mjr

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Much more likely to be the phone vendor not releasing this “absolutely basic functionality” to customisers. Some vendors hate their customers having freedoms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not so informative without any idea of your age and thereby the ages of your examples.

  Many of them could still follow the assembly/card insertion instruction sheet with pictures that comes in the mail from the phone company, even without knowing which part is called a SIM.

  And maybe your area’s phone stores aren’t as notorious for overcharging as the UK’s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You can buy an eSim adapter online for ~$15 off sites such as AliExpress.

  And does it share with Chinese intelligence only, or the NSA too? 😉

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It says €14.99/month for life. And why is eircom now an Irish branch of a Jersey company? Tax dodging?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  In most countries, getting a phone in a store is something done only by people happy to pay lots extra for a little human help, surely? The average user now signs up online and gets a phone in the mailbox.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Or much of the world never had a similar malfunctioning telco.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Number of people who say Britons must be born in UK is rising, study shows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s soooo many reasons to exile him besides that!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Number of people who say Britons must be born in UK is rising, study shows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  As media pushes 3 main parties to start pushing fascist ideology. Media “acts” surprised.

  Fixed that for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI content on Wikipedia - found via a simple ISBN checksum calculator (39C3)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Not watched yet, but I suspect AI edits are using hallucinated citations with ISBNs that don’t even pass a checksum test. AI may improve on this if someone trains them about ISBNs better, but it’s cool if this sort of test weeds some slop out for now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Out of the frying pan, into the Brave fire. You might want to look at the controversy around Brave, if you haven’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Vivaldi’s core reason can be summarised as

  when it comes to large projects that have been around for ages or are household names, people might not even notice the fork. But with Vivaldi’s relatively smaller footprint, we could be easier to overshadow, making our brand more vulnerable.

  They put their brand before user security and sustainability. And still have the gall to claim to be ethical. Sorry but that’s absurd. If imagined how it looks from outside their firm, they might wake up. Instead, they’ll probably putter along for a while, then get bought or fail or change direction or something, and their browser will be lost like the Presto Opera before them.

  None are so cursed as those who fail to learn from history.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Anthony is a she?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Denmark wants to ban VPNs to unlock foreign, illegal streams – and experts are worried⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The EU that seems to be considering the evil “chat control” law to spy on everyone’s private messages? Yeah, right. Von der Leyen is a snooper at heart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No mention of enforcement in that article. No kids getting fined or arrested for using VPNs or buying accounts off others. This law is primarily a Trojan horse to build the ID document and facial recognition databases and smash the scourge of anonymous people criticising governments and oligarchs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Professional means available for hire, doesn’t it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rachel Reeves Says Progressive People Should Be Zionists⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  😲 Does she think she’s progressive? 🤣🤣🤣

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that’s fair. In a minority of cases, with a certain app and needs to modify it to do your task, it may be true. Still rare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So the claim is it’s easier to Claudge a whole new app than to make a personal fork of one that works? Sounds unlikely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Perverts!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I get followers on mastodon (or any other non-thread social media)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, dunno who hounded them out. It’s not usually like that. I’d be reporting some accounts and blocking for that level of unkind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung smart fridges have started displaying ads⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Another alternative is to remove the internet access from your fridge.

  I wonder if they say that invalidates the warranty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare goes again⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We just want this sheet to work as sold. It’s arguably evil, but boss decides to use it anyway, then it doesn’t even work right. Like, what was the point?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare goes again⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t know the difference between their ? and their unwrap, it seemed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patients clogging up A&E with hiccups, sore throats and niggles⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically, we only have private-sector GPs, but most work mainly under contract to the NHS. This is a consequence of how the NHS was created in the 1940s.

  Some offer private services too and some only do private work, but try it for yourself. Throw a pin in a map of England and try to make a private primary care appointment. You’ll often end up in the nearest city or large town, maybe 30-50 miles away if not on the big city spine. Not convenient, and then there’s the cost, often £150-200 for a first short appointment urgent package. Unless you’re already subscribed to private healthcare at “from £11.32 to £127.89 per month” to quote one private mutual, it’s not an option for most people (and why should it be needed if we’ve paid our National Insurance…)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patients clogging up A&E with hiccups, sore throats and niggles⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It should be just part of the NHS website

  Should it, though? Do you want central government knowing when you’re seeing your doctor? Perhaps even controlling your access?

  Government should maybe provide templates, software, certificates and so on, but not hosting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patients clogging up A&E with hiccups, sore throats and niggles⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, good luck with that. GP businesses ignore this requirement widely, the Care Boards are too dysfunctional to make them comply and the Department of Health seems too broken to fix the Care Boards. The new government seems to be starting to fix things, but it’s like turning a charging mammoth around and the Treasury don’t really want to give them enough pull anyway because the right-wing press are trying to scare financiers already about how much they’re spending.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patients clogging up A&E with hiccups, sore throats and niggles⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of England cut their urgent care clinics during the last Tory decade of cuts, so that option isn’t here any more, mostly, which is why ERs are having to handle those patients, which they aren’t intended for.

  Maybe the flu itself can’t be treated, but some of the complications can be lethal if not treated and that’s what scares people into seeking help.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patients clogging up A&E with hiccups, sore throats and niggles⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My GP no longer handles eye care. We have to phone an ‘urgent eye service’ on the other side of the country, send phone pics and so on. They then send the prescription to the pharmacy online. If you need to be seen in person, either you go to a hospital clinic within 24h if it’s urgent, or get a GP appointment weeks later when it’s irrelevant, in my experience. Guess I got treated sooner and didn’t have to deal with as much transport while I couldn’t see properly, but it all felt a bit inefficient and impersonal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patients clogging up A&E with hiccups, sore throats and niggles⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps, if those are appointment types are needed and wanted, but mainly ending the choice between wardialling and too-long waits. It sucks that you phone up at 9am and get told to call at 8 tomorrow if you’ve not got so ill you go to A&E or a private clinic if you can. Ill people often can’t control their sleep and primary care should be run with more consideration for the patients, not mainly operator convenience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta starts kicking Australian children off Instagram and Facebook⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Correction: they think they’ve won, but only because they’re clueless.