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The BBC Future website is not aimed at users in the UK, and features content produced by the BBC's commercial arm. Users in the UK can read it without ads, but it's not generally p…

> Is there a UK version of the EFF that fights in the courts against this lunacy or does it not quite work the same in the UK as it does in the US. The government looks likely to i…

There is no version of Windows 2000 for consumers. Windows Me was the nearest consumer release (2000 came out in 1999, Me in 2000), and did share most of the same UI, but was based…

> However I agree that in purely domestic airports I don't see how you'd prevent general public from accessing bags. I don't understand this. Why can't they have a door after the b…

Virtually all of the Kagi results bring you up when I do that.

It's a niche service that is almost perfectly tailored to meet the needs of HN users. It's a paid-only service, without ads - "you are not the product", that lets you hide results …

You can download books directly from the Project Gutenberg website using the web browser on most eBook readers - even the Kindle supports it.

Ubuntu seems to have updated the page to say that it's a high priority now.

>My overall feel is that people underestimate the complexity of the systems at Anthropic and the chaos of the growth. Making changes like reducing the usage window at peak times ( …

The UK does have net neutrality, and it's quite strictly regulated by Ofcom, which produces an annual report showing compliance and highlighting any issues it has investigated: htt…

They've always offered a bundle of the command line tools separately to Android Studio: https://developer.android.com/studio#command-line-tools-only

As noted elsewhere, that approach doesn't stop someone flying the plane into a building.

I've recently purchased a couple of the Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition devices, and they leave a lot to be desired. The wake word detection isn't great, and the audio quality…

The standard for this in the UK is that you should make a reasonable effort to work out who was driving. e.g. checking your calendar/diary, looking through receipts or bank stateme…

Based on what others have suggested, I've just tried out pandoc for this, and it's produced really good results in CommonMark from some quite hideous Word documents.

That's a normal legal term in the UK: https://www.gov.uk/redundancy-your-rights

In many countries, it's possible to get a prepaid SIM with data access - without any ID or age requirement whatsoever.

> if you are paying for internet access you have to be over 18, no? No, that's not the case.

Rachel has blogged quite a bit about blocking badly behaved RSS Clients in recent years. I'd link you to one of the articles if I wasn't blocked too, and my VPN wasn't also blocked…

All the comments there seem to suggest that there has been no change and that robots.txt isn't required.

I'm glad I'm not the only one with this problem!

It's covered on MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...

I'm really surprised at how Temporal is only just rolling out in Chrome stable. I would have hoped it'd be ready for wider use by now. https://caniuse.com/temporal

That is nearly a year old now. There were previously supply issues with these drugs throughout Europe, but those were mostly resolved by the end of 2024. By mid-2025, it was (and s…