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  oh good. more reasons to avoid Oxford Street if unnecessary the next time I'll be in London! on a serious note, it's surreal why there is still no legislation about usage of live facial recognition cameras https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/facial-recognition-cameras-oxford-street-metropolitan-police-b3072030.html #Privacy #FacialRecognition #Surveillance #London #UnitedKingdom #UK

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  *shocked pikachu face* surely there is no way Nvidia would do that ... right? and 100% doesn't smell of cartel agreement? 'Amazon, which spent $54 billion in capex last quarter — is taking $3 billion worth of GPU deliveries every month “for the foreseeable future,” despite having such a supply glut that it cannot install them' https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-had-better-work-out/#we-already-have-an-oversupply-of-gpus-with-amazon-warehousing-billions-of-dollars-of-gpus-%E2...

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  seems that Europe's approach to develop its own Starlink is... doing two separate projects: – mobile carriers develop commercial version; – ICEYE/Nokia & with help from Ukrainian Ministry of Defence develop defense version just do a joint project and invest massively in it ffs. Starlink got to where they are because SpaceX had no competition (until recently), and received massive funding from NASA (aka state) #Satellite #Internet #Starlink #Europe #EU #EuropeanUnion #Tech #Tech...

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  it's really funny to see LARPing admirers of french protests (which are completely valid) defend and condone riots and loots as important thing to do - or, as some Die Linke twats, compare it to Arab spring - while today student-led movement, after several years of meticulous organising and planning, actually kicked out Serbian authoritarian in elections. good thing Student List organisers didn't listen to those LARPers. #EUPol #Politics

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  posting without any comments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRkDujUFxB4

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  yeeees it's actually starting https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/in-china-the-ai-bubble-has-already-burst #AI #AIBubble #Tech #Technology #China #Bubble #Finance

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  Discord messages are now going to be discoverable over the search engines - and worse, while there is an opt-out, it is two-layered: per server and per user. for now it's onyl for Discoverable Servers (i.e 1,000+ members) but they're definitely preparing the ground for expanding this feature - and to do that, they're going to test on this. so the fact communities still use it, in the year of 2026, is genuinely sad. #Privacy #Discord #Security #Surveillance #Messaging

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  honestly, I don't really blame LibreOffice for "another high-quality Mastodon discussion" remark. I'm against usage of LLMs in coding myself, not just for environmental & ethic reasons. if that leads to LibreOffice being more buggy, it should be FAFO for them. but one, they still require transparency; second, what I find puzzling is that people spend their time pouring shit on FOSS projects while not focusing on actual culprits who are Nvidia &amp...

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  lol Council Tax band checker on gov.uk is already down (context: UK chancellor announced £100 relief payment for people living in A-D council band houses) guys calm down, you can just check your council tax account or annual bills and to people behind Gov.UK, godspeed handling the traffic 🫡 #Tech #Technology #UnitedKingdom #UK #Housing #Energy #GovUK #Accessibility #WebDev

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  RE: https://ieji.de/@OlgaPatlyuk/117437851853462501 and that's why European countries – especially those who already adopted Starshield like UK https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/uk-adopts-spacexs-starshield-military-operations-sources-say-2026-06-02/ – have to develop its homegrown solution for competitive satellite internet ASAP and treat is as national security urgency, along with defence in general. sadly, we're still getting "welfare not warfare&qu...

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  your media has literally whitewashed a man who has expressed his pro-russian views in a smart way in many articles. so Latvian government has every right to expel him, and Meduza should be ashamed of this продублирую на русском: Кевин, ваше медиа буквально вылизало задницу Рагозину, который открыто писал коллаборционистские статьи и выражал про-рф взгляды непрямым способом. так что Латвия имеет полное право, а Медузе должно быть стыдно https://infosec.exchange/@kevinrothrock/117439491179992711...

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  one thing that people should know re: Starshield and restricting access to them Ukrainian army: they use both Starlink and Starshield but Starshield: - is used for specific & complex assignments; - isn't operated & controlled by SpaceX (i.e Musk), but by US DoD so it wasn't just Musk (although I'm sure he was supportive), but Trump administration that made this decision explicitly #Ukraine #UkraineWar #USA #SpaceX #Starlink #Starshield #Tech #Technology...

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  yes, I ordered it from United States. yes, I ordered just one pin. yes, I paid £50 for it (incl. delivery). do I regret it? no. because now there's a part of my heritage that I can wear with me, even if it's distant.

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  Epic Games: shits on Valve & Steam also Epic Games: doesn't even clean up the code in its own vibecoded launcher also Epic Games: uses Proton-GE for Linux compatibility and you can even see its version control publicly https://launcher-public-service-prod06.ol.epicgames.com/launcher/api/installer/download/linux-manifest.txt #FOSS #OpenSource #Gaming #Videogames #Steam #EpicGames #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #Technology #AISlop

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  replace AI-driven software development with Alco-driven software development and it will certainly be an improvement 🍻 #Software #Development #Programming

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  Broadcom's RCE over radio and their refusal to acknowledge and fix it is so Broadcom

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  I have recently attended an exhibition created by some of my friends from Hong Kong about Apple Daily – a newspaper founded by Jimmy Lai who is currently in prison in China. I think it is a showcase of what happens with everything democratic that CCP touches: initially hoping that "one country, two systems" might work, it eventually led to ruins. it only reinforces my support for Hong Kongers, Uyghurs, Taiwanese in their fight for freedom. #HongKong #JimmyLai #China #CCP #Dem...

