ianovic69
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- Comment on Farage urges Zelenskiy to seek Ukraine peace deal with Russia 5 days ago:
I don’t know about anyone else here, but I don’t want to hear about his latest stunts and I particularly don’t want to have to see his mug.
Can we keep anything to do with him away from here and leave it in the political communities please?
- Comment on BBC News - Stonehenge covered in powder paint by Just Stop Oil 1 week ago:
No publicity is bad publicity, especially when you are trying to remind people what the world is being destroyed by.
Sites of human history have no significance if there are no humans.
- Comment on BBC News - Stonehenge covered in powder paint by Just Stop Oil 1 week ago:
And that response right there, that’s why we are all fucked.
I read today that major banks are starting to move investments away from fossil fuels. Your mentality has about as much foresight.
“Self-centred,” the fucking irony.
- Comment on Spotify’s HiFi add-on could cost an extra $5 per month 2 weeks ago:
Code spotted within the Spotify app last year also suggests that the tier could come with 24-bit lossless audio
At 44.1k, 16bit is CD quality which is perfectly good enough. But no, dupe people into paying more for something they can’t use. Typical.
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- Comment on Sainsbury's staff beat up shoplifter after dragging him into the back room 1 month ago:
It absolutely amazes me that grown adults willingly put themselves in danger for the sake of a company that specifically instructs them not to, and therefore obviously does not care about them.
HR can and will hang them out to dry without any comebacks.
It’s disgusting and I tell staff this when they join and I repeat it often.
And they still do it. Which can end up with having an investigation and dismissal. You can’t help some people.
- Comment on Breaking: Samsung Pulls Out of Israel Amid Moral and Economic Decline 1 month ago:
If this is what it looks like, then it’s about fucking time. Hopefully others will follow and it won’t be too late.
- Comment on Google Search is getting even worse for independent sites 1 month ago:
SearX
- Comment on Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time? 1 month ago:
At the time when I was using computers and keyboards at work, and even played Typing of the Dead occasionally, I would probably have struggled to get anywhere near 40wpm.
So not fast at all, but also not slow on mobile. I wonder if there’s a test?
- Comment on Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time? 1 month ago:
Retrain your fingers! Seriously though, muscle memory is a big factor. Get out the habit of typing the next letter, if the word is there just use it. Iirc, this is how they beat speed typing records.
- Comment on Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time? 1 month ago:
I don’t know, I’ve used Gboard for so long I don’t notice if it’s good or bad. I swipe and it almost always works first time, if not it’s got the word suggested.
If it gets stuck, I start typing the keys and it usually suggests what I want. Same if I get stuck.
Sometimes I use speech to text, which works about the same and often better. If I could master punctuation with it, I would use it all the time.
When I type on a full size keyboard, it’s shit and takes forever. The speed on mobile is one of the main reasons I try not to use anything else. I can type at about the same rate as I can think of what I want to say. Tapping my fingers, I would have forgotten what I wanted to say before I could finish typing it.
I’m really just typing now for fun and to see how many words I can get into a comment before it becomes dull.
But then again, I never was very good at typing. Maybe that’s why it’s so much faster for me with a virtual keyboard.
- Comment on Promoted on TikTok, ‘No Thanks’ boycott app targets products tied to Israel 2 months ago:
Screenshot from Google Play.
- Comment on The Man Who Killed Google Search 2 months ago:
I’ve been using foss.family for a little while with good results.
You have to spend a bit of time selecting and using different instances before you find one that suits you. I tried about three before this one and I don’t think I’ll need to change again.
- Comment on Rwanda bill set to become law after protracted stand-off with Lords 2 months ago:
I hate this government more by the day. Cleverly even said more bullshit about stopping boats, the cunt.
- Comment on UK ‘double counting’ £500m of aid for war-torn countries as climate finance 2 months ago:
I…I can’t believe they would do that!
- Comment on Handy guide for today's eclipse. 2 months ago:
Amazing. Those few moments when everything seems to stop and go quiet have stayed with me.
