HumanPenguin
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Why the fuck were taxpayers funding spying on folks sued by McDonald.
HumanPenguin
5d ago
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Reform UK’s MPs are understood to have been unaware
So a local party selling tickets. Without even confirming the people they are selling agree.
Sounds like the sorta shit a corporation claiming to be a political party would do.
The whole thing start to finish was an outright con.
HumanPenguin
5d ago
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This. When only one side of the bet can lose. It is not gambling but rigged capitalism.
When an industry manages to remove all the risk from investment. While offering little to the society they inhabit.
High taxation to help return their cost to society. Seems a bare minimum charge.
HumanPenguin
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Unfortunately fails when you look at timing.
The UK started democracy in 1690. When we cut the kings head off. Messed up the republic with religiose zealotry. And started our current constitutiomal Monarchy with a powerless monarch.
Slavery in Africa begun after that mainly started by the Spanish. But that British democracy did some of the most harm raising cities.
The finally ended it in 1838. But democratic America built entirly from it continued for nearly 40 years more.
The 2nd World War was started by democratic Germany. Along with the holocaust.
I'm sorry but no. Democracy was at no point a change in human morality. Humans were shit under all forms of management. Democracy was simply no worse.
HumanPenguin
7d ago
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About as valuable as saying. More shit happened in the far past then recent past.
Democracy is a pretty recent experiment. And over the time it has grown. Some pretty evil shit has been done in its name. Comparing it to 1000s of rears in the past where few nations past of any power had other options. Is hardly cause and effect.
Nothing more then desperate point scoring on either side.
HumanPenguin
1w ago
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Can
An important missed word.
Issue is it depends on building them correctly with production of crops being the priority over production of power.
Issue is UK farmers have been penalised due to loss of government funding. So profiting from crops has been bloody hard for a few years now.
This means the few solar plants being built in the UK on arable land,are generally renting fields farmers have stopped using for crops.
HumanPenguin
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Yeah its an odd mistake for the BBC. I mean sure someone not interested in wildlife from the south may well think it. But a simple google search will show they are just endangered. But with the BBC you expect some minimum checking of facts before publishing.
Seems quality journalism has been died out on the bbc after grey click baiters were introduced.
HumanPenguin
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P&O s actions were fucking disgusting.
If DP wants to fuck its branding by openly declaring they are the same company. Go ahead.
Gives protesters more places they can draw attention to the arseholes attitude.
HumanPenguin
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HumanPenguin
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Actually the article you posted indicates it will fail to raise extra. Not lead to a reduction.
As these folks are using the status to avoid paying tax now. Them leaving just means they have to find a new nation to not help fund.
It is not likely to raise extra money. But is likely to remove those profitting from the investmment others make in our inferstructure.
Thos could be argued to open up the field for investers who actually want to fund our nation.
HumanPenguin
2w ago
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If the wealthy refuse to pay taxes to support the UK.
Why the hell would we need them. Move to the nations you choose to pay tax in. And enjoy the infer structure etc they provide with that taxation.
HumanPenguin
2w ago
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As funny as the idea sounds.
A few million people filling in a parliamentary partition along the lines off.
We request parliament return the right to national Banishment laws. Applied via referendum when politicians commit crimes in office. Such as those participated in by Boris Johnson over the COVID pandemic.
The undersigned consider this to be the ultimate expression of the democratic process. And the only way to ensure future MPs recognise the importance of public opinion on their actions.
While unlikely to pass. With a few million votes, it would be forced to be discussed in parliamentary committee. And inform BJ very clearly of the value of an STFU policy.
More so when the parlimentary commitee points out the ECHR bans its members banishing citizens.
If we leave parliment has no limitation to leaving boris without citizenship.
HumanPenguin
2w ago
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High use Blender users tend to avoid AMD for the reasons you point out.
This leads to less updates due to amd users not being to interested in the community.
It is an issuw without any practicle solution. Because as I need a long overdue update. Again nvidia seems the only real choice.
Everyone is sorta forced to do that unless we can convince amd users to just try out blender and submit results.
So hi any AMD users who dont care about blender.
Give it a try and submit performance data please.
HumanPenguin
2w ago
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Seriosly the freedom of women in Afghanistan is a seriose issue. As it is in many places.
But Cats seems to be a very very bad example. Most of the world. With the exception of a few owners that keep them indoors.
They are the pet with the most freedom. More so then any human.
Unless she is specifically considering the female feline mating experience.
HumanPenguin
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Yeah looks very much like nvidia is exclusive at the top even at the price I'm looking at.
