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  • China has built the world’s largest bullet-train network

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  • Not sure if you mean in the UK, but in the UK, I think it is hard. We had the politically lead Beeching cuts that messed up what we had. Then those lines had homes and shops built on them. So there a numerous places in the UK cut off from rail that are hard to reconnect without causing a lot of upset. Building new lines is very hard, see HS2 debacle. However, HS2 should have been focused on join up the north, not linking it to London. Also, there is a lot of improvement possible on existing lines. Though won't get us to bullet trains.

  • China has built the world’s largest bullet-train network

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  • The car is king is the problem. Which is dumb. Also, in densely populated Europe at least, with private property right, and hundreds, if not thousands, of years of legacy, environmental regulations, it's hard to build train lines and stations. Also, the rich own so much of the country's wealth and power, and they just fly, so don't care.

  • An enigma.

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  • I've been on Debian Testing maybe 15 years at this point. It's great. Though wouldn't recommend it if you need out of tree drivers or are starting out. If that's still not close enough to the edge there is always Sid and Franken Debian if you want to mix and match (not recommended, but can be useful).

    It's nice to have your more-up-to-date desktop systems with the same packaging system as your Stable servers.

    Edit: and no snaps

  • ‘I don’t expect to live a normal life’: how a Leeds teenager woke up with a Chinese bounty on her head

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  • Authoritarian governments need to be pointed and condemned. Make it clear this not the way to go, to own governments as much as anything.

  • GB News marks milestone on mission to be biggest TV news channel in UK by 2028

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  • They call themselves news but don't follow the rules of TV news, you know, be balanced and truthful, because they say they are entertainment. The whole point of a license is to stop that kind thing. It should been long gone.

  • Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK

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  • Antennapod with gPodderersync & Nextcloud? There are podcast apps for Nextcloud to play in the browser.

  • [German] Here comes a gigaton of reasons to stop using everything made by Microsoft

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  • They didn't know and didn't need to.

  • [German] Here comes a gigaton of reasons to stop using everything made by Microsoft

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  • If your rich or powerful, things normally can be worked to be in your favour. Wealth and power is more important than clever or hard working. House always win. They don't need 30y conspiracies.

  • How a high-speed ocean chase led to an £18m cocaine seizure in Cornwall

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  • There is no way the system isn't riddled with officials making money from drugs being unregulated and untaxed. So they want it to remain as is. Then there are DailyFail idiots who just want drugs (but not their wine) illegal.

    Anyone with half a brain can see we should just legalize, regulate and tax drugs. We waste so much time, energy and money fighting ourselves.

  • [German] Here comes a gigaton of reasons to stop using everything made by Microsoft

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  • The officials of 30 years ago were even more clueless about this stuff than today's. It's cock up, not conspiracy.

  • if you use GrapheneOS on a pixel device, is it something you'd recommend for a privacy worried user? How seamless is running it after install?

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  • I've ran LineageOS until two years ago from when it was CyanogenMod on my S3. Been a Debian user a bit longer. ;-)

    What it's got over LineageOS is it sandbox stuff out the box, so you can compromise with Google Maps and things like Bank apps run.

    For work, I need a satnav with traffic in it's route planning. No matter how good Organic Map's maps are. Also for work, I need a Bank app. I'm not really happy with GrapheneOS, but I don't have a choice. It's my least worse option. Unless I keep a GrapheneOS phone for work and maybe try a Mobian phone for home..... When it looks day drivable...

    Edit: oh and transferring files, Nextcloud or scp in Termux.

  • How Europe Can Build Its Own Tech Giants

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  • We want standards rather than monopolies. Normies & politicians (who get their tech advice from big tech) often get the two confused.

    We want an ecosystem of competition, built on standards.

    The Bazaar, not the Cathedral.

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  • They should be being sued for doing anti repair tricks.

    The guys exposing the anti repair tricks are the heroes here.

  • UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill

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  • It's doesn't fall over, it just slows down. Or appears to much more than OpenVPN. There could be something else going on, but for what ever the problem was, OpenVPN was coping better and just spitting out errors about a possible replay attack and continuing like nothing was wrong. I've not looked again as OpenVPN is working fine. For everything else, I'm using WireGuard.

  • UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill

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  • Ah, I see it. Sorry. Corrected.

    It's not really an issue with OpenVPN as it seams to cope. It's the only time I use OpenVPN instead of WireGuard.

  • UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill

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  • Man in the middle can be part of it. It's just basically recording and sending stuff back. Generally I use WireGuard, but on unhygienic networks, were OpenVPN is warning about possible replay attacks, WireGuard doesn't work as well. Could be something else of course, but I've got one end. It's not constant or always.

  • UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill

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  • To be honest, I've found WireGuard's performance is harmed more by replay attacks than OpenVPN. Least that is what I put it down to when I tried them both from a VPN provider that offered both.

    Edit: missed the a in replay.

  • UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill

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  • Easy enough to do when it's mega corps. They don't really care about anything but money. If everyone had self hosted services with e2e, be far harder. Encryption is everywhere now.

    So they will go after the end points. Which again, is a battle they can't win. All very Cory Doctorow's "Unauthorized Bread".

    If you care about this stuff:

    UK: https://action.openrightsgroup.org/make-one-donation US: https://www.eff.org/pages/donate-eff EU: https://my.fsfe.org/donate

    There will be others too, those are just in my head's cache.

    Some how we need to get governments to listen to us serfs instead mega corps and authoritarian police/spooks.

    The world they want is not only terrible for digital and political freedom, but competition, thus functioning markets. It's terrible for making developers and makers instead of dumb consumers, which in turn, is terrible for technology and progress.

  • UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill

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  • This ends with just another war on encryption.

    When encryption is legal, they can't know what is going on between two points. They going to make is so we can only have encryption to nodes they trust?

    It is dangerously technologically illiterate to wage war on encryption.

  • VPNs top App Store charts as UK age verification kicks in

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  • Shocking and completely unpredictable.....