andrewducker | Entries tagged with windows

1. Labour Deputy Lucy Powell says EHRC's single-sex spaces draft is 'not right': (tags:LGBT transgender GoodNews bigotry UK labour )
2. Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows: (tags:games windows Linux )
3. A satellite runs Doom from orbit, using Ubuntu on Arm: (tags:space doom games )

1. Cancer patients who got a mRNA vaccine lived nearly twice as long - even though the vaccine wasn't aimed at cancer.: (tags:cancer immune_system viaKenny vaccine GoodNews )
2. Penguin and Club biscuit bars can no longer be described as chocolate: The price of cocoa has soared by 4x, and the amount of chocolate in a biscuit has dropped significantly.
(tags:chocolate food biscuits )
3. If you're still using Windows 10 (like me!) make sure you've signed up for Extended Support Updates to protect you from security issues: (tags:Windows security )
4. Pop quiz: who is the only scientist to have won both an Ig Nobel and a Nobel prize?: (tags:science nobel graphene frog magnets levitation )
5. If Labour want more houses then they need to stop mucking about with consents and put up the cash: (tags:money housing uk )
6. Brexit has been awesome - for making Europe less divided: (tags:uk europe )
7. Kew woman fined £150 for pouring coffee down a street drain: (tags:waste water location regulation UK London )
8. Humans can absorbe oxygen anally: (tags:humans oxygen bodies )
9. Lawsuit alleges Prime Day is a fraud: (tags:USA Amazon fraud shopping )

1. Holyrood Committee seek views and experiences as part of new inquiry into ADHD and autism: (tags:scotland autism adhd )
2. How would Britain vote, a year since the 2024 election (broken down in a wide variety of ways): (tags:uk voting polls )
3. Ooh Dark City has a 4k release. I'm quite tempted: (tags:movies scifi )
4. Poll: 82% of Israelis want to expel Palestinians from Gaza; 47% want to kill every man, woman, child: (tags:polls genocide Israel )
5. Poll: Americans' support for Israel at record low, backing for Palestinians at all-time high (46:33): (tags:USA polls Israel Palestine )
6. Why I'm glad the NHS has rejected two Alzheimer's 'wonder drugs': (tags:alzheimers medicine NHS )
7. Warwickshire County Council leader resigns, leaving 18-year-old in charge (Reform, unsurprisingly): (tags:politics UK )
8. Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11: (tags:games linux windows )
9. How disability benefits are paid across the world - and how UK compares: (tags:welfare disability international )
10. Harming children: the effects of the UK puberty blocker ban: (tags:UK bigotry children transgender LGBT )

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1. How are the British like the Japanese?: (tags:UK Japan society )
2. Edinburgh council rules out pneumatic underground bins: (tags:Edinburgh waste technology )
3. 'All the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order': The riddle of the 'Pulborough Area' torc from Sussex. (And how much effort it takes to find a fraud): (tags:history archeology fraud )
4. Meta is now allowing lies about the 2020 election in political ads: (tags:facebook advertising fraud politics usa OhForFucksSake )
5. Transforming the future of music creation with AI: (tags:music ai )
6. Elephants might give each other names: (tags:elephants names )
7. for babies born before 34 weeks, delaying the clamping of the cord for a minimum of 60 seconds after birth reduces death by nearly a third: (tags:babies death )
8. Young Animator of the Year UK - an impressive piece for anyone, but for a 16 year old...: (tags:animation children impressive video )
9. Are you a victim of Executive Function Theft: (tags:behaviour work )
10. 'Nimona' breaks LGBT barriers and survives to tell the tale: (tags:LGBT movies animation Disney )
11. Apple announces RCS support for iMessage: (tags:Apple sms communication )
12. Google confirms they will disable uBlock Origin in Chrome in 2024: (tags:adblock Google Chrome web OhForFucksSake )
13. IBM suspends ads on X after they appeared next to Nazi posts: (tags:Twitter Nazis ibm advertising )
14. Nihilist Penguin (Werner Herzog): (tags:penguin video )
15. Incredible video of Starling murmuration: (tags:video birds )
16. World-first gene therapy that aims to cure sickle-cell disease: (tags:genetics disease GoodNews )
17. Royal Mail owner says 'reform is urgent' after group slumps to a £319m loss: (tags:royalmail uk )
18. People living in Europe are about to get a much better Windows 11: (tags:europe windows regulation )
19. Archaeologists discover previously unknown ancient language (3,000 years old, transliterated into Hittite): (tags:language archeology )
20. From toy to tool: DALL-E 3 is a wake-up call for visual artists—and the rest of us: (tags:Technology ai art )
21. 'I was deported for wearing tinted moisturiser': Qatar's new LGBT crackdown: (tags:qatar lgbt OhForFucksSake )
22. Why are some jobs so "greedy"?: (tags:jobs )
23. South Korea announces plans to ban consumption of dog meat: (tags:dogs korea food )

