HeartyBeast

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[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Running your own VPN in that situation is a good use-case agreed - assuming you trust yourself :)

[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 22 points 6 months ago (7 children)

You’re hiding your traffic route from your mobile operator and giving it instead to your vpn company who swear they are honest

[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 2 points 6 months ago

If that includes batteries, I suspect the payback is shorter these days if you are using an agile tariff like Octopus. I made a bit of money this winter forecast-charging batteries when the electricity price was negative and force discharging when the export price was high

[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 2 points 6 months ago

Green Energy Together? We used them for our panels. Complete nightmare. But they eventually installed and the system is working well.

[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I don’t think the guidelines say _anything _ about forceably detransitioning anyone and I’m not sure why you think they do.

[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 10 points 6 months ago

Sounds like he made a reasonable call and the probation officer was suitably supportive. I’m finding it hard to feel outraged about this one.

[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 5 points 6 months ago

I’m glad it looks good because the Christmas special made me Cringe and my kids decided they aren’t really interested in watching the new series if it’s like that. For context, they’ve rewatched everything from Ecclestone onwards several times.

[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 7 points 6 months ago

The things he'll do to have something to write about in his next newspaper column.

[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If someone had a car, specifically designed to injure, it would probably be banned. Swords are already banned for the most part.

Legislation here - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-offensive-weapons-act-2019/statutory-guidance-offensive-weapons-act-2019-accessible-version

[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago

Broadly already banned unless it is an antique sword. Decent rundown here

[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Just a quick reminder that Twitter was banning 10s of thousands of accounts of extremists that breached its terms of service, including a certain ex president of the US. It was imperfect, but ‘running rampant’ is a stretch

[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago

Because it’s a ludicrous assertion. Just because something is useful on a regular basis, that does mean it is required constantly.

“Why are they letting people get out of bed? If people need beds, they clearly should be lying in them all day”

 

Judges at the International Court of Justice stop short of issuing emergency measures ordering a ceasefire in Gaza.

 

Apple released the latest iOS update to the general public on Monday.

 

@streaming21 has been spamming the fediverse magazine with movie links What is the best way to get a particular rogue account looked at?

 

With all the hype surrounding machine learning whether its with self driving cars or LLMs, there is a big elephant in the room which not a lot of people are talking about. Its not the danger of ChatGPT taking your jobs or deepfakes or the singularity. Its instead about how neural networks can be attacked. This blog post attempts to throw some light on the topic.

 

Residents of 12 states are eligible to participate if they meet certain criteria. But the agency’s plans have already met resistance from tax preparation companies.

 

A weirdly uplifting video about the niche world of torturing Tetris until it crashes

 

A powerful 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck the country's central region on Monday.

 

NASA’s 46-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft has experienced a computer glitch that prevents it from returning science data to Earth from the solar system’s outer reaches.

 

Interesting to see Jon Holmes’s radio satire translated onto the screen for the first time

 

Warns of $1.3 billion charge for cutting Virtzilla's costs, rapid shift to subs and sales of the whole vStack rather than individual pieces

 

I commented in a discussion and added a photo. Others could see it.

Known issue, or did I just muck up?

https://kbin.social/m/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world/t/671847/Why-are-there-circles-of-melted-snow-on-this-icy#entry-comment-3889016

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