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- Comment on The year housing turned toxic was captured in a talkback chat with PM 3 days ago:
If you’re making the group then your call, but the name sounds too sunny & positive to anyone who doesn’t have context to hear the irony.
Also housing crisis is what it’s referred to in many places internationally.
- Comment on The year housing turned toxic was captured in a talkback chat with PM 3 days ago:
I’d suggest “housing crisis” if you want it to get subscribers. Too much subtlety and it’s just going to be ignored, imnsho.
- Comment on French newspaper: The British elites always talk about their special-relationship. They claim the americans are their lovely cousins. But do US elites actually respect them ? 5 days ago:
Without even reading the article I’ll bet Betterridge’s law of headlines applies
en.wikipedia.org/…/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
Betteridge’s law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.
- Comment on How one man created 6 million Wikipedia articles, and why he stopped 1 week ago:
The Scots wiki had the same problem. A teenage American who didn’t speak Scots edited and created 10s of thousands of entries
For those not aware Scots is a Germanic language that split from Old English back about 700-800 years ago - closely related to modern english like frisian is, but also retaining many words lost to english (some of which are retained in Swedish / Dutch etc). It is distinct from standard scottish english.
- Comment on Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky 1 week ago:
Oh lord, what now ?
- Comment on Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky 1 week ago:
That’s weird. The bluesky links in the article work fine for me, and I don’t have a bluesky account.
Ahh hang on, this one doesn’t work but all the rest do
bsky.app/profile/…/3lmdz2tu6xk2x
Ahh here we go: it’s a user made setting not a bluesky one
“Sign-in Required This user has requested that their content only be shown to signed-in users. This label was applied by the author.”
- Comment on Tax cut for Musk, Bezos and other tech billionaires on the table, Starmer confirms 2 weeks ago:
That’s not actually correct. The missiles (the rocket part) are indeed leased from the US, and the maintenance every few years is thus done by them - which keeps the cost down. The warheads are the UKs.
A freshly serviced trident missile should be good for 5-7 years (although they currently get serviced more frequently).
If the UK falls out with the US then we have a number of years to either build or own replacement or buy/lease them off another country - France for example has several options in this space that could be easily adapted.
We are where we are because nobody could imagine the US going rogue like this, a failure of imagination for sure but our nukes are in fact in our control
…org.uk/heres-how-britains-nukes-are-operationall…
- Comment on "Tesla protesters are planning their “biggest day of action” yet, aiming for 500 demonstrations at Tesla showrooms across the world on March 29th..." 4 weeks ago:
globally. They got nothing at all to worry about
What’s that supposed to mean ? You think we’re not pissed off at the Tangerine Palpatine and Poundshop Goebbels in Europe ? Or do you think Europeans don’t protest ?
If it’s the latter I suggest a little googling try “French protest gilet jaunes” for a starter. Or you could just google the protest Tesla has already been experiencing for the last month
- Comment on Mullvad's privacy-focused search engine Leta is now free for all users | Leta acts as a proxy for Google and Brave search results 1 month ago:
When you search google it fingerprints your browser then attachs that to the other information it amasses from tracking your other activities from other websites.
By not giving them the search content you reduce what they know.
Scenario a) you search up particular health issues on google, for the US say “how do I know I’m pregnant” then you go to an online pharmacy (Walgreen is the big US one I think) and order “plan b” (anti pregnancy drug). Google doesnt even need to know from walgreens what you ordered it will infer a pregnancy test and/or plan b then from later activity
Scenario b) you use proxy and thus google knows nothing of your search, then you go to walgreens, for all google knows you ordered makeup or hayfever tablets.
Scenario a is or will be illegal in some US states - best not to leak it.
Not a perfect example, i can poke holes in it. The point is searches are usually sensitive info, keeping them out of the hands of the most egregious activity collator keeps more privacy then if you don’t. The proxy buries your senstive search in with thousands of others that can’t be attached to you
- Comment on Mullvad's privacy-focused search engine Leta is now free for all users | Leta acts as a proxy for Google and Brave search results 1 month ago:
It’s not, but it is better than using google
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 1 month ago:
I can’t trust anything made by google. It’s a company that literally makes its money capturing everything everyone does on the internet…and yet the phone they make is the ONLY phone immune to having everything captured…
Sorry. Not buying it. There will be a chip in there phoning home we’ll find out about in a decade.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 1 month ago:
Fairphone
- Comment on Microsoft Outlook servers down, reports say 1 month ago:
Theoretically the major cloud providers like MS have redundant geographically dispersed servers that mean there should only be an outage if the individual user can’t reach the internet.
In practise however those promises are hollow for a number of reasons, cost usually. Legal issues like GDPR also impinge (EU data being allowed to be in the US has been blocked by the courts the other day for example). In addition there’s a long list of other configuration reasons which almost always come back to cost indirectly.
Theoretically an ideally configured cloud solution is far superior to on-prem.
In the real world, not so much: corners cut, pennies saved by non technical managers not understanding the ramifications of their choices & etc
On prem is certainly better in the real world if you’re big enough to afford proper redundancy and to hire and keep good techs.
Many many firms can’t tick those boxes though and so you get to imperfect world optimisation where what is good for coy. A is bad for coy. B
- Comment on Google Chrome disables uBlock Origin for some in Manifest v3 rollout 1 month ago:
Download fennec it’s the fork of ff mobile with less of the cruft.
