thehatfox
@thehatfox@lemmy.world
- Submitted 4 days ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 6 comments
- Comment on Like most normal human males… 4 days ago:
It’s that daft haircut, he’s adopted a different style recently and suddenly looked 10x more human.
No amount of barbers can disguise the blokes behaviour though.
- Comment on UK police could get Ghostbusters-style backpack devices to halt ebike getaways 4 days ago:
Firing EMPs in urban areas does not sound a great idea at all. That’s a lot of potential collator damage on top of an already potential dangerous police action.
There are already methods police can use to stop moving vehicles, which would work on electric vehicles as well as existing ICE vehicles. These are still bikes, not magic carpets or something. Stopping a moving vehicle is also dangerous in itself, and it doesn’t sound a great idea to add to that the chances of frying everything from police equipment to vital medical devices that happens to be in the blast area.
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- Comment on England gets 27 new bathing sites – but no guarantee they’ll be safe for swimming 6 days ago:
I lived near a small artificial lake that was that was a popular unofficial outdoor swimming location. But the local authorities were always trying to keep people out. It eventually became a bit of a party spot and there was a couple of drownings, which lead to big fences and security patrols going up. Last thing I heard the place had been redeveloped into an expensive private leisure resort.
I gets there’s always a balance between access and safety, but there’s a real lack of free and open places in the country these days.
- Comment on England gets 27 new bathing sites – but no guarantee they’ll be safe for swimming 6 days ago:
Sadly I think all we’ve got coming for us is the return of cholera and typhoid.
- Comment on "Nuisance begging" and rough sleeping as soon to be illegal 6 days ago:
There’s poo in the rivers and it’s now going to be illegal to be homeless, did I wake up in the past?
I think it’s time the Conservative Party had a rebrand because they really don’t seem to be conserving much these days. Except for established wealth that is.
- England gets 27 new bathing sites – but no guarantee they’ll be safe for swimmingwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 6 days ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 11 comments
- Comment on Smart meter data: the Government’s at it again 1 week ago:
Smart meters were never going to be a real benefit for energy users, only a method to extract more revenue and impose more control over them. Being co-opted as another method of government surveillance is yet another problem they have caused.
following the highly-politicised appointment of the new Information Commissioner, the ICO adopted a new strategy for public sector enforcement that relies on public shaming and “very angry letters” rather than legally binding enforcement actions and penalty fines
Oh look, it’s another regulator being kneecapped. I really hope Starmer will consider giving these groups some teeth again.
- Comment on Does anyone else find that 4G+ on O2 is awful? 1 week ago:
I’m currently using O2 and their coverage is definitely patchy. Great in some areas, not in others.
The only reliable way to choose the “best” network is to get PAYG SIMs for each and try them all in the places you will most often be. The online coverage maps are not always that accurate and up to date, and can’t account for factors like the construction of individual buildings.
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- Comment on Freely's Live UK Broadband TV Stream Service Goes Live 2 weeks ago:
I was a bit surprised the service launched with no web or app support at all, even if with limited functionality.
Freely seems to be aiming for quick adoption from what I’ve read, the aim is to have it replace broadcast Freeview entirely. Most people don’t buy new TVs very often, but many would likely start/try using Freely if they could access it on devices they already have.
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- Comment on “People are ultimately breaking into our country": UK ministers acknowledge detention of asylum seekers to be sent to Rwanda 2 weeks ago:
The right-leaning people I know mostly think the Rwanda policy is performative and futile. They want stronger border controls but don’t seem convinced by this approach.
Opinion polls apparently put support for it at around ~40%, but that was only when the policy was still hypothetical.
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- Comment on Royal Mail pauses fines for ‘fake’ stamps after apparent flaw in fraud scanners 2 weeks ago:
Post-bearing suspect stamps will now be returned to sender along with a surcharge where possible. Until now recipients have had to bear the cost if a letter is suspected of having been sent fraudulently.
So they are actually just moving the burden of risking Royal Mail’s dodgy stamp scanning onto the sender instead of the receiver. Doesn’t do much to restore confidence in the system.
If the fraud detection is really that bad that Royal Mail have had to admit it publicly, it now makes me wonder if there really were any fakes at all.
Perhaps it’s time to break down their monopoly on letter distribution if the privatised Royal Mail has ended up in this sort of state.
- Disability benefit claims can’t be made on ‘unverifiable assertions’, argues Sunakwww.independent.co.uk ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 13 comments
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- Comment on No more 12345: devices with weak passwords to be banned in UK 2 weeks ago:
Please let’s do the same for banking next. I’m tired of seeing maximum length limits on passwords, and SMS as the only option for 2FA.
It seems the UK’s high street banks aren’t going to upgrade or improve their aging systems unless forced.
- Comment on ‘Huge disappointment’ as UK delays bottle deposit plan and excludes glass 3 weeks ago:
there’s no reason not to do it again except the distribution network is more centralised now, and sending stuff back is something nobody budgets for
So I’ve heard that’s the main issue with reusing glass bottles now. Drink bottling is more centralised which means higher transport costs to return them, making it uneconomical. When it used to be done here bottles would return to a more local bottling plant.
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- Comment on MoD giving Ukrainian soldiers in the UK free cigarettes to 'boost morale' 3 weeks ago:
It’s also worth noting that smoking is more prevalent in Ukraine compared to countries like the UK. The smoking rate in Ukraine is 25%, and 40% amongst males, compared to 15% and 17% in the UK.
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- Comment on Royal Mail insists it will keep fining innocent victims of counterfeit stamps 4 weeks ago:
Oh and the “Buy your stamps from the Post Office and you can claim they breached contract” but means I have to keep receipts for all my stamp purchases in case someone I’ve sent mail to gets fined?
As far as I know stamps and stamps books aren’t paired to a receipt, so it wouldn’t be possible to trace which stamps related to which purchase.