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Womble

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  • UK to create new 'British FBI' police service

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  • While I agree that the banning of any demonstration in support of Palestine Action is an authoritarian overreach by the UK, I dont think its as bad as masked paramilitary goons dragging people off without explanation and executing them them in broad daylight while members of the government stand up and say that said paramilitary goons have full legal immunity,

  • [Video] The Rational National | UK Green Party Stuns With Huge Surge & Brilliant New Political Ad

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  • Just on a technical level that is an amazing ad compared to the usual political soundbites in front of a few images.

  • How to turn off Gemini in Gmail — and why you should | Proton

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  • That doesn't make any sense as a reason to turn off Gemini in your inbox though. Either you are ok with having your emails scanned and used in ML systems, in which case why bother turning off the feature; or you aren't and turning off the feature doesn't help you.

  • UKIP banned again from holding ‘reclaim London’ protest amid disorder fears

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  • As disgusting as I find Farage and his ideology, this isn't a good thing. These are the same laws that the state uses to gag climate and left wing protests.

  • How to turn off Gemini in Gmail — and why you should | Proton

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  • Google promises(new window) that Gmail’s 3 billion users will benefit from a “personal, proactive inbox assistant”. But given that these features are free, what’s the catch? Make no mistake, Google isn’t doing this out of generosity. The contents of your inbox are valuable to the company.

    Email used to be a more private space where your communications could potentially be intercepted by bad actors, but largely your data was your own.

    I dont think that is true wrt gmail is it? Google have been scanning your messages and using that for machine learning based ad targeting since it was released.

  • Data centers will consume 70 percent of memory chips made in 2026 - supply shortfall will cause the chip shortage to spread to other segments | Tom's Hardware

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  • Sure, it probably wont take then as long, but its still misleading to portray "China reaches milestone a western company did a quarter of a century ago" as being equivalent to catching up.

  • Data centers will consume 70 percent of memory chips made in 2026 - supply shortfall will cause the chip shortage to spread to other segments | Tom's Hardware

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  • China "has EUV" lithography in the same way ASML had it in 2001:

    ASML built its first working prototype of EUV technology in 2001, and told Reuters it took nearly two decades and billions of euros in R&D spending before it produced its first commercially-available chips in 2019.

    They are still an awful long way behind the west in this regard.

  • America Is Slow-Walking Into a Polymarket Disaster

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  • The thinking isnt that that you putting money on a horse to win increases it's odds of winning, its that by signalling your belief that you think it will happen by a costly signal (you lose the money if you are wrong) you are updating the overall odds to be closer to the true probability by the power of crowds. if 200 people are betting something will happen and only 10 are betting it wont then that is evidence that the thing is more likely than not to happen.

    There are flaws in this thinking, it doesnt take into account manipulation of events to win bets is a particularly big one, and it also gets worse the more removed the thing being bet on is from everyday life as people make less informed choices.

  • Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension

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  • Those are how to install Linux inside windows.

  • Trump threatens tariffs on nations that don’t back US takeover of Greenland

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  • Typical trash tier journalism from the canary, apparently no comment to an on the spot question about military matters (US using UK bases) to a minister who isnt in charge of that (she's minister for development in Africa) is somehow "UK backs US powerplay for Greenland"

    Edit: Especially funny now that the UK is on Trumps list for retaliatory tariffs for blocking his annexation of Greenland

  • Code Is Cheap Now. Software Isn’t

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  • And those people who think LLMs will replace software engineers any time in the near future are wrong. But it can still be the case that LLMs are democratizing coding ability to those who otherwise wouldnt have it while at the same software engineering as a discipline isnt going anywhere.

    Its not just basic scripting either, often when people start coding in earnest their programs are just a huge pile of statements connected together with if statements and mutating global variables. and LLM can help show best practices like encapsulating logic into functions and isolating side effects.

  • Code Is Cheap Now. Software Isn’t

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  • But at the same time everyone having a CAD machine (or 3D printer) allows a lot of people to solve engineering type problems they have without an engineer, which is the article's point.

  • Code Is Cheap Now. Software Isn’t

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  • I think you are vastly overestimating the level that statement is pitched at. The overwhelming majority of people dont even know how a for loop works. However they can ask an LLM to write a script to change this list of files with inconsistent numbering conventions and put them in a consistent order. That's the level of spreading out the ability to program that we are dealing with.

  • Former chemical plant in North Wales, UK, could become AI data center

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  • The UK does not have regional electricity pricing. This is actually an issue as it means energy intensive businesses arent attracted to places close to large sources of renewable power (the North East and Scotland) and instead crowd into the overheated South East.

    But it also means that the locals wont be helping with the leccy bill any more than someone in Aberdeen is.

  • NHS England quietly removes open source policy web pages

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  • It should be pointed out that NHS England is a management layer and is in the process of being dismantled so that NHS services in England are managed directly by the NHS and not a third layer between hospitals/doctors and the Department of health.

  • It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser"

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  • The number of people suggesting that the appropriate responce to an optional feature for the standard bearer foss browser is to jump to a chrome based browser and further cement google's dominance is depressing.

  • Rachel Reeves Says Progressive People Should Be Zionists

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  • Outsourcing your critical thinking to someone maintaining a list of personae non gratae sounds like a terrible idea.

  • The Government Pays Landlords £17bn a Year. It’s Taking Back £2bn. So What?

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  • Maybe this is just me, but I think decreasing the amount of government money being paid to landlords going down by more than 10% in a single budget is a good thing.

  • The Good Country Index

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  • Timor-Leste ranks significantly above Isreal in "international peace and security" where Israel ranks 149 out of 174 mostly above places which are in active wars (and also the USA two places below it), and 139 out of 174 on "world order".

    But the ranking also looks at contributions to science, culture and health where Israel does well. That's not saying they are morally good because if those contributions, but the contributions also do not stop existing because Israel is doing terrible things.