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The BBC Future website is not aimed at users in the UK, and features content produced by the BBC's commercial arm.
Users in the UK can read it without ads, but it's not generally promoted or linked to by bbc.co.uk
Is there a UK version of the EFF that fights in the courts against this lunacy or does it not quite work the same in the UK as it does in the US.
The government looks likely to introduce the ban as regulation through secondary legislation (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9824zvpz9po).
That is open to judicial review.
If primary legislation was instead passed, that's a lot harder to challenge - Parliament makes the law, so whatever Parliament said applies.
Politics is very different in the UK than in the US, especially when the governing party has such a large majority.
The banning of under-16s from social media has widespread support across the parties in Parliament.
There is no version of Windows 2000 for consumers.
Windows Me was the nearest consumer release (2000 came out in 1999, Me in 2000), and did share most of the same UI, but was based on Windows 98.
Windows XP was the first version of Windows to ship with the same codebase for both consumer and business.
However I agree that in purely domestic airports I don't see how you'd prevent general public from accessing bags.
I don't understand this.
Why can't they have a door after the baggage claim that does not permit entry to the baggage claim area?
That's how things work in the UK.
In my local airport, the final part of leaving the arrivals area is the same for both international and domestic flights.
Passport control > Baggage claim (international) > Customs > One-way exit to landside
Baggage claim (domestic) > One-way exit to landside
Virtually all of the Kagi results bring you up when I do that.
It's a niche service that is almost perfectly tailored to meet the needs of HN users.
It's a paid-only service, without ads - "you are not the product", that lets you hide results from popular (to the mainstream) sites like Instagram and Pinterest, and to filter out low-quality sources like W3Schools, while raising MDN and the Arch Linux wiki to the top.
You can download books directly from the Project Gutenberg website using the web browser on most eBook readers - even the Kindle supports it.
Ubuntu seems to have updated the page to say that it's a high priority now.
My overall feel is that people underestimate the complexity of the systems at Anthropic and the chaos of the growth.
Making changes like reducing the usage window at peak times (https://x.com/trq212/status/2037254607001559305) without announcing it (until after the backlash) is the sort of thing that's making people lose trust in Anthropic. They completely ignored support tickets and GitHub issues about that for 3 days.
You shouldn't have to rely on finding an individual employee's posts on Reddit or X for policy announcements.
That policy hasn't even been put into their official documentation nearly one month on - https://support.claude.com/en/articles/11647753-how-do-usage...
A company with their resources could easily do better.
The UK does have net neutrality, and it's quite strictly regulated by Ofcom, which produces an annual report showing compliance and highlighting any issues it has investigated:
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/internet-based-services/network-neu...
Things like restrictions on tethering and using a SIM in a router are forbidden.
Unlike most countries, net neutrality has never been a political football in the UK.
Ofcom groups zero rating schemes into three types:
Type one - government and NGO services (always allowed).
Type two - where categories of service (e.g. video or music streaming apps) are zero rated, but any service fitting into the category can apply to be zero rated by the network.
Type three - any other kind of zero rating.
Things like the VOXI Unlimited Social Media packages fit into Type Two, so are expressly permitted.
For the rest, Ofcom assessed the impact on consumers, which is generally low.
They've always offered a bundle of the command line tools separately to Android Studio:
https://developer.android.com/studio#command-line-tools-only
As noted elsewhere, that approach doesn't stop someone flying the plane into a building.
I've recently purchased a couple of the Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition devices, and they leave a lot to be desired.
The wake word detection isn't great, and the audio quality is abysmal (for voice responses, not music).
Amazon has ruined their Alexa and Echo devices with ads and annoying nag messages.
I'd really like an open alternative, but the basics are lacking right now.
The standard for this in the UK is that you should make a reasonable effort to work out who was driving.
e.g. checking your calendar/diary, looking through receipts or bank statements to work out where you likely were.
There's also a requirement that a request for information is sent within 14 days for minor incidents like speeding or red light violations, so it's not like you have to work out who was driving on a Tuesday morning three years ago.
Based on what others have suggested, I've just tried out pandoc for this, and it's produced really good results in CommonMark from some quite hideous Word documents.
That's a normal legal term in the UK:
In many countries, it's possible to get a prepaid SIM with data access - without any ID or age requirement whatsoever.
if you are paying for internet access you have to be over 18, no?
No, that's not the case.
Rachel has blogged quite a bit about blocking badly behaved RSS Clients in recent years.
I'd link you to one of the articles if I wasn't blocked too, and my VPN wasn't also blocked!
All the comments there seem to suggest that there has been no change and that robots.txt isn't required.
I'm glad I'm not the only one with this problem!
It's covered on MDN:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...
I'm really surprised at how Temporal is only just rolling out in Chrome stable.
I would have hoped it'd be ready for wider use by now.
That is nearly a year old now.
There were previously supply issues with these drugs throughout Europe, but those were mostly resolved by the end of 2024.
By mid-2025, it was (and still is) possible to easily get all of the medicines for any of the approved uses, including weight loss and diabetes.
What occurs if your order is placed in a bucket of other priority deliveries? Doesn't that simply become a regular order? Also, AFAIK based on some digging, the drivers are not alerted to priority orders they are simply routed for it. That could have changed though.
At least on the platforms in the UK, the only thing that priority is advertised as doing is making your driver exclusively deliver your food.
If you don't choose priority, you'll probably end up waiting for the driver to pick up/deliver other people's food along the way.
It doesn't make the restaurant prepare the food faster. It also doesn't allocate you a driver more quickly.
It just means that the driver goes straight to pick your food up, then straight to you to deliver it.
I'm from the UK and had honestly not heard of the arrow.
I've checked my Toyota Yaris, and it's there!
Christmas has become more and more of a secular holiday over the years.
I think that's true in many western countries.
Tailscale is free for pretty much everything you'd want to do as a home user.
It also doesn't constantly try and ram any paid offerings down your throat.
I was originally put off by how much Tailscale is evangelised here, but after trying it, I can see why it's so popular.
I have my Ubuntu server acting as a Tailscale exit node.
I can route any of my devices through it when I'm away from home (e.g. phone, tablet, laptop).
It works like a VPN in that regard.
Last year, I was on a plane and happened to sit next to an employee of Tailscale.
I told him that I thought his product was cool (and had used it throughout the flight to route my in-flight Wi-fi traffic back to the UK) but that I had no need to pay for it!
That article is full of made up slop - at least in terms of Europe.
Most of the dates stated are just plain wrong.
The UK dates are completely wrong - by 5 years in most cases.
All of the UK's 2G networks are still running, and the last won't be switched off until at least 2030.
That's certainly a stance you can take, but it's not one I'd expect to see from a US administration that's repeatedly (including from the president less than 48 hours ago) got on its high horse to criticise what it perceives as a government crackdown on freedom of speech in European countries.