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desas··on Passport Photos
Here it's simpler, you fill out the form on your phone, take a picture on your phone and then the passport arrives in the post. Then you eventually sign it after a bored border official passes comment.
desas··on Company named "><SCRIPT SRC=HTTPS://MJT.XSS.HT> LTD" forced to change it (2020)
It's left up to personal judgement of a civil servant. The law isn't code, it doesn't need to exhaustively define every rule. Issues with definitions are dealt with by the courts or by contacting your MP.
desas··on Company named "><SCRIPT SRC=HTTPS://MJT.XSS.HT> LTD" forced to change it (2020)
> there can be a problem with who/how decides what is code.

Blocking names that look like code is part of a defence in depth approach, it's not a standalone silver bullet.

desas··on We're excited about our new roundabout
Oh, I've re-read and you just mean there are two fast paced roundabouts that are close by and they both have two lanes around them.

That wouldn't raise an eyebrow here in the UK, it's very normal for highway junctions to have on/off ramps that end in 2-3 lane roundabouts, one each side of the highway.

desas··on We're excited about our new roundabout
Like the Magic Roundabout in the UK? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdx9nlgk97eo
desas··on Mullenweg threatens corporate takeover of WP Engine
WordPress.com allows plugins on the business and e-commerce plans. Sites with plugins are hosted in isolated environments. This has been the case for years and years.
desas··on Legalizing sports gambling was a mistake
If you watch a football (English premier league) match then you'll see that not only are there gambling ads at the side of the pitch, but the players are running around wearing gambling adverts.
desas··on WordPress.org bans WP Engine

  * https://thephp.foundation/  one of three platinum level sponsors
  * MySQL doesn't take sponsorships afaict
  * https://mariadb.org/about/#stakeholders one of several silver sponsors of MariaDB
  * https://x.com/SlexAxton/status/1839091643338862828 "I was on the board of the jQuery foundation during some of the glory years and @photomatt was the ~largest donor"
desas··on WP Engine is not WordPress
> Cannot upload own themes or plugins at WordPress.com

You can, just not on the free plan, or the two cheapest paid plans.

desas··on London saw a surprising benefit to ultra-low emissions zone: More active kids
> "Their annual health assessments". Is that something everyone, or maybe every student, in the UK has?

No. It's badly phrased in the article but the annual health assessment is something being done as part of this research, nothing bigger

desas··on Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand
In most of the globe it is cheap.
desas··on Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand
You don't have WiFi in your apartment complex?

I agree with you with content changing being one of the many downsides of relying on streaming services. I just think that most people are willing to accept the trade off.

desas··on Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand
I'm sure there's still a large number of people downloading mp3s and other files to permanently store.

But really, how often are people offline? For me it's only when I'm on a flight, and I can prepare for that by using spotify or youtube and pressing the download button on a playlist.

desas··on Markdown is meant to be shown (2021)
Use / for a slash and use // for //italics// and make *bold* match.
desas··on Why is Chile so long?
Relatedly, one of the claims made about the Pirahã people is that they have no words for left and right in their language, instead they orient themselves relative to the river bank.
desas··on London–Calcutta Bus Service
Probably used a ferry just like lots do today.
desas··on Yes, you can play Duck Hunt without a television (but I can't)
You could buy third party guns that had pedals though. I had one that also came with a cool realistic moving thing at the top that made cool shooting sounds when you pulled the trigger....and gave you a massive headache after a while.
desas··on DNA confirms there IS a big cat roaming the British countryside
Do Panthers carry off their prey to eat? It seems surprising that there aren't regular reports of farmers finding sheep that have been half-eaten.
desas··on GPL all the things?
> you can't "dual license" GPL code.

Yes you can, and lots of very popular open source software have done so, including Mozilla, MySQL and QT. RMS also says it is fine: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/selling-exceptions.

> You being the sole developer in all of this is irrelevant.

It's the fundamental point.

If you own the copyright to project A and you own the copyright of some patches to project B then you can combine them however you like and distribute them under whatever licences you like.

GPL governs distribution. As the copyright owner you aren't "distributing" those patches to yourself, so the GPL doesn't apply.

[0] https://www-archive.mozilla.org/mpl/relicensing-faq

[1] https://www.mysql.com/about/legal/licensing/oem/

[2] https://www.qt.io/qt-licensing

desas··on George Stephenson
He's a big figure here in Chesterfield too. He spent the last ten years of his life here.

He was here to build the midlands railway. When he dug the clay cross tunnel he struck coal and iron which started a boom for neighbouring villages. My dad worked for his company until 1998 and I grew up about a mile from the tunnel.

Later, he died at Tapton House - I can see it from my window now, it's also the place where I wrote my first computer program.

The town museum is in the Stephenson Memorial hall and a statue of him is outside the railway station.

desas··on Daylight Saving Time is a perfect test for UI designer
Given everyone has a phone in the pocket and a huge chunk more have a watch on their wrist, what need is there for a "main clock" for the kitchen to be something so awful?
desas··on Apple announces ability to download apps directly from websites in EU
You don't even need Klarna, the Apple website offers 0% 24 months financing for iPhone in the UK.
desas··on The 'banned' Star Trek episode that promised a united Ireland
Why would we want to?
desas··on Suikoden and Eiyuden Chronicles creator Yoshitaka Murayama has died
They announced last October that it wouldn't be released in 2023 but there's been no further details released.

https://www.konami.com/games/genso/rem/1_2/us/en-us/

desas··on Cyclist hit by driverless Waymo car in San Francisco, police say
That escalated quickly.
desas··on How French was medieval England?
Definitely a thing in the UK, it's how the Oxford English Dictionary says it's pronounced (noting that it's different in the US).

I have heard too many people say "jally pea no", but the most frequent pronunciation of jalepeño is with a hard j

desas··on Google is tracking you even in incognito mode, new disclaimer is up
How representative do you think your knowledge is of the web browsing public?
desas··on The Shingle Spit in Whitstable
In a similar kind of vein is the bridleway between Hayling Island and Langstone. You can see most of it at low tide, and there's a post marking it on one side. It's marked on ordnance survey maps as a bridleway too.

The only problem is that even at low tide you need to swim through two sections of it

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1506617

desas··on Switching Things over to Ikiwiki
The import/export is built-in to WordPress. It's under Tools in the menu and you can read more about it here: https://learn.wordpress.org/tutorial/tools-import-and-export...

The file format is called wxr, if you search for [platform name] wxr import/export or [platform name] wordpress import/export you'll find a write-up.

I went from wordpress to Jekyll to Hugo and back to WordPress, importing and exporting my data along the way.

desas··on There Once Was an Empire
Wasn't that also a thing with the first Obama election? Before that, 2000 had Gore vs Bush and the Florida recount.

Is it escalating?

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