Entries tagged with computers

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Interesting Links for 21-03-2025

1. EU sends Apple first DMA interoperability instructions for apps and connected devices: (tags:Europe apple regulation )
2. Big drop in overseas students at Scottish universities (driven by changes in immigration visas): (tags:scotland university uk migration visa doom )
3. "We'll deport you if we have evidence against you, and if we do not" - An extraordinary witness statement by the US government: (tags:usa migration OhForFucksSake law )
4. New study reveals bacterial vaginosis is actually a sexually transmitted infection: (tags:sex disease women viaDrJon )
5. Vivian Jenna Wilson on Being Elon Musk's Estranged Daughter, Protecting Trans Youth and Taking on the Right Online: (tags:LGBT transgender ElonMusk USA politics bigotry )
6. PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now: (tags:games computers )
7. Tesla cars disengage autopilot if you're about to crash: (tags:Tesla automation OhForFucksSake driving crash )
8. Battery storage is dramatically reshaping the California grid, and finally moving it away from gas: (tags:batteries electricity GoodNews California )
9. What evidence does the CIA have that Hitler was still alive in South America in the 1950s?: (tags:history hitler USA cia colombia wtf )
10. Apple Is Losing Over $1 Billion per Year on Streaming Service, Has 45 Million Apple TV+ Subscribers: (tags:Apple TV business )
11. I thankfully don't have to worry about dating apps. But I do find it fascinating what kind of person makes them work for them.: (tags:dating advice )
12. Germany and Britain issue warnings about traveling to America: (tags:usa travel germany uk )

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Interesting Links for 10-01-2025

1. On the Depressing Doings of Trillion Dollar Companies, January 2025 Edition: (tags:facebook twitter politics socialnetworking )
2. Edinburgh's Gorgie farm: New operators set to be approved (no animals on the site): (tags:farm Edinburgh )
3. How Elon Musk seized on baseless memo claim to create wave of misinformation: (tags:fraud ElonMusk UK children rape OhForFucksSake )
4. Leaked Meta Training: Users Are Free to Post "Mexican Immigrants Are Trash!" or "Trans People Are Immoral": (tags:bigotry Facebook OhForFucksSake )
5. Tiny anime girl cyberprison shown at CES: (tags:funny anime relationships review dolls )
6. Posts shared across Facebook claim to show the average energy costs for different European countries. They don't.: (tags:disinformation energy money europe )
7. Price of resale tickets to be capped under plans to tackle touts: (tags:uk business economics music concerts tickets )
8. Can a Dutch case about RSS teach us anything about AI copyright?: (tags:ai copyright rss law computers europe )
9. The metabolism myth - and why exercise won't make you thinner: (tags:exercise metabolism diet health )
10. How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days: (tags:history germany nazis politics democracy )
11. The British Empire Was Much Worse Than You Realize: (tags:uk empire history )

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Interesting Links for 12-11-2024

1. A portrait of the fascist as a young gamer: (tags:gaming bigotry )
2. The UK has a £47bn bill in outstanding compensation claims: (tags:uk money )
3. Want to shoot down a drone fleet? You need a machine gun, a camera, and some automation: (tags:technology drone guns automation )
4. How a stubborn computer scientist accidentally launched the deep learning boom: (tags:ai computers neurons images )
5. Israel's Smotrich tells authorities to prepare for West Bank annexation: (tags:Israel )
6. What Britain's £100m bat tunnel can tell us about why Britain can't build infrastructure: (tags:UK infrastructure bureaucracy hs2 epicfail )
7. Water expands a ridiculous amount when it turns into steam, and you do not want to be nearby if it happens very quickly: (tags:video water heat )
8. I have been reading Sophia these jokes and she has been explaining to me, one by one, why they make no sense.: (tags:jokes children )
9. Chi-Fi Tuning - Why It Sounds So Damn Piercing To Western Ears?: (tags:china music Technology sound )
10. Expert Explains Why, Essentially, You're Fucked: (tags:video doom funny )
11. Why I Will Always Be Angry About Software Engineering (or anything else that's badly managed): (tags:life programming organisation systems anger )
12. Do Not Obey In Advance: (tags:fascism bureaucracy heroism )

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Interesting Links for 20-03-2024

1. 10% of people think they're allergic to penicillin. Testing found that 97% of them were wrong.: (tags:antibiotics allergies )
2. The degree to which the Acropolis Museum is designed to shame the British Museum is spectacular: (tags:museums history Greece UK theft )
3. Can you stab things with an arrow? And should you?: (tags:weapons video )
4. The first 'cyberflasher' is convicted under England's new law and gets more than 5 years in prison: (tags:sex abuse UK law prison )
5. Long-term leisure computer use linked to increased erectile dysfunction risk: (tags:penis sex computers genetics )
6. Is this the worst economic inheritance since WW2?: (tags:politics labour economics history )
7. Root cause of Alzheimer's may be fat buildup in brain cells: (tags:alzheimers fat brain )
8. Cars are secretly spying on drivers and upping their insurance rates: (tags:surveillance cars insurance )

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Interesting Links for 08-02-2024

