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It's possibly more likely that people mis-attribute the cause of an outage to the wrong providers when they use downdetector.

Generation might be a slight misnomer, but it's conceptually the same as pumped storage - grid capacity that can be called upon as necessary.

These are typically stations that are outside of London. If you reach the destination station, you'd probably need to appeal to the kindness of staff members who attend the ticket barrier (if there is one), who might ask someone to buy a ticket or pay a penalty fare. But it's functionally equivalent to traveling without a ticket at all.

You'd also have to pay a default charge for an incomplete journey on the PAYG ticket, but you could potentially appeal to have this reversed.

It's usually made pretty clear on train announcements that you're leaving the contactless PAYG fare zone.

> If that happened, I'd expect Safari to drop like a stone

Chrome and Firefox are already on iOS – if they're allowed to swap out their rendering engine, is this something customers will actually care about?

From the Independent (and presumably elsewhere):

> Meta said it has cooperated with regulators and pointed to its announced plans to give Europeans the opportunity to consent to data collection and, later this month, to offer an ad-free subscription service in Europe that will cost 9.99 euros ($10.59) a month for access to all its products

> Tobias Judin, head of the international section at the Norwegian Data Protection Authority, said Meta's proposed steps likely won't meet European legal standards. For instance, he said, consent would have to be freely given, which wouldn't be the case if existing users had to choose between giving up their privacy rights or paying a financial penalty in the form of a subscription.

The suggestion might be that Trustcor received an internal build of the SDK because of their close links to the company. Perhaps the developer who worked on the mobile app also worked for the company behind the SDK?

Rachel’s suggestion in the thread is that the other examples of this SDK that have been observed obfuscated are much more recent, and that perhaps obfuscation was something the company has started doing more recently.

> Want to own the unique special edition sword with rare attributes in the Zelda-verse or the uber lazer in your favorite open world space game?

Isn't my favourite open world space game ultimately managed by a centralised developer, creating a centralised game; and recognition of my "ownership" only as meaningful as the developer happy for it to be?

Put it another way, what difference is there for me as a user compared to "owning" a ship in my open-world space game today?

It was, yes. The SDK for App Tracking permissions has been there since 14.0. The change in 14.5 is that using the new APIs (and getting user permission) is now mandatory.

They employ 17,000 field staff as part of the census: https://census.gov.uk/jobs/

> Cost of running a few trial runs of one 10,000 house town or city to perfect the process: £100k

The census trial ran in four local authority areas each with populations in the hundreds of thousands.

If everyone answered their one letter I'm sure the census would be a lot cheaper, but I think most of the real cost comes from employing thousands of people who go around the country knocking on the doors of those who haven't responded yet.

They ran a trial for the online census at the end of last year, and it looks in pretty sensible shape. I think it's being delivered internally.

It's been pretty standard for the last several years that the ~.3/4 Xcode point release increases the minimum macOS version.

On iOS certificates will be validated by CFNetwork provided you haven't disabled ATS.

The first GDPR fines handed down by the ICO have been hundreds of millions of pounds for negligent breaches - I don't think it would be out of the realm of possibility for breaches by _design_ to result in multi-billion pound fines.

I think that a design constraint on these apps is that the ticket _reader_ also is expected to work offline.

Embedding a particular SDK doesn't necessarily mean that there's a GDPR violation?

Shockingly it's not been scrapped - the deep tube programme is, to some extent, unscrappable.

They're currently due to enter service in about five years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Tube_for_London

Which of the businesses they've dropped is this true for? Few of the examples I can think of were market leaders when they were dropped, and none of those were monopolising the market completely.

The whole context of Google introducing this functionality was for the 60% of businesses that don't yet have an online presence at all.

GDPR is pretty clear that a users “right to be forgotten” isn’t absolute and that businesses should be weighing up (and documenting) a users right to privacy against their other legal obligations.

If her scone business started accepting payments by card then I think it should be held to the similar standards as larger businesses when it comes to securing card details.

Which is kind of what GDPR wants to do for personal data: if you want to collect it from me, there are a minimum set of standards that you need to adhere to because it’s my data.

If your company is not targeting the EU as a market you are out of scope of GDPR.

If you explicitly accept Sterling/Euros, provide localisations for EU countries, talk explicitly about your EU shipping options etc. then you would probably be seen as accommodating the EU market and might find yourself in scope.

I think cities are only interested in banning older diesels that don't meet Euro-5 or Euro-6.

Is the current plan actually for mass transit or just point-to-point rather exclusive transit?

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2017/12/what-elon-mus... was doing the rounds a few weeks ago

> "Can you type the language we're using, and can you answer questions pertaining to the job at hand?"

Genuine question: are all of your co-workers who are best to work with, those that provide most value to yourself and the company, those with the greatest technical proficiency for the job in hand?

I'd suggest that for most jobs the ability to work well with other people in a team to approach the problem is as, if not more important, than the technical proficiencies of the individuals involved. The inter-personal stuff is really, really important.

That doesn't seem to support "everybody has equal opportunity" at all.

It's pretty well established [0] that the circumstances of ones birth - race, wealth and, yes, gender are a key determining factor in your expected life outcomes. Equal opportunities are emphatically not available to all.

[0] - http://www.pewtrusts.org/~/media/legacy/uploadedfiles/pcs_as...

Do you think lots of the complaints would go away if publishers could opt-out (or opt-in, but that seems more fanciful) of the CDN preloading? Obviously you'd lose those attendant benefits from the CDN, but there still seems to be a lot of gain from the spec.

I believe those are temperatures in the actual tunnels, a passenger's experience in a crowded tube car will be quite a bit warmer!

Waterside is absolutely able to accommodate a dev team.

> it was genuinely a good idea as a hiring practice

There's been enough discussion about how fundamentally broken the current recruitment process is (in tech) that this doesn't seem much worse.