dankboys
Re:UK inflation falls to lowest level (7.9%) in more than a year
on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @05:37AM (#36783946)
Unlimited migration from Schengen depressed UK wages, a lot of the people you're deriding had no chance to do skilled work and had to compete against people willing to work for pittance because it was more than in RO/BG.
(The fact that the government has replaced that with cheap labour from outside the EU doesn't help)
Re:HSBC's Money Laundering Scandal 2012, money laudering for Mexican D...
on Sunday February 05, 2023 @12:09PM (#34666552)
One of the key bits is that the cartel worked out the OFAC check by HSBC was shitty so could add spaces etc to bypass it. It wasn't a conscious decision, but a failure of their process.
Re:CNBC reporting that Twitter's entire data engineering team was fire...
on Friday October 28, 2022 @02:13PM (#33375146)
The embedded tweet was a prank, guy gives his name as "Rahul Ligma"
https://twitter.com/wealthycfo/status/1586053744269340672?s=...
Re:Queen Elizabeth II has died
on Friday September 09, 2022 @07:49AM (#32778014)
Yeah, but literally nobody knows who he is.
Re:Keffals: “I’m being forced to leave the continent because of Kiwi F...
on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @02:59AM (#32575783)
Keffals has promoted getting hormones to kids without their parents knowledge[1], and links with BobPosting, who produces them [2][3]. Keffals has previously been involved with Discords where concerning my young people were taking such drugs and having sexual conversations [4]
[1] https://archive.ph/zQoMl [2] https://archive.ph/iDj9v [3] https://archive.ph/qHEDN [4] https://archive.ph/03p8r
Re:Keffals: “I’m being forced to leave the continent because of Kiwi F...
on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @06:08AM (#32562620)
Swatting is never acceptable but if you're trying to hook people's kids up with DIY chemicals brewed in a bathtub then people are going to be quite pissed
Re:Brazil is also considering making USB-C chargers mandatory for iPhones
on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @06:40PM (#31926573)
There argument is that lightning is more waterproof (which makes some sense as the only devices apple uses it with have higher IP ratings) but I doubt how significant that is in reality
Re:‘Wallets and eyeballs’: how eBay turned the internet into a marketp...
on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @03:06AM (#31904988)
I agree. I recently went looking for a car part and was able to easily find the phone numbers for sellers to check. In the UK at least they also do end of month 15/20% sales where I've scored some bargains. I got a bit fatigued of Amazon and how the minimum order price was like £10
Re:Scotland starts renewed case for independence
on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @09:45AM (#31739406)
The...legal policy?
Re:Scotland starts renewed case for independence
on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @07:14AM (#31737317)
Nothing says "British far right" like a Cabinet full of ethnic minorities.
Re:Scotland starts renewed case for independence
on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @07:12AM (#31737294)
The Tory party of higher taxes, pride flags covering every government social media account and currently minting coins with the "progressive pride" flag? Sounds like they're about to burn down the Reichstag.
Re:The human toll of Fallout 76’s launch
on Thursday June 09, 2022 @09:34AM (#31680938)
console hackers and game programmers have little overlap, though. If you've spent the time to understand VR/ED you probably want to do that, in which case you're not programming.
Re:How Street Dogs Spend Their Days
on Thursday June 09, 2022 @09:27AM (#31680880)
or, the dogs that would go hell for leather across the road didn't have good outcomes
Re:Alyssa Rosenzweig: Conformant open source support for Mali-G57
on Thursday June 09, 2022 @09:24AM (#31680847)
I feel like we're on the same side of the aisle but what the fuck, unpleasant and unnecessary.
Re:EU reaches deal to make USB-C a common charger for most electronic ...
on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @09:26AM (#31653944)
Apple's argument behind keeping the lightning connector is that it offers a superior standard of waterproofing than the USB-C can provide. The iPad and MacBook, to my knowledge, don't make any claims about being waterproof.
(Not to say anything about the veracity of the waterproof argument, just that they make it)
Re:UN registers 'Türkiye' as new country name to replace 'Turkey'
on Thursday June 02, 2022 @11:07AM (#31595808)
Oh gosh, how unnecessary.
Re:Is DuckDuckGo, DuckDuckDone?
on Thursday May 26, 2022 @01:24PM (#31521029)
This article makes me want to use Brave lol
Re:Final year medical students 'can't afford to pay rent'
on Saturday May 07, 2022 @12:32PM (#31296080)
That's fair.
Unfortunately in the UK at least, the question of "how come student doctors can't afford rent when we give 25% of tax receipts to the NHS" it's too close to criticism of the NHS, a secular heresy.
Re:Beginning in late 2022, you'll no longer be able to send MOBI files...
on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @08:55AM (#31259746)
And used Kindles/Kobos are even cheaper
Re:California’s population shrinks for second year in a row
on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @02:25AM (#31245325)
Which is ironic given the excrement situation in "enlightened" California
Re:Ford Motor layoff – 580 engineers
on Saturday April 30, 2022 @03:54AM (#31214191)
Not to mention that they'll have to increasingly invest in infotainment and their software package as cars become places people spend more time (while charging)
Re:UK-Morocco 10GW Renewable Electricity Interconnector Planned
on Sunday April 24, 2022 @12:56PM (#31145839)
Then it's even more useless than being an auditor at the commission
Re:UK-Morocco 10GW Renewable Electricity Interconnector Planned
on Sunday April 24, 2022 @12:52PM (#31145814)
Ah yes, famously brexit didn't happen
Re:Lenovo Forums stores plaintext password as a cookie
on Friday April 22, 2022 @12:30PM (#31123854)
Not in any way a web dev, but couldn't an XSS on Lenovo's site make it possible to leak these?
Re:New Apple Cash Accounts Now Branded as Visa Cards
on Friday April 22, 2022 @12:28PM (#31123826)
I've seen the opposite* - I had nothing but Mastercards a year or two ago, and now I have none.
* in the UK
Re:I Just Hit $100k/Yr on GitHub Sponsors (2020)
on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @03:43AM (#31093914)
Good, this is how community is formed and seems much better than people defecating on the street.
Re:Ubuntu Continues Falling Like a Rock as a Gaming Distro
on Saturday April 16, 2022 @09:32AM (#31052184)
I think people use popOS now which is Ubuntu but some of the gaming-specific headaches ironed out
Re:Cryptocurrency Gave Birth to the Ransomware Epidemic
on Saturday April 16, 2022 @08:14AM (#31051689)
Nobodies throwing zero days against Dave and Susan's Toy Store, it's just not economically feasible.
Re:It’s Still Stupidly, Difficult to Buy a ‘Dumb’ TV
on Friday April 15, 2022 @09:29AM (#31040014)
Yeah LGs are great, no long loading times. Only issue I've found is that it doesn't like antenna signal being too strong (I've got an attenuator to make mine work)
Re:Americans’ views on the war reveal a striking generational divide
on Friday April 15, 2022 @02:01AM (#31037016)
Maybe it's different there, but in the UK which has a significant Muslim population, concern for Palestine, Yemen and Syria (and even the Uyghurs to a lesser extent) is common. The Rohingyas also had support in the UK, which again has a lot of Bangladeshis.