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Most clothes are manufactured in countries with cheaper labor costs to cut costs - the reality is clothes are cheap to make in terms of raw materials- and dumping unwanted clothes will just destory the local economy

London and the south east is the UK in economic terms. Its the only those 2 regions which are net contributor to taxes

https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/governmentpublicsectorandtaxe...

Falling for the "Embrace" part again...

The new rules cover any kind of illegal content that can appear online, but the Act includes a list of specific offences that you should consider. These are:

    terrorism
    child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA) offences, including
        grooming
        image-based child sexual abuse material (CSAM)
        CSAM URLs
    hate
    harassment, stalking, threats and abuse
    controlling or coercive behaviour
    intimate image abuse
    extreme pornography
    sexual exploitation of adults
    human trafficking
    unlawful immigration
    fraud and financial offences
    proceeds of crime
    drugs and psychoactive substances
    firearms, knives and other weapons
    encouraging or assisting suicide
    foreign interference
    animal cruelty

it's not that simple - illegal and harmful content can include things like hate speech - worth a longer read... https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/14/online_safety_act/

If I ran a small forum in the UK I would shut it down - not worth risk of jail time for getting it wrong.

Dark matter is just made up bs if you replace "magic" for dark whenever its mentioned its the same difference - theres no tangable evidence it exists at all.

Unfortunately for banking apps etc need a android or iPhone will probably make the switch to apple...

Thanks!

Why would you think Jeff would care?

In a world run by sociopaths - whistleblowing is a trap to catch the people who could if instead of reporting the issues, they organised together and then could stop you...

I've yet to see any whistleblowing case not end badly.

The reviewing isn't problem it's mostly because you have to become that asshole that everyone hates - developers who produce bad code also are the worst at taking feedback...

I think problem is product managers are very common and probably unavoidable in most organisations.

Can't have product owners without actual ownership - without real equity in the product being developed do they really own anything?

People who avoid the sun more likely to take vitamin D supplements?

The real question is which is dying quicker Facebook or Twitter?

Last one don't even need macros https://www.excel-easy.com/examples/dependent-drop-down-list...

I guess my point is alot of people outside of software development the goto for low/no code is excel

Find me a non code product that can do something excel can't

If only a small size (up to 32ish inches) needed 4k monitor would probably surfice

Because the budget is not infinite - there is normally a limit of time or money and it will determine the decision making process.

This doesn't mean the project will finish on time or within budget it just enables that part of the decision making process.

It's not something you recover quickly from :(

In the UK at least try and get building work done or buy a new car with a credit card and see how far you get...

Credit cards work great for small transactions for both consumers and businesses, but risks get high for the business (espcially small businesses) for larger transactions.

The problem is the intermediaries often add no value or help facilitate the fraud or refuse to help get the money back.

I lost £150,000 to a fraudulent account the bank knew about https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/dec/14/i-lost-150000-...

Bank transfer scammers steal £700,000 a day from UK victims https://www.theguardian.com/money/2021/may/28/bank-transfer-...

Most small business I've found don't accept credit/debit cards for large transactions and instead want direct (cash) bank transfers because they fear the money going missing or getting a chargeback. This has its only issues as its slow and not very customer friendly.

If only there was some kind of virtual cash that could be sent from one party to another almost instantly without an intermediary

Sounds like PTSD

My favorite question is:

"Describe what a typical day would look like?"

I made a free shopping list app its not open source as ive lost the source...I made this about 10 years ago. Play store basically shadow bans completely free apps from small developers without adverts as far as i can tell. This is the app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flabbyfish...

This post sounds a bit like an ad but i havn't looked back from the phillips oneblade. Its cheap, can be used wet or dry and cost like £30 and its the first razor that actually manages to remove the hairs on my neck effectively, only have to replace the blades every 6 months...

I can make the point more articulated.

Quite simply everytime one of these stories comes up big corp breaks the law...is anyone going to do anything about it...The answer is pretty much always no not even fines...

Even something where a CEO admits intentionally breaking the law not much has happened. No talk of jail time? https://www.ft.com/content/3fbc5918-ad04-4003-8e09-3df12d7dc...

I think maybe I'm jaded with 'it's illegal'. If the law is not enforced it doesn't matter.

Nah cos big corps just do what they want with no penalties unless they piss off enough people that the politicans feel like they need to make a point.. ...we're well into gangster capitalism now

I dont think anyone in England eats supermarket sandwiches because they taste good.

They are normally the cheapest ediable option for a filling meal that's not too unhealthy that can be consumed in a 30min lunch break or at a desk...

They probably do better to put more work into writing a guide for approved writers.

So many (many) shows with great actors completely let down by terrible scripts....