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waiwai933

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About waiwai933

Email: waiwai95[at]gmail[dot]com

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    Comment #48895543

    The High Court judgment referred to is available at https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Wikimedi... I'm not sure if Ofcom's subsequent notification to WMF is public…

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    Comment #48805656

    Newer fleets will have GPS units on board that report back to Control, but it's not universal and I don't believe there are industry-wide standards or APIs. Signalbox is definitely…

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    Comment #48096214

    Why is Apple Watch series 0 even listed? I can _sort of_ see the argument for discontinued form factors generally even though I'd disagree with it being useful to show, but series …

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    Comment #48012098

    I think it may help to clarify that there are two Regulations which seem to have been muddled in the comments: * Regulation 2023/1670 provides, inter alia, that smartphone manufact…

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    Comment #47909253

    Those articles don't seem to support what you're saying? Russia's apps aren't preinstalled, they're just offered as suggestions, and India never got their app installed. I certainl…

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    Comment #47878080

    https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ suggests that their combined uptime doesn't even meet 1 nine, let alone 2.

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    Comment #46029232

    I'm struggling with deciphering the punctuation symbol between the £ and the |. Any help? (Possibly the @ symbol but my reading of the text suggests there isn't a glyph for it, but…

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    Comment #45998227

    Looks like it's been moved to https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Documents/DCA26MA024%20P...

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    Comment #45982173

    > Maybe some of these questions are obviously answered in a Cloudflare control panel or help document. I’m not in the market right now so I won’t do that research. I don't love pil…

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    Comment #45860177

    I can't speak to the first question, but as to the second, correct, US air traffic controllers are not currently being paid. [1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/travel/shutdown…

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    Comment #45759091

    You're both partially right. Some regions have random mapping for AZs; all regions since 2012 have static AZ mapping. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/global-infrastructure/latest/reg..…

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    Comment #45430968

    I believe I read somewhere that announcing new emoji drives noticeably more OS upgrades compared to more boring security and stability update release notes.

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    Comment #45322887

    I don’t own any AirPods, so this may be incredibly obvious to anyone who does, but what’s the moving part in them?

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    Comment #44659274

    The pricing on that page is From pricing; more expensive models have more expensive premiums - see e.g. https://www.apple.com/legal/sales-support/applecare/applecar... says iPhone …

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    Comment #44121902

    But now you only need to notify the post office, rather than every company who sends you physical mail.

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    Comment #43833778

    I did a free 30 day Kagi trial a month ago, and while I'm not sure I'm convinced the search results are better, they're definitely not worse. I've only fallen back to Google thrice…

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    Comment #43500205

    I'm surprised - simply because I never get Pinterest results on Google. Now admittedly most of my searches aren't the kind where Pinterest is likely to have relevant results, but e…

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    Comment #43363323

    S3 is great for being able to stick files somewhere and not have to think about any of the surrounding infrastructure on an ongoing basis [1]. You don't have to worry about keeping…

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    Comment #43362541

    > I’ve seen other examples where customers guess at new APIs they hope that S3 will launch, and have scripts that run in the background probing them for years! When we launch new f…

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    Comment #42833698

    Ah thanks, for some reason the description had made me think there was some dodgy HR/payroll startup rather than the gig economy generally.

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    Comment #42830882

    > It's not wage theft if we do it with an app. Which one is this? (Taxi = Uber, Hotel room = Airbnb, Unregistered security = various crypto?)

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    Comment #42597066

    The US has a very weak legal deposit scheme compared to e.g. the UK. IIRC, legal deposit is only required where the author applies for copyright registration, so it’s extremely unl…

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    Comment #42138812

    They're not intercepting calls over their network from suspected bad actors; rather, they've created some phone numbers that always go to Daisy - see https://www.ispreview.co.uk/in…

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    Comment #42097698

    London's are available at: https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/3d-maps-of-every-underg...