So, to repeat, this is with five different banks (OK, one of these of the Government run National Savings and Investments) and in most cases, if I want to check balances or transfer modest amounts of money to people I have sent money to before then I only need my password. I only need the SMS mechanism for things like setting up new payees. Perhaps this does count as "2FA" - the password and the phone? I have no doubt that if I had the relevant bank's "Apps" then this may well provide an alternative. In fact, thinking about it, I seem to recall that at least one of them comes up with a page which says "Do you want to verify via the App or a text message."

Does it? I regularly access my accounts on five different UK banks from my Raspberry Pi and I don't use an App to verify on any of them. Perhaps it is different in other countries. I sometimes have to receive an access code sent to my phone (an old feature phone) via SMS, but that's it. I also have a gadget which a couple of the banks sent me where I install my debit card, enter the PIN and then it gives me a one-time code, but I haven't needed to use that for some time.

My 80 year old mother-in-law lives in the EU and regularly accesses social media from her Windows PC. I don't think that she owns a smart phone either so she is going to be particularly irritated by this new imposition.

Well, presuming that you mean from your refreshingly terse comment that if you don't recruit entry level roles then in the longer term you will not have any experienced staff because obviously they were all entry level staff once upon a time, then I'm not sure that I agree because AI will presumably get better over time.

If you don't recruit any entry level staff then obviously in five years time you won't have any staff with five years experience. But, perhaps in five years time (or possibly less) AI will have advanced to the point where it can do the work of staff with five years experience and then you don't have a problem.

Fined for peeling paint! How wonderful it must be to live in the Land of the Free!!

On my site which runs Gentoo, I've already been able to apply the update, but on the other one where I have to run Debian I am of course still waiting for the new version to be made available! Disabling the REST API has enabled me to keep that site live while I wait.

I've seen the Veritasium video and my question at the time was, and remains, how long could it keep this up for? Producing a lot of power for a few seconds is one thing, maintaining it for any significant length of time is quite another when you only have sunlight to rely on.

Perhaps these satellites have much bigger solar arrays than GPS satellites. Perhaps they have huge batteries to allow them to maintain the required level of jamming for an extended period during a conflict.

If the wood isn't burned then where would the lead go instead?

We already use all the wood we need for applications in building, furniture etc. The wood that gets burned in stoves generally isn't good enough for those applications anyway. So, if it isn't burned then presumably it will sit around and slowly rot away. So what happens to the lead then? Does it go back into the soil? Will it leach into rivers and streams to mostly end up in the sea? Perhaps bacteria and fungi which attack the wood will release it into the air anyway?

I've no idea of the answers to this, but it seems to me that if you are going to worry about lead being released by burning then you have to at least explain how that compares with the none burning alternative.

Well, that's certainly very kind of them, not least because one of the other big libraries (alternatekicadlibrary.com) seems to have gone a bit quiet with no update since Aug 2024.

Has this already happened - the title suggests not ("Set to Get")?

I just selected some random city in South Korea and Google maps seemed to be working just fine, including Street View and satellite images. Do I gather that it is something to do with the accuracy of the latitude and longitude values that are displayed?

Can I start by saying that I am completely opposed to the mass collection of DNA from those who have not been convicted of a crime.

However, in cases like this where DNA evidence has produced a very short list of suspects for a very serious crime, I can't help wondering if it should really be necessary to lurk around trying to collect discarded cigarettes.

Surely a mechanism could be invented allowing a judge to permit the police to collect DNA from a small number of suspects on the understanding that no DNA records will be retained from those who are eliminated from the enquiry.

Whilst Linux might struggle with propitiatory Mac hardware, I don't think that this is a fundamental issue with Linux and ARM. For several years my desktop, which I use every day, has been a ARM64 based Raspberry Pi running Gentoo Linux. I have to say that I don't experience any significant problems and the great majority of the software seems to work just fine.

It is already the case - and has been for ages - that you have to prove that you have the right to work in the UK before you can start a job by producing various paper documents. However, there are also huge numbers of people working who don't have that right. Ergo, unscrupulous employers don't do the required checks because then they can pay the illegal workers less and not bother with tedious things like taxes and workplace safety.

Nobody (not least from the government) ever explained how this "digital ID" would make any difference. The dodgy employers simply wouldn't bother to check that either!

You don't have this already??? Here in the UK, headlight alignment has been part of the mandatory annual inspection (MOT) for as long as I can remember and certainly from way before the invention of LED headlamps.

Here's a thought. If you want to be taken seriously as a scientific institution then don't say things that are clearly complete rubbish like "The @NCAR_Science is quite literally our global mothership." Perhaps, at a considerable stretch, it is figuratively our "global mothership" but even that sounds a little unlikely!

Just a quick thought, but do they mean that it adjusts the intensity of the regenerative braking? The electric cars I have driven (not many) have a "D" mode where there is little to no regenerative braking when you lift off the accelerator and a "B" mode for use in traffic where the "Engine Braking" effect is much stronger. I understand that some cars allow you to adjust how powerful the "B" mode effect is. Perhaps this is what the "left paddle" does?