There are different narratives. What I believe I heard on BBC radio was that the sender intended to just send a few records to the recipient but accidentally sent the full dataset of 18,000 (or 19,000) records.

Other sources, like the one I linked, say the error was that the wrong recipient was emailed.

It’s surprising that as big as the story is, reporting of the tech details is lousy. A couple sources say the data was a spreadsheet, which seems to support what the Guardian says.

Diligent consumers don’t do that. They pay their bill off faster than fees can be incurred. It’s the other consumers, the undisciplined and the poor, who get sucked dry by fees. These are not the demographic of international travelers. One demographic is subsidizing another.

The interesting thing is that if you’re in the diligent demographic, you can make the shitty bank lose money. Profit from those they exploit is the same whether you create a loss for the bank or not.

Does the “Buy European” community disregard software?

Nokia briefly had a couple devices with an apparently FOSS platform: Maemo, IIRC. Then they ditched that to align with Microsoft. And their recent smartphones are apparently based on Google’s Android. That’s not European.

If you must have an Android for some strange reason, then I suppose Nokia or Wiko would be as close as you can get to European. But fuck Android. It’s proprietary and designed for obsolescence.

I have not tried much of anything yet. I just got a cheap laptop with a BD which came with Windows and VLC. I popped in a blu-ray disc from the library and it could not handle it… something about not having a aacs decoder or something like that. I didn’t spend any time on it yet but ultimately in principle I would install debian and try to liberate the drive to read BDs.

thanks!

Though I should mention my original motivation with makemkv was to rip blu-ray discs, which has complications that go beyond DVD. But the DVD guide will still be quite useful.