1. Here's the full analysis of newly uncovered genetic data on COVID's origins: (tags:pandemic virus animals genetics china )
2. How fast does spring travel? About 2mph: (tags:time uk weather viaSwampers )
3. GPT-4 and professional benchmarks: the wrong answer to the wrong question: (tags:ai memory exams )
4. Fungus! Attacks! America!: (tags:fungus usa doom )
5. One of history's most famous psychological experiments was probably fake (Sending well people into psychiatric hospitals): (tags:psychology research history fraud OhForFucksSake )
6. Something Pretty Right: A History of Visual Basic: (tags:computers history windows programming microsoft billgates )
7. Ethical AI art generation? Adobe Firefly may be the answer: (tags:ethics ai art )
8. Comparing the cost of living in the UK and Germany: (tags:UK Germany austerity society Doom )
9. Life hacks from the 90s: (tags:history advice funny )
10. Scientists can now separate sperm based on whether they carry X or Y chromosomes with 80% accuracy: (tags:gender children sperm )
11. Female Afghan judge living in fear of Taliban denied sanctuary in Britain: (tags:UK Afghanistan asylum OhForFucksSake )

1. Researchers thought weight and education had shared genetic roots - turns out that educated people tended to marry thin people: (tags:education weight genetics family )
2. How many times does Hidetaka Miyazaki have to tell an interviewer that Armored Core 6 isn't a Soulsborne game?: (tags:games interview mecha )
3. Reminder that "Eskimo" is a slur.: (tags:Inuit language abuse )
4. The 10 Most Promising Breakthrough Innovations of 2022: (tags:science viaDanielDWilliam )
5. Renewables are set to triple over the next three years, and overtake coal to be the largest source worldwide: (tags:renewables GoodNews viaBenWerdmuller )
6. Probably the geekiest drinking game of all time: (tags:games alcohol geekery Windows )
7. When your nose gets cold it loses its ability to fight infections: (tags:disease cold temperature noses )
8. Disney now hiding LGBT content from kids, irrespective of age rating: (tags:LGBT children Disney )
9. Independent blockchain news site turns out to be funded by fradulent crypto company: (tags:fraud journalism blockchain )
10. The amusement park rides in The Centrifuge Brain Project deeply unsettled me: (tags:video gravity physics movie documentary )
11. It is very hard to keep a straight face while an elephant is fondling it: (tags:elephants cute video funny )
12. I'm not sure if my advice would be to never interview the Muppets live, or always interview the Muppets live.: (tags:muppets interview funny video )

