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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prince Harry makes surprise visit to Ukraine pledging support for thousands injured in war⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  en.wikipedia.org/…/Finances_of_the_British_royal_…

  investopedia.com/ahead-of-king-charles-coronation…

  www.bbc.co.uk/news/explainers-57559653

  I’ve never dug into it but these are the first couple of links for Harry personally

  parade.com/culture/prince-harry-net-worth

  businessinsider.com/prince-harry-meghan-markle-ne…

  NFI of the accuracy of any of that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our charity could have lost thousands due to Thames Water delay⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thames Water suck

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Value Age verification⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not the slightest idea who the fuck the Stone Cold Steve Austin is.

  Ditto but I’m going to guess a WWE wrestler by the stupid name

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The U.S. is interested in acquiring machine-learning technology to carry out AI-generated propaganda campaigns overseas.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What the actual fuck is “Europe doesn’t/didn’t want to help the US avoid their current fascist dictatorship” supposed to mean ?

  What exactly do you think European countries should have done to stop Mango Mussolini being elected ?

  Send in German troops to the red states to stand next to the ballot boxes and turn away MAGA voters ?

  Send Keir Starmer to hand out leaflets for Harris at the Walmart in ButteFuck Wyoming ?

  You dumb fucks voted for him, we can’t fix that for you. We certainly can’t send military in - the US has spent 50 years persuading and forcing the EU to be militarily weak (and 10 years bitching about the consequences of their own diplomatic efforts)

  Piss off with this idiocy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Guys don’t get sucked into the misdirecting packing - this is nothing to do with keeping children safe. Better parental effort isn’t going to make this UK govt stop the initiative because it has absolutely nothing to do with child safety.

  This is about authoritarian tracking of everything a UK citizen does and says online - that’s why the careful quote is about it being ok for adults to have VPN not kids.

  You know how they do that ? They make it necessary to show ID to have a VPN so then they can track what the adults are doing on a VPN.

  The “think of the children” pearl clutching is a sham and a scam

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your thoughts on this?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Please tell me you forgot the /s ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British authorities are cracking down on strip clubs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well it’s an epithet I use because it appropriately mocks a govt who were elected on a groundswell of “we’ve had the Tories up to the back teeth” and then preceded to do things even the Tories shied away from. I dunno where Starmer & Streeting got the idea that being a Poundland Reform was going to endear them to voters but the polls answer the question. That and the fact he’s filled his Cabinet and the Human Rights board with TERFs, cracked down on protests worse than the Tories have previously done and generally made the worse parts of the Conservative party seem like reasonable people. I can’t recall who it was but a former Tory minister criticised him a couple of weeks ago for going too far on authoritarian crackdowns. Hell the welfare changes he walked back were ones the Cameron govt considered and rejected for being too extreme.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British authorities are cracking down on strip clubs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Which based on the last 12months of Queer Harmer’s govt seems to be a fairly accurate position

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you google Tankard-Reist you’ll find it’s not a conspiracy theory - she has actively tried to block queer representation at every level in every way for decades

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Australian government recalls Google Pixel 6a⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A product recall has a specific legal meaning in Australia (and the US).

  A recall means the manufacturer and the distributer have a legal obligation to promptly make available a fix and to do so at no charge.

  Tesla in the US has also addressed 99% of their recalls with over the air fixes. They’re still federally mandated recalls

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Sheer luck’: how German backpacker Carolina Wilga was found after 11 nights lost in dense Australian outback⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well I’m glad the article was updated to add the “stay in your vehicle” advice, I was shocked the original grauniad article didn’t have it.

  I’m sure everyone on here knows but I’m starting to think they should hand out pamphlets at the airport saying something like

  “Driving in the bush without adequate preparation kills tourists. If you don’t know what adequate preparation is you’re going to FUCKING DIE, so find out before thinking it’s just like driving to Paris via the Ardennes”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why, just why?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If we have agreed to host them because they are applying for asylum, and we won’t allow them to work, then how … do these people see them sleeping and eating?

  Not advocating for it, but I suspect in the minds of its proponents the other half of this initiatives is refusal to accept any asylum seekers into the country at all.

  Either that or they wish asylum seekers to starve to death so they don’t come.

  Could be wrong, I avoid the Faragists like the plague

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmmm that looks like parts listings for the Fairphone 4 to me, why do you ask ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Right to Repair Gains Traction as John Deere Faces Trial⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  f the federal government set up a replacement program though, and shipped all the JD machinery to Ukraine where hackers know how to modify the software, everyone but JD would win.

