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@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk Did you ever get a response from 1Password?
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Oh well... #Santander started charging a monthly account fee on my "free business banking for life" bank account, so I'm switching to another bank. #Revolut looked interesting, offered £100 credit for opening a business account for them. They fell at the first hurdle - in order to open an account with them you need to install an #Android app which refuses to run on a #rooted phone. Time to find a different bank then.
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@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social is it really too big to fail? Do we care if a bunch of overextended companies go to the wall and some clueless investors lose their shirts?
(Although integrating things like SpaceX and xAI together into a single company does sound silly to me - plenty of opportunity for xAI to sink SpaceX when the AI bubble pops)
@guyjantic@infosec.exchange @fesshole@mastodon.social The smoke alarm is forever known as the "llama" here.
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@idlebrain@infosec.exchange @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social if I were to guess, "no additional supply planned" is because:
- Setting up a new fab costs $billions;
- Would take years to come online; and
- When the AI bubble bursts, there will be no demand for the new capacity and no one wants to be left with $billions worth of stranded assets.
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@revk@toot.me.uk @snaprails@cupoftea.social I never understood why the call didn't clear as soon as either end hung up. There are some security problems with allowing the call to stay up after hangup!
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@bloor@bloor.tw My ID.3 starts turning down the regen at about 85-90% I think (depends on battery temp), but it does still regen at 100%. Presumably it is charging up the top-buffer of the battery, and I guess it has to stop eventually but I've not had the opportunity to charge at the top of a very big hill and then regen all the way down. :)
Interestingly I did 95 miles on 38% of the battery on Sunday, whereas the same journey in the winter would be over 50%, necessitating a charge before coming home.
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@wendyhk@mastodon.green @DarcMoughty@infosec.exchange @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social well if AI "successfully" does all our jobs for us, the economy will require significant reimagining. Capitalism cannot work if the only people with any money are the bosses of AI companies.
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@AeonCypher@lgbtqia.space @alexadeswift@lgbtqia.space @thatfrisiangirlish@blahaj.zone @alice@lgbtqia.space err, I don't believe that is true. Personal data is still personal data, no matter where you got it. Please can you cite the clause in #GDPR that says it doesn't apply?
@fesshole@mastodon.social you know you can buy cars that don't need you to fill them up with diesel/petrol, right?
@vwdasher@weird.autos @serichards@mas.to I was seriously tempted to spend the night in the co-op - they have air conditioning and ice cream.
@andyprice@mastodon.social Oops, very happy it isn't that hot!
@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk Thanks for this. How are they still getting this so wrong - the CTIRU list might sometimes be a bit of a mess, but it is at least a machine readable list of URIs, surely the sanctions list could have been piggybacked onto that existing infrastructure!
BTW, your blog has mangled the dashes in the punycode into emdash/endash.
RUS3052 has a couple of paths within t.me and a YouTube channel (which as you point out, an ISP is not going to be able to block, but some of us are in a position to)
@revk@toot.me.uk Designed to survive a nuclear war, not designed to survive capitalism.
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@kaasbaas@mastodon.africa @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social incentive to pay attention to your investments and not just allow some fund manager to stick all your money into a single high risk bubble!
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@nini@oldbytes.space @wendyhk@mastodon.green @DarcMoughty@infosec.exchange @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social Do you think we will find out who's made of cake, like the French did in their revolution?
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@danlyke@researchbuzz.masto.host @revk@toot.me.uk a local "milk vending machine" does pasteurised unhomogenised milk. I don't particularly want raw milk but I wish unhomogenised was more common.
Why oh why is everyone switching to "passwordless logins"?
"Its easier and more secure"
What, you mean having to fart around finding an email with a code in is "easier" than just tapping my thumbprint to unlock my password manager?
And by "more secure" you mean any attacker that gains access to my email can just log into anywhere without even having to jump through password reset hoops?
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@gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafe I don't think there were any superscripts or asterisks on the original agreement. But I understand that various customers complained to the regulator and the regulator just shrugged.
@vikki@know.me.uk I've gone with Virgin, since I use them for other stuff and they don't appear to be app based. This is despite the fact that Virgin have recently become part of Nationwide, who screwed me over 18 years ago. I'm rather hoping the 2 operations remain somewhat separate!
@justine I don't use any (nor want to use any) banking apps on my phone. I'll stick to the web sites unless they force me onto an app, and if the app won't run on a rooted phone I'll find a new bank (TBH, forcing me to use an app at all would probably make me seriously think about switching).
Flicked through some #manifesto things... dunno which w⚓ to #vote for.
@techcrunch@robot.villas maybe the politicians and billionaires should be under constant surveillance by the rest of us? You know, to make them behave better...
@r3bo0tbx1@infosec.exchange Hmm, yes, it appears that this wasn't the cause... I shall review my proxy logs some more.
