thehatfox @ thehatfox @lemmy.world

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An unelected Prime Minister appointing an unelected Foreign Secretary, who is himself a disgraced former Prime Minister.

Couldn’t make it up.

how can we realistically protect something we broadcast.

With appropriate privacy laws and security measures. A smartphone is publicly broadcasting information, in that any other person could receive the radio transmissions emitted from them. But such eavesdropping would be illegal in most cases, and is mostly encrypted to hinder bad actors who don’t obey such laws.

It’s important we act now to ensure there are suitable privacy provisions in place now for all biometrics, before such things as mass DNA collection and sequencing are practical. Once such technology is available, perhaps we will also have to adapt our behaviour in public to prevent leakage of unprotected biometric assets.

Time to start advocating for biometric privacy, and investing in bodysuits and hair nets.

There’s a big difference between a person’s DNA and a person’s art. DNA is the principle part of someone’s biometric identity, which can be used to reveal an enormous amount of information about a person. Hence it is not unreasonable to expect that its usage will be handled in a careful and clearly defined manner. Most countries have very strict laws on biometric data for a reason.

The same can not be said for a piece of art. While an an artwork will often convey aspects of the artist’s personality, and can conform to an identifiable style, it would provide no where near the level of insight into a persons physical identity as a DNA sample.

It also seems a stretch to conflate sharing something privately and publishing something publicly. The former will have expectations of privacy and control, regardless of whatever is stated any legalese incomprehensible to the average person. The latter however assumes a loss of control, to share something publicly is in some ways to cede it to the public.

“There is nothing fundamentally wrong with oil and gas, it’s emissions from oil and gas that are the problem and that we must focus on.”

You really couldn’t make this crap up. This clown show needs to end, before it ends us all.

Carbon capture is a fantasy, and increasing supply will only encourage demand. The only real path we have is to fully transition away from fossil fuel based energy production, however temporarily painful it may be. We also can’t expect other nations to do something we are not willing to do ourselves.

According to a recent Channel 4 documentary, there are plenty of those bottles to be found around Amazon warehouses.

Personally I prefer using smart switches, or smart relay modules in between the switch and bulb. However that’s maybe not best for you if you are already invested in smart bulbs.

The “neatest” options would be to fit a switch cover over the switch, or remove the switch and replace with a blanking plate. A smart button can be fitted onto the cover or plate to provide the functionality of a switch, there are devices with multiple buttons and even rotary knobs.

Depending on the style of light switch used in your country there may be commercially made switch covers available if you can’t 3D print them. There are also several 3D printing services online that can be fairly affordable, I’ve had decent service from Treatstock.

I also favour smart switches instead of smart bulbs. It avoids the problems of accidentally turning off the smart bulb with the dumb switch, and provides a fallback control method if part of the smart home stack is not working.

The main downside to this method is not being able to change the light colour and temperature of the bulbs. I have seen there are some smart switches and bulbs that can work combined but I haven’t tried them myself.

There are a variety of Zigbee switches and relay dukes that support “no neutral” wiring. SONOFF and Aqara both make them, there are even a few generic/Tuya ones I’ve seen.

They often don’t function as Zigbee routers, only end devices though despite being mains powered.

Yes, Hermes rebranded to Evri. Some people said it was to try and shake off a bad reputation.

Royal Mail might use that increased competition to argue for further dilution of its universal service obligations however, which wouldn't be so great for folks in certain parts of the country.

A man dressed in ermine robes and a bejewelled crown, sitting on a golden throne, announcing plans to tackle a cost of living crisis.

Recent events have brought a lot more attention to the monarchy, I would hope that would make more people think about that juxtaposition.

The Post Office already handles some DPD collections as well, it makes sense to allow them to sell services too. Hopefully it will make Post Offices more sustainable as businesses, they are a lifeline for smaller communities.

Evri is vary variable. The two drivers in my area both seem to do a good job, I've not had any issues. But in some of the surrounding towns Evri parcels constantly go missing, there's rants about it on local Facebook groups every week.

Long before smartphones, Casio used to make an IR blaster watch. Nobody ever suspected the person checking the time was messing with the TV.

They will be replaced with two electric arc furnaces - one at Scunthorpe and one at Teesside.

Important bit of context there. The blast furnaces are currently uneconomic and environmentally unfriendly, although they produce higher grade steel. Tata is doing the same at Port Talbot.

Yeah, AI is included for buzzword compliance, but this system would be no slouch either.

When in production, Isambard-AI will achieve well over 200 PetaFLOP/s using the Top500’s Linpack benchmark, while also achieving over 21 ExaFLOP/s of AI performance to accelerate AI training for large-scale AI, such as large language models.

Comparing that to the current Top500 list of supercomputers, this would be 5th fastest in the world. I wish we could see more investment like this.

If the plans com to fruition I'm not sure it's really meant to help anyone at all, rather just a way to hand out some more public money to a well-connected contractor.

To properly bring down long term sickness rates would mean fixing the NHS and greatly reforming regulations on employment and working conditions. Brining back opportunities for adult education would also help, I've known plenty of people who had to leave a particular career due to health issues, but could pursue many others if they had access to retraining.

My dog will bark and generally be alert, but mostly doesn't notice them if there is some background noise like the TV or music playing. It's only really as problem when shoe goes outside at night for toileting and one goes off.

It would be a lot easier on animals if it was still Fireworks Night, and not Fireworks Fortnight as it seems to be now. In my area there are fireworks right through Halloween to Remembrance Day. Pets aren't the only animals affected by them, livestock and wild animals can suffer too.

My dog will bark at fireworks, but will mostly ignore them if we have the TV on or music playing. It's mostly only a problem if one goes off when she goes out in the garden at night to "do her business".

I've known other animals that will completely freak out at them however, even despite having had attempts to expose them properly.

Not all dogs (and other pets) can be desensitised to fireworks, and as the UK has more pets the amount needing alternatives will increase also.