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A Bugatti car, a first lady and the fake stories aimed at Americans 2 years ago

Russians understand how the Western societies work and how they can be broken

Do you not also think the West understands how Russian society works and how it can be broken?

I find it interesting how we're ignorant of our own propaganda activities in other countries. For example, in the UK we have a dedicated army unit [1] that:

uses social media such as Twitter and Facebook to influence populations and behaviour [which is] involved in manipulation of the media including using fake online profiles

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/77th_Brigade_(United_Kingdom)#...

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Surveillance-by-Design in Proposed Amendments to the UK Investigatory Powers Act 3 years ago

the U.K. government could use existing powers to require that the company meet surveillance capability demands as a condition of making a product or feature available.

If the government’s demands are not met, the company may have no choice but to abandon the product or feature launch, giving the government essentially a veto power on how companies innovate and improve their products

Well, that's going to attract tech companies to the UK /s

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South Korea Will Police 'Shrinkflation' at the Supermarket 3 years ago

Don't degrade your product. If it gets worse, chances are I won't buy it, no matter for what price you sell it.

Completely agree: recently I wanted some peppermints, and I noticed the sugar had been replaced by "glucose syrup".

I didn't buy them, and I've done this for other products.

Are companies losing sales, which will make them "degrade their product" more as their revenues decline, which will lose sales, and so-on?

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UK’s GDPR replacement could wipe out oversight of live facial recognition 3 years ago

Returning back to the OT of surveillance and oversight, and as you're making this into a partisan issue, what would Labour do differently?

"Authoritarian" concerns were expressed last time Labour was in government [1], and they're "seriously considering" resurrecting their policy of mandatory id cards if they get in power again [2].

And, before I get smeared as a "Tory"/"Brexiteer", I am not - I'm someone who remembers what happened last time Labour was in power and see neither party offers an alternative to increasing surveillance in the UK.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/apr/24/commen...

[2] https://labourlist.org/2022/11/mandatory-id-card-policy-shou...

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The digital pound: A new form of money for households and businesses? 3 years ago

What I'm hoping comes out of this is some backstop for the ~4 million Brits with no bank account in our increasingly cashless society.

Izabella Kaminska (ex FT-journalist) had a good take on this on her podcast or website [1, 2] (I forget which).

If this is for _all_ unbanked individuals, then it must also include people banks don't want anything to do with right now, like criminals and other people who don't currently pass KYC or AML checks.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@theblindspotpodcast [2] https://the-blindspot.com/

Edit: a word

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How to stop being “terminally online” 4 years ago

I'm sorry to read this, I also have a similar same situation with my father.

He's in his late 70's and a year ago bought himself an iPhone. He now spends ~4 hours a day reading a tabloid newspaper app, which has endless content. His attention span has fallen noticeably and he can't keep up with conversations that happen in the same room while he's "scrolling".

When I visit he's on his phone, and we go out for a walk (in the beautiful countryside around us) he stops and disengages when his app sends him the latest notification about what's happened on "love island", or some other nonsense. When I leave he's on his phone.

I tried to talk to him about it, and about how it's particularly effecting my mother, who I can see is lonely and lost a person she could talk to, important at their time of life. He just gets defensive and angry, which leads no-where.

Will he spend the most of the rest of his life looking at a screen?

Edit: wording of final sentence.

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Drunk Post: Things I've Learned as a Sr Engineer 5 years ago

Along the same lines, I recently reviewed a junior engineer's design document and pointed out to them a diagram showing the actors, their roles and interactions would have saved two pages of dense, complex text, and made the solution clearer.

"A picture is worth a thousand words.."

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