The RTX4060 looks about right price vs performance. I'll spend some time looking up how well they play with linux atm. And keep an eye out for a used RTX4070 as well.
HumanPenguin
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If no one minds my hyjacking part of this thread.
Id also like some similar advice.
I use blender. Not heavily but have been playing on it for 20plus years.
My GPU is pretty old. 1050ti at the time nvidia was pretty much it for blender.
Im looking for a sub £300 card in the next 3 to 6 months.
Is AMD well supported by blender now. And what cards would folks recomend these days.
PS not a gamer. 0ad is about as close as i get.
HumanPenguin
3w ago
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Agreed.
But lets remember those same parties used rhe EU as an excuse for over 40 years.
They built that extream. Then expected the ref to go for the EU.
They built the mess. Fucked up and are now taking advantage of their owb shit slinging.
HumanPenguin
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You are correct.
But how many of the policies the greens or lib dems have. Do they get implement.
Unfortunatly until voters are prepared to place ending fptp above everything else.
Only parties able to pull 30 to 40% of vorers will have any real power.
HumanPenguin
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Yeah apparently foresight is only 51-49 with mutually exclusive ideas fitting together.
HumanPenguin
3w ago
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Divided parties representing a divided country.
In a FPTP political sustem that dose not support compramise well.
We have mostly had around 60% of our voters disagree with the government. As 30 fo 40% is normal to wing 50+ % of seats.
FPTP is crap for democracy but good for larger parties to hord power.
Yet we are far to divided to put replacing it as the main priority.
Sorry, this is not really 3d printing related. But as we have some cool folks here OS wise. I hopped you could help or point me the correct way. As I have mentioned before my brother and I own a tiny narrow boat we are doing up. The engine room is a nightmare. 4ft high with no top access. We are disabled (visual and flexibility basically old can't bend and classed as blind but some vision. ) So we have difficulty measuring exact space in a room we have to crawl through. Well it's very like Star Trek Jeffries tubes but greasy. ;) We need to plan and mount electronics in there to support our use. (I sought advice on printing to help with this a while back and got fantastic help) I am now starting to think having a 3d model of the engine room would make working out the layout much easier. So here is where advice is needed. We are skint (poor for the US) so spending 1000s ain't an option. And likely not worth it anyway. I have heard of android apps that use photographs. And that level of accuracy is likely fine for our planning needs. But I'm a Linux 100% user. Since the late 90s So need some way to do this that can be done on Linux and fed into FreeCAD and or Blender. Does anyone know much about tools in this space. And what the process for doing this with photographs is?
I have never used a 3d printer. But have done a little research. Be great if someone could confirm my intention is sane. I have loads of Linux experience so my plans relate to open source all the way. First off I am brassic(poor). So looking cheap all the way. My brother and I have a tiny narrowboat we are refitting. And plan to use the printer for stuff within the boat. Due to this printing PA6 to go in the bilge is important. (Diesel and water bad for most other plastics) As we are both vision impaired and old. The idea is most of the electrical mountings etc will be self designed and painted to make future access quick and easy with our rapidly worsening vision. So my plan. I am looking at a elegoo Neptune 4 pro. Because it is cheap but great value. Uses kipper. And seems easy to modify as I grow in use. Also supports temps needed for PA6 etc. But I will need an enclosure to work with PA 6 and a dryer. Dryer is cheap not an issue. But I'm thinking of a tent enclosure. Some good well insulated ones on amazon for £50 with hose to vent out smells. Will one of these tents be suitable for keeping temperature stable while printing PA6. And can anyone offer other advice for cheap solutions to make this easy. On a related novice front. Gue to the vision. One of the projects is to print mounting boards for din rail fuses etc. The idea being to mix colours. Ie flat surface faces from and back in white. The the inner support fram in a bright colour. This will mean holes to support thumb screws etc for easy low vision future maintainance. IE easy to find the pre set screw holes. This plan means I can swap colours when printing layers so should be easy without over (for me) briced multi head printer. But can anyone share experience with doing this with nylon. IE how dose delays in printing the layers while swapping filament t effect the linking of those layers. As I say complete novice o the actual doing this so any advice will be helpful.
