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Pretty sure AP is funded by newspapers
News
HeartyBeast
4 months ago
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If the police lose, you really lose
United Kingdom
Hackney shooting: Girl, 9, critical after four shot in Dalston
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It’s not at all weird and very easy to explain. The BBC positions itself as an impartial reporter. Anything that appears to be a judgement call by someone else is (quite rightly) put into quotes.
In this case, I would have simply left out the words “innocent victim “ myself, as it’s a bit odd - but that is the rationale.
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4 months ago
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If your organisation is big enough to have a press office of more than 4 or 5 people, you will usually have an on-call rota.
News
Trump guilty on all 34 counts in hush money trial, in historic first for a former U.S. president
HeartyBeast
4 months ago
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Sentencing July 11 - delayed because the original date would clash with a court appearance in Florida
Interesting Global News
Orcas are still smashing up boats – and we've finally worked out why
HeartyBeast
4 months ago
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Let’s go clubbing
Green Energy
Rapid rollout of clean technologies makes energy cheaper, not more costly
HeartyBeast
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Certainly, if you on an ‘agile’ tariff in the UK it can be a lot cheaper. There were times a few month ago when it was particularly windy - they were paying me to use electricity/charge my solar batteries from the grid.
UK Nature and Environment
Kent hosts hundreds of wild beavers, survey finds
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For me the headline was drowned out by the sound of Beavis and Butthead laughter
humanists.uk
Plans to close the only school of no religious character in its area and replace it with a Church of England school have been scrapped. The move has been welcomed by Humanists UK, who has been working with teachers, parents, and the National Education Union (NEU) to stop the proposal
UK Nature and Environment
Farming News - DEFA: Public to be vigilant against oak processionary moth
HeartyBeast
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Very good explanation of the situation here: https://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/tools-and-resources/fthr/pest-and-disease-resources/oak-processionary-moth-thaumetopoea-processionea/
www.theguardian.com
Exclusive: Footage shows private event, attended by representatives of firms including StubHub and Viagogo, where £73,000 was raised for political lobbying
HeartyBeast
4 months ago
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Not bad. Did the Ride London 60 on Sunday, pondering whether I should try the 100 next year. It went ok
Technology
The level of engagement on Reddit these days
HeartyBeast
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However, the upside is that there are no bots, dark patterns, or manipulated feeds.
There’s a huge amount of incoming spam, much of it, I suspect posted by bots. I’ve also seen account posting ‘news’ from sites that are clearly AI generated
Technology
The level of engagement on Reddit these days
HeartyBeast
4 months ago
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To be honest, it feels much more likely to see posts on the Fediverse with many upvotes, few or no comments
Green Energy
Virginia went all in on solar. Then its powerful utility changed the rules. After Dominion Energy required expensive upgrades, many solar projects were put on hold.
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It can work where there is real competition. For natural monopolies, not so much.
Usually it happens because the state wants to sell off family silver to make some short term cash :(
United Kingdom
Drinkers lose up to £114 a year over beer and wine short measures, study reveals
HeartyBeast
4 months ago
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“It’s a bit lively tonight “
United Kingdom
Drinkers lose up to £114 a year over beer and wine short measures, study reveals
HeartyBeast
4 months ago
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£115? That’s nearly 3 pints of bitter
www.bbc.co.uk
A plant picked for its beautiful flowers then wiped out in the UK mainland makes a dramatic return.
World News
Germany has too many solar panels, and it's pushed energy prices into negative territory
HeartyBeast
4 months ago
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You need a certain kind of landscape for that. I think the UK only has a couple of pumped storage power stations due to lack of suitable sites
Science Fiction
George Lucas Says Ideas in the Original “Sort of Got Lost” in Post-Disney ‘Star Wars’ Films (Gee, you think?)
HeartyBeast
4 months ago
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Absolutely - more about Midichlorians, I say!
World News
Germany has too many solar panels, and it's pushed energy prices into negative territory
HeartyBeast
4 months ago
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No. That’s like saying the UK has too much wind power because our prices occasionally go negative. What Germany might not have enough of is battery and other storage
United Kingdom
Almost a third of household smart meters not working properly, says Citizens Advice
HeartyBeast
4 months ago
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If you’re on an agile tariff where the price changes ever 30 minutes, it’s a bit of a bummer
United Kingdom
Government tells Britons to stockpile as part of emergency planning
HeartyBeast
4 months ago
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Hopefully the plughole is clogged with hair
United Kingdom
Government tells Britons to stockpile as part of emergency planning
HeartyBeast
4 months ago
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Indeed. To be honest, I’d probably fall back on the old idea of filling the bath right up if the shit looked like it was about to hit the fan.
