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  • On that site:

    Our electoral system needs upgrading, and if you join us then collectively we can influence the next government to upgrade our democracy so that every vote counts.

    It's extreme wishful thinking to expect the next Labour government to change a voting system that just gave them a landslide to one that would have them governing in coalition.

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    Life Wirral School - Post Panorama Airing
  • And if the school hadn't been run like this for years and it being known it was like this for years there wouldn't have been a TV programme to make. I think you'd have to be pretty gullible to believe their statement.

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    Two men charged with spying for China under Official Secrets Act
  • Presumably it has taken over a year because:

    Cdr Dominic Murphy, head of the Counter Terrorism Command, said it had been an "extremely complex investigation"

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    What're some of the dumbest things you've done to yourself in Linux?
  • An older friend of mine told me years back about an incident that happened on a university VAX running Unix. In those days, everyone was using vt100 terminals, and the disk drives weren't all that quick. He was working on his own terminal when without warning, he got this error when trying to run a common command (e.g. ls)

    $ ls -l
    sh: ls: command not found
    

    So he went on over to the system admin's office, where he found the sysadmin and his assistant, staring at their terminal in frozen horror. Their screen had something like:

    # rm -rf / tmp/*.log
    ^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C
    # ls -l
    sh: ls: command not found
    # stat /bin/ls
    sh: stat: command not found
    

    A few seconds after hitting return, and the rm command not finishing immediately, he realised about the errant space, and then madly hammered Ctrl-C to try to stop it. It turns out that the disk was slow enough that not everything was lost, and by careful use of the commands that hadn't been deleted, managed to copy the executables off another server without having to reinstall the OS.

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    British watchdog has 'real concerns' about the staggering love-in between cloud giants and AI upstarts
  • That's nothing new, that's the very basis of how a firm works out how to price an item or service, at the maximum price the market will bear. It has been this way since the year dot.

    Collaborating with "competitors" however must be prevented or the market won't work. (This is the reason we have anti-monopoly laws, and anti-collusion laws). The laws exist already they just have to be enforced.

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    PipeWire 1.0 Released For Managing Audio/Video Steams On The Linux Desktop
  • As a workaround, you could use OBS and use OBS's virtual camera so Discord is streaming what it thinks is a camera, and set up whatever you want to share on your desktop through OBS.

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    Are older, but Linux compatible computers capable of running the newest kernel/version of various distros?
  • How old is "older?"

    I run the latest Debian on a 10 year old Macbook Pro. Linux has given this laptop a second life as a lab machine - it's still plenty fast enough and it has a really nice screen (Retina) which Debian gets right out of the box with no tweaking. The only thing I needed to do when installing Debian is manually get the drivers for the WiFi hardware during the install (although Debian has the non-free firmware by default these days, they aren't permitted to distribute all firmware and the WiFi hardware in this machine unfortunately happened to be one of those).

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    Hunt warns of benefit cuts for people who won’t ‘actively look for work’
  • The OP is clearly using hyperbole. But only 1% of the welfare bill goes on unemployment benefits, so even if absolutely everyone on unemployment benefits is cheating and you cut them off, you don't save much. In reality the majority of people on unemployment benefits are not cheating the system - a system that already sanctions the unemployed for not actively seeking work.

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    Lemmings who know where/when they contracted COVID, how long after your exposure did you become symptomatic?
  • Never. We had a work lunch and one of the guys a few days later said "I just tested positive for covid, better test". About 2 days later I was testing positive, but none of us in the household ever had any symptoms other than testing positive (about 4 days in, the LFT was going bright red as soon as the liquid reached the test line). None of us ever had so much as a sniffle. The guy we got it off was really rough for a few days.

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    Common global rules needed ahead of ‘flying taxi’ boom, UK regulator says
  • Not only that, but they will make an ungodly racket while doing so. Multi propellers all turning at a slightly different RPM, with all the annoying beat frequencies this will create. They will also likely be almost as expensive as helicopters (only a very small amount of a helicopter's cost is its fuel, the overwhelming majority is maintenance and insurance).

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