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The ICO's 'public sector' approach gives organisations the go ahead to carry on with bad practices, knowing they'll be let off the hook.

They issued a weak reprimand to the Post Office for publishing the identities of Horizon’s victims, adding insult to injury for the victims of this scandal.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/dec/03/post-office-data-breach-ico-reprimand

#ResetTheICO #dataprotection #privacy #ico #digitalrights #gdpr #ukpolitics #ukpol

Post Office avoids fine over leak of wrongfully convicted operators’ names

ICO reprimands company over accidental publishing of data about people caught up in Horizon IT scandal

The Guardian

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CarveHerName 1d ago

#OnThisDay, 18 May 1991, cosmonaut Helen Sharman becomes the first British person in space.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #Histodons

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Christine Lemmer-Webber 1d ago

Officials hugely underestimated impact of AI datacenters on UK carbon emissions
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/24/officials-hugely-underestimated-impact-of-ai-datacentres-on-uk-carbon-emissions

Oops, looks like they only projected the carbon emission rate at 1% of what it would actually be

Officials hugely underestimated impact of AI datacentres on UK carbon emissions

Revised figures increase fears about energy-intensive datacentres worsening climate emergency

The Guardian

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Terence Eden 1d ago

Ended up jailbreaking an old K4. Now running #KOReader like a dream.

Well, a dream with a few too many clicks, but good enough for reading ePubs.

moongold 1d ago

brettezeleliquide 1d ago

mon moral (dimanche après-midi – 16H)

Martin Parr, abbaye de Lacock
tags : sometimes I feel comme un épouvantail à tête de cheval assis sur le bord d’une route par temps gris,
#mood #horses #silentsunday #uk #photography #meteo

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Terence Eden 1d ago

🆕 blog! “GDS weighs in on the NHS's decision to retreat from Open Source”

GDS weighs in on the NHS's decision to retreat from Open Source

Within the UK's Civil Service you occasionally hear the expression "being invited to a meeting without biscuits". It implies a rather frosty discussion without any of the polite niceties of a normal meeting. In general though, even when people have severe disagreements, it is rare for tempers to fray. It is even rarer for those internal disagreements to spill over into public. Which is what…

Terence Eden’s Blog

moongold 1d ago

CarveHerName 1d ago

#OnThisDay, 17 May 1988, Dr Patricia Bath was awarded the first of her three patents on the methods and equipment for laser cataract removal.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInMedicine #AmericanHistory #BlackHistory #Histodons

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Corporate Europe Observatory 5d ago

⛏️ The mine would cut off the last remaining seasonal migration route of the reindeer herding community of Gabna.
Lars-Marcus Kuhmunen, Chair of Gabna, explains: “Everything is founded around the reindeer herding. If that ceases to exist, the Sámi culture will also cease to exist.”

moongold 5d ago

Corporate Europe Observatory 5d ago

Sweden’s new Per Geijer iron ore & rare earth metals mine, owned by LKAB, is being fast-tracked thanks to its EU-granted 'strategic' status: but the indigenous Gabna Sameby community warns the project threatens their very way of life.

#Permission2Pollute

👉 https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/2026/05/permission-pollute

moongold 6d ago

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Carol Chen 6d ago

@moongold yeah I was also using Ollama (as well as LM Studio) for a while. Good to know how the projects operate and what are the options. Glad you found it useful, as I did!

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