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by daveoc64 7d ago
It's well above the number of images that were in the applicable folder by default, so seems pretty appropriate to me.
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by daveoc64 9d ago
The UK has remained a participant in SEPA, even after Brexit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Euro_Payments_Area#Cove...
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by daveoc64 16d ago
That article and your memory glosses over the fact that Apple redesigned the antenna to fix the actual problem in later devices - the antenna was changed in the Verizon iPhone 4 (which came out later), as well as the iPhone 4S and all subse
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by daveoc64 21d ago
GrapheneOS doesn't give you root access. The OS is designed to offer privacy and security guarantees, which root access breaks, so they don't offer it.
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by daveoc64 23d ago
The APIs it's relying on to show you that information do implement some anti-fingerprinting mechanisms - things like available memory will be put into rough buckets rather than returning the exact amount you have.
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by daveoc64 3mo ago
The BBC Future website is not aimed at users in the UK, and features content produced by the BBC's commercial arm. Users in the UK can read it without ads, but it's not generally promoted or linked to by bbc.co.uk
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by daveoc64 3mo ago
> Is there a UK version of the EFF that fights in the courts against this lunacy or does it not quite work the same in the UK as it does in the US. The government looks likely to introduce the ban as regulation through secondary legislat
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by daveoc64 3mo ago
There is no version of Windows 2000 for consumers. Windows Me was the nearest consumer release (2000 came out in 1999, Me in 2000), and did share most of the same UI, but was based on Windows 98. Windows XP was the first version of Windows
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by daveoc64 4mo ago
> However I agree that in purely domestic airports I don't see how you'd prevent general public from accessing bags. I don't understand this. Why can't they have a door after the baggage claim that does not permit ent
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Learning from Ukraine, Hezbollah is now using fibre-optic drones to hit Israel(bbc.com)
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by daveoc64 4mo ago
Virtually all of the Kagi results bring you up when I do that.
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by daveoc64 4mo ago
It's a niche service that is almost perfectly tailored to meet the needs of HN users. It's a paid-only service, without ads - "you are not the product", that lets you hide results from popular (to the mainstream) sites l
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by daveoc64 4mo ago
You can download books directly from the Project Gutenberg website using the web browser on most eBook readers - even the Kindle supports it.
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by daveoc64 5mo ago
Ubuntu seems to have updated the page to say that it's a high priority now.
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by daveoc64 5mo ago
>My overall feel is that people underestimate the complexity of the systems at Anthropic and the chaos of the growth. Making changes like reducing the usage window at peak times ( https://x.com/trq212/status/2037
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by daveoc64 5mo ago
The UK does have net neutrality, and it's quite strictly regulated by Ofcom, which produces an annual report showing compliance and highlighting any issues it has investigated: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/internet-based-se
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by daveoc64 5mo ago
They've always offered a bundle of the command line tools separately to Android Studio: https://developer.android.com/studio#command-line-tools-only
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by daveoc64 6mo ago
As noted elsewhere, that approach doesn't stop someone flying the plane into a building.
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by daveoc64 6mo ago
I've recently purchased a couple of the Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition devices, and they leave a lot to be desired. The wake word detection isn't great, and the audio quality is abysmal (for voice responses, not music). Amaz
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by daveoc64 6mo ago
The standard for this in the UK is that you should make a reasonable effort to work out who was driving. e.g. checking your calendar/diary, looking through receipts or bank statements to work out where you likely were. There's als
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by daveoc64 6mo ago
Based on what others have suggested, I've just tried out pandoc for this, and it's produced really good results in CommonMark from some quite hideous Word documents.
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by daveoc64 7mo ago
That's a normal legal term in the UK: https://www.gov.uk/redundancy-your-rights
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by daveoc64 7mo ago
In many countries, it's possible to get a prepaid SIM with data access - without any ID or age requirement whatsoever.
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by daveoc64 7mo ago
> if you are paying for internet access you have to be over 18, no? No, that's not the case.
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by daveoc64 7mo ago
Rachel has blogged quite a bit about blocking badly behaved RSS Clients in recent years. I'd link you to one of the articles if I wasn't blocked too, and my VPN wasn't also blocked!
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by daveoc64 8mo ago
All the comments there seem to suggest that there has been no change and that robots.txt isn't required.
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by daveoc64 8mo ago
I'm glad I'm not the only one with this problem!
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by daveoc64 8mo ago
It's covered on MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...
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by daveoc64 8mo ago
I'm really surprised at how Temporal is only just rolling out in Chrome stable. I would have hoped it'd be ready for wider use by now. https://caniuse.com/temporal
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by daveoc64 8mo ago
That is nearly a year old now. There were previously supply issues with these drugs throughout Europe, but those were mostly resolved by the end of 2024. By mid-2025, it was (and still is) possible to easily get all of the medicines for any

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