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by toby- 4y ago
frfr ong (Anecdotally, almost everyone I know who texts like this is very well educated and absolutely capable of writing in full, grammatical sentences — they just choose not to in these situations.)
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by toby- 4y ago
Unless you're texting friends who, themselves, can barely read and write... Plus, texting has always featured slang, abbreviations, lack of punctuation, shortened spelling, etc. Not the best to learn from, perhaps.
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by toby- 4y ago
Thank you very much. The PDF link in this article wasn't even working; your link works. Thanks!
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by toby- 4y ago
Is there a better source than a random VPN comparison website that exists to promote affiliate links?
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by toby- 4y ago
The kind of life that, in 2012, most 'real people' genuinely lived. (A world quite divorced from the average HN user.)
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by toby- 4y ago
I'm in the UK and could read the article. Sorry, I didn't realise there was a paywall at all.
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by toby- 4y ago
Ah, really? I'm sorry. It lets me read the full article and I'm unregistered (from the UK).
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Earth Is Spinning Faster Than Usual, Leading to the Shortest Day Ever Recorded(popularmechanics.com)
11 points by toby- 4y ago|7 comments
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by toby- 4y ago
The title sounds rather alarming. In reality, this is one mobile ISP blocking archive.org as part of its parental controls. I can't help but wonder if this is the author's first exposure to ISPs' content blocking? Still, I&#x
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by toby- 5y ago
I also see ads. To be fair, I seem to recall them having no ads on their Covid pages - but I see ads there now, too.
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by toby- 5y ago
Source re 'old accounts'? I have an account as old as you can get, and had no problems, so I'd be interested in proof of a disproportionate impact on older accounts.
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by toby- 5y ago
It did use to overwhelmingly recommend videos from channels you were subscribed to. Such videos made up a major portion of your recommendations. And yes, there is the subscriptions feed, but it only shows new videos from subscribed-to cha
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by toby- 5y ago
I'm of the same opinion. A user's subscriptions seemingly matter very little nowadays, I've noticed. The focus on recommendations is so heavy I'm very often recommended videos I've already watched , some of them mu
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by toby- 5y ago
I purchased one based on this exchange alone. I'm an impressionable sod!
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by toby- 5y ago
Now to seduce you further into expanding my 2GB/month limit. ;) Nah, in all seriousness - looks like a good service. Happy to be aboard!
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by toby- 5y ago
Oh wow, quick response & fix haha. Thank you! You might've just convinced me to pay for the service. Looks good.
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by toby- 5y ago
I was so confused by the absence of a login form, below "Already have an account? No you don't. Try to log in below if you think you do anyway." Turns out uBlock was hiding the form; possibly one of my 'social' bloc
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by toby- 5y ago
This is true. You can find the 'American style' in the UK occasionally, especially in fiction – it's not exceptionally rare. But regardless, the styles have come to be known as 'American' and 'British' bec
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by toby- 5y ago
Examples of on-device scanning via PhotoDNA?
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by toby- 5y ago
If people don't know about this, they haven't been paying attention. I find the idea that 'even experts' (haha) don't know about this rather hilarious.
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by toby- 6y ago
And the original blog post by Cellebrite does claim to have 'cracked' the encryption, doesn't it? So the BBC's headline isn't exactly inaccurate.
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by toby- 6y ago
I studied with the OU too, though only a Diploma of Higher Education (equivalent of 2/3rds of a Bachelor's; I think Americans would call it an 'Associate's Degree'?). I found the material of good quality, and the tu
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by toby- 6y ago
Can it not have multiple postmarks? The stamp at the top (which says 1920) and the modern barcode underneath?
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by toby- 6y ago
Aha! I'm an idiot; I thought this referred to social engineering of the person who owns the handset/SIM, not phone company staff. That makes a lot more sense. Thanks!
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by toby- 6y ago
>(SIM card transfer via social engineering) How exactly does this happen?
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by toby- 6y ago
Could somebody please explain this to me? I'm uncertain what this website is trying to demonstrate? Apps asking for signup first? I feel out of the loop. Apologies.
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by toby- 6y ago
>my fursona The Internet was a mistake. :p But yeah, I agree the prompts are irritating. I was confused as to the 'objective', to be honest.
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by toby- 7y ago
It's a start of sorts; I seriously hope it develops into a wider set of reasonable policies and practices. The UK gov't does a lot right when it comes to IT and security, but it also gets a lot wrong — I'm hoping this develop
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by toby- 7y ago
>Zee-zee Only if you're American. Otherwise: "zed-zed". :)
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by toby- 7y ago
Yeah -- look into Francis Maude, he's broadly responsible for the current gov't focus on (good) IT practices.

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