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As a citizen, I don’t understand what the UK government thinks they are getting here - other than the possibility of leaks of the nation’s most sensitive data.

Also is it not possible to set up my Apple account outside of the UK while living here?

Re:DOGE Staffer Is Trying to Reroute FEMA Funds on Thursday February 13, 2025 @06:37PM (#43042877)
It was worse than that in the UK! The incumbent party lost 69% of their seats (20% was the vote share).

365 -> 121

Re:My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2022) on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @04:43PM (#39447352)
The git "pickaxe" [0] is the canonical way of searching through changes. Probably `git log -Splumber` with narrowing down by date.

[0]: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Searching

Re:PrivateGPT on Monday May 22, 2023 @04:53PM (#36036582)
I think you would be interested in Google's internal memo[0] that did the rounds here a couple weeks ago. The claim is that OpenAI and all competition is destined to fall behind open-source. All you need is a big model to be released and all fine tuning can be done by a smart, budget, distributed workforce.

[0]: https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-ne...

Re:President Putin has announced a partial mobilization in Russia on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @03:43PM (#32930489)
Kyiv and Kharkiv

I think it is more correct to use Ukrainian names for Ukrainian cities over Russian.

Re:Ask HN: Share your personal site on Thursday April 07, 2022 @07:27AM (#30943097)
https://jenne.uk personal site written using my own preprocessor
Re:Using hamburger menus? Try sausage links (2019) on Thursday March 17, 2022 @05:33PM (#30716121)
See https://jenne.uk as an example
Re:Ask HN: Best Tools for Technical Writing? on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @01:07PM (#29910590)
For me writing markdown using VSCode with with Neovim keybindings approaches that rich text and rich code environment.

Of course, when using markdown(/mermaid/tikz/etc.) creating diagrams is severely limited unlike point and click alternatives. I haven’t seen a good solution yet that isn’t too restrictive or slow.

Or quicker: 1000ia<esc>
Out of interest, on proposition B why can we not claim that the presence of a Y chromosome in your DNA makes you a "biological male" and the absence makes you a "biological female". That should be a binary division. (Where these terms are only used in the contexts you describe as being useful; no disagreements there).
I think he is saying that if it is brought to X it will be easier to convince Wayland to follow suit.

We'll see if that's true, or if we will need another round of sponsorship to achieve the same thing with Wayland.

Re:Biohacking Lite on Saturday June 13, 2020 @06:20AM (#23508397)
food?
It is also the header syntax for Vimwiki[0]

[0]: https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki

Re:Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @08:38AM (#23322263)
I think the mailto: link on your page is misspelt as mailt:
Re:Hardware Microphone Disconnect in Mac and iPad on Friday April 03, 2020 @10:56AM (#22769805)
I don't think caring about the user and making profits are mutually exclusive. A company that is interested in delivering what the user wants and needs will often make profit. It's not a case of 'with the user' or 'against the user'.
Legal equality != true societal equality
Re:8-Year-Old Refugee Wins New York State Championship on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @06:54PM (#19447821)
(www.chess.com)
Re:WireGuard for iOS on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @06:27AM (#18398458)
From another user "reaperhulk"

>I use WireGuard (including WireGuard iOS) every day in Shanghai. It’s mostly fast and performant but nothing escapes the occasional “drop all UDP to your endpoint”. Typically this manifests as windows of time (typically a few minutes) where no traffic to the VPN gets through. However, unlike an openVPN solution WireGuard recovers without having to bounce the tunnel or constantly reconnect. The GFW is not a monolithic entity though so be aware that performance and blocking characteristics can vary widely between cities, ISPs, and sometimes even between cell towers.

>VPN on demand features are on the iOS todo list. iOS supports the idea of making a VPN on demand for cellular or WiFi so it will be able to do what you want once that feature is merged.

Does the lack of any better solution justify it?
Re:A brief history of the peace symbol on Monday July 30, 2018 @07:22AM (#17643650)
Also, as a result of MAD the main risk of nuclear weapons would be operation by a terrorist group as opposed to a nation - who wouldn't be affected by a national nuclear disarmament and wouldn't be able to have retaliation in the same way
Re:The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user on Saturday April 07, 2018 @03:28PM (#16782351)
But if just the email validation problem were addressed - you wouldn't accidentally pay for someone's rides. Their account would never be created as they don't have access to the email they provided. Just dealing with email validation solves both problems.
Re:Ask HN: How to self-learn electronics? on Friday April 06, 2018 @06:36PM (#16778106)
+1 for Ben Eater - super solid explanations, really enlightening even right at an early level.
Re:IKEA Effect on Saturday December 30, 2017 @06:12AM (#16034769)
The fact that there are some people who enjoy walking round the IKEA stores window shopping with no intention of buying anything is testament to how well designed their stores are.
Re:A newly discovered moon tunnel on Sunday October 22, 2017 @06:20PM (#15529309)
I think the short answer is we don't really know, but the simplest explanation is muddy icy comets colliding