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From a cyber security perspective how hazardous are random mini PCs from Ali Express/Amazon if you are starting with a fresh OS install?
  • Probably about the same, you still have stuff like the intel management engine backdoor.

  • Did a top NIH official manipulate Alzheimer's and Parkinson’s studies for decades? | science.org
  • It's worrying, I know some people in the nootropics community are using cerebrolysin. At least it looks like he wasn't involved in the clinical trials for it (that showed some benefit).

    Is there potentially some innocent, or at least less fraudulent explanation for this?

  • Why does the number of people interested in Creative Commons is way less than people interested in Open Source?
  • Creative commons is pretty big in 3d printing (arguably it shouldn't be, there's open hardware licenses that are better suited for it).

  • Keir Starmer brands donor flat claims 'farcical'
  • No one else receives winter payment coverage.

    Not true, many disabled people do.

  • Kendall ignores question on why she shared platform with company linked to DWP deaths
    www.disabilitynewsservice.com Kendall ignores question on why she shared platform with company linked to DWP deaths

    Work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall has ignored a question on why she shared a platform at her party’s annual conference with an outsourcing giant linked to the deaths of disabled benefit claim…

    Kendall ignores question on why she shared platform with company linked to DWP deaths
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    Labour’s DWP fraud bill ‘will be recipe for abuse and miscarriages of justice’
    www.disabilitynewsservice.com Labour’s DWP fraud bill ‘will be recipe for abuse and miscarriages of justice’

    Disabled campaigners have warned that plans to give the government sweeping powers to carry out financial surveillance on benefit claimants are “a recipe for abuse and miscarriages of justice”. Pri…

    Labour’s DWP fraud bill ‘will be recipe for abuse and miscarriages of justice’
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    Keir Starmer brands donor flat claims 'farcical'
  • He thinks pensioners living on 12k a year should lose their winter fuel payments, but a donation valued at double that is no big deal?

  • what is the worst idea you ever had?
  • I was trying to clean something in a bucket of bleach, but didn't have quite enough to cover it. I grabbed a bottle of toilet cleaner, assuming it was just expensive thick bleach, and poured a bunch in. After I started coughing I looked at the back of the bottle, it's active ingredient was hydrochloric acid.

  • Germany’s Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance advances: lessons for the left?
    morningstaronline.co.uk Germany’s Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance advances: lessons for the left?

    The new party is growing and winning not only due to its refusal to beat the war drums over Ukraine, but because of its fearless scepticism of liberal orthodoxy from cancel culture to immigration, writes NICK WRIGHT

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    Non-Americans: what do you like about America?
  • Cars, probably a controversial one, but we don't really have "muscle" cars like the firebird and mustang in the UK, and I've always been a little fascinated by them.

  • Why are Americans particularly concerned about Chinese espionage?
  • China has been demonised by the west for 100's of years, it's nothing new https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Peril

  • Keir Starmer defends stay at Lord Alli's property during election
  • Genuflect, show some respect

    Down on one knee

  • WinampDesktop/winamp - Licence violates github TOS · Issue #6
  • No, it's licence violates, well, pretty much the entire open source definition

  • Rachel Reeves’s ‘fiscal rules’ are pointless and unsustainable – says Rachel Reeves
    skwawkbox.org Rachel Reeves’s ‘fiscal rules’ are pointless and unsustainable – says Rachel Reeves

    ‘Clueless’ Chancellor’s self-imposed rules don’t work and she knows it Rachel Reeves’s speech at Labour’s conference has been rightly derided as drab, smug and d…

    Rachel Reeves’s ‘fiscal rules’ are pointless and unsustainable – says Rachel Reeves
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    Labour to build new reservoirs and sewage systems using billions in private finance
  • At least Major and Blair could use Maastricht restrictions as an excuse for using PFI, Sir Starmer doesn't even have that.

