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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Andrew Windsor could face private prosecution, Republic says⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Allocating the cash from Crown Estate to the royals is itself controversial because it’s basically a special public corporation these days, unlike the private Royal Estates of Sandringham and Balmoral which the royals actually manage. Like, why exactly should the royal family be considered to own and exploit reclaimed land and the sea bed? It’s a strange throwback to the dark ages.

  Also, “stipend” usually means only the Sovereign Grant, which funds only the monarch’s official duties and not all the other associated costs incurred by the royals. Some of the extra is paid for by the Duchies of Lancaster (for Charles III) and Cornwall (for William), but not all. Their police, armed services, various ceremonies and some visit costs (including road closures) are paid for from general taxation. I suspect that’s what this complaint is based on.

  But in short, royal finances are a mess and almost like someone doesn’t want a simple easy-to-read budget allocated, but it’s almost certain some taxes paid for some of Andrew’s policing and pomp, and there have been recent reports he asked his police to work against his accuser, which does seem a bit like misconduct in public office.

  I don’t expect this case to be allowed, unless Andrew has really really upset Charles III, but it’s not a completely ridiculous argument.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Andrew Windsor could face private prosecution, Republic says⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, that campaign group has been in the news off and on for over 40 years and was covered extensively around the last coronation due to the pre-crime arrest of its leader and incredible police claims that people carrying sellotape and luggage straps were “going equipped to lock on” and those with paper, ink and paint were “going equipped to commit criminal damage.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often do you update software on your servers?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Those apt commands are in a less-good order. It’s usually better to update apt, then upgrade the system.

  I upgrade as soon as reasonably possible after the notification appears, if the system isn’t on auto-upgrade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Satellite Snooping Reveals Sensitive Unencrypted Data⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It reads like “definitely should not happen” was indeed happening!

  I wonder if some techs got a basic unencrypted test working, then a pointy haired boss moved them on to another project and it got deployed into use with no-one setting up the encryption.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"It’s not about security, it’s about control" – How EU governments want to encrypt their own comms, but break our private chats⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You literally wrote that they don’t represent you, so what else could I reasonably infer (not assume) from that? I bet you’d be more offended if I assumed you were lying in everything you wrote… but great thanks to you for petitioning them. It’s up to us all to make our representatives care.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"It’s not about security, it’s about control" – How EU governments want to encrypt their own comms, but break our private chats⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, that’s not how representative democracy works. You need to tell them that, not us, and why.