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Womble

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  • Peter Thiel Just Accidentally Made a Chilling Admission. Five Decades Ago, One Man Saw It Coming.

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  • Dont be a dick, people arent simping for Thiel just because they think the article you posted is over interpreting a single pause.

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  • Starmer is no where near Blair 2.0, Blair at least had charisma, a political plan and, at least before Iraq, genuinly had mass grass roots support. Starmer has none of them, he's an apolitical middle maneger who has been pushed to the top of the party by a right wing clique in labour as a way to purge the left.

  • Just received an email from feddit.online saying they've geoblocked UK IPs due to the Online Safety Act

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  • Also, I’m not sure to what extent this law is applied in practice.

    as per the article general_effort posted:

    The act – which makes it a criminal offence, punishable by life imprisonment, to advocate abolition of the monarchy in print, even by peaceful means – has not been deployed in a prosecution since 1879.

    Its one of those laws that are on the books mostly becuase no one has got around to modifying it and removing the bits that are unused.

  • introducing copyparty, the FOSS file server

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  • Yup, I tried to run the docker image with the suggested docker command and it errored out for lack of a config file (though it did offer a fix in the logs for mounting the current directory as read/write)

  • UK police hold pro-Palestine protester, 80, for almost 27 hours and search house

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  • You are right, but also I doubt she was expecting her protesting to directly change anyone in power's mind. The tactic is obviously to keep doing this with people who are very media friendly (little old grannies and the like) so stories keep getting into the papers of "lovely person arrested for protesting!" which does put pressure on the government.

  • Watermarks offer no defense against deepfakes, study suggests

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  • Not easy to extract sure, but is it secure enough for you to claim that it hasnt been leaked and so forms a secure chain of custody? Once one has been leaked then that can be used to sign any fake pictures you like. I woudnt buy that for anything for serious than is this meme picture real.

  • Watermarks offer no defense against deepfakes, study suggests

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  • In order for it to be traceable with a public key, it needs to be signed with the private key. That means the private key has to be on the camera. That means it can be extracted from the camera and leaked.

  • Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC

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  • Sure it wouldnt be rational to care about DRM being broken a small amount allowing limited amount of copyright material to be copied.

    What do you think their response would be?

  • Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC

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  • No way they'd do that though, because then they'd have the mouse and the other members of the content mafia breathing down their necks.

  • Bubble Trouble

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  • It depends, if they're use a transformer or diffusion based archetecture I think it would be fair to include it in the same "AI wave" thats been breaking since the release of chat gpt publicly.

  • Israel levelling thousands of Gaza civilian buildings in controlled demolitions - BBC News

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  • Verified footage shows large explosions unleashing plumes of dust and debris, as Israeli forces carry out controlled demolitions on tower blocks, schools and other infrastructure.

    Multiple legal experts told BBC Verify that Israel may have committed war crimes under the Geneva Convention, which largely prohibits the destruction of infrastructure by an occupying power.

    Gosh, such a mouthpiece for Israel

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    Does the fediverse really have a civility problem and what can we do about it?

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  • I mean, if we're going to shoot people for their awful beliefs I would like to know there is a good system in place so that we don't end up shooting Alex Jacobson because Alex Jacobsonn has been spotted attending Klan rallies.

    So again, if you want to advocate for extrajudicial violence: who gets to decide where the boot is stamping, and how do you propose making sure that it isn't co-opted by bad people for their own ends?

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    Does the fediverse really have a civility problem and what can we do about it?

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  • and who gets to decide who is a fascist, you?

  • UK to lower voting age to 16

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  • Lots of people witter on about young men becoming right wing in the UK like we're America, in reality young men were the second most left wing demographic after young women in the last election.

  • UK to lower voting age to 16

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  • Given that in the 2024 election the two most left wing groups (lab+lib+green voting) were 18-24 women followed by 18-24 men, probably not.

  • TIL sweat comes out of the pores, which does this when you shave

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  • Anti mater is routinely created in the nature. X-ray telescopes can see it being created and destroyed all over the universe.