Technology
A Primer on Mastodon's New Board Members
HeartyBeast
4 months ago
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Yeh. I’m pretty comfortable with this broad mix.
United Kingdom
Government tells Britons to stockpile as part of emergency planning
HeartyBeast
4 months ago
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I think that ‘resilience in depth’ is a reasonable idea. The NHS exists, but I still have a first aid kit at home.
In practice, I think it will be difficult fir a household to store 3 days drinking water.
HeartyBeast
4 months ago
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I don’t think my grumpiness level has particularly changed since I emerged from my grumpy teenage phase.
United Kingdom
What happens when councils take control of buses?
HeartyBeast
4 months ago
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I’d say that the railways were probably more likely to fail because you have the added complication of the rail infrastructure company on top, plus the need for through-ticketing and timetable coordination. Those factors magnified the sheer amount of shit in the show
Uplifting News
International Criminal Court chief prosecutor seeks arrest warrants for Israeli PM and Hamas leaders
HeartyBeast
4 months ago
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I know what you are getting at OP, but I can’t say I find ‘both sides committed atrocities ‘ uplifting, exactly
United Kingdom
What happens when councils take control of buses?
HeartyBeast
4 months ago
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Counterpoint- the council can mandate routes and frequency in the contract and put it out to tender. The idea is that the private sector is better an innovating to be efficient, though I’m not sure that has ever really been demonstrated
LinkedinLunatics
Amazing attitude
HeartyBeast
4 months ago
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It is a great attitude, yes. Some people actually enjoy work and do work of meaning. Some people also love their kids and want to be there for them. Some companies treat their employees with respect.
These are not things to shit on
Science Fiction
'Megalopolis': Francis Ford Coppola on the conspiracy of bad reviews
HeartyBeast
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If you are asked about bad reviews directly, you can’t exactly ‘no comment’ them. His response is basically ‘it’s not a conventional film’ is a perfectly reasonable one, I think.
Who knows how this will turn out
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4 months ago
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You might be interested in mbin - a fork of kbin that I believe is being actively maintained https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin?tab=readme-ov-file
homeassistant
Ohhh that's why you run actions in Parallel
HeartyBeast
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Could you give som examples of where it’s desirable ?
HeartyBeast
4 months ago
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…adding that they’re not too sure about this Jesus bloke though. He seems dangerously woke
homeassistant
Ohhh that's why you run actions in Parallel
HeartyBeast
4 months ago
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Nice tip. Thank you. I was similarly confused
Technology
Does a VPN used on a smartphone with Wi-Fi disabled (mobile data only enabled) provide any sort of protection?
HeartyBeast
4 months ago
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Absolutely. Unless they’re actually evil. Which I’m sure they aren’t. But they could be.
Mildly Infuriating
This used book that I bought for 12£ on the internet was apparently previously bought from Oxfam for 1.99£
HeartyBeast
4 months ago
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You should definitely spend time trawling through Oxfam shops for books, if this annoys you.
Technology
Does a VPN used on a smartphone with Wi-Fi disabled (mobile data only enabled) provide any sort of protection?
HeartyBeast
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Thanks for the smile this morning 🙂
Technology
Does a VPN used on a smartphone with Wi-Fi disabled (mobile data only enabled) provide any sort of protection?
HeartyBeast
4 months ago
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Running your own VPN in that situation is a good use-case agreed - assuming you trust yourself :)
Technology
Does a VPN used on a smartphone with Wi-Fi disabled (mobile data only enabled) provide any sort of protection?
HeartyBeast
4 months ago
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You’re hiding your traffic route from your mobile operator and giving it instead to your vpn company who swear they are honest
World News
US military pier starts moving towards Gaza
HeartyBeast
4 months ago
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You should have quoted fir the job
HeartyBeast
4 months ago
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You misspelled ‘I cannot answer your question’
It’s impossible to tell if there is an actual server upgrade, or they have just gone down, displaying the message from last time.
www.bbc.co.uk
The price of daily and weekly Tube caps increase, along with River Bus services.
www.bbc.co.uk
Vice Media Group filed for bankruptcy in May and was bought by Fortress Investment Group.
www.bbc.co.uk
Government inspectors are being sent in following concerns, says Political Editor Tim Donovan.
arstechnica.com
If you've posted on Reddit, you're likely feeding the future of AI.
X hasn’t sent a representative in months to biweekly information-sharing meetings with other social media companies.
