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In Australia, which has mandatory voting, they literally just check your name off the voter roll when you arrive at the polling station. Each polling station has a list (digital or…

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Cloudflare works with the UK government to facilitate blocks within their infra, I assume in exchange for being allowed to access UK network infrastructure. In the case that a bloc…

The ISP's blackhole the IP for some blocked domains. So changing your DNS to 8.8.8.8 will resolve the domain, but the IP won't work. A VPN avoids this, since the traffic goes via t…

Bear Blog meets every one of your requirements. https://bearblog.dev You can see examples on the discover page. https://bearblog.dev/discover It has a small collection of simple pr…

I have been using Dark Reader for years and years. Sometimes I forget that some websites don't natively support dark mode until I accidentally turn it off for some reason. I recomm…

We patch our dependencies. This adds a diff to your repo, not an entire fork of the dependency. A package manager like pnpm will install the package as usual, then apply your patch…

39% all goods exported from Australia in 2019-20 were to China. Of that 39%, over half of that was iron ore. Australian iron ore production is valued at $136 billion a year to the …

Parent means IP as in Internet Protocol, not Intellectual property. The DNS for gnome.org resolves to 8.43.85.5, which lists Red Hat Inc. as the ISP. Indicating it's unlikely to be…

ING only requires a customer number, and a four digit PIN for online banking access. The customer number is printed on the back of the cards and at the top of letters. There is no …

If they were to make the copy available for everyone through their own syndicator then sure, but they don't. The "copy" is only available for the original reader, who had legitimat…

Ah, on further reading it looks like there are a couple parts to it. I have only used the "Sign in with Apple" feature directly in apps, which only ever lets you create one for tha…

You can only create a small number of gmail accounts, since ever account needs to be linked to a valid phone number. Google actively work to prevent using their platform in this wa…

You need a valid phone number to create a gmail account, and you can only have a few accounts attached to the same number. Google is "trusted" because they actively try to prevent …

The difference with Apple's hide my address feature, is that it will only give you one per site. So even though it's an address generated specifically for that website, it's still …

What PII are you putting on a forum? All I can think of is email and password. Your password should be unique to the forum, and I would hardly say that an email address is PII. If …

Are you including the increasing value of the BTC in that calculation? I imagine if all goes well, it would be worth a lot more than what it is today in 19 years. It might be impos…