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Working for MI6 ‘more exciting than James Bond film’, says spy | BBC News
Similarly: there is a popular Aston Martin dealership in Cheltenham; so let’s remember Ian Fleming’s own portrait of Bond: “James Bond is a blunt instrument wielded by a Government Department. He is quiet, hard, ruthless, sardonic, fatalistic. […] He likes gambling, golf, and fast motor cars.” Nonetheless, the security services themselves see matters more romantically:…
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New rules for online services: what you need to know | WORLD’S MOST OBVIOUS QUESTIONNAIRE, EVAR
This is so obvious to anyone who’s followed the debate that I feel Ofcom must be trolling the British public to stir up “sentiment”; the canned answer for a typical blog is attached below. https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/information-for-industry/guide-for-services
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“Russia apparently intercepted and released a 30-minute Webex conference call between German military officials who discussed the supply of Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine”
Gosh, if only there was a technology which could help mitigate this kind of risk: https://twitter.com/electrospaces/status/1763933446257213676
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Epomaker Reveals The New DynaTab 75X Keyboard With Dot-Matrix Display | …BUT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU TYPE IN A PASSWORD??!?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/marksparrow/2024/02/21/epomaker-reveals-the-new-dynatab-75x-keyboard-with-dot-matrix-display/
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Is anyone else I know using post.news?
I can’t decide if I like it. Nor: whether the name is meant to be a joke. https://post.news/@/alecmuffett
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A social media ban for children would actually solve nothing. Here’s why – BBC Science Focus Magazine
Fundamentally, there’s actually very limited solid evidence that demonstrates social media causes mental health issues in children. Without establishing a causal link, a ban seems nonsensical – akin to banning car airbags because they’re associated with car accidents. https://www.sciencefocus.com/comment/social-media-ban-children
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The Canary Resuscitator | Science and Industry Museum
It’s Friday, and you need some happy. Here is a canary resuscitator. You’re welcome! https://blog.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk/canary-resuscitator/
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Anti-Non-Consensual-Intimate-Imagery campaign being leveraged (presumably by trolls & abusers?) to mislead victims into sharing abusive imagery
Due to the previous blogpost I had reason to visit StopNCII.org and was greeted with this orange banner… and my first thought was “perhaps now they see the problem, and how history repeats itself?” see also:
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“Dunking” & “Revenge Porn” vs: the Open Web
Word of the week on les platforms appears to be “dunking” or “dunk”; this appears to be a confused synonym for “quote-tweeting”, where one quote-tweets a second party without adding value other than to mock them. This is apparently meant to be a surreptitious act, where the second-party does not see that you quoted them……
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Death, Lonely Death | Crooked Timber | Voyager Spacecraft
Raised on the optimism of the Apollo moon missions, the Voyager program has been a part of my life’s interest ever since I was in school; for something which has brought so much knowledge and light, this is a downbeat proto-eulogy. It’s not an unfair perspective… but we should celebrate achievement and having outlasted expectation.…
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There are many reasons I use ChatGPT but the primary remains: to answer a question without wading through pages of noise & similar YouTube videos
I am probably guilty of overstraining the yoghurt but I would never have thought about the fat content