Given the situation occurred in the UK, I doubt it.
I think The Equality Act 2010 would be the UK equivalent. No idea whether it would cover this - might be a stretch.
Readit Newssrmarm commented on Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode old.reddit.com/r/LegalAdv... · Posted by u/hliyan
srmarm commented on Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode old.reddit.com/r/LegalAdv... · Posted by u/hliyan
Despite what the average multinational will have you believe, terms and conditions usually don't hold up in court. If they write some illegal bullshit into it, it's just that, bullshit.
That may be true but doesn't help if not accepting the terms prevents you from using the device.
On a practical level you then at best have a battle to get a third party (the retailer) to give you a refund and most people faced with the option of removing and returning a huge expensive device like a fridge with no guarantee of a refund are going to just leave it.
It does need some stubborn and tenacious people to make a stand and set a president - perhaps backed by a consumer rights group but it's an uphill battle.
srmarm commented on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues cloudflarestatus.com/inci... · Posted by u/imdsm
Well, you can never be sure that he didn't:
> May 12, we began a software deployment that introduced a bug that could be triggered by a specific customer configuration under specific circumstances.
I'd love to know more about what those specific circumstances were!
Ah this is a positive thread so not [flagged] - gotta say Hacker News really has been shameful of late with it's shutting down of the negative stories around Grok.
srmarm commented on The flip phone web: browsing with the original Opera Mini spacebar.news/the-flip-ph... · Posted by u/protonbob
I have some good memories of Opera Mini. One time I ended up locked out of my house and spent a couple of hours browsing the web in Opera Mini on a 2G candybar phone with a ~1.5" screen until someone else with a key arrived. It was slow, but not too bad.
I did my first toilet browsing on a Sony Ericsson K750i on Edge network. For forums it worked really well. I suspect this site would have worked well on it.
srmarm commented on xAI's Grok 3 comes to Microsoft Azure techcrunch.com/2025/05/19... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
Be careful saying things like that or you'll get [flagged] - discussion of what seemed an incredibly important subject is forbidden on here it seems.
srmarm commented on Royal Mail trials solar-powered postboxes with barcode scanners eandt.theiet.org/2025/04/... · Posted by u/OJFord
There is a new function available in their app which does similar (i.e allow for proof of posting from a postbox). They've also been pushing collection by postman too.
It saves a trip to the post office which is a hassle which would be a cost for the Royal Mail (which was privatised as a separate company to the Post Office).
srmarm commented on Data centers contain 90% crap data gerrymcgovern.com/data-ce... · Posted by u/billybuckwheat
Some fair points, but some 'crap data' has storage requirements orders of magnitudes from each others.
One short video can equal a year worth of emails for someone. Similarly those many webpages that don't get viewed often probably require only a negligible amount of resources to keep online and might help someone who'd otherwise be faced with linkrot.
Best to focus on the low hanging fruit.
I think Firefox on Android could be better, but even in its current state is better than Chrome.
The next step is start paying for Kagi...
Good call, I've been meaning to try it for a while.
It feels a bit like ~25 years ago when Yahoo was this bloated do everything company with a bad search engine and someone showed me this simple website with just a search bar that was super quick with clean results...
> If you use the uBlock Origin extension in Google Chrome or Edge, you should probably start looking for alternative browsers or extensions—either way.
I've used Firefox on android for a while as android chrome hasn't had adblocking for a long time.
Am pretty anti-google these days but it'll take some time to untangle myself from the ecosystem.
Anyway, I've largely moved back to Firefox on the desktop too, swapped a few icons about so my muscle memory now opens Firefox instead of Chrome and it's been totally painless. An easy win.