- Comment on Handy guide for today's eclipse. 2 months ago:
I too am in the Midlands and also went to Cornwall in '99.
We should start a Missed the Eclipse club or something. At least in Cornwall we got to experience the daytime darkness.
- Comment on UK secretly softens policy on Chinese firms accused of human rights abuse 3 months ago:
Of course. They aren’t going to let silly things like human rights get in the way of bungs and profits.
- Comment on Killed by Google / #Keen | Expand your interests 3 months ago:
G+ refugee here. It was amazing for photography. Went there because Flikr didn’t do it for me, particularly the Android app. Ended up at Reddit. Still not really sharing my photos but the photo communities here are pretty good.
- Comment on Evangelical app 'Bless Every Home' is mapping personal information of immigrants and non-Christians in a bid to conduct door-to-door religious conversions and “prayerwalking” rituals targeting them. 3 months ago:
And a baby! Yummmm…
- Comment on The DMA already having an impact. Brave Browser installs surge after introduction of browser choice splash screen on iOS. 3 months ago:
Cool icon? iOS users? Surely not!
- Comment on Ex-Activision CEO Bobby Kotick looks to buy TikTok amid shutdown fears - Dexerto 3 months ago:
Only case would be if you work in government, but even then, it’d only be a problem if you’re using an unsecured device that also has Tiktok on it to do secret government stuff on, which would probably get you super-fired and possibly prosecuted in itself…
Ah the good old days, where here in Blitey that would have been the case.
These days that kind of thing gets you promoted to Minister for Digital Communications or even just Prime Minister.
“It also emerged that all messages on Boris Johnson’s phone were wiped in April 2021, after it emerged his number had been freely available on the internet for 15 years.”
- Comment on Smokey's Simple Guide To Search Engine Alternatives 3 months ago:
I just did this and it seems to work perfectly! Thanks mate.
- Comment on Warning of almost 20 years of pay stagnation 3 months ago:
I’m on Android so YMMV, but I use Firefox with uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger.
But I’m mostly interested in removing ads and junk from my browsing.
- Comment on Warning of almost 20 years of pay stagnation 3 months ago:
Looks fine to me?
- Comment on 4 months ago:
“new”
- Comment on UK tips into recession in huge blow to Rishi Sunak 4 months ago:
huge blow
Michael Gove has entered the chat
- Comment on Councils call for pavement parking to be banned across England 4 months ago:
It’s how I read it. ~Because it starts out using must and cites London, it doesn’t make sense to then add elsewhere and use must again.~
And now I’ve read your quote and written out the above, I’ve definitely misread the rule.
And I know why. Other replies to my comment alluded to it but it’s only now I understand. I didn’t begin with the term must as being anything to do with criminal prosecution.
To me, it says you can’t park on a pavement in London or when signposted else where, and you can be given a fine for doing so.
I don’t see how receiving a fine makes you a criminal so I didn’t consider it in those terms.
My mistake, but it’s poorly worded. For example -
Rule 130
Areas of white diagonal stripes or chevrons painted on the road. These are to separate traffic lanes or to protect traffic turning right.
>If the area is bordered by a broken white line, you should not enter the area unless it is necessary and you can see that it is safe to do so. >If the area is marked with chevrons and bordered by solid white lines you MUST NOT enter it except in an emergency.
That’s a much more clear distinction. But I don’t see anyone being made a criminal for the second part. It doesn’t describe an act that would have you arrested and prosecuted with the threat of prison.
I’ll be taking this up with them and I’ll use all these examples to see if we can get them to make the wording less confusing.
Because if I have to drive around constantly worried that I could go to prison for crossing a line, I’ll give up driving, sell my car and retire early. Fuck that.
- Comment on Councils call for pavement parking to be banned across England 4 months ago:
The Highway Code?
- Comment on Councils call for pavement parking to be banned across England 4 months ago:
Yes, best practice. There’s a lot of talk here about the law, which I never mentioned.
You don’t get a criminal record when you receive a fine for a parking offence.
