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Aaah… it’s Microsoft Authenticator. Thanks!

Something changed recently on iOS that means that whenever I open a page, it moves the cursor to the page number box and opens the keyboard, which is something I actually do intentionally precisely never.

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#hats

That’s very confusing!

It seems like the date function on your camera is glitchy then! The GR is an old (but still very good) camera now.

Okay, ignore me, everyone is acting in good faith here so let’s just leave things be.

EXIF data is the digital signature embedded in every photo - it’s set by the date function in the menus on your camera. Reformatting the SD card doesn’t change it, typically if your camera’s internal battery and capacitors are exhausted it resets to the manufacturing date of the camera or to 1/1/1900.

I defer to the hive mind on this one.

No, I’m not confused - I downloaded the photo and the EXIF says it was taken on 10 August.

Photos must be taken during the week of the challenge. No photos from you archive allowed.

It is a lovely photo and I don’t want to be a grinch about it, but it’s the rule and I know I at least have often been caught out by the ‘I wish I’d taken that a couple of days later’ feeling.

I defer to the hive mind about how strict we want to be. But we had an issue in the early days of the competition because Marcom was constantly adding years-old photos and really undermining the spirit of the whole thing.

@luke572 I think submissions have to be taken Monday-Sunday of the competition week. Although it’s a great photo!

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Looking at that FT article - were the Tories parking asylum seekers in hotels in historically Labour-voting deprived urban areas just because it was cheap?

Inphlation

…and yet in 2009 we have a story about the Home Office trying to create a database https://amp.theguardian.com/uk/2009/feb/25/data-surveillance-identity

…a project which was scrapped in 2014
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Borders

As a BBC write up of the NAO investigation into the failure of the project says:

But the National Audit Office says checks remain "highly manual and inefficient", and IT systems outdated.
The Home Office says all UK arrivals are checked against watch lists.

Which is what I’ve been saying: we have been checking people aren’t on a list of people we know we don’t want, but there isn’t yet a central database of everyone’s comings and goings - and there certainly wasn’t one in 2016.

Maybe they were on the alert for a kidnapped child that day?

But the long history of light touch border controls is precisely why the shift to actually checking everything produced such bedlam.

https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/brexit-borders-dover

They’d check the airplane passenger lists against watch lists, but AFAIK immigration wasn’t keeping a central database of who came in and who came out, especially for sea travel. I don’t remember ever having to show a passport to roll off a ferry on a bike before Brexit, and I believe most cars were just waved through apart the unlucky few who got a spot check.

Prior to the electronic passports coming in I don’t think notes were kept on who was coming in, and often you didn’t have to show ID when you left to an EU destination.

Hi. Prior to 2021 I believe they didn’t have a handle on how many EU citizens had exercised the right to free moment and were resident, which put successive governments on the back foot responding to right wing arguments that there was too much strain on public services because of immigrants from Eastern Europe.

Obviously ID cards can’t undo Brexit retrospectively, but I wonder if it would have happened if we had had them from the early 00s.

And you’re entirely correct that for the last 3 years almost all immigration has been under the visa regime and will have been tracked, and the right to remain process should have documented most of the EU residents still here. So the argument for them isn’t as strong now. But I think I wanted to contribute to the discussion by positing that they can be helpful in protecting things we like.

Having ID would allow for much greater monitoring and control of immigration. The Tories never had a clear idea of how many immigrants were in the country because they'd put the kibosh on New Labour's ID card plans with the assistance of the Lib Dems way back when.

Having spent some time living in France and Spain, I can't say that having to carry ID would make me overly concerned. And I think if we had had ID cards then we probably wouldn't have gotten to Brexit. Given the choice again, think I'd much rather ID cards and technocratic tinkering with immigration numbers than performative nastiness by right-wing politicians morphing into actual physical nastiness in the street like we've seen the last few days.

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@umop3pisdn great photo, your choice of theme for the week!

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The false mirror

Perhaps overly charitably, but I was reading this as a deliberate inversion of the Liam Byrne note narrative that was used to justify austerity - that it’s only once in government you can truly appraise the problem and start trying to address it.

What’s the fit like with those? I have wide feet which means the Solovairs I bought recently aren’t working for me, and have been eyeing up some 2nd Michael or Chambord Paraboots as a replacement…

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#shotfromthehip