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- Comment on Apple rolls out mandatory UK age verification with iOS 26.4, requiring users to provide a credit card or ID, a first in Europe, after UK government pressure 2 weeks ago:
And now you have once, do you think you’ve got away with it, Basil?
- Comment on Apple rolls out mandatory UK age verification with iOS 26.4, requiring users to provide a credit card or ID, a first in Europe, after UK government pressure 2 weeks ago:
I think you can get eSIM adapters for phones without one built in, but I’ve not bothered yet, so I might have misunderstood.
- Comment on Apple rolls out mandatory UK age verification with iOS 26.4, requiring users to provide a credit card or ID, a first in Europe, after UK government pressure 2 weeks ago:
Why not? I thought swapping was promoted as a benefit of eSIM.
- Comment on Apple rolls out mandatory UK age verification with iOS 26.4, requiring users to provide a credit card or ID, a first in Europe, after UK government pressure 2 weeks ago:
And Apple don’t accept passports as ID, so complaints are rolling in from non-drivers without current credit cards, who tend to be younger and in big cities. Apple just took a big shot at their foot.
- Comment on Customers of three UK banks report being able to see other people’s accounts on app 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Copilot?
- Comment on Customers of three UK banks report being able to see other people’s accounts on app 4 weeks 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’ 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Russia-backed hackers breach Signal, WhatsApp accounts of officials, journalists, Netherlands warns 4 weeks 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 5 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Paint seems easier to detect and remove.
- Comment on Andrew charged taxpayers for massage when envoy, claim ex-civil servants 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
For what?
- Comment on Lobbying firm co-founded by Mandelson on brink of collapse 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Sacrificed on the profit altar, it would seem.
- Comment on New And Upcoming IRCv3 Features 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 months ago:
Merlin run lots of stuff, including Sealife and Warwick Castle. I’ll avoid the lot.
