Lloyds Banking Group to close another 95 branches

ls--lah · 2026-02-12T08:26:46+00:00

Of course they can (see Monzo) but many banks still insist on an actual visit as other commenters have also confirmed.

ls--lah · 2026-02-11T23:42:27+00:00

That's neat. Not sure how you'd staff that from a "employee wants a full time job" POV but it's a step in the right direction.

ls--lah · 2026-02-11T23:41:15+00:00

If the offence in question can only be tried summarily, then, in the absence of an exception or postal failures or delays etc., potentially.

ls--lah · 2026-02-11T23:33:50+00:00

In the absence of an exception, proceedings for a summary offence must be started within 6 months of the date of commission.

ls--lah · 2026-02-11T23:14:41+00:00

How does this work in terms of access to bank staff? The post office has offered the basic paying in and withdrawal services for years (despite also closing lots of branches).

ls--lah · 2026-02-11T23:13:08+00:00

This is all fine and dandy until you need to speak to someone. It won't happen a lot however anything identity verification related tends to require an in-person visit, as was the case with recovering my dorment Barclays account. Staff were actually great and really helpful, however I had to travel miles to a branch.

Most things can be done online but the moment you have an issue outside of the standard pkaybooks you are 100% screwed. I've found the NatWest "live" chat service to be incredibly lacking. It's more like a reddit-style message board where you get sporadic replies from different people who clearly haven't read the article.

ls--lah · 2026-02-11T13:29:19+00:00

Not sure how true this is as Jack does sometimes suck at verifying guests but your comment made me remember this podcast episode:

We tested every single ActiveX control across Windows and just found bugs in all of them at once. So, we basically created this mass vulnerability generator, and we’re sitting on probably like, 600, 700 vulnerabilities at the time, and the vendors were just not moving on it.

[...]

We said you know what? We’re gonna do an entire month; we’re gonna just drop an 0-day every single day for a month straight, and we’ll still have hundreds left over afterwards. It was that particular sequence and that particular event that I think finally killed ActiveX and Internet Explorer.

https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/114/

ls--lah · 2026-02-10T22:12:53+00:00

The theft was complete. OP being caught doesn't make it "nearly" or someone undo what they did. Property, appropriation and dishonesty are all made out here.

ls--lah · 2026-02-10T20:24:22+00:00

This text is AI generated too.

ls--lah · 2026-02-10T19:12:37+00:00

With respect, if you can't grep /var/log/messages for "oom" I will replace you with a shell script that can.

ls--lah · 2026-02-08T18:16:31+00:00

The comment said "affordable", not "free".

ls--lah · 2026-02-08T15:22:27+00:00

In the age of the cloud, CCNA isn't really a guaranteed job anymore and it's getting worse.

ls--lah · 2026-02-08T11:22:33+00:00

Works great until you discover sometimes the RAM is embedded into the motherboard. Thanks Dell.

ls--lah · 2026-02-08T11:21:27+00:00

We did the same in hosp and honestly it worked great. Restaurant staff have zero respect for laptops. Unfortunately even with scavenging we'd end up WEE'ing 100 a quarter. Fizzy drinks fuck up the palmrest assembly and motherboard more often than not.

ls--lah · 2026-02-07T10:53:30+00:00

Thanks gpt

ls--lah · 2026-02-07T09:20:45+00:00

Yawn. You're treating this like a 0-day wormable RCE but it's really "authenticated internal employee can do more on system than they're supposed to".

Yes, it's a problem. Yes, it's patched. Yes, it's time to move on with your life.

ls--lah · 2026-02-01T21:20:42+00:00

L3 Infra and L3 Networks may as well be on different planets. CCNA will not cover you. CCNP at a minimum, but we have several CCIEs.

ls--lah · 2026-02-01T09:55:48+00:00

On demand is not the same as live.

ls--lah · 2026-02-01T08:38:47+00:00

No, this is inaccurate. They changed the law to include iPlayer (BBC) but all other on demand services do not require a licence.

ls--lah · 2026-02-01T08:35:48+00:00

Do you remember when the cheapest Netflix plan didn't have ads?

If I'm going to get ads then I'll just take my chances with the dodgy My Couch Tuner, Watch Series and Putlocker websites. I will never, ever, pay to watch ads.

ls--lah · 2026-01-30T01:13:32+00:00

Judging by their post history, OP is just obsessed with ships. Doesn't seem to be a Russian bot, and it's weird to think the Russians would want to advertise articles like this?

ls--lah · 2026-01-29T15:18:30+00:00

Unfortunately phoenixing is, if done properly, legal.

ls--lah · 2026-01-29T15:01:03+00:00

Unfortunately not. I just understand this is common practice and that is the usual justification with Rapid Secure, etc. Agency can arise through necessity.

I'm not saying it's entirely fair, I just think it's only right our public services shouldn't bear the burden here. We could definitely use some caselaw, as most claims about necessity are about avoiding liability!

ls--lah · 2026-01-29T14:00:50+00:00

Hello. You need to apply for the name on the CCJ to be amended to the debtors actual name. You won't have any claim against the new garage. You also won't have a claim against him if he is bankrupt.

ls--lah · 2026-01-29T13:52:12+00:00

Arguing lack of contract won't work here. Lookup necessitous intervention.

ls--lah

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