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Cake day: June 24th, 2023

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  • It prevents any website being able to run intercepts on pasting. This is good when they’re using it to just prevent you from doing it for no real reason but there are many situations where you don’t want a user to be able to arbitrarily just drop text into a text field.

    The big one is 2fa. A lot of the time you might need to enter a five digit code and each number may need to be entered into a particular box if you just click in the first box and press paste after copying the code from an email then it’ll paste the entire contents into that one box. You don’t want that you want some code to automatically paste each letter into each subsequent box, that requires you intercept the original paste command.




  • It depends on vehicle emissions.

    Bagels which put out more carbon dioxide get taxed more heavily. This has always been the case but it’s how it’s always been worked out as long as I’ve been driving. I’m not sure how it worked historically.

    My car is a diesel. So it’s output is worse (greater) than a petrol car.

    My yearly tax is, paying monthly, £180 per year. My yearly tax is, paying yearly, £170 per year.

    Not much for my car, but then again it’s a boring ass people carrier with suspect electronics, because I’m 180,000 years old.


  • In the UK you have to pay car tax which basically is a tax on vehicles which obstensively covers road maintenance.

    If you pay monthly then you have to pay 12 units for one year.

    However if you can afford to pay one lot all in one go then you only have to pay the equivalent of 10 units. Essentially you get two months for free.

    Now presumably this is because it is easier to account for your budget if you get it all in one job lot right at the beginning of the year. So it is worth them giving you a economic incentive to do that. But loads of people cannot afford that so they end up paying more money.

    Most people keep a car for what five ir six years? In that time the effectively pay an entire extra years worth of road tax if they pay monthly rather than yearly.

    Boo.