@Alonso_GD Apps will add GPS based location checks, some already do.
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Graham Logan
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Graham Logan
@g_m_logan
Professional: retired CTO now helping investors with technology strategy. Personal: Sailor, cyclist,home brewer and occasionally sober. @gmlogan@mstdn@social
Katılım Aralık 2014
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As I understand it, if the ban is imposed at device level then the VPN is irrelevant. Your app, in your phone, with the data in your phone, will be tied to your ID.
David Noble 🏴@DavidPNoble63
Maybe I am naive, but is Starmer going to ban VPNs too?
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“nO oNe sHoULd bE a triLLiOnaiRe.”
Invent a bullet-proof, electric truck that can tow a Porsche, while racing a Porsche…and win.
Til then, STFU.
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I picked up this small screw in my tire. Pulled it out, assuming I would have a puncture, but I don't. It was short enough not to penetrate anything.
But now I have no idea how much "margin" I have at the bottom of that hole. I wouldn't be a blowout if it failed, but...
Now what? Can I pack the hole with rubber cement? New tire? Somewhere in between?
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@ggreenwald There is no “list” of platforms in the proposal, there are features and if a platform has them, then it falls within the ban. What the PR and minister interviews say is irrelevant it’s what gets voted on in the houses that makes the law
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Was Bluesky excluded from this list for ideological reasons or because the drafters of the legislation forgot that it exists? Genuinely asking.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: Under-16s in the UK will be banned from the following 10 social media apps TikTok YouTube Snapchat Instagram X Reddit Facebook Twitch Kick Threads
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@BriefcaseMike You have no control to where the vpn tunnel exits, often its the same
country, also likely the control will require all users in a country (as determined via GPS) to prove they are adults.
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The browser I use - Firefox - has a free built-in VPN. Takes just seconds to switch it on.
There you are kids. Sorted.
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@StringerLance @JuddLegum Surely only Starlink was profitable, about $4.5 billion
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@JuddLegum Yes you are dim. Read the prospectus and you will see that there are 3 businesses that make up SpaceX, one of which is massively profitable generates massive amounts of case, another that is also profitable and one that is start-up phase that always burns cash for a while.
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I guess I'm just dim but I really don't understand who is buying SpaceX at $160 per share. This is a company that is losing billions of dollars a quarter and the profits are supposed to come when we colonize Mars and launch data centers in space?
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@ncbscotts @LBC They have power over the UK subsidiaries of those US firms and of the ability for those devices to be sold in the UK, and if they wanted could force UK phone networks to blacklist any device from a US company that does not comply.
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@RickTrembl35994 @enbridgethe3rd Yep, any car with a stop/start function will need the battery coding. The smart alternator used with stop/start needs to be told to relearn the charging levels of a new one
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@enbridgethe3rd Since replacing a battery also includes resetting the computers on the car, explain how you do that?
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Tires are even easier to replace so what were you doing there Paul?
Paul Steiner@Steinerwoodwork
Getting new tires, the guy in front of me is dropping is car off to get the battery replaced. Unacceptable, if you are male and you can’t replace the battery your license should be revoked.
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@muellerberndt Are strings not just 2D waves viewed in the 3rd dimension
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Everybody knows the landscape problem: Which string theory is the right one? Here is the answer.
blog.floatingpragma.io/share/right-st…
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@hthieblot ftp.gatekeeper.dec.com, huge repo of free stuff, ok not “web”
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Anyone who surfed the early web between 1995-2010.
What’s the one website/app you still think about?
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@NigelBromley1 It’s legally defined as a benefit and it is taxable income.
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A state pension is not a benefit because state benefits are not taxed but the state pension will be next year how come someone on over £30000 in benefits pays nothing while pensioners will
Jen k 🇬🇧🏴@Jenny_1884
The law needs to be changed to declassify a Pension as a benefit. I find it grotesque that having paid into a system all your working life that it’s deemed as a handout rather than something you deserve for working hard all your life. Benefits are for people that don’t work Pensions are for people who worked hard & earned their pension. A pension is not a benefit.
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Is it true that BBC Panorama - is to investigate all the Nigel Farage scandals - including all aspects of the undeclared £5millon 'gift?
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@David__Osland By definition if they are doing an internship (unpaid or paid) they are not in the NEET category
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@mrs_alyse Bull shit. On newer houses they will have a part open mode by default to stop toddlers and kids falling out, but the catch can simply be lifted to open.
Some rented properties or commercial may have the part open mode fixed to avoid liability.
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@Boba_Ball_ Ah yes, the extra paperwork to trade with the UK has nothing to do with Brexit, a company could simply allocate more staff
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The only reason for these queues is under-staffing at border controls for non-EU passports. It's nothing to do with Brexit. Any airport could choose to allocated more resource, they just don't
The Rejoin EU Party@RejoinP
Once again Brexit chaos. Whilst you queue Farage gets £5 million and a private helicopter, after promising you 🫵 everything will get better… Vote Rejoin 🇬🇧💙🇪🇺
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@NipseyHoussle Typical American stating an observation about a few countries and claiming All of Europe.
UK, view a house or test drive a car is very much the weekend including Sunday. Same in Germany, Netherlands, Denmark and so many more
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Interesting thing about being an American in Europe: Europeans don’t work weekends. Ever.
You might think, well, nobody works weekends. But in the US there are whole industries built around it. Real estate agents. Car dealerships. Saturday and Sunday are the business.
Not here. If you want to see a house or test drive a car, you take time off work to do it. Somehow this is normal.
I don’t know how they pull it off. But they do.
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@sarah_go_green Inverter by Richard Russel, retro style, free and works very well
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Apart from home assistant what other options are there to control the GivEnergy battery?
The apps poor and it's now £4.99 per month for a rubbish app!
You can get the rubbish app for free IF you sign up to Axel which they must i guess a get kickback for each sign up!!
Axel did have a referral scheme and now it's suspended with Giv. My guess is because they are now getting the wonga for your sign up!!!!!!!!
The apps more confusing and it's clunky!!
The quick functions i used a lot i can't find. Utterly dreadful.
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@the_geeker @sarah_go_green Use the Inverter App in the App Store by Richard Russel, very retro but simple and works really well.
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@sarah_go_green There's a gap in the market for local access at least I reckon. (outside of Home Assistant)
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I am not impressed with the Giv offering!
£4.99 please TODAY for cloud access and here's the app, it's worse than the one you are used to.
How's that for you madam?
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