You experience satisfaction seeing our defence sector being sabotaged? Particularly when we’re in a proxy war with Russia and the world in general is becoming more hostile?

Why the fuck are you lying mate. They aren’t intelligence gathering planes, what conspiracy theorist crap are you spouting?

They are refueling planes, which btw can’t be used with Israeli jets as they use completely different refuelling systems.

How lying conspiracy theorist bullshit like this gets upvoted is beyond my comprehension.

I love this. I hope it comes to fruition some day.

I’m pretty surprised so many people are ok with UK defensive capabilities being sabotaged, especially when there are multiple countries right now threatening us.

Being against Israel’s war crimes is one thing (and obviously IMO the correct response), but breaking into an RAF base and destroying the engines of multiple planes obviously isn’t something that should be tolerated or encouraged.

The one silver lining here is that at least it was “only” some idiotic protesters that exposed this lax security precautions, rather than a hostile nation state.

I’m glad they’re bringing some posts that are also on .ml to here. It’s an incredibly toxic instance with mods/admins that will harass and ban people a shitload, particularly if they’re not aggressively pro-tankie.

I received a 12 month ban across all of lemmy.ml for saying it’s probably a wise thing that sanctioned, state-affiliated Russian companies aren’t allowed employees in maintainer roles for the Linux kernel. The mods there are fucking psychos.

Decentralisation is one of the good parts of Lemmy. I like that I can opt out of lemmy.ml idiocy without entirety alienating myself.

I’m not surprised. So much more of the food we eat now is pre-prepared, highly-processed crap.

Not only is it heavily advertised to us, but it’s also far less common for there to be households with two parents where at least one of them has time to do some proper meal-planning, shopping, and cooking. Easier to get a couple microwave meals, air fryer meals, frozen pizzas, and the occasional just eat delivery subsidised by below minimum wage labour carried out by people in the shadow economy.

Then on top of that, kids (and parents) are inside so much more than they used to be. In part because there’s simply more to do indoors now. In the 90s you’d have been bored out of your mind if you were stuck in the house for too long. 5 channels on TV, two of them are crap, and the others don’t always have what you want on, so you go out and do other things.

Nowadays kids want to stay inside because that’s where their phones are, where their tablets are, where their switch, playstation, Xbox is. TVs have streaming services and so many more channels. You can stay inside for hours and never get bored.

Years ago, you knew your neighbours, so you play out with them. Now households feel far more isolated than before and there are far fewer kids on streets, so who would you play out with?

Not that you’d be allowed to play out very much anyway, because the 24-hour news cycle and scary stories on social media has parents convinced there’s a paedophile hiding behind every bush.

This will be a very tough problem to solve, and there won’t be one silver bullet solution.

This isn’t something this minister can say. He can’t just make up UK defence policy and foreign policy on his own, especially not in a random LBC interview with a right wing rage merchant.

This is just outrage bait.

All we know so far is that Iran has made verbal threats about UK bases (which prompted the armed forces to further beef up their defence), the US informed the UK that they were going to bomb a few sites in Iran (but did not ask the UK to join), and that the UK government paid cheap lip service to the US but seems reluctant on anything else so far.

I’d hope Iran aren’t actually stupid enough to attack UK bases, but you never know. I think everyone is far more keen on continuing to focus on Russia-Ukraine, rather than this distraction.

And yeah I know Iran does manufacturing, particularly of drones, for Russia, so it’s not like they’re unlinked… but my hunch is that the monetary and political cost of going after Iran directly would be too much, and Labour would rather stay out of a war with Iran if they can.

I don’t think Kier had much hand in that. It happened hundreds of years before he was born.

Nor is it appropriate for bands to advocate murdering MPs.

E: yikes, people here saw stuff like Jo Cox’s murder and thought yes please, more of that.

Doesn’t it say in ENT that the transporter had only just been approved for transfer of biological matter?

Seems very normal for him to be sceptical of it, given that. Especially for transporting his own crew, for whom he is responsible for their safety.

I imagine he really didn’t want to tell families that he told [crew mate] to use the transporter and it killed them in some gruesome way, or to have that memory torturing him at night.

And it’s not like he wasn’t vindicated, either. Weren’t there multiple instances of transporter incidents in ENT?

I swear some people want Linux to be exactly how it was in 2003, forever.

So constant 360° surveillance?

Already widely used in the western world, glad we’re catching up. This will save lives, hopefully lessen strain on the NHS, reduce waiting times, and reduce the misery of kids silently suffering without proper support.

Goes without saying, but this data should remain with the NHS, and the only time it should leave is when appropriately anonymised for medical research purposes (which already happens, the NHS helps a shit load of international researchers).

It’s something Americans say.

In effect, yes.

5 years minimum software support after the device is no longer on the market.

Presumably this phone will be on the market for two years (in the EU at least).

Theoretically it could be less than 7 years if they only sold it for one year, of course, but even OEMs that release phones each year like clockwork tend to keep their previous model around for a while.

Haha, we can expect to see similar announcements from other manufacturers, because the EU now mandates software support for new devices.

Even if you’re outside of the EU, you’ll benefit from this. Since the OEMs have to do it anyway, they’ll likely push the updates to all markets and market it as if they’re being nice. Nope. They’re just complying with the law to the bare minimum.

Starting on the 20th of June 2025 (just two days!), the EU is enforcing a minimum of 5 years of updates on all smartphone/tablets sold after they are withdrawn from the market.

I.e. if a model is sold for 2 years, it must receive software support for 7 years. Just like this Nothing Phone.

Source.

On the one hand, this is possibly dubious in that things that aren’t generally considered to be part of defence will be used to inflate our defence spending numbers without actually spending more than previous (i.e. it’s just a PR move)

But on the other hand, this could be immensely useful in telling the NIMBYs to fuck right off. What’s that, you’re opposing infrastructure improvements, new housing, or wind turbines? Aw, diddums, that’s too bad. This is deemed critical for national security, and thus the government can give it approval regardless. Sorry Bernard, sorry Mary, your petition against any change in the area is going nowhere.

Ultrasonic fingerprint sensors aren’t optical like the older under-screen ones. They don’t need to go bright to get a reading.

This will not blind you, it shouldn’t boost brightness at all.

The right advice but with the wrong motive lol

Good. This was one of the many things from the Tories that was kinda fucked up. Glad to see it dropped.

They listed Flatpaks first, then Snaps second.

I imagine they did it to avoid listing 10 different packaging formats, only to have comments saying “omg you forgot about XYZ package type”

I don’t like Snaps either, but it’s undeniable there’s a lot of Ubuntu users out there, and most of them use Snaps.