Funnily enough, GDPR/cookie laws say denying consent needs to be as easy as granting consent.
I’ve noticed a few websites with “Deny All” buttons next to the “Save Preferences” button. So, some people are paying attention to the law.
I’m pretty sure your country will have a site/service for reporting non-compliant websites.

You can distribute your public key, and have people manually add it to their trust stores.
But OSs and browsers ship with preloaded trusted certificates. This way, the owner of a preloaded trusted certificate can issue new certificates that are automatically trusted by people’s OSs and browsers.
To become a preloaded trusted certificate owner, I imagine that there are stringent audits and security requirements. Part of that will be verifying the identity of the requester before issuing them a certificate.

With LetsEncrypt, they either need to talk to a server hosted at the domain to retrieve a token (generated when the request is initiated).
This proves the requester owns/controls the domain and the server (the requester has correctly set up DNS records, and placed the required token on the server). This is HTTP challenge mode.
The other method is by a DNS challenge. The requester adds a TXT record to their nameservers with the token value, letsencrypt then inspects the DNS records for the domain and will issue a cert when it sees the token. This proves the requester owns/controls the domain.

So, proving identity is required (otherwise anyone could generate a trusted cert for any domain). And trusted certificate issuers are required, so people don’t have to constantly import (possibly dodgy) public keys

Oh, a real engineer? ducks

Pinterest invaded Google image search a while ago.
Tiktok invaded their video results.

Google have kinda sorted it, but it really depends on what you search for. The less “real” results you expect to find (or the more esoteric the keywords), the more garbage tiktok/Pinterest you have to scroll through.

And search engine hits

The issue is that nobody trusts corporations/capitalism.
Companies will have to increase prices due to tariffs because the line has to go up.
And when trump implements tariffs and the (if) he folds, the prices won’t go back down. They will stay at that level. Because suddenly, C-suite get to show a huge line-go-up and they get to receive a huge bonus that reflects this 25% (well, lower. But the required rise due to tariffs suddenly being free real-estate) profit increase that they pull out of their ass.

No, trump built a wall. It fixed the immigration issue. There are no immigrants in ba sing se America. Well, unless democrats are in power. Then it’s a crisis

Google says University of Technology Sydney.
Adding “medical” to the Google search returns… University of Technology Sydney, and a health consultant in Australia.

So… I’m going to go with University of Technology Sydney.
While Google results have tanked the past few years, I can’t find a combination of keywords that even suggests some sort of sexual/urinary (“naughty bits”) infection.

DuckDuckGo returns Ultimate Tennis Showdown.
Adding “medical” suggests to add “syndrome” and got me to “Ulnar Tunnel Syndrome” (“ulnar neuropathy at the wrist where it passes through the ulnar tunnel”)… So, too much masturbation? I’m struggling to make it naughty

I was 8 when I moved to the US. It was bizarre. Obviously, as an outsider, I felt I had to fit in. I never questioned it. I didn’t understand it. I just said the words.
I guess at some point you understand the words (I left the US before then), but by that point it’s probably become a habit. It’s still the thing that everyone else in the class does. And you still want to fit in.
Never mind understanding the politics of the US that you have the right to not do something that is habitual and seems completely normal.

Loose type coercion.
Should always use === for a strict comparison in loosely typed languages.
Seems like europe and european union are equivalent when implicitly coerced.

Default config is defined in the firmware. It can’t be deleted or changed (well, easily. I think there is a reseller option to have a custom default config).
The “no default config” means the default config will not be applied after the reset.
If you reset it again without checking “no default config”, then the default config will be applied.

“No default config” is very useful for applying your own config script. It gives you a blank canvas, making scripting a lot easier!

I have my “config.rsc” file that has the required configuration. And I have a “reset.auto.rsc” file that only has the command to reset the mikrotik with no defaults and to run the “config.rsc” script after reset.
“filename.auto.rsc” will be executed as soon as it gets FTPd (it’s a feature of mikrotik).
I use a bash script that FTPs the config.rsc file to the mikrotik, then the reset.auto.rsc file.
Makes it trivial to tweak the config then apply it, and I get all the config for the devices in easy to edit/diff script files.

Not just in Glasgow. Water is a flat rate covered by council tax across all of Scotland.
It’s likely because we don’t pay for units used, and awareness of water conservation hasn’t happened/stuck.

Rusting them girders has become harder since they painted the forth rail bridge with that anti-rust coating!

Scottish tap water is a public/government company.
They do a good job.
Unfortunately, climate change is impacting the level of reservoirs & water ways (ie, going down), and Scottish people use more water than English people (like 30% more, a substantial amount).
Hopefully Scottish water continues to be great, and continue to get the funding they need to do a good job

“Dreamers” are undocumented youths brought to the US by their guardian who are in education.
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/DREAM_Act

There are a whole bunch of caveats, including “good moral character”.

Many laws create a paradox by placing the burden of proof of good moral character on the applicant while such a proof, but not the law, necessitates that the evaluators assess the beliefs and values of the applicant.

I bet this is the “loophole”. Dreamers are allowed, except when denied by “this certain bullshit Texas judge who judges everyone to fail the Good Moral Character test”. Surprise surprise, that’s where all cases of dreamers is held.

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They existed on their own Lemmy instance for years before federating at some point last year.
So, they likely had their own way of interacting, commenting, moderating etc that worked for them, that they had used/built/developed themselves (I mean systems & rules, not software) for years.
And they federated shortly after the Reddit API exodus.
So an echo chamber of extreme left wing users suddenly getting to interact with a whole bunch of new people, and an inrush of more mainstream users. It made for an interesting 6 or so months.

I haven’t had any bad interactions with them directly, however I have seen and disagreed with a lot of their behaviour.
Not sure if I have their instance blocked, or if my instance has defederated them.

Timpsons apparently has really interesting business models.
A friend of mine has worked on a few of their conferences, and apparently it’s both fascinating and they come across as a genuinely wholesome business.

It’s a franchise, but the franchisee (ie the shop) has complete control over what they sell and what services they provide (I dunno if there are any guard rails). So if they want to offer dry cleaning, they can. If they want to offer phone repairs, they can. If they want to only partially offer something, then they can rely on the Timpsons service network to provide the actual service (so dry cleaning without owning dry cleaning equipment).

https://www.timpson.co.uk/about-timpson

The management teams delegate authority but retain responsibility and we have only 2 rules:

• Look the part
• Put the money in the till

And apparently they look after their staff really well. Actually good/useful perks & benefits. In addition to the compassionate leave you’ve mentioned, I’m sure my friend said something about timpsons owning some property that they allow their staff to book for free (like free accomodation for holidays). Or maybe they do block bookings of stuff, or something. I wasn’t hugely paying attention tbh.

And apparently made $100bn. So, that’s a decent ROI!
https://lemmy.world/post/22871743

99% of the police, yeh.
There are a few dodgy ones. And the system generally works to get rid of them. There are miscarriages of justice, and excessive use of force.

But, generally speaking, UK Police police by diffusing situations instead of eliminating them.
I’ve never had a bad encounter with the police. They’ve always been helpful, had some banter, or been polite but firm.
But I’ve never been on the wrong side of them. And I’ve never encountered them in a situation where the population is in the right but the laws are against the population (like a protest that gets “managed”). And it probably helps that I’m native etc.

I have no doubts that it’s different for other UK residents. So, I still judge news by the ACAB.
Withdrawing from X reinforces my beliefs that UK Police police in a good way.
If they move to Donny’s site, then I’m cooked.