The UK government's use of VPNs "demonstrates how important these tools are for cybersecurity across the modern Internet."
Restricting them creates uncertainty that "could undermine the UK’s reputation as a stable and credible place for digital businesses and security innovation."
🗣️ ORG's @JamesBaker
Forgive me if this has already been posted / is old news, but:
Backing up Spotify - Anna’s Blog
https://annas-archive.li/blog/backing-up-spotify.html
Is pretty interesting...
Anyone have 300T spare?
We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirrored by anyone with enough disk space), with 86 million music files, representing around 99.6% of listens.
For the first time ever, astronomers have unveiled the shape of a star’s explosion at its earliest stage.
The feat was achieved by ESO's Very Large Telescope just a day after the detection of this supernova, as the blast was breaking through the star’s surface.
This brief initial phase wouldn’t have been observable a day later. This will help shed light on how massive stars go supernova.
https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2520/
Illustration: ESO/L. Calçada
"Terrible things are happening
outside. Poor helpless people
are being dragged out of their
homes. Families are torn apart.
Men, women, and children are
separated. Children come home
from school to find that their
parents have disappeared."
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
#Fascism #History #War #Genocide #Holocaust #ICE #USPol #Trump
20 years ago, normal people avoided technology and techies would jump on the newest gadgets as soon as they could
now, normal people buy smart toasters & coffee mugs while every techie I know is on the verge of retreating to the forest
For those who haven't been watching:
A load of AI companies are actually just OpenAI resellers. OpenAI is among the biggest investors in these companies, but NVIDIA is also big. The way it works is something a bit like this:
Everyone wins! Money from thin air!
There's a more fun variant that is, roughly:
If anyone except Trump were in the White House, I'd expect the end result of a bunch of SEC investigations to result in a lot of folks going to prison.
Brilliant point well made by David Osland.
We're told pensions are 'unsustainable’, the Post Office is ‘unsustainable’ and now that the NHS is 'unsustainable'. They were all entirely sustainable before the private sector starting looting the public sector.
Open Rights Group
ESO
Matthew Turland
Bastian Allgeier
Jelly
David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)
Indy Richard 🏴