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- Comment on Customers of three UK banks report being able to see other people’s accounts on app 1 week ago:
Banks using less secure IT than their customers but having tons of annoying security theatre? Oh, at least 30 years.
- Comment on Customers of three UK banks report being able to see other people’s accounts on app 1 week ago:
Copilot?
- Comment on Customers of three UK banks report being able to see other people’s accounts on app 1 week ago:
Yep, because one of your programmers used it to start sniffing glue, it seems!
- Comment on Revealed: UK’s multibillion AI drive is built on ‘phantom investments’ 1 week ago:
- Comment on Russia-backed hackers breach Signal, WhatsApp accounts of officials, journalists, Netherlands warns 1 week ago:
Are all these officials and journalists grandparents? Or are real people still more gullible than you’d hope?
- Comment on Radio ear-pieces linked to hearing problems in UK police officers 2 weeks ago:
Well, yes, if it’s in-ear, you have to be really careful with the volume, and they’re more annoying to remove and take a break than headphones or bone conductors. I wonder if they’ll do the more accurate tests, or if they’ll fear that could open the door to injury compensation claims.
- Comment on UK fines Reddit $19 million for using children’s data unlawfully 3 weeks ago:
This seems like one of those cases where you wish both sides could lose. Reddit are up to no good, but lack of identity document demands isn’t it.
- Comment on BBC CENSOR “Free Palestine” At BAFTAs, Racial Slurs Allowed 3 weeks ago:
Baftas 2026: BBC apologises for not editing out racial slur shouted by guest with Tourette’s - BBC News – www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz6edwg06n1o
Some are unhappy with how weak the apology is.
- Comment on Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras | TechCrunch 3 weeks ago:
Paint seems easier to detect and remove.
- Comment on Andrew charged taxpayers for massage when envoy, claim ex-civil servants 3 weeks ago:
What were the rules when he did so? Was this mere arrogance and poor taste, or was it effectively stealing from the expenses account?
- Comment on I’m putting tech firms on notice: deal with the appalling abuse of women online – or we will deal with you 4 weeks ago:
Take it off the money they hold in or try to transfer out of the UK, same as some other criminal enterprises. They sell ads and subs here.
- Comment on I’m putting tech firms on notice: deal with the appalling abuse of women online – or we will deal with you 4 weeks ago:
Actually charge them the threatened £ millions or percentage in the online safety act that closed, exiled or scared so many small forums, perhaps?
- Comment on Local reporter ‘shocked’ over picture of his face on punchbag at UK town hall 4 weeks ago:
Far more likely to find the prime minister’s face there than some local journalist’s!
- Comment on Local reporter ‘shocked’ over picture of his face on punchbag at UK town hall 4 weeks ago:
For what?
- Comment on Lobbying firm co-founded by Mandelson on brink of collapse 4 weeks ago:
Global Counsel? Pedo counsel, more like!
There should be a review of all government contracts with their clients or their involvement, including Palantir.
- Comment on Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day 4 weeks ago:
There are countries that joined the EU both before and after Spain that are not NATO members. Membership of one is not a prerequisite for another. If any politicians told you otherwise, ask them why.
- Comment on Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day 4 weeks ago:
The EU was formed not with peace and stability in mind, but with neoliberalism and anticommunism, otherwise it would have never adhered to NATO
The EU is not a NATO member. Many of the EU’s members are also NATO members, but not all.
- Comment on Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day 4 weeks ago:
Fascism is not even Russian funded or American spread, Europe is perfectly capable of growing its own fascism as we saw 100 years ago,
Capable and seen in the past, yes, but the current wave of it is indeed funded and spread by Russians and Americans.
- Comment on Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day 4 weeks ago:
Remember that the EU arose in part from the institutions set up to deter the same type of nationalist fascism rising again, such as the ECSC. Sadly, we may have encouraged Russian -funded American -spread international fascism in its place, although they don’t seem to control the EU yet.
- Comment on Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software 4 weeks ago:
Sacrificed on the profit altar, it would seem.
- Comment on New And Upcoming IRCv3 Features 5 weeks ago:
Is this another “corridors”, the freenode attempt to turn IRC into something incompatible?
- Comment on Peter Mandelson Sold Off Britain to the Super-Rich. He’s Not the Only One 5 weeks ago:
The deal is probably described in some media response from Network Rail or Transport for London. Global Counsel won’t be mentioned. I guess Chase Bank is part of JP Morgan still.
- Comment on Ping! The WhatsApps that should have been an email 5 weeks ago:
You may be relying on Big Tech to provide your Outlook or Gmail account, but you can switch easily if you don’t like it any more.
Microsoft and Google’s “spam” filters (that downscore anyone who isn’t them) make that less easy. I had to jump through hoops to email my mother this week because Microsoft say one of my email hosts has a poor reputation and nothing stops hosts bouncing or shadowbanning any emails they choose.
- Comment on Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK 5 weeks ago:
Only if it stays the hell away from my coffee! 🤮
- Comment on Peter Mandelson Sold Off Britain to the Super-Rich. He’s Not the Only One 5 weeks ago:
Through lobbying firm Global Counsel, Mandelson sold what really matters in modern Britain – access. Global Counsel’s client list reads like a directory of corporate power: JP Morgan, Accenture, Palantir, Shell, Nestlé, Anglo American.
And the government will be reassessing those companies’ contracts Real Soon Now.
- Comment on Alton Towers bans people with anxiety from using disability pass 1 month ago:
Merlin run lots of stuff, including Sealife and Warwick Castle. I’ll avoid the lot.
- Comment on Alton Towers bans people with anxiety from using disability pass 1 month ago:
So Merlin Entertainment basically thinks it knows better than doctors, some disabilities aren’t real and it’s fine to make people with severe anxiety stand in line until they suffer an attack. Lovely(!) Somewhere mistreating people with mental health issues is not a place I’ll go for fun.
- Comment on Facial recognition error: Customer misidentified by Sainsbury's 1 month ago:
And the dataset is prbably racist, although in the reported case, it sounds like good old unreliable cross-race recognition by humans, with the evil eye pinging because it spotted someone and the store staff then telling the wrong person to naff off. It seems like a process or training failure if they don’t ask the evil eye to confirm they’ve got the person it flagged before upsetting them.
- Comment on Should I be using Debian? 1 month ago:
In the stable repo, but there are backports, testing and unstable repos too, if you want later versions and accept more risk of bugs.
- Comment on Coastal road swept away into the sea in Devon 1 month ago:
Because that’s a freshwater lake on the inland side with interesting wildlife. Letting the sea in is a big call.
