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tobylane··on Dutch government had hacked into Jared Kushner's phone
Submitting yourself for security clearances involves signing up for these investigations. Either he did so and regrets it, or he took a job that absolutely requires that he did, but he didn't.
tobylane··on How Quickly Can the DoD Rebuild and Recast the Munitions Industrial Base?
> Asked about the Iran War's effect on defense stocks, Lockheed Martin CEO says: "Investors need to know and understand that this demand is not fleeting — it's permanent." https://x.com/kenklippenstein/status/2111132777449959923

There will be a judgement call made, a balance struck. Some amount of business, not enough to invest in catching contaminants or keep workers off food stamps, but enough to fund lobbying and other efforts to maintain that comfortable permanence.

tobylane··on NY announces game ownership bill requiring ownership rather than licensing
You haven't said what the indie studio perspective is. What damage would this do to indie gaming? Does it come above consumer rights?
tobylane··on REA Reverse – Engineer Anything
> AI is just a tool, if your ability to form relationships was easily displaced by a tool, then I'd say it says a lot about the ability rather than the tool.

In abstract, sure, but that is a much shallower discussion that many people are strongly disinterested in. It's generic, where a human decompile may not be (as a cloner I haven't looked into those projects). I don't like the idea of a group of fans of art frames saying don't bother looking at what's in the art frame, our conversation is equal.

tobylane··on Tiny village votes for 'independence' from UK amid asylum seeker row
They're already outnumbered by prisoners, which has not turned out to be a bad idea.

https://hmiprisons.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmipris_repor...

tobylane··on Tiny village votes for 'independence' from UK amid asylum seeker row
> The Domesday Book records that by 1086 Judith, Countess of Huntingdon, a niece of William I of England held the manor [of Piddington].

It's been going on for some time now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piddington%2C_Oxfordshire

tobylane··on YC created Flock 10 years ago
https://whoistheownerof.com/who-owns-flock-safety-complete-o...

Which year did they take part in HN?

tobylane··on Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
Also not a lawyer, but some of that applies to anyone within 100 miles of a border, a coastline.

This isn't the case, but if that rule also applied to airports, then I wonder what portion of the population is safe.

tobylane··on US vs. UK Baby Names 2025: The Biggest Top Differences Visualized
> The US list also favors a newer wave of ancient biblical names that only gained real traction in recent decades, giving them a more modern feel despite their centuries of history. Levi, Asher, Ezra, Josiah, Ezekiel, Silas, Adriel and Micah all rank in the American top 100 for boys. Some of these revivals are shared favorites, including Noah, Elijah, Isaac, Caleb and Ezra, and Delilah and Eden for girls.

From the article, plus the two UK biblical names Jude and Reuben. For the UK, I think most of these are second-order, if that is the right way to describe appreciating a name without using it for the same reason as the parents being copied.

tobylane··on US vs. UK Baby Names 2025: The Biggest Top Differences Visualized
I'd like to know whether names are popular because of their theme, eg biblical, or a famous namesake. Parents aren't asked, so there's no real data.
tobylane··on David Hockney, Who Restored the Human Form to Art, Dies at 88
https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/david-hockney-a...

Currently on in the Serpentine Gallery in Hyde Park until the 23rd August.

I recently read his book Secret Knowledge on how many of the Old Masters may have used optics, and it's affected my thoughts every day I've looked at old paintings since then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockney%E2%80%93Falco_thesis https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Secret_Knowledge.html...

tobylane··on Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
Those two (and more) exist in chrome://flags in Chrome 147. I'm disabling them now, with the expectation that will prevent the new default.

One option I'm leaving as default is "Use LiteRT-LM runtime for on-device model service inference." Any comment on that?

tobylane··on We need a federation of forges
As a project member, I want users to already be logged in to the bug tracker. The lack of friction, likely from being the network effect winner, is key. I know fossil has this, but people don't have their private keys in fossil, they (I) don't even have fossil installed.
tobylane··on John Bradley, author of xv, has died
https://web.archive.org/web/19970211041004/http://www.tummy.... 1997 https://web.archive.org/web/20030407080813/http://www.tummy.... 2003, a consultancy who still lists their software https://web.archive.org/web/20211130023259/https://www.tummy... 2021 company closed
tobylane··on The Xkcd thing, now interactive
I'd like a medal for clearing the screen of all debris. What's that you say, some of it is still useful? oh
tobylane··on Information Is Beautiful
I was given that book as a teenager, and only read it yesterday. It was an interesting look at an unintentional frozen point in history.
tobylane··on Tube trains could navigate the Underground using the rules of Quantum Physics
The lines with platform edge doors (Elizabeth, half of Jubilee) do need to be in the right place with 10-20cm accuracy.
tobylane··on Four strange places to see London's Roman Wall
In a locked room off that car park is a bit more of that fortification. https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/visiting-roman-ruins-hi...
tobylane··on Four strange places to see London's Roman Wall
I went on that Open House tour, and they said the window view is a secret until opening day. They've told contractors not to take personal photos.

For context, this line is Thameslink, just south of Farringdon, on the east (heading south) side.

tobylane··on You already have a Git server
If I clone my fork, I always add the upstream remote straight away. Origin and Upstream could each be github, ambiguous.
tobylane··on French ex-president Sarkozy begins jail sentence
They offered a rather indifferent Rausan-Segla.
tobylane··on Abu Dhabi royal family to take stake in TikTok US
In reading the quote from Vance I was starting to think that American's data is only safe in the hands of European companies.

The quantity of propaganda is going up with the new owners, and this royal family will likely have minimal impact or input.

tobylane··on UK Electricity Generation Map
It's an input to the grid. They will also be an output.
tobylane··on UK Electricity Generation Map
I see 16% now, and my own panels have jumped up to 400w since your comment, with a peak of 1500 earlier today. https://imgur.com/a/HOX6YJu

While domestic installations are counted, they aren't in OP's link. https://www.projectsolaruk.com/blog/latest-uk-solar-photovol...

tobylane··on UK Electricity Generation Map
It depends on what you're thinking of. No, the solar panels on my roof have no battery on the property. The wind turbines will have inertia, but no other store. I doubt the majority of the solar panel farms have batteries.
tobylane··on When the sun will literally set on what's left of the British Empire
The other realms the British King has are the Crown dependencies, eg Isle of Man. Australia is the odd one out in naming the UK as one of the other realms. Your head canon was true, before the independence of the Commonwealth countries.
tobylane··on I Don't Like "AI"
> Those users are happy

AI affects non-users in a substantially different way to phones or social media. When I phone someone, it doesn't matter if it's a landline or mobile phone (though, in the UK we can tell by the leading digit). But when I read someone's pull request or press release, it does matter whether it's vibe coded, or made by the person. Looking at the person using the tool does not show the whole picture. You're welcome to have different values, but don't hide from me what I apply my values to.

tobylane··on Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation
A time and location break down of that first price. https://www.octopriceuk.app/tracker
tobylane··on The dead need right to delete their data so they can't be AI-ified, lawyer says
I would like to pass on my GDPR rights over my data in my will. It already can be a struggle for others to use rights of others they legally hold, eg by legal documents like a death certificate. The law (EU+UK at least) is adaptable and extendable, but the data holders aren't.
tobylane··on Show HN: Refine – A Local Alternative to Grammarly
> contemporary Oxford English

If you chose Oxford because of the Oxford English Dictionary, note that it's not regular en-gb, it's en-gb-oxendict. "the OED often favo[u]rs "-ize" (and its derivatives) over "-ise" for words derived from Greek roots, and may also include historical or less common usages."

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