1. What does it mean that BlueSky is designed to be more open?: (tags:socialnetworking design computers )
2. Rishi Sunak Refusing To Apologise For Trans Jibe In Front Of Murdered Trans Teen's Mum: (tags:transgender Conservatives bigotry OhForFucksSake )
3. Man from Dildo takes photo of iceberg shaped like a penis. In Conception Bay: (tags:penis Canada photos iceberg names )
4. Lothian bus journeys increased by over 17% from 94 million in 2022 to 110 million last year (I wonder what it was in 2019): (tags:buses transport Edinburgh GoodNews )
5. EU sets maximum bank transfer time to 10 seconds: (tags:Europe banking regulation time )
6. After Libs of TikTok posted, at least 21 bomb threats followed: (tags:terrorism USA )
7. Beard-seconds, Chains, Pirate-Ninjas, and other Units of Measure: (tags:measurement viaSwampers )
8. Mimas' surprise: Saturn's tiny moon hides a young ocean beneath its icy shell: (tags:moon saturn ocean water )
9. 13 Worst Bike Lanes in the World (Edinburgh is #1! Woohoo!): (tags:edinburgh cycling epicfail )
10. Poll Shows 74 Percent of Republicans Like Donald Trump's Dictator Plan: (tags:usa dictators doom )
11. Apple releases an AI to help you edit images: (tags:apple ai images editing )

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Interesting Links for 29-01-2024

1. "Lena" isn't about uploading (it's a great short story though): (tags:scifi society technology )
2. "My son says he is not a book person. Where did my parenting go wrong?": (tags:books children funny computers parenting )
3. What does the ICJ ruling mean for Gaza and Israel? Cambridge professor explains: (tags:rights law Palestine Israel )
4. Why You've Never Been In A Plane Crash (the no-blame culture of crash investigations): (tags:airplanes disaster organisation )
5. Pavement parking crackdown begins in Edinburgh: (tags:cars Edinburgh )
6. Edinburgh roads: Through traffic to be banned from key routes across city centre: (tags:transport edinburgh roads cars )
7. Talking points for calling your Senators about KOSA: (tags:politics usa OhForFucksSake internet regulation )
8. How a Worldcon happens, and what might happen to them next: (tags:conventions hugo china scifi )

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Interesting Links for 11-09-2023

1. The Australian solar tech that may have found a low cost solution to storage: (tags:solarpower Australia )
2. Studios are bribing the critics used for Rotten Tomatoes scores: (tags:movies reviews bribery corruption )
3. Covid: What does the new normal look like?: (tags:Pandemic )
4. The Carrington Event of 1859 Disrupted Telegraph Lines. A "Miyake Event" Would Be Far Worse: (tags:sun doom electronics )
5. 'Sea Nomads' Are First Known Humans Genetically Adapted to Diving: (tags:asia diving genetics air )
6. The UK is going about reclaiming city streets the wrong way: (tags:uk transport cities design )
7. California moves to decriminalize use of magic mushrooms, other psychedelics: (tags:decriminalization psychology psilocybin GoodNews )
8. Meta deletes Al Jazeera presenter's profile after show criticising how Facebook works with Israel's intelligence agency: (tags:israel palestine facebook OhForFucksSake )
9. Coincidentally-identical waypoint names foxed UK air traffic control system: (tags:uk airplanes computers epicfail )

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Interesting Links for 02-09-2023

1. MPs call for magic mushrooms and psychedelic drugs to be downgraded (and consumption rooms to be trialled): (tags:psychopath drugs law UK )
2. Astoundingly, giving money to homeless people helps them.: (tags:GuaranteedIncome homelessness )
3. Musk's changes at Twitter helped spread Russian propaganda: (tags:Russia propaganda Twitter )
4. The algorithm that blew up Italy's school system: (tags:computers teaching Italy OhForFucksSake )
5. Higher Intakes of Potassium and Magnesium, but Not Lower Sodium, Reduce Cardiovascular Risk: (tags:heart health )
6. US, UK: Please take a moment to contact your elected officials!: (tags:uk usa censorship web )
7. Our Human Ancestors Very Nearly Went Extinct 900,000 Years Ago, Genetics Suggest, With A Population of less than 1,300: (tags:prehistory genetics humans )
8. The 'bank of family' is deeply unfair - and not the answer to the housing crisis: (tags:uk housing inequality )
9. Will post-Brexit food checks ever happen?: (tags:food uk europe )
10. Happy 20th birthday to Badger Badger Badger!: (tags:meme badgers history viaEatSoylentGreen )

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Interesting Links for 04-05-2023

1. Edinburgh Council has a critical shortage of staff: (tags:edinburgh work doom )
2. Who do LGBTQ people vote for in the next UK general election: (tags:lgbt uk politics )
3. AI-generated beer commercial contains joyful monstrosities, goes viral: (tags:alcohol advertising ai weird )
4. Apple, Google partner on an industry specification to address unwanted tracking: (tags:apple google tracking surveillance )
5. Mozilla acquires review-checking, scammer-spotting service Fakespot for Firefox: (tags:firefox fraud )
6. FBI former agent arrested over Jan. 6 (more than 1,000 people arrested so far): (tags:fbi usa politics crime )
7. it's a(door)able - a one-minute minigame.: (tags:love games )
8. The Internet Isn't Meant To Be So Small: (tags:web internet socialmedia )
9. The most draconian assault on free speech in living memory is now UK law: (tags:uk law freespeech protests )
10. Port of Aberdeen welcomes UK government funding for world's first liquid hydrogen autonomous vessel project: (tags:automation shipping scotland hydrogen viaJane )
11. The web's most important decision: (tags:internet web history computers opensource )