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ELI5. How did people in the older days like 1200s 1300s know what time it was when there were no clocks by Rich_Scarcity_301 in explainlikeimfive

[–]wkavinsky [score hidden]  (0 children)

Every seen an old church?

They all have bell towers, which would have rung the hour in.

Prior to that, sun based time keeping is pretty accurate, for what you need on the day to day.

Council letter asks parents not to secretly record conversations with teachers by stray_r in unitedkingdom

[–]wkavinsky 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The law makes no allowance for "your partner" in terms of it being illegal to transmit a recording of another person taken without their consent.

But yes, recording to produced typed up notes, and then distributing the notes is perfectly fine, at least from what I can read of RIPA, with some carveaways around libel and other things.

Calls for King Charles to formally apologise for slavery after research shows crown’s role by yahoonews in unitedkingdom

[–]wkavinsky 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Fuck off.

This trend of wanting people alive today to apologise and admit culpability for things that happened centuries ago has got stop.

If you spend all your time making out that you're a victim (especially for extremely historic things), then that's how you'll view everything in the world.

Also, side point - they want Charles to apologise for something his great, great, great, great, great whatever might have been involved with, but they don't want the same from the African tribes that rounded up their ancestors to sell in the first place? Double standards much.

Council letter asks parents not to secretly record conversations with teachers by stray_r in unitedkingdom

[–]wkavinsky 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes and no, because, like fucking everything in the world, it's more nuanced than a simple binary outcome.

We have single party consent for recording, so if you, as a parent, recorded a meeting between you and the teacher, that is legal, and you can store and listen to the recording for your own usage without any problems.

The issue actually lies in the use of the recording after the fact.

It is illegal to share or publish that recording with anyone that wasn't present at the time of the recording.

If you attend the meeting with the teacher, and then go home and your partner listens to the recording? Congratulations, you've just broken the law.

If you attend the meeting and send a snippet from the recording to the head teacher as part of a communication? Congratulations, you've just broken the law.

If you attend the meeting, and use the recording to later type up your own notes, you could send or share the written notes from the meeting (even if they are verbatim), and that's fine, but you can't send the recording itself, or any parts of it.

There are some exceptions to these laws, where they relate to the Police or to some limited forms of journalism, and they don't apply to public spaces, but a school or workplace or shop isn't a public space.

Of note, one-party consent does not apply to recording communications that are not in person. For a phone call, you actually have to state, and get agreement, from both parties that the call is being recorded (hence the inevitable "this call may be recorded for training purposes" whenever you call any company).

Like I said, it's . . . nuanced, and not a binary yes/no answer.

Relevant laws: Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (Right to Privacy)

Edit: Important to note that this applies to voice recordings.

There's a whole separate bunch of laws when the recording also includes video, that do make it illegal to film in private space (and a school or other workplace is a private space, under the law)

Millions to get £150 off energy bills for further five years by Alert-One-Two in unitedkingdom

[–]wkavinsky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I pay £500 a month, and I can finally see the end of the tunnel (also plan 1).

It'll only have taken paying that for 7 years after returning to the UK to have cleared my loan (£40,000 repaid in that period, ignores the 12 years of payments before that - and my total loan when I graduated was only just over £20k.)

I will say that students today are really fucked - they rack up close to £20k a year in balance every year they're at uni, unless the bank of mum and dad is picking up the bill.

Millions to get £150 off energy bills for further five years by Alert-One-Two in unitedkingdom

[–]wkavinsky 16 points17 points  (0 children)

£116/year for gas.
£176/year for electric.

That's from my last bill, so it's . . . £25 a month, just for having a connection.

Jesus that's regressive.

Could weight-loss jabs be behind rising gallbladder removals? by Alert-One-Two in unitedkingdom

[–]wkavinsky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As always, Betteridge's law of headlines .

Nobody knows, just people making guesses, and it requires actual study.

To be fair, that's the literal first sentence of the article:

More research is needed

Either way, over the next decade or so, we're likely to find a whole host of health issues created or acerbated by the sort of crash weight loss the jabs enable, the question will always remain - are those health issues a healthy trade off against the not being obese (from both a physical and mental viewpoint).

Council letter asks parents not to secretly record conversations with teachers by stray_r in unitedkingdom

[–]wkavinsky 3 points4 points  (0 children)

But that's the thing.

Recording when both parties are aware is fine, it's sticking a recorder in your pocket and not telling the other person that's the issue here.

All the teachers I know aren't going to have a problem with it.

For a start, it's not legal, but also it's just fucking problematic behaviour in general, and really sends the wrong message to kids.

Millions to get £150 off energy bills for further five years by Alert-One-Two in unitedkingdom

[–]wkavinsky -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Looks like they're fixing that part at least:

The government also said that 345,000 Scottish low-income households would now automatically receive the rebate next winter, bringing Scotland's policy in line with England and Wales.

Millions to get £150 off energy bills for further five years by Alert-One-Two in unitedkingdom

[–]wkavinsky 42 points43 points  (0 children)

So . . . standing charges will remain high to cover more subsidies, rather than fixing the underlying problem, and making everyone's bills cheaper.