  • Labour makes ‘unthinkable’ and ‘exclusionary’ decision to sideline disabled people from DWP ‘inactivity’ board
    www.disabilitynewsservice.com Labour makes ‘unthinkable’ and ‘exclusionary’ decision to sideline disabled people from DWP ‘inactivity’ board

    Campaigners have criticised the Labour government’s “hugely disappointing” and “exclusionary” decision to set up a board of experts to examine “economic inactivity” without appointing a single repr…

    Labour makes ‘unthinkable’ and ‘exclusionary’ decision to sideline disabled people from DWP ‘inactivity’ board
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    Hundreds of thousands face ‘starve or freeze’ decision after winter fuel payments cut, say disabled activists
    www.disabilitynewsservice.com Hundreds of thousands face ‘starve or freeze’ decision after winter fuel payments cut, say disabled activists

    Disabled activists say Labour’s plans to means-test winter fuel payments will leave many current recipients having to decide “whether to starve or freeze”, after the government admitted that 1.6 mi…

    Hundreds of thousands face ‘starve or freeze’ decision after winter fuel payments cut, say disabled activists
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    What's the most interesting or your favorite amino acid and why?
  • Probably plain L-phenylalanine, since it's the precursor to phenethylamine, the body's natural amphetamine.

  • Water companies selling sludge fertiliser containing banned ‘forever chemical’ to farmers
  • The problem is that even with drugs that are proven safe, and almost certainly effective, often that proof doesn't meet the arbitrary standards of regulators. NICE refusing to approve ketamine therapy for depression is one I'm specifically aware of, as I suffer from treatment resistant depression.

  • Exclusive: US to propose ban on Chinese software, hardware in connected vehicles, sources say
  • Effectively just a ban on Chinese EV's to protect American car companies that can't keep up with them.

  • Water companies selling sludge fertiliser containing banned ‘forever chemical’ to farmers
  • I agree, but I don't think medicine is a good model to follow. There's a lot of criticism for how slow and inflexible drug approvals are because of all the bureaucracy.

  • They stole my voice with AI | Jeff Geerling
  • They stole it? Did they send a robot to surgically remove his vocal cords?

  • Would you consider making a sandwich to be "cooking?"
  • Personally I'd define cooking as something that creates an irreversible physical or chemical change using heat.

  • Water companies selling sludge fertiliser containing banned ‘forever chemical’ to farmers
    www.endsreport.com Water companies selling sludge fertiliser containing banned ‘forever chemical’ to farmers

    <b>EXCLUSIVE</b>: Sewage sludge fertiliser sold to farmers by water companies contains a banned ‘forever chemical’ at levels in excess of those considered safe in emerging science, an ENDS investigation has revealed.

    Water companies selling sludge fertiliser containing banned ‘forever chemical’ to farmers
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    Leading AI Scientists Warn AI Could Escape Control at Any Moment
  • I'm more worried about it remaining under the control of (human) capitalists.

    At least there's a chance that an unchained AGI will be benevolent.

  • Whats an unethical or dangerous experiment that you would like to see performed or perform (if it werent for the ethics/danger)
  • Isolate a bunch of babies together, with food etc, and see how they develop their own language and society.

  • Winter fuel payment cut could kill 4,000 people, Labour’s own research suggests
    www.independent.co.uk Winter fuel payment cut could kill 4,000 people, Labour’s own research suggests

    Analysis published by Labour in 2017 said plans to means test winter fuel payments would be the ‘single biggest attack on pensioners in a generation’

    Winter fuel payment cut could kill 4,000 people, Labour’s own research suggests
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    Tony Blair urges leaders to ignore 'waves of populist opinion'

    >This may seem a strange thing to say: Democracy isn't actually about finding out what the people want and just trying to do it. Democracy is about setting out a vision and a plan for the country and persuading people to follow it.

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    US Gov to explore requiring 3d printer manufacturers and software developers to contain controls to prevent users from manufacturing firearms components
    apnews.com Law enforcement leans on 3D-printer industry to help thwart machine gun conversion devices

    Justice Department officials are turning to the 3D-printing industry to help stop the proliferation of tiny pieces of plastic transforming semi-automatic weapons into illegal homemade machine guns on streets across America.

    Law enforcement leans on 3D-printer industry to help thwart machine gun conversion devices
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