It’s from this report https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69411a3eadb5707d9f33d7e8/E03512978_-_Un-Act_The_National_Security_Act_in_2024_Accessible.pdf

I emailed my MP about this before Christmas and am yet to get a reply

Obtainium can solve that. It will check websites for updates and then download the new apk and install it. I use it more than fdroid now, can get apk straight from the developers github repo usually.

Sort of related, I was fact checking some of the content on my own website that had been provided by someone who later turned out to be less than reliable.

There was one claim I was completely unable to find a source for and suspected it was an AI hallucination. Turned to chatgpt and tried to find a source with that and it provided nearly the exact same sentence and cited my website as the source thus completing the hallucination cycle.

I just deleted it all from my site and started over.

I have to use windows at work, have 32gb and regularly get browser tabs unloaded for low memory. I’m not running VMs or anything. Usually just Firefox, visual studio, and slack.

Personal computer is Linux with 16gb and that’s more than enough.

I’ve found the same thing. I’ve turned off the auto suggestions while tying because by the time I’m typing i already know what I’m going I’m to type and having mostly incorrect suggestions popping up every 2 seconds was distracting and counterproductive.

I just got a phone case that holds my debit card in the back and turned off NFC.

I do this. I already had a cloud vps with a vpn on it for remote access so i figured i might as well set it up to route traffic as well.

Still get loads of sites blocking me

Yes, you need the sandboxed Play services and have to gove it a few extra permissions but it works fine after that.

Helped a disabled pensioner recently with her phone that kept plaging loud obnoxious ads at her even while locked.

She had 4 different “virus scanners” that were all fake adware.

It doesn’t say that. The potential fine the higher of 23M or 10%. Not that 23M is 10%

Yeah, people trying to downplay it are as “just a tweet” are also pieces of shit. The way she said it is irrelevant.

What is relevant is that as she was calling for hotels full of people to set on fire, there were people trying to set hotels on fire.

She called for people to be murdered, then others attempted it, she got off lightly.

Yeah there was a period about 15-20 years ago when they were good, I used to get working codes all the time.

I can’t remember the last time I got one that worked.

Now apply this to literally everything else. There’s a tech company inserting itself into every industry that worked fine without them, extracting money from both sides.

My local pizza place is 40% more expensive on takeaway apps, or i can just phone them directly.

Not in the US, our water infrastructure was sold off in 90s but that makes sense. Was probably something similar They held us to it though so they overpaid for hardware beyond their needs and we forced the software to run slower

That would make sense, i hadn’t put that together but they had a lot of embedded control systems. This was water treatment but entirely separate from the control systems but i can see them having that a standard requirement

Did a project several years where the customrr required that the server we delivered specifically for the project never use more than 50% CPU or RAM. No requirements about how fast it actually performs its intended function, just that it can only utilise half the available resources while doing it.

This is my experience. It saves a bit of typing sometimes but that’s probably cancelled out by the time spent correcting it, rewriting nonsense it produced, and reviewing my corworkers PRs that didn’t notice the nonsense.

I did this once, it was legitimate but he refused to tell me even what department he called from. I said i wasn’t going to give personal into to an incoming call and i wasn’t calling back unless i knew why. He ended up mailing me a letter instead.

I almost got scammed a few years ago by being called about fraudulent activity the day after i reported fraudulent activities, in hindsight I think they just got lucky with timing, but I take no chances now.

Ever noticed how decades ago if someone defeated a bank’s security we called it bank robbery, but now it’s called identity theft and we get blamed for it.

My last job did this. They offered more for those who had worked there longer. People with over 15 years got about a years pay and they all took it. People who had been there under a year got nothing so they all stayed.

I was going to take then they withdrew the offer for all devs. I think a lot tried to take it and they realised no one would be left. I would have got 3-4 months pay. Loads of institutional knowledge lost though, i left anyway a few months later.

Since before bitcoin we’ve had Faster Payments in UK. I can transfer money directly to anyone else’s bank account and it’s effectively instant. It’s also free. Venmo and cashapp don’t serve a purpose here.