frazorth @ frazorth @feddit.uk

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There are 28 million families in the UK. [1]

Your article implies there are 25 million houses and 1 million is empty. [2]

The empty houses in the photos are not suitable for living in and should be condemned if they haven't already. Rebuilding a mid-terrace house is not simple and even after blow all of that we managed 1 million out of the 4 million required to at least have one home per family. That sounds like a terrible plan to work on the most expensive work and ultimately not make a dent in the issue.

[1] https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/families/bulletins/familiesandhouseholds/2023#%3A%7E%3Atext=There+were+28.4+million+households%2C-parent+family+%2811%25%29.

[2] https://www.actiononemptyhomes.org/why-empty-homes-matter

https://labour.org.uk/change/break-down-barriers-to-opportunity/#respect

We will also modernise, simplify, and reform the intrusive and outdated gender recognition law to a new process. We will remove indignities for trans people who deserve recognition and acceptance;

Hmm.

Weren't you in power over those 10 years?

Surely you should have done something about it rather than waiting until now to complain.

Because DirectX is more than a graphics API.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX

A fair amount of what used to make DirectX an everything API has been deprecated, but if you are already using Windows stuff for networking and audio, then you may as well use the graphics APIs too.

I do think Proton gets a little too much credit.

Why? Valve has been sponsoring all these projects for a really long time. While wine existed before that, it wouldn't be anywhere near the shape thats its currently in because gaming was not its main focus. There have been loads of gaming bugs and sharp edges that have been around wine for a long time until Valve put in the money and devs to fix them.

Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD proved that.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7byXFPtgaV0

For those of you who think it sounds weird, it's not an uncommon practice as it is basically the same as Most Favoured Nation policy that a lot of industries use.

You get paid the amount requested, unless someone requests more (and its agreed to) and you automatically get paid that much.

Just because you struggle to have a normal relationship, doesnt mean we all can't.

And nzb360

Also if anyone else wrote it, there would be so much savaging of weasel words.

They brag that they don't retain this data, so when governments request historical data they don't have it.

They don't say that they don't provide it for anyone else to retain, so if they are given the to and from to process the message, and provide this to the CIA to retain then all of this security would be useless but would also fulfill all of the claims here.

No.

We have been exploring techniques to further reduce the amount of information that is accessible to the service, and the latest beta release includes changes designed to move Signal incrementally closer to the goal of hiding another piece of metadata: who is messaging whom.

They haven't hidden it yet. It's a goal.

Are you going to actually tell us what they took down or just give links to a cesspool?

They are referring to message metadata.

Even if they don't show the content of messages, if they can show that phone number A is sending messages and getting replies to number B then that's all the government needs.

https://signal.org/legal/

For the purpose of operating our Services, you agree to our data practices as described in our Privacy Policy, as well as the transfer of your encrypted information and metadata to the United States and other countries where we have or use facilities, service providers or partners.

They store metadata, which is distinct from encrypted data.

Are you saying sealed sender is a lie?

https://signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/

When you send a traditional piece of physical mail, the outside of the package typically includes the address of both the sender and the recipient. The same basic components are present in a Signal message. The service can’t “see into” the encrypted package contents, but it uses the information written on the outside of the package to facilitate asynchronous message delivery between users.

They have a list of encrypted messages, who it's from and who it's to, based upon the sealed sender description. If you are using phone numbers then you are not anonymous, and a TLA agency can search known bad numbers even if Signal does not try to build that graph.

Does apt remove remove apt?

The courteous thing to do, if your not sure there is space, is to stop and wait until the moving obstacles have cleared out of the way.

Yeah, it's an interesting difference.

There was a lot of pop culture references in IT Crowd, all the music posters, the retro computers, etc. but the cast didn't even acknowledge it.

Do either of them work on the Steam Deck yet?

Last time I tried, last year I think, I couldn't get the controller to work correctly.

So we aren't getting a trade deal. Right?

Think? I have one, and I've had it for just over two years.

It's a portable PC with joysticks for it's primary input.

Even the sales page refers to it being a portable PC and only "console-like".

https://store.steampowered.com/steamdeck

Powerful, portable PC gaming, designed for comfort and a console-like user experience.

It provides a KDE desktop out of the box. It's not locked down, there is nothing console about it except in vague appearance because it comes with joysticks. If it lets my write my own code (which it does) and run them (which it does) then it is a general purpose computer.

Ergonomically I would plug in a keyboard rather than write Python on the touchscreen, but I would do that with a desktop too.

It's okay that your wrong. It's obvious that you've never used one, or really understand what it is. Which is a general purpose computing device.