Google understands what I'm looking for in a phone: (tags:Google video funny technology Android phones )
Boris Johnson 'privately accepts' up to 50,000 annual Covid deaths as an acceptable level: (tags:death pandemic UK )
Russian Warhammer 40k LARP looks amazing (and intense): (tags:Warhammer larp )
Microsoft won't stop you installing Windows 11 on older PCs: (tags:Windows obsolescence GoodNews )
Why Windows 11 has such strict hardware requirements, according to Microsoft: (tags:Microsoft Windows security processor )
What happens when you take a Trump lawsuit seriously?: (tags:politics law USA fraud )
Intergenerational inequality is just ludicrously large: (tags:inequality history demographics visualisation viaSwampers )
Just William, The Omen, and the Jew of Malta - how Good Omens came to be: (tags:neilgaiman terrypratchett writing )
Facebook "transparency report" turns out to be anything but: (tags:transparency Facebook fraud )
UK loses 83% of department stores since BHS collapsed five years ago: (tags:shopping UK )
UK Government to ban single-use plastic cutlery: (tags:UK plastic environment )
Ancient four-legged whale found in Egypt named after god of death: (tags:paleontology whales )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4079315.html

Google is still not the all-knowing, almighty search engine as 15 percent of queries are 'never seen before' by tech giant: I want to know what they're for!
(tags:Google viaSwampers )
Good Omens season 2 is coming (co-written with John Finnemore!): (tags:tv neilgaiman terrypratchett scifi viaMyBrotherHugh )
IKEA Loveseats Inspired By Pride Flags: (tags:LGBT IKEA furniture )
Northern Ireland voters evenly split over post-Brexit protocol: (tags:NorthernIreland UK Europe polls trade )
Windows 11 will leave millions of PCs behind: (tags:Windows Microsoft security obsolescence )
Civil partnerships in Scotland extended to mixed-sex couples: (tags:marriage Scotland )
Civil partnership may not be recognised abroad: (tags:UK marriage law international )
The dynamics of oil droplets are beautiful and fascinating: (tags:oil patterns video )
Troll Bridge (The only TV/movie of Pratchett that has ever felt like the books to me): (tags:terrypratchett video troll fantasy )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4055309.html

Report outlines 80 ways Scotland could tackle climate change: (tags:scotland globalwarming )
Food shortages down to chronic lack of HGV drivers, business leaders warn: (tags:food UK transport Doom )
Scottish Green members criticise party's talks with SNP over transphobia: (tags:lgbt transgender bigotry GreenParty snp )
Vegan spider silk provides sustainable alternative to single-use plastics: (tags:plastic silk spiders vegan )
Brexit: Another mobile company to bring back roaming charges: (tags:UK mobile_phones Europe OhForFucksSake )
Microsoft is bringing Android apps to Windows 11 with Amazon's Appstore: (tags:Windows Android Amazon apps )
Windows 11 is much more than a new theme slapped onto Windows 10: (tags:windows thefuture )
Why isn't there more pumped hydro in the UK?: (tags:UK water power )
World's first cultured meat-production plant opens in Israel (5,000 burgers a day): (tags:food manufacturing Israel )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4053576.html

Monkeys having a diving competition: (tags:monkeys video water viaSwampers )
Why Uber lost their case, and why it's so important: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1362723609006006274.html
(tags:taxi apps work UK law )
Petition · Embra Cooncil: Pit Googly Eyes Oan The Jobby: (tags:petition funny Edinburgh hotel architecture viaSwampers )
Scientists have discovered how to break into people's dreams and leave them messages: (tags:dreams )
Mars becomes the 2nd planet that has more computers running Linux than Windows: (tags:computers Mars space Linux Windows )
How Antidepressants Work, at Last?: (tags:antidepressants psychology brain )
If you've ever wondered what it's like supporting ancient code in a big company...: (tags:software funny OhForFucksSake )
Pfizer vaccine can cope without ultra-cold storage for two weeks longer than we thought: (tags:vaccine temperature pandemic GoodNews )
There is nothing funny about the British army, at all: (tags:military UK video funny true )
Draw an iceberg and see how it will float.: (tags:iceberg water )
Being a female tech lead at Mailchimp: (tags:Jobs technology OhForFucksSake )
UK government cites US anti-LGBT hate group in free speech proposals: (tags:LGBT abortion freespeech OhForFucksSake )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4002956.html

