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  • 2025, Day One

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  • Castles of the British and Irish Isles

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  • It's a nice tea-towel, but there are more than four castles in Wales.

  • What are some consumer electronics you probably shouldn't tinker with?

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  • The coating on the inside of the tube can behave like a Leyden jar caps can accumulate charge over time even without an obvious power source.

  • France's Ubisoft faces three day strike as unions protest over remote work decision.

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  • Some awful app needed to start the game that always needs a protracted update using administrator privileges every time I run it, (on top of Steam which does pretty much the same thing), doesn't really draw me back to their products either.

  • Ship packed with explosive Russian fertiliser floating off Kent

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  • why isn't it ok? why????

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  • USB-C is an absolute shit-show. Half a dozen types of identical looking cables all with different performance and compatability. They can be power only, USB-2 only, USB 3, 3.1, 5gb, 10gb. Some can carry 5A, others only 3A. Some may support thunderbolt. Cable sellers and manufacturers can/will claim anything.

    For people selling USB-C devices it's a massive support problem. It looks like the device is defective, but someone may just have swapped out the cable for their phone charger cable and there's no way of telling.

  • What web browser extensions would you highly recommend to others?

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  • For Firefox: uBlock origin (of course)

    Privacy Badger - controls which sites are allowed to use cookies

    Mind the time - tracks time spent on various Web sites

    Video DownloadHelper - detects media and allows you to download and transcode it.

    Bitwarden - password manager

  • Labour lifts Tories’‘absurd’ ban on onshore windfarms

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  • Ash only once when the filters failed. You'd occasionally get "power station frost". If the wind was in the right direction on freezing days moisture from the cooling towers would freeze to give a 100m wide avenue of thick haw frost. There's a lot of big transmission lines that aren't pretty and buzz when it rains. (wind/solar don't need lines this big)

  • Reform UK under pressure to prove all its candidates were real people

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  • Electoral law should at least demand the same levels of identification for the candidates as it does for the voters. Candidates should be on the electoral register (somewhere) and they should've presented one of the recognised forms of photo ID.

  • MAGA pastor says Ten Commandments in schools will stop teachers from "raping" kids

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  • I had an extremely religious teacher in secondary school. He had a habit of threatening other staff, tradesmen, drivers in front of his pupils with "I know taekwando", then relising what he'd just done and repenting/distracting with "let us pray". One morning we came into the classroom to find him in a huddle with his union rep. Turned out he'd spent the night in jail after being arrested affray (fighting).

    For almost all religious people their faith provides guidance and comfort, but you don't want to encourage the nuts.

  • Car crashes into gates of PM's Chequers country estate

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  • From memory, I think the road bends just before the gates so if you missed the bend you would end up driving into the gates.

    Incidentally, the grounds are surrounded by an anti tank fence made out of old railway line yet there is a public footpath through the grounds across the driveway.

  • What popular product do you think is modern day snakeoil?

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  • Car engine injector cleaner and almost any add-it-yourself fuel additive.

  • Birmingham, Britain's second-largest city, is being forced to dim lights and cut sanitation services due to bankruptcy

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  • I don't know how valid this is, but I heard county and district councils use government bonds to secure more favourable loan terms. When Liz Truss upset the UK bond market the cost of borrowing rose as the value of their bond assets dropped. The county council where I live is now spending as much on servicing debt as it is on fixing roads. (Roads, although not the most important responsibility of local government, are a visible indicator of their capability.)

  • Researchers unveil method to detect 'forever chemicals' in under 3 minutes

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  • Under 3 minutes? What's the rush, these are forever chemicals, they've got all the time in the world.

  • New York governor vetoes bill that would ban noncompete agreements

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  • From this photo, this woman looks like the baddie from Men In Black 2.

  • I think my code will be OK...

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  • I went to uni in the mid 90s when Y2K prep was all the rage, went back to do another degree 20 years later. It was interesting to see the graffiti in the CS toilets. Two digits up to about 1996, four digits for a decade, then back to two.

  • All Those 23andMe Spit Tests Were Part of a Bigger Plan

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  • About 10 years ago they provided medical data from the samples. I used 23 And Me too confirm that a health problem I'd recently been diagnosed with was hereditary. At the time I remember being asked if my sample could be used to aid the type of research the OP talks about and I agreed to it.

    A couple of years ago, I think 23 And Me was bought out by Virgin Healthcare, at that point I asked them to destroy all my data was worried about it being used to increase the cost of or preclude health insurance.

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    Robot Kills Man After Mistaking Him for Box of Vegetables

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  • The robot uprising has begun.

  • Does anybody use Thunderbird on Android a.k.a. K-9

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  • For me it's good, let's me leave emails on the server so my desktop can read them too. Let's me reply below or above and compose in ascii. Doesn't impose ways of working I don't want.

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