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@john @pluralistic and this is why Meta are happy with the #UK #OnlineSafetyAct with its multimillion pound minimum fine - they can afford to pay, whereas many small hobby/fan websites in the UK cannot.
Cory Doctorow explains why you have to evaluate supporting Facebook very succinctly here @pluralistic:
"10% of Meta's gross revenue comes from ads for fraudulent goods and scams, and; the company knows it, and; they decided not to do anything about it, because; the fines for facilitating this life-destroying fraud are far less than the expected revenue from helping to destroy its users' lives:"
@john @pluralistic and this is why Meta are happy with the #UK #OnlineSafetyAct with its multimillion pound minimum fine - they can afford to pay, whereas many small hobby/fan websites in the UK cannot.
"Premier Foods invests £2m in onsite solar at Mr Kipling bakery"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables
https://www.edie.net/premier-foods-invests-2m-in-onsite-solar-at-mr-kipling-bakery/
"Premier Foods invests £2m in onsite solar at Mr Kipling bakery"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables
https://www.edie.net/premier-foods-invests-2m-in-onsite-solar-at-mr-kipling-bakery/
My Robin friend Blackberry chatting. Blackberry hatched this spring and came into my life as a very inquisitive fledgling, and now waits for me every morning to turn up with a snack.
This 'chatting' behaviour is technically known as 'subsong' and it's still a bit of a mystery as to why birds do it.
In #Bath #Somerset #UK.
#nature #wildlife #ukwildlife #bathnature #bird #birdsong
My Robin friend Blackberry chatting. Blackberry hatched this spring and came into my life as a very inquisitive fledgling, and now waits for me every morning to turn up with a snack.
This 'chatting' behaviour is technically known as 'subsong' and it's still a bit of a mystery as to why birds do it.
In #Bath #Somerset #UK.
#nature #wildlife #ukwildlife #bathnature #bird #birdsong
"One study suggests the #Amazon provides around $40,000 of value per square kilometre of standing forest each year, giving it a fair asset value of around $3trn, about 50% more than the retailer that shares its name." "carbon price of $25 per tonne would squeeze out cattle ranchers, since landowners could make more money by allowing reforesting." "the EU’s emissions-trading system charges €80 ($93)"
https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2025/10/23/the-obvious-economics-of-preserving-the-amazon
https://archive.is/QxNYH
meanwhile, in the #UK: "LONDON — The British government is divided over whether to stump up the cash for a flagship environmental pledge meant to protect tropical forests, jeopardizing a potential announcement by Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the COP30 U.N. climate summit in Brazil."
https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-treasury-cop30-brazil-tropical-forest-pledge/
#environment #Amazon #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #ukpol #politics
UK tech policy is shambles.
50%+ dependency on foreign cloud service providers, and instead of doing any work to reduce it Labour gov't does the opposite and placates American big tech for more investments into critical digital infrastructure...
now, after the wide outage a week ago, they want to just "draft a blueprint" in case situations like this repeat? this isn't serious.
we can't defend democracy on foreign servers.
#Tech #Technology #TechPolicy #BigTech #UnitedKingdom #UK #OpenSource
UK tech policy is shambles.
50%+ dependency on foreign cloud service providers, and instead of doing any work to reduce it Labour gov't does the opposite and placates American big tech for more investments into critical digital infrastructure...
now, after the wide outage a week ago, they want to just "draft a blueprint" in case situations like this repeat? this isn't serious.
we can't defend democracy on foreign servers.
#Tech #Technology #TechPolicy #BigTech #UnitedKingdom #UK #OpenSource
One week to opt out or be fodder for #LinkedIn #AI training
LinkedIn announced changes to its data use terms as of Nov 3 it would start sucking up data from "members in the #EU, #EEA, #Switzerland, #Canada, and #HongKong" to train AI. While not mentioned by name in the notice, update page on #UK indicates previous exceptions which rendered Blighty safe from LinkedIn scraping are being eliminated too.
