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'As of 19 March 2020, COVID-19 is no longer considered to be a high consequence infectious disease (HCID) in the UK.' UK Government website: tinyurl.com/wsuwo2a

@EastTnmountain @RandomUser506 @WallStreetApes Epson are fine. Cannon too.

@RandomUser506 @WallStreetApes Epson makes good printers

American bought a brand new printer. She bought the ink for the printer, she bought the paper for the printer, now she’s at home and is ready to print She can’t print “They remotely shut off my printer until I paid $7.50 cents to print in my own home, to print on my printer, that I own in my home” This is the new $7.50 subscription plan by HP Printers Here’s how the plans work HP’s Instant Ink and newer All-in Plan programs are subscription services options: - You pay a monthly fee based on pages printed (not ink used). - Plans start low, from $1.79–$7.99 per month for 10–100 pages - $7–$8 per month plans are for around 100 pages If your payment fails. HP will remotely shutoff your printer

@LeilaniDowding @newrider1980 @WallStreetApes Always buy old skool printers with no Subscription, cloud account etc etc, they are usually non wifi but that's fine.

@newrider1980 @WallStreetApes Mines in the UK. Bought printer online and found out it only works with an ink subscription

@Hopo19631587 @TheReturnOfLCF @Apple Yep, this is another option. I used a non updated iphone 5se with barely any issues 2020-2025

@TheReturnOfLCF @Apple Should’ve turned auto updates off I haven’t updated cos of the photo ID

Yo @Apple what's with demanding photo ID in the UK following the recent iPhone update? This is NOT a requirement for operating systems under the Online Safety Act 2023. What the FUCK do you think you're doing? Eat actual shit.

@skankpillow @TheReturnOfLCF @Apple Yep or another option is slightly older iphone which cant take the iOS version.

@TheReturnOfLCF @Apple Get a purisim or nitrophone, fairphone with de googled OS. Pixel with graphine. All the apps are free from fdroid.

@matthew_d_green @MrHodl Tends to suggest it is being directed above Nation State level.

There’s something ominous about the speed with which the entire world has marched to require identification on platforms and, as I expected, begin the process of banning anonymous VPNs.

@JacquiDeevoy1 And then one of those double cassette ghetto blasters with built in CD too - that was next level!

How is it that every teenager in the universe has an expensive mobile phone? When I was a kid, it took ten years of me begging on a daily basis to get a cassette recorder!

Ending tomorrow, the last chance to respond to this consultation. …rn-digital-government.campaign.gov.uk/digital-id-con…. #Together have a guide to completing it as a member of the public (which is shorter than the version for a Subject Matter Expert, which I completed it as). #No2DigitalID #ScrapDigitalID

@gambleronlife @ElliotHammerSR Correct answer.

@ElliotHammerSR Turn off all automatic updates and never update it again.

This morning, because of an Apple update, I was blocked from using my phone until I confirmed I was 18. We live in a police state.

@ElliotHammerSR Options to not do this 1) Turn off auto updates on present handset, mine ran fine for 6 years like this 2) Buy slightly older model incapable of running this age verification version of iOS, they still work fine 3) consider other phones/ OS etc (graphene, android)

@Jenny_1884 About 15 years ago. Also switched from olivio marg to butter about 10 years ago (stopped with the horrible cheap marg in the 90s!)

Has anyone else stopped using sunflower oil & vegetable oil?

During the Nuremberg Trials, Hermann Göring gave an interview to psychologist Gustave Gilbert and said: “Of course the people don’t want war. Why would some poor farmer want to risk his life in a war when the best he can hope for is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, people don’t want war. No one wants war in Russia, England, America — not even in Germany. That’s obvious. But in the end, it’s the leaders of a country who determine policy. And it’s always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it’s a democracy, a communist state, a parliament, or a fascist dictatorship.” Gilbert objected: “But there is one difference in a democracy — the people have a voice through their elected representatives.” To which Göring replied: “That’s all well and good, but whether the people have a voice or not, they can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and for exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nuremberg Diary, April 18, 1946 Doesn’t it sound familiar?

