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Sigh. It's been 42 years since it was cleared up and that most people became citizens. Can we stop with that remark already

Let's hope so

Wonder if it's anything to do with the in-progress merging with Three? I've noticed my MVNO Vodafone service, which was faultless, suddenly declining. Random dropouts are fairly co…

Fastmail servers are in the US btw And the company is based in Australia. They're not at the top of the list for anyone concerned about privacy

And then from Edinburgh to Manchester (184 miles) instead of Newcastle (91 miles) or Teeside (125 miles), both airports Ryanair operate out of.

I wonder if the pilots considered Newcastle (or Teeside)? The METARs showed favourable weather conditions at Newcastle and many planes landed there that day without issue I believe…

Yup. They also popularised excessive baggage under the seat, and I routinely used to see obvious hazards that would impede an evacuation. Staff would turn a blind eye. Probably sti…

> Under FAA rules this was a screwup An oversight I'm sure they can fix ;-) FAA as a yardstick? Hm

Do consumer rights exist in the skies? Genuine question!

Yes hah. > I’m more interested in the 3.14.15 That was indeed the joke

Here's hoping they make 16 patch versions

[warning: old man rants at clouds] Maybe I'm getting old, but I think at this stage I want the third, often-unspoken route: no data. Let go of things No need for infrastructure whe…

I'd love more of this kind of frank discourse because I'm tired of decades of political pearl clutching "even just one death is a tragedy"

How have touchscreens had such a free pass compared to mobile phones?! Just kidding I know the answer is lobbying

Interesting. Thanks!

Fingerprints are not required in the UK to apply for a passport (for UK citizens who didn't apply for naturalisation etc). Biometric doesn't just mean fingerprints.

Wow position 140 on HN after about about 3 hours. Brutal lol

Yeah nobody is willing to give up the revenue/tax from someone driving a car. In fact, I bet electric vehicles will end up more expensive per mile, mark my words.

Many TLS deployments still leak the hostname in plain text as part of SNI

Same here. On my WhatsApp, read receipts and online status are off, and have been since I first found the feature. The way "they left me on read" has found its way into common Engl…

> Not sure Microsoft realizes the damage they're doing to the Windows brand Well their stock certainly isn't tanking. Do they care about anything else?

Yeah, excessively sweaty feet.

Not universally true. The Mullvad client has lots of additional features to enhance privacy. Killswitch, split tunnelling (you might otherwise disconnect the VPN to use a certain a…