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  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Why do both Northern Ireland & Scotland print their own bank notes?English
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    7 天前

    Wait until you hear about the Alderney pound, Manx pound, Jersey pound, Guernsey pound, Falkland Islands pound, Gibraltar pound, Saint Helena pound, …

    which ones are accepted where is... complicated:

    from wikipedia:

    Throughout the UK, £1 and £2 coins are legal tender for any amount, with the other coins being legal tender only for limited amounts. Bank of England notes are legal tender for any amount in England and Wales, but not in Scotland or Northern Ireland.

    […]

    Bank of England, Scottish, Northern Irish, Channel Islands, Isle of Man, Gibraltar, and Falkland banknotes may be offered anywhere in the UK, although there is no obligation to accept them as a means of payment, and acceptance varies. For example, merchants in England generally accept Scottish and Northern Irish notes, but some unfamiliar with them may reject them.[142] However, Scottish and Northern Irish notes both tend to be accepted in Scotland and Northern Ireland, respectively. Merchants in England generally do not accept Jersey, Guernsey, Manx, Gibraltarian, and Falkland notes but Manx notes are generally accepted in Northern Ireland.[143] Bank of England notes are generally accepted in the Falklands and Gibraltar, but for example, Scottish and Northern Irish notes are not.[144] Since all of the notes are denominated in sterling, banks will exchange them for locally issued notes at face value,[145][failed verification] though some in the UK have had trouble exchanging Falkland Islands notes.[146]

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  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlOPtoAndroid@lemmy.world•GraphiteOS is an unofficial, unaffiliated fork of GrapheneOS packaged as a Generic System Image (GSI) for Project Treble devicesEnglish
    142·
    10 天前

    those benefits rely on the Pixel’s hardware

    Doesn’t GrapheneOS have a lot of benefits besides the 3 pixel-requiring hardening features which are removed in Graphite (and the 3 others which are disabled by default but can be re-enabled on some devices)?

    I’m not disputing that those hardening features are worthwhile! Pixels with Graphene are obviously much more difficult to exploit than phones without those features.

    But there are billions of non-Pixel phones in the world which aren’t about to be thrown away, and the vast majority of phone users absolutely cannot afford a Pixel. GraphiteOS (if it actually works?) seems to me like it is probably a major improvement over the other options available for them.

  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlOPtoFuck AI@lemmy.world•Copilot is now injecting ads into PR descriptionsEnglish
    31·
    17 天前

    Anyone can use copilot to open PRs under their own name on any repo which accepts PRs, so you can’t easily know copilot is involved without looking.

    In the case of the first hit in the mastodon post’s linked search query, it looks like a human actually opened the PR last year and subsequently requested a review from copilot (as well as from two humans); after some back and forth nothing else happened until 3 days ago when copilot updated the issue to tell them: you need to pick a “Usage billed to” option in your Copilot settings.

    And then, apparently, three minutes after they updated their billing information copilot pushed some more commits and helpfully edited the human’s original PR description to insert the advertisement.

    (Obviously this is yet another reason to move off of github, but (1) that is much easier said than done for many projects, and (2) once it’s normalized on github, “coding assistants” will also be spamming in other venues soon enough if they aren’t already.)

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