MatthewWilkes

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Comment · 1 month ago
Is it accurate to describe this as the public domain? I would expect that the bird logo still enjoys copyright protection, independent from its status as a trademark.
Comment · 2 months ago
The NCSC does give out challenge coins for particularly good reports. I feel like if you get one of those, that will be 10 euros well spent.
Comment · 4 months ago
I think very few people would consider that to be responsible disclosure. The common practice is to allow 90 days as a minimum.
Comment · 1 year ago
It's certainly not my experience that the M3 is overpowered for browsing. With the proliferation of SPAs for everything from messaging to word processing, my Macbook Air reminds me of a Chromebook in more ways than one.
Comment · 1 year ago
The last time the succession rules were changed (2013), it was following an agreement by the relevant countries. It was called the "Perth Agreement".
Comment · 1 year ago
Absolutely. The argument that screen readers shouldn't gain a heurisric for identifying this kind of text and normalising it down to pronouncable words is just prescribtivism, to my view.

ALL CAPS, SpOnGeBoB cASe, clap emphasis, and others carry specific meanings in colloquial written language, the use of other letterlike symbols can also. These should be presented in an accessible form to the user, rather than demanding that people refrain from using them.

Comment · 1 year ago
I bought an XPS 16 recently. 4K screen, 64 GB RAM (+8 GB VRAM), 2 TB storage (4 TB was an option). It cost about 3/4 as much as a similarly specced MBP.

I know many people still love MacOS, but it lost me a few years ago. I've also, frankly, had much better milage out of Dell machines than Apple ones over the last ten years.

Comment · 1 year ago
The US has a small set of valid bank notes. It's not like other countries that have multiple issuers, each with their own schedules for when to update designs.

On top of that, this isn't just a design that a person hasn't seen often, it's a denomination. Think of the 500 EUR notes, they were unfamiliar to many people.

Comment · 2 years ago
2048 is a brilliant game, I love it. I understand that it's been used widely (I even saw it on a plane IFE system last month) and that likely didn't generate much ot any income, but the first impression when opening this was a bit dodgy. There are over 700 'partners' you want me to consent to sending data to? Come on, you know that nobody could make an informed decision on that.
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
I'm not sure I quite understand your questions.

I'd say that Apple are directly harmed, by the court order to pay £385 million. I haven't seen any suggestion that there has been a transfer of shares as part of the settlement, so it wouldn't align with a stock buyback. Equally, this seems like the opposite of friendly, and the money involved here is tiny compared to Apple's dividend payments.

Comment · 2 years ago
The title is "how to ask..." not "how to force...".
Comment · 3 years ago
What's a taxi medallion?
Comment · 3 years ago
That video was enough for me to lose all interest in this channel. Misrepresenting basic maths with something obtuse that is obviously false pushes people away from the discipline.
Comment · 3 years ago
Surprising that the only mention of intellectual property in the FAQ and the legal terms page is about copyright that the service claims in the outputs, not restrictions on the inputs.

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