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It used to be a legal requirement for American cable providers to offer them, but the FCC dropped CableCARD in 2020 considering streaming apps to be a reasonable equivalent ( https…

fwiw, Xbox One Digital TV Tuners and some RTL-SDRs (with an extra decoder chip) are able to pick up DVB-T2 and are usually £10~20 on eBay. https://tvheadend.org/ can be useful for …

It’s a shame these have become more commonplace. Northern started issuing them instead of cardboard tickets a few years ago and other TOCs followed along after Network Rail/Cubic f…

I think what you're describing is what the RSGB have been attempting to mitigate through the Beyond Exams schemes, wherein they've gamified different activities you could do on you…

Faster Payments is managed by Pay.UK who contract the infrastructure to VocaLink (which is 93% owned by MasterCard). Pay.UK are currently holding a procurement exercise to find a n…

I think this is less of a big deal in London because-- and the article entirely glosses over this prospect-- TfL accept contactless (e.g. contactless-enabled debit/credit cards, Ap…

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Considering that 100Mbit/s is 12.5MByte/s, the speeds you're seeing aren't horribly distant from your "up to" speed. [For reference's sake, 8MByte/s is 64Mbit/s and 9MByte/s is 72M…

No. Creating the customer will charge the card $0.00 or $1.00 (depends on country/bank) and immediately refund the charge to verify the card itself, the CVC, the address, etc. In m…

If you attach the card to a customer object[0], you can create one off charges whenever you'd like. Stripe will even update the card's details on the customer if the card is reissu…

You are allowed to keep your FERPA recommendation rights but, as misingnoglic, most universities will not pay much attention to your recommendations if you choose to do so. https:/…

I wasn't aware of Wells Fargo issuing Chip and PIN cards[0] and I appreciate you pointing that out! The other USA banks that I've looked at (Bank of America[1], for example) issue …

Square Wallet[0] used to implement something similar to what you're describing. It used your phone's GPS to register you as near/inside a store and merchants selected you based on …

As an aside, no USA banks issue chip and PIN cards. The EMV-capable cards being rolled out are chip and sign cards. This usually doesn't matter but can cause issues at fully automa…

Each message is encrypted individually for each device that will be receiving the message. As a result, unless Apple slip a public key they have control over into the keys reported…

> Digital Ocean, for example, won't give you more than 1 IPv4 address per VPS, which means you need a separate VPS for every side project, if you want to go HTTPS. As long as you'r…

Wildcard certificates are only valid for the subdomain level directly under it. [1] If I get a wildcard certificate for example.com (the common name is set to *.example.com), foo.b…

Chrome's sync service also features client side encryption. [1] [1] https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/1181035?hl=en