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@bloor@bloor.tw @lorask@social.vivaldi.net this is a complaint I have with the Welsh 20mph limit. I have no particular opinion on whether it is good or bad, but it is presented as a "win" because the stats show it saved lives. Which I'm sure it did, but at what cost? If we limit cars to 10mph, that will surely save more lives. How about 5mph? What about 2mph? What is an acceptable balance, because I am sure saving the most lives at any cost isn't it.
@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk I have been drinking a lot of iced lattés during this hot weather - a very nice substitute for hot coffee.
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@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk Luckily no hosepipe ban here, but I am spending an inordinate amount of time watering the garden and it has been nowhere near as productive as normal.
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@vikki@know.me.uk Nope, didn't get anything. But I was moving house at the time - I had a mail redirect, and I updated the bank as soon as I moved, but its possible that's the cause. I pointed out to them that they hadn't notified me about a fundamental change in the terms and they basically didn't give a crap, so that's customer service for you.
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@annehargreaves@ioc.exchange @bloor@bloor.tw @lorask@social.vivaldi.net Not talking about housing estates. In England, a road with street lights is 30mph, unless a traffic order has been made and signs put up. In Wales this is 20mph. The criteria for raising that limit is basically "there must be no houses". So we have busy, wide, straight A roads which have 20mph limits because there happen to be houses on that road. Crossing from one side of town to the other is predominantly on 20mph roads, whereas previously it would have been 30.
@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk I do hope that "crackdown on dodgy online sellers" means that Amazon are going to become liable for dangerous goods sold through their platform...
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@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social surely you mean make people addicted to it before enshittifying it?
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@revk@toot.me.uk the "more and more digits over time" is obviously nonsense in the digital age. For analogue stuff, the digits often gave you geographic info about the exchanges needed to route a call through. For SS7 the phone number is completely separate from the underlying network addressing (and I think there may be no technical requirement for a caller to even have a phone number? - phone numbers are used for finding a callee on the network, I don't think they are needed to route back to the caller)
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@lorask@social.vivaldi.net @bloor@bloor.tw This kid in question was 3. My 4 year old has been going to weekly swimming lessons since he was 6 months old and still sinks like a rock unless he is holding a float - "teach 'em to swim" is not a reasonable answer.
Kids also move *fast* - probably most parents have momentarily lost track of their child. Usually you get away with it because the holes in the Swiss cheese don't line up.
But I don't think there's a solution - sometimes tragedies happen and that's just how it is.
@fesshole@mastodon.social if it is just about CoG, it doesn't have to be a symmetrical pattern, of course. Nor in the centre.
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@revk@toot.me.uk @8tpercent@fosstodon.org put an X in the box to vote for covid?
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@oneiros@ruhr.social @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social yup, and I try quite hard to avoid investing in these risky bubbles. I can't guarantee that I am completely free of AI investments, but I am probably better than most.
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@annehargreaves@ioc.exchange @bloor@bloor.tw @lorask@social.vivaldi.net There is an argument that roads which people live on should be "safe", so any road with houses on should be limited to 20mph. There is a counter-argument that a 50% increase in travel time from one side of town to the other is not acceptable.
So a balance needs to be struck, and I don't know how you can strike a balance when you only present evidence for one side and argue that this proves what you did is good.
@andyprice@mastodon.social Pretty unpleasant here last night... I might sleep in the hammock outside tonight!
The humidity is pretty bad - we have a stone floor in the kitchen, which has stayed quite cool (below the dew point) and has been sopping wet.
@toychicken@mastodon.social Santander, Virgin Money and Barclays seem to have functional websites. I don't usually bank from a mobile device though. That said, Virgin are now part of Nationwide, who screwed me over 18 years ago, so...
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@vikki@know.me.uk Yes, #Santander didn't actually notify me that they were ending free banking, just started charging me a tenner a month a few months ago out of the blue. I asked them WTF and they basically told me tough. I don't push enough money through my freelancer account to make a tenner a month worth it though.
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@revk@toot.me.uk The aliens would need to project some kind of magic field that turns an iphone's camera into a potato in every episode...
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@tswsl@toot.wales For bonus points, this is probably undocumented anywhere and subject to change without notice (I have experience with APIs that do not specify a character encoding and use multiple different encodings depending on which bit of the API you poke!)
@andyprice@mastodon.social I'm pretty sure a jigawatt is not a unit of power... Or anything else for that matter! :) But at least you can go back to a time before your house was too hot.
I think the #MetOffice may have been slightly wrong :(
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@revk@toot.me.uk Suspect this was true for analogue stuff. For digital, I did work in the SS7 world for a while, but not quite sure how much would be logged. If someone is doing "nefarious" stuff to route calls in a strange way, its possible that there may not be enough logging to figure the whole route out after the fact? Especially since the call may be routed through multiple independent telcos - the callee's telco is probably not going to have full routing data back to the caller?
Arr, bum. Car's full, washing's done, WTF am I going to do with all of this -ve priced power? #octopus #agile #greenenergy #energytransiton
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@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social he's not really a trillionaire - it is all pretend money.