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shaoonb··on An update on how we confirm your age group on Discord
Still required to use a video or ID card in the UK.
shaoonb··on iPhone Duo
Why not get a significantly cheaper (and much nicer for reading in my opinion) e-ink ereader?
shaoonb··on UK rail minister got engineer sacked for raising safety concerns
The capacity limit is the number of tracks. There are 4 AC and 2 DC tracks on the line out of Euston and they are also used for freight trains as well as the Bakerloo line.
shaoonb··on Ad-tech setting 'Privacy-Preserving Attribution' is opt-out in Firefox 128
Using "he" as default is just as much of a political stance as using "they" as default. The fact that whoever rejected this PR thinks that pronouns are "political" gives me a pretty good guess as to their overall political leanings.
shaoonb··on The Airbus A340 was built to rule long-haul travel, but now it’s vanishing
The 787, A380, and A220 have all had no fatal accidents. No accidents at all for the A220.
shaoonb··on European Court of Human Rights bans weakening of secure end-to-end encryption
I believe both your examples are ones where the UK did not follow the decision of the ECHR.
shaoonb··on How a software glitch at the UK Post Office ruined lives
I find it shocking that this has been known about for so long, but only now that there was a TV drama about it is it actually being addressed. It came up in the news and I thought "what, I remember hearing about this 5 years ago, surely it's been sorted out by now?"
shaoonb··on Alaska Airlines 737 Max makes emergency landing due to depressurization
Was this screed written by an AI?
shaoonb··on New UK record for wind power set today – 21.81 GW between 0900-0930 GMT
Didn't know this site existed. Way better than the Octopus app.
shaoonb··on ‘Blue lights’ flash in sky moments before Morocco earthquake
I remember a while back there was a Twitter account called "Hacker News Onion". My favourite headline: Developer accused of unreadable code refuses to comment.
shaoonb··on The End of Cheap Europe Flights? France Proposes EU-Wide Minimum Price
What airlines let you take pets and bicycles for free?
shaoonb··on Petition to stop France from forcing browsers like Firefox to censor websites
Presumably they could ban the sites that host these non-compliant browsers (whack-a-mole for sure), and/or make it illegal to have one installed on your computer.
shaoonb··on WeWork Warns of Possible Bankruptcy
My company recently moved from a wework equivalent to a much cheaper serviced office. A few less of the flashy features and perhaps a slightly less prestigious address (5 minutes down the road) for a third of the price.
shaoonb··on British Gas starts to turn off Hive smart home devices forever
It's probably there in the fine print somewhere. Maybe if it was required to be very clearly marked on the packaging like cigarette warning labels.
shaoonb··on The papers were not ready for publication
You can't really play the space sim either.
shaoonb··on UK retail electricity prices hit -19p/kWh today
The most common tariff that offers these prices is capped at 100p/kWh (about 3-4x higher than the standard price). I've been on it for about 3 months and I never saw anything higher than the standard price.
shaoonb··on Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit
Not particularly. I spun up accounts on quite a few different lemmy instances yesterday when certain instances were getting hammered by traffic spikes. Things seem to have settled down now, but it seems like jumping to a new account is very easy. I worry that it will make it harder to deal with trolls and spammers though if they can just create a new account on another instance at will.
shaoonb··on Why do railway tracks have crushed stones alongside them?
Expansion gaps limit the speed the trains can run at.
shaoonb··on Source code for Glider Pro (1994)
Has there been any progress on getting this running on modern operating systems?
shaoonb··on The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release
Scarlet and Violet was as much an optimisation problem as a hardware problem.
shaoonb··on Spotify's redesign isn't going down well
I doubt anyone who can do anything about it will read this, but if I get a single piece of autoplaying media that I didn't choose, I'm ditching Spotify that day.
shaoonb··on Amazon funds seaweed farming at offshore wind farm to test CO2 capture
Is it easier to capture carbon from decomposition than directly from the atmosphere? If so that could be how this works.
shaoonb··on GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices
Honest question: how can devaluing the dollar be deflationary?
shaoonb··on Docker 2.0 went from $11M to $135M in 2 years
Can't speak for anyone else, but my company is migrating away from Docker Desktop to Rancher in order to save money. We'll see how well that goes.
shaoonb··on How transportation technologies shaped empires
Have you read much Le Guin by any chance? This is a theme I've seen in her work.
shaoonb··on Iranian attack drone found to contain parts from more than a dozen US companies
What is the other choice?
shaoonb··on What free, ad-supported Uber rides might look like
Public transport is covered in ads, has a much higher ridership than rideshares (i.e. has many more eyeballs to sell, and much lower per-user costs) and isn't even close to being profitable from ad revenue.
shaoonb··on Inflation is falling much faster than most people know
It's a positive thing to hear that the car behind the one that hit you is braking.
shaoonb··on FTC restores rigorous enforcement of law banning unfair methods of competition
I think the parent comment was talking about a loyalty card discount at a supermarket that (I assume) only exists in the UK and Ireland.
shaoonb··on Musk’s first email to Twitter staff ends remote work
That's your choice. I would love to be within 15 minutes walk of my office, but I can't realistically afford it, so the choice of a longer commute is made for me.
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