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I’d be careful doing that. He might go there thinking its the new place to meet Redacted people

“Senior ministers are considering whether it is appropriate for them to continue to use the platform, with Enterprise Minister Peter Burke saying the Government should make a “collective decision” about whether to stay on X.”

Easy decision. Leave Twitter/X.

Blue-sky and Mastadon are already fairly well established alternatives, already being used by some governments and many companies/organisations that don’t want to be associated with the increasingly right-wing cesspool of Twitter/X

Looks like the US is intent on starting this year with a bang.

The list is HUGE and spans across so many agencies and so many disciplines it’s absurd.

I mean FFS does Donny J actually mean to tell us that the “Science and Technology Center in Ukraine” runs contrary to US interests?

If that’s actually true - that doesn’t spell good things for the US’s future intentions for Ukraine.

Also a few of these are rather telling of the current trajectory of the US’s policies:

• Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals, and Sustainable Development;

• Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services;

• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

• International Renewable Energy Agency;

• International Union for Conservation of Nature;

• UN Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries;

For starters this is a metric fuck tonne of environmental initiatives to pull out of, and shows the Republican-led US is going to be making a generational push towards screwing over the environment.

… And then some other notable initiatives:

• Freedom Online Coalition;

• Global Forum on Migration and Development;

• Global Counterterrorism Forum;

• International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property;

• International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance;

• International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law;

• UN International Law Commission;

• UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals;

• UN International Trade Centre;

• UN Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary General for Children in Armed Conflict; Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict; and Secretary-General on Violence Against Children;

• UN Democracy Fund;

• UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women;

It’s rather concerning how many of the councils the US is pulling out from relate to international law, upholding democracy, and to human rights in general.

I thought the standard test was 300ng/mL, and even that can give false positives if you’re a prolific enough poppy-seed eater.

Testing for less than 20ng/mL is begging for false positives to occur!

With how redacted the files have been so far they hardly need releasing. Would be more effective and informational to tell people to close their eyes and imagine what the Epstein files look like.

… Unless someone else at the DOJ feels like botching up some digital redactions again. Would be nice.

Honestly, I think consumers allowing manufacturers to start integrating screens into cars was a mistake.

Knobs and dials are way easier to nevigate blind (whilst focusing on the road like we’re meant to), and none of that stops you plugging in your own third party device for other features, or replacing the headboard yourself.

Giant tablets with complex menus are dangerous to drivers, and only serve to milk the consumer for things they already had access to in their car as standard not 10 years ago.

The NHS is chronically underfunded, because every successive UK government is determined to make the NHS do more with less - and at some point something has to give, which is why service declines every winter despite it being the same story every year, because the money isn’t there to prevent it

For now… I fear the day a competent Government tries its hand at the corruption game.

I can’t help but feel like a real life Santa, who famously gives gifts to children of all creeds, would not side with ICE agents…

I think they’d all be on the naughty list, and he’d be pelting coal at them instead.

Personally I don’t think the feature consolidation was the problem. It IS still nice to have my music library, a camera, and a fairly capable computer all able to fit in my pocket…

The problem is we consolidated around specific device makers, letting them get too big and too comfortable - we’ve gone from being customers to being money chattle.

I’m worried how many people answered the odd numbers for an equation where it is only possible to end up with an even numbered answer.

Valve could’ve legitimately done nothing and still be winning in comparison to the big three, but instead they’ve slowly and steadily been helping the gaming community to give Windows the middle finger by making huge contributions to Linux gaming.

Honestly, its downright shameful how many companies have forgotten that a good way to make money from customers is simply to treat them nicely while they’re buying your goods.

Edit: Changed basically the whole comment, as you’re right. I looked at the Blog, and it does state in his FAQ that he had a backup. Which frankly makes a significant part of the article completely BS - as it makes multiple heavy implications that he didn’t have any backup.

This apparently happened with “no explanation and no recourse,” putting “terabytes of family photos” and their entire message history out of reach, as well as preventing the ability to sync work across devices.

He has copies elsewhere, so why would he be worried about losing access to this data.

Also, the end of the article discusses not storing all your data in one place…

If you store your photos and files in a single place, it’s a good idea to back them up to multiple locations to protect against something going wrong. But with how integrated devices are these days, it’s hard to avoid having all your apps, purchases and media within a single ecosystem. In cases like that, there’s not a lot you can do.

So it wouldn’t be wrong of most people to walk away from this article with the assumption that he didn’t have a proper backup strategy.

Everyone always learns the hard way, just the same as I did - one copy is usually as good as no copies at all.

For data you can’t afford to lose, the 3-2-1 rule is king. Original, cold local, and remote.

Oh I get you. I never said I wouldn’t also be having a panic attack upon finding out what I’d accidentally just done either…

But I can with certainty tell you for damn sure that Kiedis’ reaction was the WRONG reaction to have.

In my work, plenty. And I can fairly confidently say that telling someone’s age by their looks isn’t always easy.

Which is to say that it isn’t an entirely unrealistic scenario, and could be forgiven if one actually tried to remedy the situation upon learning of their mistake, rather than going for a second turn (yuck)

Its forgivable that a 20 year old might accidentally end up in this situation, not having realised that she was only 14 until she said so…

But you know what a normal person does when they realise they just accidentally had sex with someone underage?

They take them back home to their family and apologise profusely. They don’t have sex with them a second time round! That truly is some child predator behaviour right there.

Fair enough. I imagine as a PhD its easier to avoid since you’re doing new research, so you’re presenting unique information with (in theory) unique sentences.

Whereas for a lot of undergrad students, up until the tail end of their degrees, they’re writing about fairly extensively covered topics, so you’re much more likely to accidentally steal wordings from others who have already written about them. In fact at that stage, I’d bet having too low a plagiarism score would more likely indicate you’re barking up the wrong tree.

Genuinely. As a student I don’t think I ever saw a Turnitin score for my work below 40%. There are only so many ways to wrute a sentence about the same thing, so its impossible to not accidentally plagiarise someone’s works.

I remember one lecturer telling me that they don’t really look at the % unless its something aggregious like +70%. But more often they’re looking for patterns in what it highlights.

Loads of tiny highlights with individual sources are likely to be a false positive, but big chunks of highlights from only a couple of sources is likely to be a true positive.

All I can do is pray that my current RAM survives long enough for this stupid AI bubble to burst, like with the Crypto-Bro GPUs.

But it is kind of horrifying how easily consumers have been priced out of the RAM market - at least for newer stuff anyways