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srmarm
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Comment #48551319
Clearly a big f-up by FIFA on what looks like quite a tidy platform otherwise. One question though, how do you know your feed would kick off the 'real' feed if you pushed to RTMP, …
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Comment #46752760
My city is covered by a low emissions zone so the odd van polluting sticks out. I was in Athens recently and the pollution from so many old rough cars was so noticeable (and quite …
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Comment #46600819
That's exactly how it usually happens in my experience. I think a lot of people are OK if everyones upright on short haul flights (here most budget airlines don't have a recline fa…
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Comment #46172407
I think The Equality Act 2010 would be the UK equivalent. No idea whether it would cover this - might be a stretch.
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Comment #46172033
That may be true but doesn't help if not accepting the terms prevents you from using the device. On a practical level you then at best have a battle to get a third party (the retai…
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Comment #45965075
> May 12, we began a software deployment that introduced a bug that could be triggered by a specific customer configuration under specific circumstances. I'd love to know more abou…
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Comment #44525011
Ah this is a positive thread so not [flagged] - gotta say Hacker News really has been shameful of late with it's shutting down of the negative stories around Grok.
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Comment #44130153
I did my first toilet browsing on a Sony Ericsson K750i on Edge network. For forums it worked really well. I suspect this site would have worked well on it.
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Comment #44038932
Be careful saying things like that or you'll get [flagged] - discussion of what seemed an incredibly important subject is forbidden on here it seems.
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Comment #43670728
There is a new function available in their app which does similar (i.e allow for proof of posting from a postbox). They've also been pushing collection by postman too. It saves a t…
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Comment #43609550
Some fair points, but some 'crap data' has storage requirements orders of magnitudes from each others. One short video can equal a year worth of emails for someone. Similarly those…
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Comment #43204277
Good call, I've been meaning to try it for a while. It feels a bit like ~25 years ago when Yahoo was this bloated do everything company with a bad search engine and someone showed …
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Comment #43203657
> If you use the uBlock Origin extension in Google Chrome or Edge, you should probably start looking for alternative browsers or extensions—either way. I've used Firefox on android…
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Comment #43186844
It looks a fantastic building, I managed sneak in for a look around a couple of years back when visiting Skopje, it was full of pidgeons and all that comes with it but didn't seem …
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Comment #43113090
I understand all the usual caveats of no expectation of privacy in public but this is very much slippery slope stuff. Say on the metro sitting opposite someone. If they pulled out …
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Comment #43033907
The problem I find is with the backhaul rather than the 5G signal. I can still get unreliable internet with a strong 5G signal. Even today I find for general internet browsing is g…
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Comment #42677161
There seems to be a bit of a preoccupation with federated identity and linking communities but the lack of that is what I like about forums and web communities back then. I don't n…
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Comment #42479623
I know the article sort of touches on it but I only recall WAP as being a sort of mark up language akin to a mobile HTML rather than a network layer protocol. My old site (probably…
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Comment #42398195
I found once I started using a cross-device password manager, I stopped using OAuth anyway!
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Comment #42050477
Yeah, I also struggled with the purple box - I assumed I'd change the options, click run and it'd reload the data accordingly. Almost quit before I realised you have to build and t…
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Comment #41870105
I'd have thought the website owner whitelisting their RSS feed URI (or pattern matching *.xml/*.rss) might be better than doing it based on the users agent string. For one you'd ex…
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Comment #41859884
That's a name I hear from time to time but have never quite understood what their purpose was. My last laptop purchased from the the Lenovo store and my subscription to Nvidia Gefo…
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Comment #41826919
They could have backed down and allowed WPEngine to publish an update or even published it on their behalf. Instead they've doubled down and taken this ridiculous action that under…
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Comment #41826888
What's that in response to? I don't have an account so don't seem to see anything beyond 'Sorry, who are you?'