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Online Safety Act – shutdowns and site blocks(blocked.org.uk)
284 points by azalemeth 1y ago|302 comments
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by azalemeth 1y ago
Perhaps worth stating that although proxima centauri is the closest star to us at 4.25 LYr, Centauri A is the closest solar-type star to the Sun and isn't exactly far behind at 4.34 LYr. Bring on the ion thruster visitor spacecraft!
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by azalemeth 1y ago
I was about 13 and contributed to an Apple open source mailing list -- I forget which one. I included the entire email chain and got a very very stern telling off from the list maintainers for doing so and my code sunk without a trace. I di
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by azalemeth 1y ago
An obligatory link for either anyone living in Britain or with British citizenship: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903 More people have signed this than the membership of the labour party(!)
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by azalemeth 1y ago
The answer to what legal rights you have is a function of your jurisdiction -- in the EU, quite a lot. I suspect your biggest issue may be related to the email I got below though, detailing how the enshittification I see as a subscriber wil
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by azalemeth 1y ago
And lots of VPN companies explicitly change TTL and packet sizes to avoid these sorts of things
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by azalemeth 1y ago
Denmark is very liberal in some ways but very much not in others. MitID -- digital id-- is a gateway to everything and is very much gated in terms of access; it took me months to sort out. It's a crime to not tell the state where you l
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VPNs top App Store charts as Online Safety Act age checks kick in(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by azalemeth 1y ago|0 comments
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by azalemeth 1y ago
Obligatory comment: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903
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by azalemeth 1y ago
I'm amazed that producing porn in Iceland can lead to gaol. Can you expand upon that further?
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by azalemeth 1y ago
We have ear defenders and staff inside and monitoring visible in both locations -- anaesthetic machine in the control room. There's not much you can safely do in the fringe field but you can do CPR and rapidly get someone out of the r
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UK backing down on Apple encryption backdoor after pressure from US(arstechnica.com)
555 points by azalemeth 1y ago|422 comments
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by azalemeth 1y ago
Here's a really good vegan burger recipe: caramelise about three large red onions with garlic, salt, pepper and olive oil. Drain a tin of red kidney beans, keep the liquid, mash together with fried onions, add about 100g of breadcrumbs
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by azalemeth 1y ago
The NHS largely prefers amalgam over white fillings for the simple reason that there is consistent but low quality evidence that they last longer (1) and are lower cost. There absolutely is hype in dentistry, and it's very dangerous as
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by azalemeth 1y ago
I often look at the pdf metadata when reading CVs. It tells a story all of its own. And latex automatically signals virtue to me...
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by azalemeth 1y ago
I know exactly what it does – I just think it is incredibly misguided. Cookie walls and consent banners are not uniformly legal; there are repeated instances of the IAG's "default" option being found to be breaking EU law by
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by azalemeth 1y ago
Given that "consent walls" are not legal in Europe ( https://www.termsfeed.com/blog/gdpr-no-cookie-consent-walls/ ) and the likes of Google explicitly have a JS blocking extension for users who don't
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by azalemeth 1y ago
Interesting work! I have a question -- How can I block it in umatrix?
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by azalemeth 1y ago
I first encountered Golliwog in the context of Claude Debussy the composer of much beautiful music, including https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Corner#Golliwogg'... . The dolls in 1906-1908 I understand we
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by azalemeth 1y ago
Some of these are absolutely wild – com.apple.gm.safety_deny.input.summarization.visual_intelligence_camera.generic [1] – a camera input filter – rejects "Granular mango serpent and whales" and anything matching "(?i)\\bgolli
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by azalemeth 1y ago
Or we could just not eat fish, like I haven't done for all my 36 years of life?
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by azalemeth 1y ago
Mensinator is also another FOSS that uses no third party sdks and is reproducibly built for android, fairly actively used, and made by women. https://github.com/EmmaTellblom/Mensinator
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Largest ever data leak exposes over 4B user records(cybernews.com)
8 points by azalemeth 1y ago|0 comments
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by azalemeth 1y ago
Singapore is far from a nation known for free speech or to pick the side of liberty should it come into conflict with security. I've no doubt whatsoever that approved apps on a CTS "hardware backed" remote attestation phone
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by azalemeth 1y ago
I'd really love to try this with a paper I'm trying to get into a good journal, but I'm currently getting `Unexpected token R in JSON at position 0`. Specifically – Failed to load resource: the server responded with a st
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by azalemeth 1y ago
I thought Philips also came about from SMIT and Marconi Medical Systems – could very well be wrong!
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by azalemeth 1y ago
I agree with you on all of this (and like the fact that GE uses linux as a base, and not, as Siemens and Philips do, Windows + cygwin + a separate box either running linux or vxWorks). I guess my point was I think it's interesting that
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by azalemeth 1y ago
Something nobody is saying is that there genuinely are synergies in GE's businesses. Take MRI for an example (albeit one I know a lot about...): -- the superconducting magnet shell requires the accurate creation of 'nested doll&#x
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by azalemeth 1y ago
Nexuiz (foss multiplayer quake) and beyond all reason (supreme commander rts) are both excellent and have large online communities. Battle for Wesnoth (turn based) is also fantastic. 0 ad has been coming along for ages (rts). We're mis
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by azalemeth 1y ago
For the benefit of any other European readers who wonder what on earth this product is, it is a sugary breakfast cereal not on sale in the European Union. A brief search [1] states that it contains 86 g of carbohydrates (of which 30 g sugar

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