Kbin seemed tio take a nice long sleep there. I almost assumed it had fallen over for good. I **Really** hate the generic, undated 'over the next few days we are working on servers' mesesage.
www.bbc.co.uk
Nuclear fusion still remains a long way off but brings the world one step closer to endless clean energy.
www.bbc.co.uk
The last 12 months were the hottest on record, temporarily sending the world past a deeply symbolic mark.
citizenlab.ca
A network of at least 123 websites operated from within the People’s Republic of China while posing as local news outlets in 30 countries across Europe, Asia, and Latin America, disseminates pro-Beijing disinformation and ad hominem attacks within much larger volumes of commercial press releases. We name this campaign PAPERWALL. We attribute the PAPERWALL campaign to Shenzhen Haimaiyunxiang Media Co., Ltd., aka Haimai, a PR firm in China based on digital infrastructure linkages between the firm’s official website and the network. These findings confirm the increasingly important role private firms play in the realm of digital influence operations and the propensity of the Chinese government to make use of them.
www.theregister.com
AWS could rake in between $400 million and $1 billion a year from charging customers for public IPv4 addresses while migration to IPv6 remains slow. AWS cited increasing scarcity and claimed the cost to acquire a single public IPv4 address for customer use had risen more than 300 percent over the past few years.
arstechnica.com
US government tracking the energy implications of booming bitcoin mining in US.
www.404media.co
AI stealing our work. The collapse of social networks. The need to pay journalists to produce impactful journalism. Here is why we are asking for your email address to read 404 Media.
www.bbc.co.uk
Nine people, including children and police officers, are in hospital after a "corrosive substance" was thrown in south London, police say.
www.theverge.com
The Apple Vision Pro is supposed to be the start of a new spatial computing revolution. After several days of testing, it’s clear that it’s the best headset ever made — which is the problem.
arstechnica.com
Ingenuity packed more computing power than all other NASA deep space missions combined.
www.bbc.co.uk
A law change to let the government block new features would be an "unprecedented overreach," it says.
www.forbes.com
New warning as AI suddenly targets billions of private messages on smartphones…
www.bbc.co.uk
Butter chicken - a curry popular around the world - is now in the middle of a court battle in India.
greenallianceblog.org.uk
It was a freezing Friday evening early in February 2023, when my boiler broke. An engineer was called, several cold days passed, and his declaration came in sombre tones: ‘uneconomic to repair’. Li…
www.bbc.co.uk
Judges at the International Court of Justice stop short of issuing emergency measures ordering a ceasefire in Gaza.
www.techspot.com
www.bbc.com
TfL says the increase from 600 to 2,000 e-bikes will improve access to the scheme across London.
www.cnet.com
Apple released the latest iOS update to the general public on Monday.
www.cnet.com
Apple released the latest iOS update to the general public on Monday.
[@streaming21](https://kbin.social/search?q=streaming21@kbinsocial) has been spamming the fediverse magazine with movie links What is the best way to get a particular rogue account looked at?
www.timeout.com
The market was known for everything from groceries to clothing and electronics.
With all the hype surrounding machine learning whether its with self driving cars or LLMs, there is a big elephant in the room which not a lot of people are talking about. Its not the danger of ChatGPT taking your jobs or deepfakes or the singularity. Its instead about how neural networks can be attacked. This blog post attempts to throw some light on the topic.
www.nytimes.com
Residents of 12 states are eligible to participate if they meet certain criteria. But the agency’s plans have already met resistance from tax preparation companies.
eclecticlight.co
Knowing a little about sparse and clone files in APFS is dangerous, as it can lead you to draw the wrong conclusions.
youtu.be
A weirdly uplifting video about the niche world of torturing Tetris until it crashes
www.bbc.co.uk
A powerful 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck the country's central region on Monday.
www.cnn.com
NASA’s 46-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft has experienced a computer glitch that prevents it from returning science data to Earth from the solar system’s outer reaches.
www.bbc.co.uk
Interesting to see Jon Holmes’s radio satire translated onto the screen for the first time
www.theregister.com
Warns of $1.3 billion charge for cutting Virtzilla's costs, rapid shift to subs and sales of the whole vStack rather than individual pieces
I commented in a discussion and added a photo. Others could see it. Known issue, or did I just muck up? [https://kbin.social/m/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world/t/671847/Why-are-there-circles-of-melted-snow-on-this-icy#entry-comment-3889016](https://kbin.social/m/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world/t/671847/Why-are-there-circles-of-melted-snow-on-this-icy#entry-comment-3889016)