  • Chinese Scientists Create Cyborg Bees That Can Be Controlled Like Drones for Undercover Military Missions

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  • Why would you bother mind controlling bees in order to make them do the thing they would be doing anyway?

  • Where are the right-wing scientists? Everyone's on the left like me

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  • I havent interacted much with working scientists for the past 5-10 years, but when I was there definitely were right wing scientists in the "free markets are good, the state should be mostly hands off, dont make big sweeping changes too quickly" sense. I dont particularly agree with that viewpoint but its completely compatable with being a scientist.

    But that sort of conservativism is essentially politically homless now (in the UK and USA at least).

  • Can we afford to be afraid of nuclear power?

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  • This one?

    If so it would supply just New South Wales for only 20 minutes. Hardly seems to be on the verge of solving grid scale storage.

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    Black Mirror’s pessimism porn won’t lead us to a better future | Louis Anslow

    www.theguardian.com /technology/2025/apr/10/black-mirror-tv-show-pessimism
  • Global News @lemmy.zip
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    UK-EU defense pact really does depend on fish, European minister warns – POLITICO

    www.politico.eu /article/uk-eu-defense-pact-really-does-depend-on-fish-european-minister-warns/
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    ‘OpenAI’s metafictional short story about grief is beautiful and moving’ | Jeanette Winterson

    www.theguardian.com /books/2025/mar/12/jeanette-winterson-ai-alternative-intelligence-its-capacity-to-be-other-is-just-what-the-human-race-needs
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    From COBOL to chaos: Elon Musk, DOGE, and the Evil Housekeeper Problem

    www.technologyreview.com /2025/02/07/1111283/elon-musk-doge-and-the-evil-housekeeper-problem-government-technology/
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    Apple told to pay back €13bn in tax by EU

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/ckgwkwxr4eqo
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    Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to keep using it?

    www.theguardian.com /technology/article/2024/sep/05/racism-misogyny-lies-how-did-x-become-so-full-of-hatred-and-is-it-ethical-to-keep-using-it
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    How ordinary failure could have a seismic effect on an industrial giant

    www.bbc.com /future/article/20240718-how-ordinary-failure-could-have-a-seismic-effect-on-an-industrial-giant
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    French election 2024 live: exit poll shows shock win for left-green alliance as far right falls to third

    www.theguardian.com /world/live/2024/jul/07/french-election-2024-results-latest-france-news-marine-le-pen-national-rally-emmanuel-macron
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    French centrists must decide: support the left – or hand the keys of power to the far right?

    www.theguardian.com /commentisfree/article/2024/jul/01/french-centrists-left-far-right-new-popular-front-national-rally-second-round
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    How Ukraine shattered Europe's balance of power

    www.newstatesman.com /the-weekend-essay/2024/06/how-ukraine-shattered-europes-balance-of-power
  • Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. @slrpnk.net
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    Solar panel waste to reach crisis levels in next two to three years, Australian experts warn

    www.theguardian.com /australia-news/2024/mar/30/solar-panel-waste-levels-crisis-point-disposal
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    Palestinian citizen of Israel granted UK asylum in case said to be unprecedented

    www.theguardian.com /uk-news/2024/mar/12/palestinian-citizen-of-israel-granted-asylum-in-uk-in-case-said-to-be-unprecedented
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    People are worried that AI will take everyone’s jobs. We’ve been here before.

    www.technologyreview.com /2024/01/27/1087041/technological-unemployment-elon-musk-jobs-ai
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    Nose wheel falls off Boeing 757 airliner waiting for takeoff

    www.theguardian.com /business/2024/jan/24/delta-air-lines-plane-nose-wheel-falls-off
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    Alaska Airlines grounds Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after mid-air window blowout

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2024/jan/06/alaska-airlines-grounds-boeing-737-max-9-planes-after-mid-air-window-blowout
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    Everyone Is a Luddite Now

    www.wired.com /story/everyone-is-a-luddite-now