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Cj

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Free as a kite

Not a writer. Not a speaker. Not an intellect. Just another in the 99% club.

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CenturyAvocado, to random
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My standing charge for electricity is now £190 a year! Before any usage. That's really concerning.

Cj,
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@CenturyAvocado £223.63 :/ £105 gas

sil, to UKpolitics
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OK, UK types, it’s council elections day. When you go out to vote, remember that you need to take photo ID with you. Yes, it is bad that you have to do so because it harms people without IDs more than it helps stop basically-nonexistent “voting fraud”, and yes this is a flagrantly partisan measure to benefit the Tories, and yes it was put through Parliament with barely any discussion or opposition, but you still have to do it. Don’t take it out on polling station volunteers, either.

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@geospacedman @sil I read the numbers for last time 0.7% no ID, 0.25% no ID, no return IIRC. So it must be counted, at least in some areas.

As far as I'm concerned, this like spoiling the ballot. It's your right, and like a protest.

Cj, to random
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:(

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"If we can't lie about greenwashing, we'll stop being green" ~Helen Dickinson , British Retail Consortium

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I miss Mick Lynch

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This bench has finally been returned! <3

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https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/04/01/OSQI

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wezm, to apple
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This post is full of FUD but I think it represents the biggest change to iOS since it was opened up to developers a year after the iPhone's release. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/01/apple-announces-changes-to-ios-safari-and-the-app-store-in-the-european-union/

Cj,
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@wezm do you really own something if you can't run your own code on it...

Cj,
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@wezm that's fair, I can't run code on my TV, but I still own it.

I guess I should stop thinking of iPhones as computers.

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I'm so excited that iOS will finally allow alternate browser engines!

But, man, Apple's press release is just dripping with spite and utter lack of grace. Not a good look.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/01/apple-announces-changes-to-ios-safari-and-the-app-store-in-the-european-union/

Cj,
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@adrian Apple sure love to sell you stuff, but hate allowing you to use it.

"It's not a computer, it's iPhone"

acedtect, to random
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This overlaps with the Beeper Mini story. https://9to5mac.com/2023/12/06/push-notification-spying/ interesting timing to cast shade on push notifications openness

Cj,
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@acedtect it says "foreign governments" but also "“restricted from public release” by the US government".

Sounds like it's all governments, not just foreign ones.

Cj, to random
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLuzrc1E3NI

sil, to random
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Store your life and all your info in our device! We use only the most advanced technologies combined with a deep understanding of what people need to give you a truly wonderful experience!

Can you please stop autocorrecting the word “and” to “Andy” every time I type it?

I’m afraid that’s beyond the skills of our engineers

Cj,
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@sil

"Well if you stop writing 'Andy' so much, we will lower its score"

"But I never write 'Andy', I only write 'Andy'"

scoring[("and", "Andy")] += 1

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jasonkoebler, to random
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Rivian just pushed a broken over-the-air software update that will require physical, in-shop repair to fix:

https://www.404media.co/rivian-pushes-broken-software-update-that-will-require-physical-repair/

Cj,
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@jasonkoebler there's no way you're allowed to drive a vehicle without a speedometer... right?

Cj, (edited ) to random
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It's not that phones aren't built with reparability in mind. It's that phones are made to be unrepairable.

Fuck you

Anachron, to random German
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People with cats are suspect to me.

Why get something that spends their life away from you and oftens runs away?

I've seen so many "Cat lost" posters in my life. Which is kind of ironic. Cats are not lost. They leave.

Cj,
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@Anachron I often think cats have multiple families, the original and neighbours that adopt it and feed it too.

But I think the lost cat posters are more often "someone drove their car into my cat, anyone know where the body is?" posters

kat, to random
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1337x[.]to has become such a popup/javascript/click hijacking pile of junk.

Surely there must exist a torrent site that can earn income without hijacking every click

Cj,
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@kat it's a lot slower than you'd think to get that data.

http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0051.html

But it has been done, https://btdig.com/index.htm

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I wish just once I could play one of the games I bought without first having to download a 40 gb file just to update a few game elements. Nobody and I mean nobody in the gaming world cares about people for whom that is like 2 days worth of data allowance.

Cj,
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@AndyHat the Xbox 360 could patch the main executable, but not the other files. However the executable is small bit nowadays, textures, resources and even the bulk of the code isn't in that file.

Cj,
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@AndyHat actually Microsoft charged publishers to issue title updates, so it won't have been "in there interest" to have small updates.

Cj,
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@AndyHat I might be wrong there. I don't know if size of the update was part of price formula.

I think the main factor in the price was expected download count.

The first update was free.

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