  Funny you should mention Ukraine, a decade ago (iirc) Ukraine hackers cracked the JD interface and started making available a tool for farmers to manage their own tractors - John Deere sued

  vice.com/…/why-american-farmers-are-hacking-their…

  …medium.com/about-those-kill-switched-ukrainian-t…

  Although I suspect you already knew that :-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Right to Repair Gains Traction as John Deere Faces Trial⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But help me understand how it’s possible that our “free market” is enabling this, unless it’s just a controlled market charading as free?

  • There are very few markets in the US that actually achieve Adam Smith’s “perfect market” (perfect competition)

  • The more expensive the individual item, the harder it is for there to be competition (costs of standing up factories, distribution and support, low volumes of sales etc), it’s extremely expensive to set up in opposition to John Deere

  • There are other market statuses other than “controlled” and “free” - the vast majority of US markets are Oligopolies (few sellers many buyers). Processed / packaged foods for example - 99% of market volume is done by a couple of players.

  • A century ago there were many farm machinery manufacturers - the individual machines were less expensive in real terms, and the complexity much lower. A virtual monopoly (one very large and a few smaller players) has formed through insufficient regulation to protect competition - the big ones gobble up the small and competition gradually dwindles

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women-only tower block in Acton to open next summer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Next TERF media beat up coming in 3…2…1…

  And here comes JK Rowling at a gallop, absolutely frothing at the mouth

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Conceived in secrecy and born in haste, Aukus (submarine deal) is on its last legs.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, those are the subs in question. A poor substitution at the time when it would have cost less just to swap to the French nuclear subs they initially offered

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Conceived in secrecy and born in haste, Aukus (submarine deal) is on its last legs.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s interesting. I hadn’t noticed that. It’s entirely possible, but then that would have been during the Biden era so all bets are off with the Fanta Felon in office

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Conceived in secrecy and born in haste, Aukus (submarine deal) is on its last legs.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, unless the Brits can pull a rabbit out of a hat.

  At least he gets to blame Morrison, and Macron already called Scummo a liar to his face so there will be some sympathy (albeit along with a lot of schadenfreude)

  The French have been getting a lot of “I told you so” in in the last 6 months, particularly the “have your own MIC don’t rely on the yanks”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anthony Albanese says footage of Australian journalist being shot by LA police is ‘horrific’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They (CIA) couped Whitlam for trying to regain control over Pine Gap, nothing to do with mining, that was just Rudd (and I’m pretty sure the CIA was uninvolved in that knifing, that was just naked ambition over coming morals).

• Conceived in secrecy and born in haste, Aukus (submarine deal) is on its last legs.www.theguardian.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An earnest question about the AI/LLM hate⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hello, recent Reddit convert here and I’m loving it. You even inspired me to figure out how to fully dump Windows and install LineageOS.

  I am truly impressed that you managed to replace a desktop operating system with a mobile os that doesn’t even come in an X86 variant (Lineage that is is, I’m aware android has been ported).

  I smell bovine faeces. Or are you, in fact, an LLM ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  "The foreign policy expert, a longtime Russia watcher, said she had first made a similar warning in 2015, in a revised version of a book she wrote about the Russian president "

  I think in fairness that if she has been warning us for 10 years she’s entitled to a little bit of “I told you so” now that it is bleedingly obvious

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s an entire german state cutting off 800k p.a of MS revenue. That’s not piecemeal is it ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Schleswig Holstein (sp?) are doing so, ditto Openhagen and Aarhaus (DK) and I believe France are looking into it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  <sigh> I used to be one of those sysadmins, and the short answer is appropriate risk management, better network controls a locked down OS and immediate action to push out the patches for serious issues.

  I quite frankly detest M$ but keeping your pc patched isn’t propaganda.

  If you know enough to manage the risk (including proper network firewalls and good internet hygiene) then sure, keep going for a while. Zero days aren’t daily, they’re a handful per year.

  On the other hand if you have no clue about ITSec then you genuinely need to upgrade asap because you’re metaphorically running around with your genitals exposed.

  Your comment leads me to suggest you probably dont have the skills to do an appropriate risk assessment.

  But you do you. I’m not your Dad

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New fuel cell could enable electric aviation⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So here comes alkaline rain to replace the acid rain we got rid of 40 years ago. Genius idea. Not

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨public services of an entire german state switches from Microsoft to open source (Libreoffice, Linux, Nextcloud, Thunderbird)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep still exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No more security patches. That should be dead to you if you don’t want to host thousands of parasitic bots & malwares

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wild camping on Dartmoor backed by Supreme Court⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I confess I remain confused as to the actual status of the land.

  Is it “commons” ie owned by all who wish to use it, or is it private land owned by a single individual ?