As for what's up for harvesting, it's pretty much everything on LinkedIn
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/27/linkedin_ai_profile_scraping/
One week to opt out or be fodder for #LinkedIn #AI training
LinkedIn announced changes to its data use terms as of Nov 3 it would start sucking up data from "members in the #EU, #EEA, #Switzerland, #Canada, and #HongKong" to train AI. While not mentioned by name in the notice, update page on #UK indicates previous exceptions which rendered Blighty safe from LinkedIn scraping are being eliminated too.
As for what's up for harvesting, it's pretty much everything on LinkedIn
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/27/linkedin_ai_profile_scraping/
"The rest of UK desperately needs to learn the lessons from what transpired in south Wales last night."
Will Hayward observes Plaid Cymru's "biggest selling point was its unequivocal opposition to, and rejection of, all that Reform has stood for".
#cymru #wales #UK #politics
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/24/reform-caerphilly-byelection-britain-labour
"The rest of UK desperately needs to learn the lessons from what transpired in south Wales last night."
Will Hayward observes Plaid Cymru's "biggest selling point was its unequivocal opposition to, and rejection of, all that Reform has stood for".
#cymru #wales #UK #politics
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/24/reform-caerphilly-byelection-britain-labour
"Ed Miliband approves UK’s biggest solar farm at Lincolnshire site"
"Ed Miliband approves UK’s biggest solar farm at Lincolnshire site"
In the 1980s, Anguilla Was Given the .ai Web Domain: Now it’s Making a Killing on the Dot AI Boom
Back when the internet was just starting, nations were all given a URL in order to publish websites official to the nation. The US got .us and the UK got .uk. Well Anguilla, the small British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean, was given .ai, and with investments and startups surging in the field of artificial […]
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Renewables Overtake Coal as World’s Biggest Source of Electricity
Renewable energy sources like solar and wind produced more electricity during the first half of the year than any other energy resource, including coal. To bullet another massive accomplishment in the clean energy transition, of the cumulative demand for new power worldwide, renewables met 100% of it. Coal has been the world’s most-consumed energy resource […]
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Renewables Overtake Coal as World’s Biggest Source of Electricity
Renewable energy sources like solar and wind produced more electricity during the first half of the year than any other energy resource, including coal. To bullet another massive accomplishment in the clean energy transition, of the cumulative demand for new power worldwide, renewables met 100% of it. Coal has been the world’s most-consumed energy resource […]
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In the 1980s, Anguilla Was Given the .ai Web Domain: Now it’s Making a Killing on the Dot AI Boom
Back when the internet was just starting, nations were all given a URL in order to publish websites official to the nation. The US got .us and the UK got .uk. Well Anguilla, the small British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean, was given .ai, and with investments and startups surging in the field of artificial […]
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Whoever designed the Avanti West Coast train seats, may your pillow always be warm, your tea cold and your shower never just right
Most unfomfortable shit ever, these things. At least 3/4 of me is in pain. #UK #trains #rant #avanti #ergonomics
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![The UK government will publish a plan for handling future cloud outages after last week's AWS failure knocked out several departments.
Ian Murray, minister for digital government and data, said that the AWS outage on October 20 affected a number of departments and suppliers, although all services were restored by the evening of that day.
"It will take some time to fully understand the scale of the impact. DSIT [the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology] will be gathering a full picture of the impact on government in the coming weeks," he wrote in a parliamentary written answer to Dame Chi Onwurah, Labour MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West
DSIT will then "set out a clear approach" for dealing with cybersecurity and resilience incidents in a government cyber action plan it will publish this winter, he added.
Errors in AWS's DNS services in Northern Virginia affected many public and private sector sites and apps in the UK and elsewhere, including those run by His Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC). They also affected "smart" internet-connected devices including mattresses, light bulbs, and cat toilets.
In response to another parliamentary written question from Onwurah, who shadowed DSIT while Labour was in opposition, Murray said the government reckons that up to 60 percent of its digital estate is hosted on cloud platforms, mostly those run by AWS, Microsoft, and Google.](https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/115/457/537/229/465/350/original/41ba57c3fc672aa9.png)
