Yeah not a problem if you just plan it correctly, I use 4mm t&e on all socket circuits, in trunking and just use a 25A or 30A MCB, that way even if there is a break in the ring it’s still within spec. Modern homes just don’t have the power draw to worry about overloading sockets, especially when I can get a 30A.

Yup 9 years old and still working though, banking apps still work but a number of apps I used to occasionally use are no longer working, but nothing critical.

Still rocking the iPhone X, and wondering if I can hold out until their 20 year anniversary phone next year…. But GrapheneOS on a Pixel is tempting.

I’ve clicked off the article now but most was due to Samsung Electronics headquarters moving from New Jersey to Texas and then some in India.

This was supposed to be satire but I just saw 10 days ago they laid off or notified intended dismissal of 1,000 people.

Yay for capitalism!

If history has taught us anything, Samsung will soon cut 5,000 jobs as part of “essential restructuring”.

That’s 4,800 families going to have a really bad summer, people having to look for work when the tech sector is only laying people off, stress, depression and misery.

Microsoft made $101 billion in pure profit last year, if each of these employees were on $100k it would represent less than 0.5% of their profit.

People are disposable when all you care about is profit.

I completely understand your point here, I just worry that we are the same point in history where people just hadn’t connected the dots yet.

There is a genocide going on in Gaza, there is ethnic cleaning going on in the USA and the NHS has handed off (to at least some small degree) who gets what medical treatment and when to AI.

Plalantir is involved in all of this and we may find out how much in the years and decades to come.

The comparison is undercooked, but it may just need some more time and a few more leaks…. Oh look Peter Thiel just said the Pope is “working for the Chinese communists”

But they have:

• enabled ICE to hunt, deport, torture and kill protestors and asylum seekers in the US

• provided the targeting data for Israel in the Gaza genocide.

• described those supportive of the NHS as suffering form Stockholm Syndrome

• finally Thiel himself is a well known white supremacist who is anti-women anti-LGBT, and a doomsday prepper who appears to want to actively bring down society and test his own preparedness.

Well, good! But the Telegraph reporting is so right biased here it’s surreal to read.

Scheduling operating theatres needs Actual Intelligence, which is significantly cheaper than Artificial Intelligence, and doesn’t expose the entire UKs medical history to the modern equivalent of a 1940 Auschwitz medical research group.

Had a pedal spanner confiscated, I’d borrowed it from a colleague to fix my bike and put it in my laptop bag so I wouldn’t forget it, but sent on a trip before I went back to the office. I bought him the nicest spanner I could find to replace it.

Sadly it’s nothing to do with solving the problem of young people Doom-scrolling, and everything to do with making money for ID services, while ensuring your advertising ID is tied to a government ID.

My first thought was the other way around… Starmer knew he was on his way out and needed to push through the social media ban to repay the tech oligarchs that got him elected. Either way Burnam needs to actually change tack, and TBH I’m going to take some convincing to not vote for the greens.

It is worrying how few media appearances he has done, and how light the questioning was when he did get interviewed.

If they think continuing with the same policies with a different presenter will work, Labour may end up fighting for 4th place in a couple of years.

Digital ID and this stupid Social Media ban needs to be binned on day one.

I use 4 different browsers and lock down each one depending on task… my general browsing browser is set to wipe every shutdown. The others only ever visit a single site.

Yeah you are going far beyond most people, but passkeys will be a major step up for the majority of the population who still use the same or similar passwords for everything.

Had this a few weeks ago, my partner had her email hacked, she used the same password on a service that was hacked and email/passwords stollen. They first used a ‘forgot password’ on her phone operator account, reported the SIM as lost/stollen and registered her number to a new SIM. Then they could change the passwords on anything they liked as they had her phone number and got the 2FA calls and SMS. They then went through accounts downloading apps and setting up or re-registering MFA once the passwords were changed.