Was watching the kings' speech on BBC. While the interviewed members of the 3 leading parties. Amazing that the Tory member can make claims with no challenge. Specifically. >We will ensure labour stick to their promise not to raise taxes. (paraphrased) They have claimed this throughout the election. Without labour or the media questioning it. The actual promise. >Labour will not increase income tax, national insurance or VAT. (cut and paste from labour.org.uk) This is not a promise to not raise taxes. It is about very specific taxes that generally affect the poorest more. Corp taxes capital gains etc are still free. But It seems intentional that Tories choose to ignore that. Also, intentional that labour do not choose to publicly disagree. > Some claim about the nationalisation of rail costing a fortune. While he included GB energy and others that do have some cost. He very openly attacked rail as the main cost. This really needs challenging. Since privatisation, the government has spent way more inflation adjusted running the pseudo privatised gift to the shareholders. Then national rail ever cost. Nothing has improved since rail was privatised. (honestly safety has but due to modern standards not privatisation). Nothing labour has promised is a cost sink. Yes, as company contracts end, the gov will need to take over running costs. But as we are already funding huge chunks of that cost now. The argument that nationalisation of rail is expensive is crap. The more honest analysis is the Labour Party has little in the way of plans to fund needed improvements. --- As much as I hate to admit, it's not going to happen. The only reason to have the BBC is so that capital interests do not take over all UK media. And it really seems like the BBC no longer has that mantel. Yes, the Tories worked hard to do this over the last 14 years, and the number of folks deciding the licence is no longer worth it. While hard to blame them, def has not helped. But I can't help but wonder how we replace it. In 2024 how do we go about creating some form of a real news and current affairs channel that is free from commercial interests. Free from bias is going to be harder. Free from perceived bias impossible. Most consider the truth to have bias if it disagrees with their objective view.
Hi. I've not really used Windows since the early 2000. Even then not much. I have a single mini PC with windows on. And use it only for device firmware updates. As a ham radio nerd. You get many devices that can only be modified via windows. Anyway it was set up with dual boot the normal way. Windows first as it came with it. Then make a real Linux partition to use the PC on my boat while travelling. Now the issue is I am upgrading the Mini PC. Basically replacing memory and the tiny 128gb ssd. So need to install it all from scratch. I have order a copy of windows 11 from ebay. (At a price I consider acceptable for the crap) But its going to take several days to arrive. And I would like to be more efficient. So I am hoping folks can advice me on the best way to set up the PC with Linux first then install Windows 11 later. Knowing windows has a habit of messing up grub etc.
This is opinion. So read it as such. But consider it please. Obviously if you read this based on the title. I assume you oppose the Tories. But if you are wondering why labour are so keen to manage expectations. There is a reason. Campaign funding wise the Tories are estimated to be 19m ahead of labour. But honestly at the moment they are not spending a huge amount more. We know the Tories are skilled at election manipulation. So there is genuine fear that the Tories plan to launch a campaign within the last few days. I.E. when there is less time and funding to ensure fact checking is effective. They know Starmer is more publicity aware then Corbyn was. He is able to play it in a way that dose not scare traditional Conservative voters. They also know thanks to Boris, that the courts are unable to punish them for outright lies during any political campaign. And that Rishi is prepared to lie about and accuse civil servants of lying when challenged. As huge as polling is against the Tories. All it would take is some dramatic claim against the party or Starmer. To convince Tory traditional voters to bite their tongue and vote Tory. While convincing left wing voters not to vote or to switch to 3rd party in seats where labour are the 1st or 2nd party. The fact we know they have a huge amount of money unspent. Makes it clear they plan to launch something nearer the end of the election. And the only advantage of leaving it so late. Is it will limit the ability of the party to effectively react. Or fact checkers to be able to prove and distribute evidence of lies. Please be prepared for this.
I cannot really see any other way to interpret this interview. Remember this when looking at their attitude to protest etc.
