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by w14 6mo ago
> I belive that US tech firms have increasingly become valid military targets. Not just US tech firms. So-called dual-use has been embedded into all kinds of what was previously exclusively civilian infrastructure including telecoms netw
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by w14 11mo ago
You don't need to do this for your blog. Comments on "provider content" are out of scope. [1] This was done mainly to protect legacy press and media comments sections but it applies equally to a blog comments section. [1] -
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by w14 1y ago
They haven't actually built one yet. They have been selected as the preferred bidder here in the UK, but that's as far as it has got so far. https://www.rolls-royce-smr.com/press/rolls-royce-smr-will-b... ht
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by w14 1y ago
Don't know that this is any better, but here's the gov.uk version: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/us-uk-pact-will-boost-adv... and the follow up press release from Thursday: https://www.go
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by w14 1y ago
This is the problem I had with all the content removal around Covid. It never ends with that one topic we may not be unhappy to see removed. From another comment: "Looks like some L-whateverthefuck just got the task to go through YT&#x
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by w14 2y ago
I agree with this article that it's probably fake news [0]. It's also mostly moot now anyway, since if TV service is provided via Sky or Virgin, you're bang to rights. Same if you use BBC iPlayer, which is very good at detect
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by w14 2y ago
Indeed, but of equal stature in my opinion is that they people on the receiving end of the miscarriage of justice are continuing to be abused by the so-called compensation process. During the inquiry, the statement was made, can't reme
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by w14 2y ago
The UK Gov proscribed 'Terrorgram' in April this year. [0] The first discussion I have found of it is Hope Not Hate's "State of Hate 2020" report. It hasn't been mentioned in the more recent reports. [1] [0] -
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by w14 2y ago
This does not seem to be borne out by the accident statistics, which apparently show no trend in turbulence related accidents. ( https://www.ntsb.gov/safety/safety-studies/Documents/SS2101.... ) I don't kn
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Tech firms must tame toxic algorithms to protect children online(ofcom.org.uk)
52 points by w14 2y ago|117 comments
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by w14 2y ago
- Ofcom sets out more than 40 practical steps that services must take to keep children safer - Sites and apps must introduce robust age-checks to prevent children seeing harmful content such as suicide, self-harm and pornography - Harmful m
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by w14 2y ago
Unfortunately here in the UK, Ofcom doesn't agree: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/news-centre/2024/tech-firms-must-ta... "Sites and apps must introduce robust age-checks to prevent children seeing harmful cont
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by w14 2y ago
Possibly because they have moved the front camera and the charging no longer works with the old pen.
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by w14 3y ago
Credence "logs every keystroke on Horizon". [0] [0] - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/miscarriages-justice-nick-wal...
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by w14 3y ago
We install an ad blocker.
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by w14 3y ago
My question is why have they singled out Tiktok? This seems political to me. Last year Ofcom published a report on childrens' use of social media. It found: "For children aged 8-12 who used social media the proportions with their
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by w14 4y ago
Don't forget that even if inflation comes back to 2%, that's still only a rate of change. Prices continue to rise, just more slowly. The prices that we have today, that so many already can't afford, aren't going anywhere
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by w14 4y ago
One area that I think is interesting to look at, aside from overall budget, is bed capacity and nursing staff numbers. According to Statista: Bed capacity is significantly lower than at the turn of the century, but more damage was done ther
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by w14 4y ago
It's certainly viewed as immoral at the very least in the UK. "In R v Looseley; Attorney General's Reference (No 3 of 2000) [2002] 1 Cr. App. R. 29, the House of Lords held that although entrapment is not a substantive defenc
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by w14 4y ago
Indeed - it was set up long before Ukraine or Liz Truss. But aside from bad long term energy policy, the incompetence of Andrew Bailey can't be ignored in my view. In July 2021, Andrew Bailey said "Our forecast at the moment is th
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by w14 4y ago
> That conspiracy is as old as the Titanic. Indeed. My Uncle was involved with the installation of Samson and Goliath [0], the two yellow cranes at Harland and Wolff. Goliath was installed in 1969, and the story of the ships being swappe
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by w14 4y ago
> There is no point to them. What about this? "Under the provisions of the Investigatory Powers (IP) Act, it is now possible for the Law Enforcement Agency (LEA) community to lawfully obtain Internet Connection Records (ICR) in supp
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by w14 4y ago
> If a significant fraction of landlords have financing costs that greatly exceed rental income, that is their problem. They can't just pass that cost on to renters because they feel like it. Purely anecdotally, a large proportion o
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by w14 5y ago
I think the issue here is that they appear to misrepresent the sitution on their pricing page [0]. For example the Premium tier which is required for live streaming is £70 per month, billed annually. For that they claim "Unlimited live
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by w14 5y ago
The UK is leading the charge for legislation [0] to force platforms to impose certain types of censorship. Youtube and the others are just getting ahead of curve. They have known what's coming since they were invited into No. 10 to dis
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by w14 5y ago
> Go look for the words cryptocurrency or blockchain in it. Look at the BIS's annual economic report for this year [0]. They are absolutely talking about retail tokens based on a distributed ledger as one of two retail options, the
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by w14 5y ago
The City also has a 'remembrancer' [0], effecively a lobbyist who represents the City's interests to Parliament. [0] https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/about-us/about-the-city-of-l...
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by w14 5y ago
One way to look at it is that "elsewhere" is a protest pen, just like in the physical world where there is a plan to host this year's G7 protests in Plymouth, 76 miles away from the G7 venue [1]. [1] https://www.pl
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by w14 6y ago
Accessing the site with javascript switched off seems to defeat this.
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by w14 6y ago
Each container can be colour coded (up to 8 colours) and each tab is underscored with the same colour, so you can immediately see which is which.

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