why the Dragon 32 didn’t have lower case characters but displayed inverse coloured upper case ones instead. Used to play havoc with Basicode 2 programs.
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by spzb 6y ago
Site down at the moment. Mirror : https://web.archive.org/web/20200910152535/http://www.vintag...
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by spzb 6y ago
Featured on HN earlier this week : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24397651
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Elliot Dallen, who inspired many with articles about his cancer, dies aged 31(theguardian.com)
1 points by spzb 6y ago|1 comments
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by spzb 6y ago
Spam blog republishing this article : https://theconversation.com/only-one-in-ten-medical-treatmen...
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by spzb 6y ago
And it's further complicated by Gift Aid. Seems like a good idea on paper : the charity receives your donation plus the amount of income tax you paid when you earned the money you donated [1]. Looks like everyone wins except the tax ma
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by spzb 6y ago
I don't know you but apparently you know me.
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by spzb 6y ago
After going to the effort of "hacking" 28,000 printers I was expecting them to provide more details and analysis. As it stands, it's a bit of a "look at me" script kiddie stunt
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by spzb 6y ago
Gosh, there goes Apple with their anti-competitive monopolistic behaviour again. Facebook better join Epic in the queue at the courtroom. (sarcasm, in case it wasn't obvious)
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by spzb 6y ago
Or switch to Unity
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by spzb 6y ago
It's not retaliation although that's how Epic are trying to portray it. It's a straightforward breach of contract on Epic's part and Apple are invoking the termination clause.
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by spzb 6y ago
It downloaded a 1.4 gig update when I opened it
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by spzb 6y ago
They’re only preventing new installs. Most Fortnite fans with iPhones will already have the game installed. It still works fine. I just tried it myself
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by spzb 6y ago
Dammit. Just when I bought the new SE.
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How They Made Us Doubt Everything [Audio](bbc.co.uk)
2 points by spzb 6y ago|0 comments
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by spzb 6y ago
For non-UK readers looking for context, The Sun "newspaper" is basically Fox News with tits.
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by spzb 6y ago
Doesn't Mail do this by default by not loading remote images?
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by spzb 6y ago
> their control panel is maddening and it’s very hard to understand what each switch/knob actually is doing behind all of the marketing speak Really? I find their control panel to be quite straightforward and intuitive. Certainly mo
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by spzb 6y ago
It's a bit confusing. Their T&Cs say 14 days, but their sign up page says "you'll be charged after 31 days"
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by spzb 6y ago
How can it be annual recurring revenue when they've only been going for six weeks and they have a 30 day free trial? Surely you need to know what their churn rate is going to be before you can consider it to be recurring?

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