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I do not know what the case is on all forms, but from more modern registrations, such as for the production company behind The Grand Tour, W Chump and Sons [1], at least for adding directors, residential addresses are hidden away. Additionally, I would love to see any credible examples of abuse from this system, seeing as it has been around for a while.

[1]: https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/09668527/filing-h...


Yes, quite recently they've started to allow more care about disclosing the details. There is still more than there really needs to be, but not as much as there used to be. But of course the historical filings are all still there.

There is typically no way to provide credible examples of specific abuses of this information. Then again, after 1,000,000 people's details leak from a financial organisation being hacked, there is typically no way to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the wave of identity thefts that follows was a direct result of the leak. That's not much comfort if you're on the receiving end of it, though.


There is a box on the form for "I have been given an exemption from publication by the Home Secretary".

It was put in after protestors against Huntington Life Sciences started attacking directors in their homes.


VNN indicates that he never had access to the code.

https://twitter.com/ValveNewsNetwor/status/12529744828321382...

He also re-tweeted this account of the events https://twitter.com/JaycieErysdren/status/125300494000139878...


Here's a video from Tyler (VNN) talking explaining the leak: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/599332362

tl;dr: A Valve employee in 2016 told Tyler about a few things Valve was working on. Tyler kept the chat log and shared it with friends. Unrelatedly, TF2 and CSGO's code was semi-publicly leaked in 2018, and one of the friends found and held onto that. Tyler and the friends worked on a fan project together named F-Stop, after an unreleased Valve project, but then one of the friends had a falling out with the rest of them and published this stuff together, probably to embarrass him for sharing the chat log and maybe to make him look involved in the TF2/CSGO leak.

A little more confirmation: https://twitter.com/TeamFortress/status/1253186403900420098


Per Wikipedia [1]:

Under section 3 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018,[2] the GDPR will be incorporated directly into domestic law immediately after the UK exits the European Union.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Act_2018 [2]: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2018/16/section/3/enacte...


So much for "we get to write our own laws" as per the Brexiteers. We'll just copy paste EU laws! I wonder how long it will take for those laws to be removed


We still follow several British laws in India 70+ years after independence. Unless, there is a demonstrable political benefit, old laws generally stay on the books.


what exactly did you expect on day 1: a complete redesign of hundreds of thousands of pages of laws?

over time UK law will diverge from EU law (in the same way that US law diverged from UK law after 1776)


UK law won't diverge from EU law if the consequence is loss of access to or friction with the European common market. The difference between the UK and the US in your comparison is that the US turned into the world's largest economy and sole superpower. The UK's economy is smaller than that of California.

Realistically you can only write your own laws if you're the top dog.


They obviously can change them whenever they want. So no.


CS:GO also uses deep learning to automatically put cases into Overwatch, instead of relying on just user reports.

Some information in this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObhK8lUfIlc


I believe I read somewhere (and it is one of the related articles on the page) that it was the 99-year lease that actually caused Hong Kong to lapse back to Chinese control.


A great reminder to always go with 999 years if you do anything country scale.


It's called GOTV for CS:GO, fyi.

Basic guide here: https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/2arae2/how..., might be slightly outdated.

However, the swapping players from spectators would require them to directly connect into the game server, and simply spectate from there. I believe you can set them as coaches to prevent ghosting, as spectating directly from the server doesn't allow setting any sort of delay.


Did you say ~700? Shit, I have way higher memory usage and I'm only 15 tabs open (not that I complain - the overall RAM impact for me is nothing).


Yeah it was a higher total than I expected myself, but I do use a fair portion of the tabs fairly frequently, as I can witch to the tab I want by typing into the address bar.


Doesn't work on Firefox Desktop for me either. Focus, however, I'm pretty sure uses GeckoView [1][2].

[1]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/GeckoView

[2]: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/whats-new-firefox-focus...


It's embedded CEF, fyi. And I'm fairly certain the new friends UI (which is built using a web stack) isn't Electron, but still just leveraging their existing CEF implementation.

Valve also use HTML/CSS (or some form of it) for their game UIs using Panorama, but this doesn't use any form of web browser from my knowledge.


Ah yes, mixed up my techs. I meant embedded Chromium, not WebKit.


I can report a connection failure while being on a unrestricted connection (University internet in the UK).


So, I don't have any good ideas why. Can you give me more information about what exactly happens? Can't promise anything but details might help.

I.e. something like

- I open the browser console

- I click the .xpi link

- The following appears in the browser console immediately after clicking the link:

    WebExtensions: new intermediate certificate added api.js:15
    WebExtensions: signatures re-verified api.js:23
- My addons do not come back

- If I try to install an addon from addons.mozilla.org I get <this message about the addon signature verification failing> in the browser console.


Thanks for the response!

So,

I click the link. I click "Add", and Mozilla says addon could not be downloaded due to connection failure. Nothing appears in browser console.

Downloading an addon gives me "Download failed. Please check your connection." on the Addons site. In console, I get:

  Events to handle the installation initialized. BigInteger.js:27
  [GA: OFF] sendEvent {"hitType":"event","eventCategory":"AMO Addon Installs Download Failed","eventAction":"addon","eventLabel":"uBlock Origin"} BigInteger.js:27
  Error:
In the studies, I have https://i.imgur.com/fqrd5Jo.png. I enabled it, and have tried setting both first run, and the update interval is set to 21 (to try and force it to update it quickly).


Hmm, what happens if you right click and save-link-as on the .xpi link? Or if you download it via curl or wget or something?

Edit: That studies image looks like it has already been installed, which is weird if your extensions aren't back...


OK, so... I right clicked, saved-as and then ran the XPI... and that worked. So thank you for that suggestion.

As for the studies image, that's only half of the fix according to the blog post [1], mine is only verification-timestamp, not signing-intermediate-bug.

[1]: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/05/04/update-regarding-...


Glad to hear it worked.

You're right about the image, that's weird, I can't think of any reason why the verification-timestamp one would be necessary.


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