[-] northernscrub@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Mr Tang said: “Typically broadband customers will pay for 13 months in a year rather than 12, thanks to inflation linked mid-contract price rises.

Zen has never done this in its 28 years of trading.

Sure about that? My broadband just went up by a quid. It's not a lot, and it's mostly thanks to upstream costing, but come on. Don't fuck around with blatant lies.

I'd still go with Zen like. Can't beat user-configurable rDNS.

[-] northernscrub@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Can't say I've ever had an experience like this. Never had a bother with not getting the cut I want either. Is Collins half yank or something? This shite looks like the sort of thing an American attempting to ingratiate themselves would vomit out.

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I've just bought a new-to-me Xperia 10 V. It took me a while, but I managed to root the device, forcibly remove the bloat I didn't want, and apply some system tweaks.

There are two things that persist in frustrating me. First, I cannot shift the clock back over to the right. Shizuku & System UI Tuner appear to have no effect on this, and until I can compile a copy of LineageOS, I appear to be stuck with it in the wrong place.

The second is a little more egregious, and that's this new lockscreen/notification media control. It's horrendous. In fact, it's a step back in functionality, because the FF/RW buttons are too small to press (and sometimes don't work at all!). Yet, somehow, the notification manages to be larger than it used to be.

I'd really like to get rid of this new media notification UI, and return to the old style of media control where it was indistinguishable to other notifications bar the media controls. Short of compiling Android... 10?11? for a phone released last year, what can I do to accomplish this?

[-] northernscrub@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Not hard to keep to the same policy we had in the 00's. Off or silent, and it doesn't come out in lessons. If it does, it goes in the teacher's desk, and they get it back half an hour after school ends. Job done.

[-] northernscrub@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

hah, this is fantastic. Good on you Ruud

[-] northernscrub@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've discovered a pattern to my logout error as referred to here: https://lemmy.world/comment/1144382

It occurs specifically when I navigate to a community page, without visiting the homepage first. If I navigate specifically to, for example, lemmy.world/c/lemmyworld, I'll be logged out. However, if I visit lemmy.world and then visit lemmy.world/c/lemmyworld, I'll be logged in.

I wonder if this is a bug with SameSite in the JWT? Reddit's token, for example, has a value of None, where Lemmy's has a value of Strict. I've changed that to None for the moment, we'll see if that changes anything

[-] northernscrub@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Holy shit this looks practically perfect. Thanks!

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I'm currently using a VM to run Visual Studio on Fedora. Because I want easy access to both systems at once, without having to minimise a VM or use hotkeys to access the host system, I require a VM solution that has "seamless" integration - I.E hiding the virtual desktop, and running applications in the VM as though they were running natively.

Virtualbox has this solution, but it is somewhat unreliable and doesn't maintain seamless mode (or multi-monitor mode) between boots. VMWare has a feature called "Unity mode", which seems to be a little more reliable - however, unity mode has not been a VMware Linux feature since v7 - we are now somewhere around v17.

I'm using v7 at the moment, but I'd like to find something that won't fall over at some point in the future. RemoteApp isn't a solution, because VS needs to be able to launch a browser and communicate with it during debugging. What other VM solutions have this "seamless" functionality?

[-] northernscrub@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Detectives from the Met's Specialist Crime Command have now concluded their assessment and have determined there is no information to indicate that a criminal offence has been committed.

That says to me that either:

  • The young person involved voluntarily sent images of themself to Edwards, and he either did not respond to them, or responded passively or properly

  • The young person involved was solicited for messages, but no evidence to support this remains

  • This entire thing is a cockamamie bullshit piece dreamed up by a set of parents who are Very Angry that their son is gay, and decided to take things to the press to hit back at him for asserting his sexuality.

There is, of course, the matter of the second allegation - but copycat cases also exist, and it is hard to say whether or not the Met's statement covers both allegations or merely the first.

It does confuse me, somewhat, that Edwards voluntarily offered his identity to the public. He was potentially entirely in the clear after the police statement, so he may either be considering the public interest angle (given he has worked in newscasting for a very long time), is attempting to curry public favour, or maybe just thinks its the right thing to do.

Problem with his revelation is the possibility of it being traced to the young person. It obviously sounds as though they want to remain anonymous and private - what are the chances of that happening now?

[-] northernscrub@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

On opening a new tab or window with a lemmy instance, I frequently find that I am not intially logged in. I am logged in, and refreshing the page a few times affirms this. It does not necessarily require a cacheless refresh (ctrl+f5). It also occurs regardless of what lemmy instance I'm browsing.

This started immediately after the hackening event of the other day. I'll play with what's in site storage in firefox later on and see what happens.

Edit: Ok something very odd just happened. I did the refresh thing and it briefly showed me logged in as @andybug@lemmy.world, for reasons unknown. It didn't stay logged in as (s)he, but very briefly flashed it as such.

Edit2: I deleted cache, webtoken, and other detritus in firefox, and refreshed the page to login again. I logged in, and the site served me the logged-out homepage until I refreshed again. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Edit3: I was logged out completely this morning. No explanation as to why as yet, I'll test tomorrow and see what browser storage looks like

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r/NewcastleUponTyne (www.reddit.com)
[-] northernscrub@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

kbin.social seems to have a bit of bother when it comes to permitting other instances from accessing its activitypub feed. Unless I'm doing something wrong?

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by northernscrub@lemmy.world to c/ukcasual@lemmy.world

In !newcastleupontyne@lemmy.world we have a list of other UK communities in the sidebar. It might be nice if we can get a comprehensive list of the other UK based communites too, so if you run one or know of one, drop a link here. Make sure it's in the remote format so that they can be reached from any instance - this is !<communityname>@<instanceurl>. I don't think hyperlinking works properly yet, but there are active issues raised on the github to get it functional.

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I'm after a remote for JMP that is just a remote. No local playback or streaming, no fancy extras, just a remote with some directional buttons, keyboard input, that sort of thing. Somethign akin to what Kore is to Kodi.

Does such a remote exist?

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Mostly a replica of /r/NewcastleUponTyne, but with less automoderator and more bridge pics

!newcastleupontyne@lemmy.world

[-] northernscrub@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Sounds about right. When I was 16 I thought I was very cool when I got a (very) cheap vibrator out of a vending machine in a pub off Percy Street. Paid two quid for the privilege.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by northernscrub@lemmy.world to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

Is this a possibility? Right now, lemmy communities are very compressed, fitting into the centre third of my screen. Smaller devices, such as 1080p devices, will fair better - but I'd ideally like to implement some CSS that expands page content a little, perhaps to 70vw or so. I could do that with Stylish or some other scripting addon, but I'd like to make it a default for visitors. Possible, or no?

Here's what it looks like currently:

northernscrub

joined 1 year ago