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  • YSK: Due to a statistical error, undocumented immigration will ALWAYS increase the official crime rate, even if they commit fewer crimes than natural citizens.

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  • Its a fair point, and well explained. However, I think it implies that illegal immigrants are fine so long as they're not more criminal than the general population.

    Generally if somebody is using crime statistics to argue for more immigration control, they're probably the kind of person that believes the only acceptable amount of crime for an illegal immigrant to commit is zero crime.

  • £30m hit to London economy after Wireless Festival cancelled over Kanye West ban

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  • Maybe they had an insurance policy for if a headliner couldn't attend? In that case definitely easier for the organisers to just cancel and claim

  • Anti-Brexit protesters in front of the Big Ben.

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  • Bre-entry

  • The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux

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  • Personally, I do think it's a useful exercise to decide what your red-lines are when it comes to OS level age verification.

    For me: Having a field in a database that could contain my DoB is acceptable. Having a prompt to populate it during first time set up is very concerning. Requiring that data to be validated by a third party is the red line.

    If you don't want to be boiled like a frog, bring a thermometer.

  • You can now walk the whole way around England | BBC News [3:38]

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  • I believe Wales has its own coastal path, but you're technically not wrong

  • If I buy a domain not from my own country, will it effect the useage at all?

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  • I'd say don't risk it if you're not based in the UK.

    I have a .uk domain and had to provide proof of residence or something to nominet. I can't remember the exact process now, but they did temporarily suspend my domain (without warning) until I contacted them.

  • We Spoke To Game Devs And All Of Them Hate DLSS 5: 'What The F***, Nvidia?'

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  • Maybe gamers aren't a monolith and the ones adding waifus to Skyrim aren't the same as the ones criticising DLSS5?

  • Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers

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  • Well now I'm nervous! My first instinct though is that the vast majority of Emacs packages are plain elisp, and Emacs users have a habit of cracking open and tinkering with their packages, so any malicious code ought to be spotted quickly.

    With the native compiled modules however, it could be another story...

  • How GitHub monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem

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  • The change would be using Gitmail as the plumbing, and normalising the creation of user-friendly porcelain on top.

    E.g. suppose there is a repo foo/bar hosted by a forgejo instance at myinstance.org/foo/bar. Sending an email to foo.bar@myinstance.org (or similar) could automatically create a PR and, conversely, opening a PR could send a patch series to the foo/bar mailing list.

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  • How GitHub monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem

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  • To be honest, I'm starting to drink the Sourcehut coolaid here. We have a distributed method of interacting with repositories: Email.

    Don't get me wrong, the current user experience of email-based patches and discussion isn't great because it's too easy to send a badly formatted patch. But if we invested time in making email patches easier to use (e.g. sending them through a web ui for people who prefer github style PRs) then we could skip all the architectural pains of solutions like forgefed.

  • Populists attack London because it is ‘progressive and successful’, says Sadiq Khan

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  • Yes, and that success largely comes at the cost of neglecting development in every town and city outside of commuting distance from London.

  • GNU Guix transactional package manager and distribution — GNU Guix

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  • That's only true in the sense that liking scheme makes you become a language nerd

  • Help me decide what I should name my game! Currently Country Architect, it turns out that "country" has a double meaning in English that I was not aware of ["Infrastruction" it is.]

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  • Honestly, +1 for Nation Builder. Generic isn't necessarily a problem. It gives space for the gameplay itself to define the game's identity, rather than its title.

  • Amber version 0.5.0-alpha is publicly available

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  • I get that calling command line tools is a bit clunky, but python is always my go-to when shell scripting gets too painful

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    YSK americans requires 60 votes out of 100 in the Senate to pass any bill. As a result, their government regularly shuts down. But in Canada or Britain, you just need a simple majority

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  • It takes 60 to pass a cloture motion to actually vote on a bill. This is necessary if somebody in opposition to the bill intends to filibuster. In the modern senate, one can filibuster simply by expressing an intention to filibuster. As such its often the case that a bill with any strong opposition in the senate does require a three fifths majority in favour to pass

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  • Could be a non-native speaker using an LLM to translate with a specific tone

  • Green Party demands ban on Israeli military as terror group and Balfour apology

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  • Appreciate the sentiment but can we please stop proscribing things? Surely we should have learned by now that this has an unacceptable effect on freedom of the press and the right to protest.

    I do not want to see proscription become a cudgel wielded by successive political parties to ban support for any organisation they oppose.

  • Kemi Badenoch pledges to scrap UK climate law

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  • Could this be the party desperately seeking to replace revenue streams as donors abandon them en masse?

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