Anyone in Edinburgh want an a IT admin role and know both Windows and Linux?: (tags:Jobs Edinburgh computers Windows Linux )
The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture: (tags:colour sculpture history Roman greece racism )
How archeology is used for nationalism: (tags:archeology nationalism viaDanielDWilliam )
Old Government advert suggesting ballet dancer could retrain is one of several from 2019. The internet is still outraged, of course: https://mobile.twitter.com/eleanormia/status/1315586377703190528 for more of them.
(tags:advertising jobs anger technology )
Former Senate Majority Leader Confirms Federal Government Covered Up UFOs For Years: (tags:USA ufo )
Solar meets 100 percent of South Australia demand for first time: (tags:Australia solarpower )
You can buy these grapes, but there are a few rules you need to know first... (because they're patented): (tags:food rules OhForFucksSake patents )
U S. COVID Cases since June by state partisanship: (tags:ViaDrCross visualisation pandemic USA politics )
Scientists discover why mosquitoes are so attracted to human blood: (tags:blood mosquito )
Leaders Can Feel Licensed To Behave Badly When They Have Morally Upstanding Followers: (tags:psychology morality behaviour leadership )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3942648.html

Apparently there are empty Covid testing centres in England which are turning people away because the booking systems are fucked.: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1305208471273566208.html
(tags:testing pandemic epicfail uk OhForFucksSake )
JK Rowling's latest book is about a murderous cis man who dresses as a woman to kill his victims: (tags:jkrowling OhForFucksSake )
Why political parties can't just be based on "what people think": https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1305434347852517376.html
(tags:polls politics UK )
Arm's fired China CEO refuses to leave, company reps banned from Arm China premises: (tags:business China wtf computers )
Microsoft's underwater data centre resurfaces after two years: (tags:Ocean data Microsoft technology Scotland )
Brexit and the break-up of the UK: (tags:UK Europe Doom )
Public Health Wales had a data breach of Covid sufferers: (tags:pandemic dataprotection fail OhForFucksSake wales )
Whistleblower: There Were Mass Hysterectomies at ICE Facility: (tags:crime USA OhForFucksSake )
A Massachusetts Judge Asked Harvard to Find Out Why So Many Black People Were In Prison. They Could Only Find 1 Answer: Systemic Racism: (tags:USA crime racism police )
Beautifully preserved cave bears emerge from Siberian permafrost: (tags:Russia Bears prehistory )
There's an awful lot of overclocking out there: (tags:Windows computers fail )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3928108.html

Conservative Muslim chair to quit if Johnson wins leadership race: (tags:Conservatives islam )
Scotland plants 22 million trees to tackle climate crisis while England falls 7 million short of target: (tags:scotland uk tree co2 globalwarming )
Government removes Â£1,000 limit on Cycle To Work scheme - will allow ebikes: (tags:uk cycling GoodNews )
The Widows of the Plaza Hotel: (tags:history newyork USA viaJane )
Tories sink to fourth place in humiliating election poll as MPs bicker over leadership contest (Labour in third): (tags:politics polls uk )
UK's first 100% vegan hotel opens in the Highlands: (tags:vegan scotland )
The Giant Panda Is a Closet Carnivore (and very well adapted to its role): (tags:Panda diet viaSKington )
An Expert on Concentration Camps Says That's Exactly What the U.S. Is Running at the Border: (tags:USA migration OhForFucksSake )
Anti-vaxxers defeated: NY bans non-medical exemptions as doctors vote to step up fight: (tags:vaccination usa )
A shocking failure in accuracy in the Captain Marvel movie: (tags:marvel movies Windows history fail )
"You saw me covered in blood on a bus. But do you get outraged about all homophobia?": (tags:lgbt )
Possibly the finest Twitter account of all time: (tags:comics music TV wikipedia )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3799041.html

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