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Monzo is nothing more than a science project

FreezingKeeperon Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network

Unfortunately whenever I see the name, I am always reminded of part of the anatomy

FreezingKeeperon US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire

Not really practical to exempt Spain even if they wanted to, with Spain being within the EU and therefore able to freely move goods and services to other EU nations.

FreezingKeeperon Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock

What’s with the ‘cock and balls’ emoticon?

FreezingKeeperon Britain's railway privatization was an abject failure

https://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/how-the-uk-lost...

FreezingKeeperon Ask HN: UK based blogs on freedom and surveillence?

The Open Rights Group - https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/ - is probably a reasonable place to start.

Curious about what is scaring you btw.

FreezingKeeperon Did you lose your AirPods?

They may have meant AppleCare+ which covers accidental damage

https://www.apple.com/support/products/headphones/

FreezingKeeperon East Germany invented 'unbreakable' drinking glasses

It's a North-South thing

https://bucolicaholic.com/2016/09/01/on-real-ale-the-sparkle...

FreezingKeeperon Swiss Broadcasting Corporation to pull plug on FM radio

They are available https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/product-group-tests/88304/best...

FreezingKeeperon Volvo delivers 74-tonne electric truck

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-67011369

FreezingKeeperon The U.K. government is close to eroding encryption worldwide

Well over a million ordinary people protested against the Second Gulf War and it may zero difference.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/feb/15/politics.politica...

FreezingKeeperon The IBM mainframe: How it runs and why it survives

Some examples:

https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/monzo/

https://www.avaloq.com/solutions/products/avaloq-core

FreezingKeeperon Ask HN: What are your favorite internet rabbit holes?

Always an amazing read for me

https://forum.expeditionportal.com/threads/democratic-republ...

FreezingKeeperon ThreeUK blocks access to encrypted provider Tutanota due to 'age restriction'

They do [0]. You can also do it in their app if you are on a contract and therefore over 18 by definition.

[0] http://ask3.three.co.uk/srvs/cgi-bin/webisapi.dll/,/?new,kb=...

FreezingKeeperon Nokia’s Burning Platform Memo (2011)

I remember them publicly demoing the BlackBerry clone from this article https://www.pcworld.com/article/464050/original_android_prot...

FreezingKeeperon ‘Stunning’ Anglo-Saxon burial site found along HS2 route

On the Golborne Link, I think they had a fair bit of help from the NIMBYs too

FreezingKeeperon Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s (2020)

How about the time when one pay TV company (Sky, owned by News Corp at the time) was said to have hacked a rival and released the hack on the internet for pirates to use?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17522112

FreezingKeeperon Home Assistant OS Release 8

...which is another OSS project from the Home Assistant team :)

FreezingKeeperon Vuescan – Software support for 6500 abandoned scanners

Another long-term Vuescan user here. From memory it was the Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X transition and lack of vendor support for the new OS that caused me to seek it out. The only thing I would love for them to add would be a way for the app to self-update.

FreezingKeeperon How Putin’s Oligarchs Bought London

Not blocked here on 3. You’re right in that the networks often have the “adult content” filter (porn, gambling etc.) turned on, but you should be able to turn it off pretty easily. I suspect it’s that filtering that’s blocking archive.org for you

FreezingKeeperon Alibaba Open Source XuanTie RISC-V Cores, Introduces In-House Armv9 Server Chip

And to think they had it in their hands in 1997 with StrongARM

FreezingKeeperon Apple Joins Blender Development Fund

https://appleinsider.com/articles/10/06/07/apple_announces_o... for those that don’t get the reference

FreezingKeeperon Android phones are sending significant amount of user data with no opt-out [pdf]

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Co... might be what you're after?

FreezingKeeperon Microsoft is ditching Electron for Teams

There is no 'native' Mac app. Also everyone I've worked with at MS uses Teams in the browser. So I suspect not many at MS even use the desktop app.

FreezingKeeperon Ask HN: How do I move up my career/life?

There’s a lot of self-deprication in your post. “Sorry if I wasted your time” and “Maybe they decided I might never improve”.

You are worthy and this random internet stranger cares. Imagine for a moment you have the opportunity to ask anyone you imagine to be on HN what they could give you. What would you ask for?

FreezingKeeperon Developers fix multitude of vulnerabilities in Apache HTTP Server

Every day someone is born who has never seen The Flintstones

FreezingKeeperon What's Inside the EU Green Pass QR Code?

Somewhat related - here's [0] a report on the QR codes that public venues in England can display for patrons to 'check in' using the NHS COVID-19 app to assist with contact tracing

[0] https://www.revk.uk/2020/09/how-not-to-qr-nhs-c19-app.html

FreezingKeeperon Amazon reverses course, expands work-from-home options

> There's nothing that prevents productivity on remote work that can't be handled with the right tools, skills and attitude

Firstly, congrats! It's something I'm working towards myself, and the pandemic looks like it will be a significant opportunity to try and achieve it.

However, perhaps you're minimising your expertise here and the learnings and experience that the employer and the worker need to go through to make it work.

Anything to share here?

FreezingKeeperon Google misled consumers about the collection and use of location data

:s/misled/lied to/g

FreezingKeeperon Some Schools Are Blocking Replit to Prevent Kids from Coding

> I get the feeling you don't pick your battles rationally.

This is most people on HN