@DigitalEU @EU_Commission Words are indeed power, you absolute hypocrites!

🎙️Words are power. On World Press Freedom Day, we celebrate those who use their words to inform & empower. With key initiatives, the @EU_Commission safeguards free & independent media - the backbone of our democracies. Learn more: link.europa.eu/krMmdh

Neural networks were declared scientifically dead in 1987. A French PhD student bet his entire career on them anyway ~ and won. 🤯 >Meet Yann LeCun 🇫🇷 >Paris-born. PhD from Sorbonne in 1987. >Joined Bell Labs in 1988. Kept building. Alone. >In 1989, built Convolutional Neural Networks >By the late 90s, his CNN was reading 10% of US bank checks >The industry called it a niche trick. Ignored him for over a decade. >Then 2012 hit. Deep learning exploded. >His “dead” research became the blueprint for everything > ChatGPT. Gemini. Claude. Grok. All standing on his shoulders. 🚀 >Won the 2018 Turing Award ~ computing’s Nobel Prize >Became Chief AI Scientist at Meta “Godfather of AI.” >Now publicly says LLMs are a dead end. >Fights the entire industry. >Left Meta in late 2025 to build AMI Labs in Paris >Already valued at $3.5B before launching. World models, not LLMs. The industry ignored him for over 20 years. Now he’s ignoring the industry. Absolute Legend 🐐

Swapping out the Bansky with something actually anti-establishment

A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. 📍my favourite oak #lakedistrict

There is no legal requirement to have an email address, nor is there a requirement to have a cell phone or use certain apps. But our government and far too many corporations behave as though this is the case. It's a tremendous problem.

@patriotfuelled @EssexPR Highly likely.

@EssexPR banksy is the establishment, i’m not even certain he’s a real person as opposed to the government hiring someone to create a piece of art that pushes a narrative

WANKSY

Were you one of 3m who signed against Digital ID? They’re trying to ignore you! The “consultation” closes Tuesday 12:30pm Let’s be honest: sham consultations are on brand for this govt But respond now. Don’t let them pretend there’s no opposition 👇 …rn-digital-government.campaign.gov.uk/digital-id-con…

@Dgkalx1267 @astnkennedy Good call. At 50, and still programming etc, it is a productivity tool to primarily offload low level tasks. Experience still counts, though in a different way to what I anticipated back in my 30s.

I’m in my 40s and in the same boat, but I look at it a bit differently. Having spent most of my career without AI, I used to work at a much finer grain level, spending immense brain power on syntax and low-level tasks. It felt like hard work, but it led to much faster burnout. AI is fundamentally shifting our cognitive load. Our job is no longer the manual labor of text generation or basic logic, it’s moving toward high-level system design and architectural thinking. I suspect what you’re feeling isn't a loss of intelligence, but a transition: you’ve successfully offloaded the low-level skills, but haven't yet fully redirected that freed up brain power toward higher level systematic challenges. It’s a different kind of sharpness we’re all learning to hone.

I'm 22 years old and Claude Code is deteriorating my brain. Every single day for the last 6 months I've had 6 to 8 Claude Code terminals open, waiting for a response just so I can hit 'enter' 75% of the time. And it's doing something to me. In convos with a couple of friends, it's been a point that's been brought up pretty frequently. None of us feel as sharp as we used to. I don't know if it's just us, or others in their 20s are feeling the same thing, but it's something I've been thinking about a lot. P.S. I know this is a problem with my reliability/usage of it, not Claude Code itself, but the effects are real nonetheless

UKGovScan: making the British state searchable While the state rolls out digital ID to collect every disparate aspect of your life, a new project called @UKGovscan returns the favour to the state.. Their website collates public contracts, political donations, MPs’ and Lords’ interests, lobbying, council spending, aid, schools and company data into one place, giving journalists and citizens a faster way to follow public money. Read it in @ReinersProject: reiners.org.uk/ukgovscan-maki…