BigTwerp

@BigTwerp@feddit.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Fair phone with eos is the “least evil” option but you won’t be able to use most banking apps or contactless payment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The $700 you give Google for a pixel is only going to erode your privacy further and personally I wouldn’t trust any device made by them, regardless of the OS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK agrees to let US use British bases to strike Iranian sites targeting Strait of Hormuz⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Iran launched drones at the UK bases on Cyprus and Riyadh long before any announcement that the UK would let the US use them.

  I’m definitely opposed to the war with Iran but let’s put facts first; Iran through their proxies have been indiscriminately firing on ships in the gulf for nearly a decade and when the US and Israel attacked them they launched missiles and drones at pretty much every cluster of buildings near to the Gulf with no concern for what they might hit or any apparent strategy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK agrees to let US use British bases to strike Iranian sites targeting Strait of Hormuz⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You correct lies with facts and evidence. Got any?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK agrees to let US use British bases to strike Iranian sites targeting Strait of Hormuz⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes there’s currently live updates on BBC and a couple of articles. Why would you ask?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Customers of three UK banks report being able to see other people’s accounts on app⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s all very well but 1) I’m reading this using firefox with clean cookies and.ublock origin and the block is still there. And 2) a cookie paywall is a defacto paywall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Customers of three UK banks report being able to see other people’s accounts on app⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For those of you wondering if you might have been affected but can’t find out because the article is paywalled: Lloyds, Bank of Scotland and Halifax are the ones affected.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Royal Mail criticised as first-class stamp price rises to £1.80 despite ‘failing service’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Things you never knew existed: priceofastamp.co.uk

  It looks like stamp prices have increased slightly above inflation but when you consider how few letters are actually sent since a stamp was a few pence it kind of makes sense. You can send a letter from one end of the country to another for £1.65 and I don’t think that’s too bad!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is a life and death story for the UK – so why is it being brushed under the carpet?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe because no-one knows about it because whatever it is is locked behind a privacy wall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to pay someone to create an excel sheet for me?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is something that CoPilot or ChatGPT is actually good at. Depending how messy your data is you might need to several iterations to get what you want and you will need to cross check the results. If you can, use a pdf editor to delete all the information you don’t want. I use foxit for this. Foxit can also save a pdf as excel but if the tables are an image or are complex it will not format very well at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NHS waiting list at lowest level in three years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting to see what happens when people vaguely competent are running the show, isn’t it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Britain’s High Court says government acted illegally in outlawing protest group Palestine Action⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Abolishing trial by jury: why is the government overlooking the obvious?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A good article as ever by the Secret Barrister.

  I do think though, that TSB faith in Judges, CPS lawyers, Barristers, to accept even miniscule changes to the current status quo is misplaced. They are very entrenched in their ways and resist change.

  Part of me wonders whether the sledgehammer approach is intended to shake them out of their inertia so they might accept actual pragmatic changes to the system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any cultures where kissing is taboo?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is completely at odds with my experience living in India! Does it vary between regions?