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I don't know what it means. I'll be honest, I don't think anyone knows what it means anymore. Scholars maintain that the translation was lost hundreds of years ago

We're coming back baby! Someone's got to stop the French and Germans arguing with each other.

Just for some context: 2022, USA,

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/22/google-cs...

> "Google has refused to reinstate a man’s account after it wrongly flagged medical images he took of his son’s groin as child sexual abuse material (CSAM), the New York Times first reported. Experts say it’s an inevitable pitfall of trying to apply a technological solution to a societal problem.

> "Experts have long warned about the limitations of automated child sexual abuse image detection systems, particularly as companies face regulatory and public pressure to help address the existence of sexual abuse material."

Thanks for providing the tech and buddying up with governments, Silicon Valley! /s

Probably. The government just made couples who record face sitting, without distributing, for their own use, sex offenders.

edit: But we live in a country where everything is illegal but rarely anyone is arrested for it so that's somehow ok /s

UK's got a Mumsnet Government

Don't forget the 13 who committed suicide. :(

They've been in business longer than the USA's existence, they must be doing something right - some 336 years.

The UK is very good at banking.

Recent suggestions of having screenshots for the new messenger app might give the answer. The official replies were "our users try out the new version directly instead of looking at static images of it" and that "a video would be needed" (links below)

Regardless, the developers are very experienced and smart, and know that screenshots are often used to advertise a product, so I guess it's a very conscious choice.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49669944

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49669684

Haha yeah nah meanings of words don't change when people get accused of them with solid evidence

> GrapheneOS has never ... brigaded on social media

False. From some drama recently. Proof: https://ibb.co/6J0CyVz6

The screenshot reads:

"If you have an established account on Hacker News, enable "showdead" in your settings, open our flagged posts and press "vouch" to help restore them. People have gone back through quite a lot of our posts and wrongly flagged them despite there being nothing inappropriate at all. 12 Sept 2026, 16:21 "

Perhaps warranted, but definitely the definition of brigading.

Sigh. It's been 42 years since it was cleared up and that most people became citizens. Can we stop with that remark already

Let's hope so

Wonder if it's anything to do with the in-progress merging with Three?

I've noticed my MVNO Vodafone service, which was faultless, suddenly declining. Random dropouts are fairly common, no connection inside some big buildings (whereas Vodafone's infrastructure is known for being better inside and Three's much worse. Makes me think I'm being shunted onto Three's infrastructure)

Fastmail servers are in the US btw

And the company is based in Australia.

They're not at the top of the list for anyone concerned about privacy

And then from Edinburgh to Manchester (184 miles) instead of Newcastle (91 miles) or Teeside (125 miles), both airports Ryanair operate out of.

I wonder if the pilots considered Newcastle (or Teeside)? The METARs showed favourable weather conditions at Newcastle and many planes landed there that day without issue I believe. Also far closer to Edinburgh than Manchester. I wonder if they thought that Manchester being further south, had a better chance of better weather?

Yup. They also popularised excessive baggage under the seat, and I routinely used to see obvious hazards that would impede an evacuation. Staff would turn a blind eye. Probably still do

Further, with the baggage being there in easy reach under the seat, I reckon people would be more tempted to take it with them when evacuating.

That they're are a safe airline seems to be incredible luck - they have all the components for it not to be.

> Under FAA rules this was a screwup

An oversight I'm sure they can fix ;-)

FAA as a yardstick? Hm

Do consumer rights exist in the skies? Genuine question!

Yes hah.

> I’m more interested in the 3.14.15

That was indeed the joke

Here's hoping they make 16 patch versions

[warning: old man rants at clouds]

Maybe I'm getting old, but I think at this stage I want the third, often-unspoken route: no data.

Let go of things

No need for infrastructure when you have nothing to host. And data that doesn't exist is the most secure in the world.

Is my home a home – or the premises of a small-business? Racks, servers, cables, smart devices, the fan noise etc!

It does feel like we are operating our lives more and more like a small business these days: managing data, managing logins, "B2B" with hundreds of companies (EULAs, contracts, invoices, subscriptions...), files, archives, backups, contacts, appointments, app after app after app...on and on.

I wish life were simpler. Maybe a lot is in our control, more than we realise

I'd love more of this kind of frank discourse because I'm tired of decades of political pearl clutching "even just one death is a tragedy"

How have touchscreens had such a free pass compared to mobile phones?!

Just kidding I know the answer is lobbying

Interesting. Thanks!

Fingerprints are not required in the UK to apply for a passport (for UK citizens who didn't apply for naturalisation etc). Biometric doesn't just mean fingerprints.

Wow position 140 on HN after about about 3 hours. Brutal lol

Yeah nobody is willing to give up the revenue/tax from someone driving a car. In fact, I bet electric vehicles will end up more expensive per mile, mark my words.

Many TLS deployments still leak the hostname in plain text as part of SNI

Same here. On my WhatsApp, read receipts and online status are off, and have been since I first found the feature. The way "they left me on read" has found its way into common English is disturbing.