I don’t know if it has fixed that specific problem, but I can’t recall seeing it
- Comment on US could cut Ukraine's access to Starlink internet services over minerals, say sources. 1 month ago:
Given there is going to be serious economic disruption there is a lot be said for diversifying your assets. If most of your assets are currently in the US moving your pension fund into assets held outside it is a strong de-risking move, particularly if you can move it out of the country totally using a foreign prover as well as holding non-US assets(not sure if that last is legally possible, don’t know much about your pension system).
Note you may get poorer performance - it’s really up in the air just yet what the short term impacts will be economically (depends what King Mango ends up deciding, it’s mostly speculation right now)
- Comment on US could cut Ukraine's access to Starlink internet services over minerals, say sources. 1 month ago:
He may have been a russian asset since 2004 (I don’t know either way) but it certainly was nothing to do with that SpaceX meeting. He went there to try and buy Russian rocket engines, they told him to pound sand. He was forced to do it the hard way and hire a team and they designed what are now the Falcon 9 engines.
I don’t understand why people keep making stuff up (not just this post, it’s one of many), he’s evil enough on the actual facts
- Comment on Trump tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO 1 month ago:
Ok, but this isn’t a betting site, this is an options contract, which given the current price split of 73c:28c is not a good buy (winning isn’t profitable and you’re tying your money up for 2years).
The price however is inline with my statement - that market considers a GOP win a near certainty.
I’ve checked the mainstream betting sites and GOP are solidly odds on (4/6 on through 8/13on) which isnt hugely profitable but I guess it’ll shorten even further
- Comment on Trump tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO 2 months ago:
Oh they won’t stop / block the elections initially they’ll hold that first one & just conveniently get 75+% of the vote like every dictator before him.
I’m happy to put money on it if you can find a market. I’ve been unfortunately right too much, not because I’m smart but because you can literally pull out a history of Nazi rise and map it onto MAGA and the last 10 years. The only hard bit is guessing the timings, not what, just when.
I’d really like you guys to break out of this and prove me wrong
- Comment on Lessons for Britain from Milton Keynes 2 months ago:
Thats an unusual definition. WRT has long meant “with regards to” or “with respect to”
www.oed.com/dictionary/wrt_prep?tl=true
en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/with_regard_to
english-grammar-lessons.com/wrt-meaning/
I can’t quickly find an authoritative source other than OED which is paywalled. But in short it’s an abbreviation that dates back to the 50s
- Comment on Linux's Sole Wireless/WiFi Driver Maintainer Is Stepping Down - Phoronix 2 months ago:
It’s demographics. Linux contributors & maintainers skew heavily to the older end of the spectrum (and, although not relevant to this point, also skew heavily male).
People who can contribute time to a project for free tend to be older because they are financially and career settled by the time they hit 50s. Raising a family tends not to leave a lot of spare time.
- Comment on Trump tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO 2 months ago:
That 10-year time horizon is a very good point. And it’s not likely that the tariff would stick around that long since every four years has a changing administration who can do whatever they please in those regards.
Lol, you guys are hilarious. I keep seeing these comments.
Fascists don’t allow fair elections.
The only way the magats are leaving office is mass insurrection / mass protests & strikes or revolution.
It most certainly won’t happen at the ballot box
- Comment on Sky's the Limit - Russian Influence Operation Doppelgänger Expands to Bluesky - Alliance4Europe 2 months ago:
Yeah, first we need to a bit more traction I think 😁
- Comment on Portable drone jammer uses a Raspberry Pi tactical Software Defined Radio 2 months ago:
Yeah keep it unopened ready for when the shooting starts.
- Comment on VPS provider who ignores DMCA notices 2 months ago:
Yeah illegal stuff and Singapore should never be in the same sentence.
Either move the VPS to being hostex somewhere with no interest in enforcing copyright law (Africa, South America, some parts of Asia like Cambodia, Kazakhstan etc) or put a VPN on the VPS so your IP shows as being somewhere less regulated than SGP
- Comment on Teslas turn toxic as sales crash in Europe and the UK | EV sales in the region are growing, but not for Tesla 2 months ago:
While entirely correct, the Irish get very antsy about being included in the British Isles. It’s a “colonial relic” is probably the nicest version. So yes the map is correct from a British pov but not from an Irish one.
- Comment on Teslas turn toxic as sales crash in Europe and the UK | EV sales in the region are growing, but not for Tesla 2 months ago:
Solid state is just around the corner in the same way fusion is. Toyota announced in 2010 they’d have it in prod by 2015, then 2018, then 2020, then 2025 then…"real soon now™ "
The MG “may be a semi solid state”
electrek.co/…/new-semi-solid-state-battery-ev-lau…
Which is not quite the same thing.
BYD and CATL who have a good track record of delivery are suggesting 2030
TL;DR
Don’t wait for solid state, the current battery tech is more than adequate for the majority of people. Holding off for something “perfect” that may never arrive when “good enough” is here diesn’t seem logical to me
- Comment on Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt 2 months ago:
The target audience is monied tech bro millenials who really wanted a warthog out of Halo.
The problem is that the overlap between tech bros and nazi lovers is definitely not 100%, probably not even 10%.
- Comment on Britain’s prehistoric attitude to drugs isn’t working. Why not learn from Texas? | Simon Jenkins 6 months ago:
Ok, you’ve got me puzzled. What’s a US state named after a UK (or English) queen where cannabis is legal ?
The only female named states I can think of are Georgia, Virginia and Louisiana, none of whom have been Regent.