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New comment by mcfedr in "Woman stranded in Spain after UK's eVisa system mistakes her for twin sister"

mcfedr — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:08:22 +0000

unfortunately this has become typical in Britain, no one can be trusted to have any responsibility or agency. its all systems with room for the real world

New comment by mcfedr in "Ten Ways NAS Is Getting Enshitified"

mcfedr — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:05:55 +0000

i did that, and really wish i bought something , mostly because i have like 4 hhds just lying in the bottom of the case

New comment by mcfedr in "Our position on open-weights models"

mcfedr — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:29:26 +0000

the EU has been creating testing frameworks, and the UK

much as governments have tended to be slow in tech, they actually seem to be making some solid work on this front

tech companies like Anthropic should be collaborating with these programs

New comment by mcfedr in "Our position on open-weights models"

mcfedr — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 07:56:08 +0000

they have been very clear they don't want to be the ones deciding

New comment by mcfedr in "Our position on open-weights models"

mcfedr — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 07:48:32 +0000

is it so hard to fathom that China whilst wanting to beat the US in many ways doesn't want a biological war to destroy the world?

New comment by mcfedr in "Kill The Cookie Banner"

mcfedr — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 06:19:41 +0000

you can say that about a lot of things, but we do largely trust parents. but all these social media bans seem to stem from parents who claim to be helpless, when really they are lazy and the wider impact of these laws is massive. no technical way exists to do this without taking the privacy of everyone

New comment by mcfedr in "Kill The Cookie Banner"

mcfedr — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 18:33:25 +0000

it's very simpler, i recently got an android tablet for my child and it would take a lot of effort to miss all the stuff about setting it up for a child

New comment by mcfedr in "Kill The Cookie Banner"

mcfedr — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 18:32:22 +0000

if parents wont make the slightest bit of effort why should the rest of us pay to keep their children safe?

New comment by mcfedr in "Park by Robot at London Gatwick Airport"

mcfedr — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 18:31:00 +0000

especially disappointing as there is valet parking at Gatwick that works exactly like that

New comment by mcfedr in "JEP 540: Simple JSON API (Now in Incubator)"

mcfedr — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:54:01 +0000

its crazy its taken Java so long to realise this

New comment by mcfedr in "LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent"

mcfedr — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 19:18:50 +0000

its not the source though is it? its not like it's downloaded via the hdmi cable, it comes from Microsoft that offer the service of installing crap

New comment by mcfedr in "LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent"

mcfedr — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 19:17:23 +0000

well you can plug the same monitor into a mac and not have this issue.

New comment by mcfedr in "What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance"

mcfedr — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 09:50:55 +0000

they provide passports for travel, driving licences for driving, national insurance number for taxes, but its not a single id that everyone is required to have

there is no point in it being open source if i cannot modify and run it

New comment by mcfedr in "What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance"

mcfedr — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 05:01:05 +0000

there is no single government id in the UK at the moment, they currently do not control my identity

you specifically talked about an OS without user changeable software, thats the definition of open source

New comment by mcfedr in "What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance"

mcfedr — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 17:37:02 +0000

Which part of that is avoiding the distopian control?

the very first line, government issued digital id - we have been avoiding that for a very long time

how does this work on an open source operating system?

New comment by mcfedr in "Warm up your MacBook (2019)"

mcfedr — Thu, 28 May 2026 04:58:38 +0000

yes only writes y, not the whole word yes

New comment by mcfedr in "The last six months in LLMs in five minutes"

mcfedr — Tue, 19 May 2026 10:30:23 +0000

whats the appeal of that kind of content? its objectively worse than real content, and its not like there is a shortage of real content

New comment by mcfedr in "SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format"

mcfedr — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:03:53 +0000

makes sense really, nothing this sensible is gonna happen under the current US administration

New comment by mcfedr in "Mahjong: A Visual Guide"

mcfedr — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:44:53 +0000

mostly people know if from windows i assume

New comment by mcfedr in "ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state"

mcfedr — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:24:38 +0000

I'm sure the copyright holders would consider your use of their content as direct financial damage