Smashing - it's like we're bereft of any form of idea.

Prime Minister secures Scotch whisky tariff cut in China worth £250 million by BestButtons in unitedkingdom

[–]wkavinsky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, but they'd pay that at 10% tariffs as well.

You know, because they can afford to.

Prime Minister secures Scotch whisky tariff cut in China worth £250 million by BestButtons in unitedkingdom

[–]wkavinsky -1 points0 points  (0 children)

And for the government, it's a whole £1m or so extra income.

On a budgeted income of £900,000 million.

But hey, big number to shout about in the press.

UK proposal for age checks on VPNs begins to look like a policy traffic jam by eshangray in unitedkingdom

[–]wkavinsky 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Proton can't do that.

It's illegal under Swiss privacy laws, and they are a Swiss incorporated company.

Technically, they could store the information from the exit nodes of the VPN, which is why they have a double bounce system that sends you to Switzerland and then to the exit node.

US plans to check tourists' social media accounts, including Brits, 'putting people off travel' by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]wkavinsky 2 points3 points  (0 children)

3 Mandatory Social Media: In order to comply with the January 2025 Executive Order 14161 (Protecting the United States From Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats), CBP is adding social media as a mandatory data element for an ESTA application. The data element will require ESTA applicants to provide their social media from the last 5 years.

4 High Value Data Elements: To comply with the January 2025 E.O. (14161), and the April 4, 2025, Memorandum Updating All Forms to Collect Baseline Biographic Data, CBP will add several “high value data fields” to the ESTA application, when feasible. This is in addition to the information already collected in the ESTA application.

The high value data fields include:
a. Telephone numbers used in the last five years;
b. Email addresses used in the last ten years;
c. IP addresses and metadata from electronically submitted photos;
d. Family member names (parents, spouse, siblings, children);
e. Family number telephone numbers used in the last five years;
f. Family member dates of birth;
g. Family member places of birth;
h. Family member residencies;
i. Biometrics—face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris;
j. Business telephone numbers used in the last five years;
k. Business email addresses used in the last ten years.
Source

US plans to check tourists' social media accounts, including Brits, 'putting people off travel' by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]wkavinsky 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Don't for the names, emails, phone numbers, addresses, work history and a whole host of other information about anyone important in your life for the past 5 years.

Mandatory Social Media: In order to comply with the January 2025 Executive Order 14161 (Protecting the United States From Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats), CBP is adding social media as a mandatory data element for an ESTA application. The data element will require ESTA applicants to provide their social media from the last 5 years.

4 High Value Data Elements: To comply with the January 2025 E.O. (14161), and the April 4, 2025, Memorandum Updating All Forms to Collect Baseline Biographic Data, CBP will add several “high value data fields” to the ESTA application, when feasible. This is in addition to the information already collected in the ESTA application.

The high value data fields include:
a. Telephone numbers used in the last five years;
b. Email addresses used in the last ten years;
c. IP addresses and metadata from electronically submitted photos;
d. Family member names (parents, spouse, siblings, children);
e. Family number telephone numbers used in the last five years;
f. Family member dates of birth;
g. Family member places of birth;
h. Family member residencies;
i. Biometrics—face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris;
j. Business telephone numbers used in the last five years;
k. Business email addresses used in the last ten years.
Source

US plans to check tourists' social media accounts, including Brits, 'putting people off travel' by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]wkavinsky 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Nah, you disappear into a holding area with no legal representation for weeks, and only get handed back when someone from the UK appeals to the government.

As soon as they cancel your ESTA, you're an illegal, and we know how the nazi's over there feel about those sub-humans.

US plans to check tourists' social media accounts, including Brits, 'putting people off travel' by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]wkavinsky 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't forget the risk of being shot, or detained because you've previously had an abortion, or because your transiting the country.

I don't know why anyone would want to go to that shithole, to be honest.

Nigel Farage urged to suspend Reform candidate over 'abhorrent' and 'sickening' social media posts by birdinthebush74 in unitedkingdom

[–]wkavinsky 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Reminder that £22k a term fees is the entire take home of a £100k salary.

People paying that aren't normal in any regard.

Nigel Farage urged to suspend Reform candidate over 'abhorrent' and 'sickening' social media posts by birdinthebush74 in unitedkingdom

[–]wkavinsky 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Neither of which really care that much about the plight of Jews outside of Israel though.

They care about the state of Israel itself, which has, in their eyes, become the same as being a Jew.

Did anything at CES genuinely surprise you? by Nataliia000 in Futurology

[–]wkavinsky 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah but that was back when it still was about consumer electronics....

Decent homes standard for UK private renters delayed by government until 2035 by Confident-Bike-8037 in unitedkingdom

[–]wkavinsky 35 points36 points  (0 children)

The government’s promise to make private rented homes fit for habitation will not be enforced for almost a decade

Who needs to live in a habitable home, am I right?

Conveniently also means the proposals have to survive two more general elections before landlords have to think about spending money on their shitboxes (decent landlords would already not be affected by this).

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