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This guy on TikTok ran a simulation of what it would look like from Voyager 1 to look back at the solar system *now*
34 years after “Pale Blue Dot”, the Voyager probe is now 4x as far away and the solar system is fuzzy and distant: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGendVkD4/
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What do you do with old @OReillyMedia & other tech books of that kind? I have about 1.5m shelving ancient software guides & manuals…
…for legacy stuff like Sendmail 5, RPC, Perl/Tk, JDK1.2, and Ruby on Rails. “WeBuyBooks” is not interested in them, they don’t make much sense to give to charity shops, I don’t want to consign them to garbage, and bound books aren’t recyclable here. Ideas?
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Starmer plans to introduce AI bill in King’s Speech | “…tell us what you are testing for…”
Labour: we will build a tech economy Also Labour: we proactively understand technology better than you do > Labour’s manifesto outlined plans to “ensure the safe development and use of AI models by introducing binding regulation on the handful of companies developing the most powerful AI models”. Peter Kyle, the new technology and science secretary,
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Fitting an Elephant with Four non-Zero Parameters
This is a lovely little mathematics distraction. [PDF] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.07909 Via:
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GoogleOne Darkweb reports coming to all Google accounts soon
This should be interesting, moreso when somebody from NOYB.EU eventually attempts to demand a takedown under the GDPR. https://9to5google.com/2024/07/09/google-one-dark-web-reports-all-google-accounts/
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Etsy’s … head of its trust and safety team Alice Wu Paulus said the policy change was the company’s attempt “to continue to keep our users safe”
Because of course Etsy products will leap out upon people unawares: Sex product sellers are left scrambling after a sweeping Etsy ban https://www.modernretail.co/technology/its-going-to-be-catastrophic-sex-product-sellers-are-left-scrambling-after-a-sweeping-etsy-ban/
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I am not certain what this portends but it suggests that the separation of DCMS & DSIT a few months ago may have been considered problematic by Labour
Chris Bryant has picked up both departments and it’s like 2020 all over again?
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I would like to invite everyone to consider what would have happened in the Brexit referendum if there had been a second round runoff…?
The world today would be a very different place. Ian Dunt:
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Europol says Home Routing mobile encryption feature aids criminals
Oh dear. > Home Routing is a system in telecommunication services that allows customers to route traffic (calls, messages, internet data) through their home network even when traveling abroad. When privacy-enhancing technologies (PET) are enabled in Home Routing, data is encrypted at the service level and subscribers’ devices exchange session-based keys with the provider in
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My venerable Miele W3444 starts flashing a flood warning and for a service technician — but it’s way out of warranty; the internet & 3D-printing provide a fix…
Sometimes I am doing up to 6 loads of laundry in a single day – hello parenthood – and last week our 15+ year old Miele started doing the serious flash two red lights and cease all operation until seen by a qualified service engineer diagnostic. But that’s not going to happen for a machine
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Labour rejects Tony Blair’s plan to curb migration | …perhaps @jreynoldsMP could also do us the favour of also ruling out Digital ID and/or an “app”?
https://www.thetimes.com/article/keir-starmer-prime-minister-latest-news-labour-party-cabinet-sqbzrq9hb
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Entrepreneurial Spanish children open a “porn futures” market and hedge-fund based around new age verification porn credits
I mean, it’s the obvious next step isn’t it? > Porn-viewers will be asked to use the app to verify their age. Once verified, they’ll receive 30 generated “porn credits” with a one-month validity granting them access to adult content. Enthusiasts will be able to request extra credits. https://x.com/castrotech/status/1808526479023603820