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As I said, things like DRM or the game phoning home to check it was authorised etc... Equally so, games that I've downloaded from the internet (e.g. Itch) are fully playable offlin…

Before AI, the way people were gaming Google was by filling their pages with pages of verbose fluff (have you ever tried googling how to make a specific cocktail?). Now the AI just…

Yeah, any photos from the 60's to the 90's and you can pretty easily tell which decade it is. Maybe it's because we all went online, and so are less bothered about our physical sty…

I don't understand why anyone thinks that just because they own the disc, they will always be able to play it. It's still full of DRM!

They sound great in theory, but when you've got Microservices A to Z and something isn't right, you've got 26 log files to go through just to start.

HN continues its transmogrification in X.

I wonder if the cop learnt his lesson? (rhetorical question)

I used to come here for the intelligent discussion, but it's turning into X.

"EU invests €2.8 billion in 94 transport projects": https://transport.ec.europa.eu/news-events/news/eu-invests-e... And heat rises. :D

Anyone remember Max Headroom?

It redirects me fine.

Why on earth would the BBC want or care for people to believe that? Are they in the pay of the anti-autism league? We're through the looking glass people!

Have you tried BritBox? It seems to show Doctor Who, but ironically, being in the UK I'm unable to access their site to see specific details.

Couldn't agree more. I've only published on Google Play, but the number of hoops Google makes you jump through (and keeps making you jump through if you want to keep your app in th…

If someone put my name and address on the internet and then falsely claimed I'd committed some henious crime against children (and maybe added a fake AI image) I'd certainly want t…

Who's talking about criticising the government? If someone put my name and address on the internet and then falsely claimed I'd committed some henious crime against children (and m…

It's almost like a "ship of Theseus" problem. If something arrived in Finland for assembly that could theoretically be disassembled, does the final product count as being assembled…

Which of the 12K arrests do you not agree with? Or are you saying people should be free to write whatever they want on social media with no repercussions?

That depends. It might be going above-and-beyond your job.

> An electrician doing an inspection and noticing and fixing big electrical issues in the installation, would be appreciated, even if the accidents didn't happen. Not if nobody kne…

Great work. The gov.uk site is a beacon of light on the web.

Why is it that the larger the company, the less likely they'll have proper support?

I'm not sure what your point is?

Several UK councils now charge double council tax (the monthly tax you pay for having a house) on second homes, exemptions notwithstanding.

Here in the UK it's currently exam season. One of my son's had a GCSE exam just today.