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spants··on Pixel 11 Pro Fold
... and for older eyes.
spants··on Apricot Computers: An underrated British brand
me too! In the pc business from 1981!, Apricots were great bits of kit. The GRIDs were good but very expensive at the time.
spants··on Canadian boy, 11, dies of rabies after waking to bat on his face
antivax or anti experimental-covid-vax? There is a difference.
spants··on Canadian boy, 11, dies of rabies after waking to bat on his face
UK: my wife handled a baby bat a couple of weeks ago that was found in a airbnb/hotel in the Lake District. No bites from it. This popped up in her newsfeed last night..... she is now at the hospital getting rabies shots (no symptoms luckily). The medical staff are treating it very seriously!
spants··on The UK's Teen Social Media Ban Is Political Theater, Not Child Safety Policy
It is not about "protecting the kids". This statement is attached to every process that the government wants to roll out that is normally unacceptable to the population.

It is about monitoring and identifying all members of the public - "prove that you are over 16" creates a profile about you that they can track and use.

spants··on My 15-year-old relative was killed for refusing to marry her cousin
There is a lot of Whataboutery in the comments.
spants··on New Lifetime Plex Pass Pricing
I have both Plex and emby lifetime passes. I dont bother with either now.
spants··on Ask HN: How many of you hold an amateur radio license in your country?
I have a G6 uk licence that I took after being almost busted for CBs (in the old days) and all my radios have been packed up and in the garage for decades. Computers/BBS/Internet took over. I enjoyed the tech side of the hobby rather than the convo.
spants··on AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox
Maybe the CEOs do not realise that their workers are achieving great productivity, completing their tasks in 1 hour instead of 8, and spending time on the beach, rather than at their desks?
spants··on Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)
watched it many times - one of the best series on this subject.
spants··on Claude Sonnet 5 Is Imminent – and It Could Be a Generation Ahead of Google
control ai or be controlled by it.

Learn everything that you can about AI and you will be a great resource. Otherwise, learn a trade. Electricians will be required...........

spants··on UK Government to Create 'British FBI', Roll Out Nationwide Facial Recognition
"Roll Out Nationwide Facial Recognition" - so that is why waste-of-space starmer is in China
spants··on In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels
The UK has some of the highest energy costs in the world due to the stupid Net Zero taxes. Our economy and manufacturing is suffering.
spants··on Efficient method to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
how about trees? just a thought.
spants··on The Typeframe PX-88 Portable Computing System
I used to sell the Epson Px8 and the NEC 8201, referenced here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/comments/fhfmzn/th...

Nice bits of kit, but as I am old now.... my eyes don't work as well as needed for these small screens.

spants··on Load ZX Spectrum – first Museum dedicated to our first personal computer
And don't forget the Nascom 1 and 2 (everyone has unfortunately)
spants··on The 1957 “Spaghetti-Grows-on-Trees” Hoax
Panorama continues to put out false news to this day.
spants··on Proxmox virtual environment 9.1 available
docker errors or escapes taking down the root system? Not for me....
spants··on Open letter accuses BBC board member of having a conflict of interest on Gaza
The BBC recently showed a documentary that was pro-Palestinian and factually wrong. They also paid Hamas affiliates and relations to star in it. I have no idea where the "BBC are pro-Israel" thoughts come from but as a brit - I don't see it.
spants··on Marijuana is associated with higher risk of heart attack and stroke
more than the covid jab?
spants··on What happens at the end of 'Trading Places'? (2013)
"One interesting kicker to the story: Trading commodities on inside information obtained from the government wasn't actually illegal when the movie came out, but it's illegal now. It was banned in the 2010 finance-overhaul law, under a special provision often referred to as the Eddie Murphy Rule."

Why aren't most of the democrats in jail, then? - How did they make their fortunes on their lifetime government salaries?

spants··on [dead]
Lets look away from the Biden crime family......
spants··on The thing about Europe: it's the actual land of the free now
Is it April 1st still?
spants··on BS 1363 British Plugs and Sockets
"Its the Volts that Jolts and the Mills (milliamps) that kills"
spants··on Doge seeks to cancel lease on nuclear waste storage facility
Do you think that the expenditure was not correctly described on the system, hence the "cancellation"?
spants··on BP to slash green investment and ramp up gas and oil
....and stop buying rubbish from China, who dont care about the environment?.
spants··on Representation of BBC News Content in AI Assistants [pdf]
The left wing biased bbc are guilty of manipulating the news.
spants··on The Physicians Are Healing Themselves, with Ozempic
side effects include bone density loss, muscle loss and blindness. I will stay podgy, thanks.
spants··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2025)
Do not provide private data to open web boards. You will not get a security job!
spants··on Do Insects Feel Pain?
and you still eat animals?
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