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  на мого друга @vlstarodubtsev.bsky.social напали у Львові, зірвавши історичну лекцію. дуже сміливо напасти групою з 15 осіб на одного... довбойоби. https://zaxid.net/konflikt_mizh_sholtisom_i_starodubtsevim_u_lvovi_chomu_vinikla_sutichka_mizh_veteranami_n1648168 @ua @rada

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  happy to see that Steve's LG video on Smart TVs sparked a chain reaction to investigate other manufacturers of Smart TVs. and surprise, it's the same bullshit! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvFu343KNek I will point out that some of those manufacturers also make "smart monitors" (e.g Samsung) - just FYI. #InternetOfShit #InternetOfThings #IoT #SmartTV #Tech #Technology #Privacy #Surveillance

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  фільм про українську біженку в Манчестері знятий українською режисеркою яку я особисто знаю. вона сама є біженкою та зняла його виключно на свій айфон. дуже раджу побачити. я знаю, що історій подібних до історії Яни, багато — але саме тому це варто подивитися https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T547SxqQqI4 @ua@social.noleron.com @rada@social.net.ua #Україна

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  a lot of criticism towards Andy Burnham related to North Sea drilling completely miss the point. he isn't being lobbied by oil & gas companies, but by leaders of two major Labour-affiliated trade unions who represent oil & gas workers. same people who called refusal by pro-green Miliband to drill in North Sea "madness" and called him being chancellor akin to having "noose around the neck". #ClimateChange #Politics #UnitedKingdom #UK #Ecology #Environment #Ren...

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  "The UK government had made a second request to Apple to grant it a “back door” to encrypted iCloud data belonging to British users, according to an order issued by the court" #Privacy #Security #Surveillance #Apple #Tech #Technology #UnitedKingdom #UK #TechPolicy

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  if anyone wants to learn about recent weeks in Ukraine regarding Fedorov/Syrskyy protests and their background, evolution of Ukrainian Armed Forces during that time, and challenges Ukraine is facing in next few months - this is fantastic analysis from someone who served in the frontline https://vladyslavstarodubtsev.substack.com/p/what-is-even-going-on-fedorov-syrskyi (while I know it's Substack, I know the author personally and can vouch for him) #Ukraine #UkraineWar #RussiaUkraineWar #Ru...

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  when AI bubble bursts, all CEOs of AI companies who do shit like this must be held accountable and sued to the oblivion until they're completely broke. https://www.cityam.com/ai-firms-targeting-londons-rare-bookshops-in-dystopian-hunt-for-training-data/ #Books #Reading #Library #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #NoAI #Tech #Technology #London

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  if you live around Manchester or plan to visit it and never heard about Harcourt pub, this is a must go. founded by Hong Kong refugees, it is genuinely one of the best pubs I've been in over 12 years I've lived in UK. I'm not exaggerating. https://youtu.be/kW2oPcTykzY (English subtitles available) (yes I know it's not *really* in Manchester but in Altrincham - nonetheless, it's 100% worth travelling 30 minutes by tram from city centre) #Manchester #Pub #HongKong #Alcohol...

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  lol - BlueZ has started using LLM for analysing btmon trace if it has been attached. I'd have even understood if it was a locally trained LLM - but no, as it''s explicitly stated when creating issue, it's a third-party one! considering BlueZ is pretty much the sole option for Bluetooth stack on Linux, perhaps there might have to be a discussion for alternatives... #Bluetooth #BlueZ #Linux #FOSS #OpenSource #RaspberryPi #Ubuntu #Debian #Privacy #LLM #AI #ArtificialIntelligence...

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  this is absolutely fantastic news - current proposal is flawed and completely unworkable. I'd suggest to go further & review eVisa scheme https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/18/burnham-to-scrap-starmers-digital-id-scheme-in-reset-of-priorities however, if Burnham & his team are going to stick with U-16 social media ban, how do they think it's going to work? because social media ban is pretty much a "soft" version of Digital ID #Privacy #Surveillance #Digital...

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@gamersvoice/116913910854409014 oh the irony: the game about pirates does anti-pirate shit #Gaming #Videogames #Ubisoft #AssassinsCreed #StopKillingGames

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  tfw you bake something (that no one has tried except me) yourself for a charity event and people took all of it in mere minutes – and enjoyed 😌

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  you thought kitchen knife with Bluetooth sounded ridiculous? HOW ABOUT VODKA WITH BLUETOOTH AND AI CONTROLS :angry_laugh: yes, it's real product and it costs $250 https://amoonspirits.com/product/amoon-vodka-with-vortex-control-unit/ also, its app stores location and personal info & may transit it to third parties. just to control the bottle. #InternetOfShit #InternetOfThings #IoT #Hardware #Bluetooth #Tech #Technology #Alcohol #Drink #Privacy #Surveillance #Wireless