TLDR at the end I just post how I propose to convince the new parliament. If polling is anything near to close. Starmer will enter parlimemt on the 5th with a landslide majority. Time for us to remember the court case PM Johnson won for the 350m lie on a bus. The high Court simply stated. Parliment has made no law banning lies during a campaign. Well we really do have an opportunity to convince Starmer to change that. With Sunak and Co clearly following the last elections lead. Lieing about the civil service backing up their cost estimates. It is time parliment tried to build confidence in election claims. This would only be practical when it comes to provable falsehoods of fact. Such as the claims made about Starmers campaign. After they have been informed the civil service did not analyse the data they used. Unfortunately forcing a party to follow its manifesto is not really doable. And if parliment made the law. The next parliment would cancel it. # How to convince Starmer et al OK so most will remember back in the coalition. The new government claimed to want to be responsive. So they set up an official, way for the public to request parliment do things. Resulting in parliment responding with crappy excuses every single time 10k signatures. Or a dumb argument in committee at 100k. Now consider a new majority land slide parliment. Walking into government on July the 5th. With a social media publicised request to make it illegal for election campaigns, to continue to publish claims known to be false. Its a simple law. If your party has received evidence that your clai is false. You must stop using it or face legal punishment. So assuming 10k votes. The new government would need to write a response claiming they think lieing is OK. Pretty sure the electorate can eviserate them on social media after that. Changing their mind. The new tory opposition leader. (Or Lib Dem maybe?). Would sure as he'll leap on the new government for such a claim. But honestly to get the response needed. 100k signatures and the parliment required to have a public committee debate on their right to lie in campaigns. No new government with a huge majority is going to be willing to face that. # Help If you have read this far. You will recognise, I am not great at grammar and my wording is not consise. So when it comes to writing the partition on the parliment website. Someone more skilled would be best. Or a discussion here as to the best wording etc. Do please if this idea seem worth while. (Let's face it what have we to lose. A few mins a day signing a partition and posting to social media over the election. ) Then please join a discussion here. To try to push this idea forward over the next month.
www.independent.co.uk
Seriosly. When you lie in a way that make the civil service look biased. You have losf all respect for the position you are trying to win. Can any history geeks think of a time when a UK pilitician has been publically accused of falsely represeting the civil service.
www.independent.co.uk
Yesterday I was pointing out how little effort this would take based on polling. And today a new poll puts electoral calculuses tory seat prediction from 66 to 27. While it is an early poll. Honestly if we saw a higher young voter turn out all votiing tactically. A complete distruction of the Tories party is possible. Imagin an opposition party challenging labours view on FPTP. This would be a real once in a life time change to the old aristocratic power structure.
I hope this is allowed here. With the stuff happening in the UK atm. And honestly since 2010. It really seems time we had a lemmy community specifically to discuse UK issues benifits and advice in general. These things are so specific to each nation. Such forums are a good idea. While I am happy to set one up on feddit.uk . Or join and help anyone else setting one up. Running such a community really will need several people willing to dedicate a bit of time moderating etc. More so as it is more likely for moderators to experience periods were they are less able to be involved. A decent sized mod team following agreed rules. Will allow any members to take a stress break as life gets complicated. I am thinking about a community that allows posting of UK specific news. Asking advice. And rants as long as all members are friendly to each other. About life in the UK with any disability. Even self identified. Although depending on advice asked etc. Self identified disabilities are likely to need to be identified. Please share you opinions.
I am posting this here because it is the closest to a UK specific disability community. If this is invalid please let me know. While I am not comfortable setting up a UK disability and benefits community alone. I am happy to help run one. It will just need a good few members willing to take an active role. This post really is to discuse ( and rant) about the proposed changes to PIP the gov is proposing. What really annoys me. Is the government seems to be getting away with pushing false data. They keep using the differences in acceptance from 2010 to now. With 0 recognition that the 2010 rejection rates were seriously flawed. With many winning appeals after being forced to take the gov to court. Where well over 60% were seen as false rejections. Plus multiple reports of suicide due directly to DWP actions. It really bothers me that no media is pointing out this clearly false data. While plenty are pointing out the culture war that the tories are clearly trying to start. Some of the charities challenging these distorted claims seems to be needed.
This is independent of other projects I have asked for help on. I'm just looking for anything done similar to my plan. I am visually impaired. So tend to find most laptop pi projects way to small for common use. But also want an experimental bed for pie projects and experiments in genral. So my idea is. I'll get a aluminium briefcase like case. Mount a 18 plus inch portable USB c powered display into the lid. It would also be nice if I could have my 15inch display fold out on a vesa mount. As an extra. Inside the case id like to mount a large 18650 or similar lifepo4 batt. I'm thinking 4s 4p with a BMS so I can power usb 100w output with a 12v hub. This should allow out put to multiple monitors and a pie or 2. I have a great small wireless keyboard and mouse. That could be popped in and out. For the main board currently I'll use my waveshare CM4 poe board b with my 32/8 gb cm4. But long term the itx cluster board looks good. When I have a bit more cash. The main idea is it will allow me to connect multiple pcie riser cables to the boards via a 4 way wave share pcie switch to start with. Providing space to mount different boards and options as I change projects. As folks may have seen from other projects. I move between home and my tiny narrowboat I share with my brother. So this will be more about being able to port multiple pie projects as much as being a usable PC type thing. So if anyone has seen or worked on a project that may point to cool ways to mount this. I'd love to see them. As I do not have a 3d printer. And cannot really argue the value for as rare as id use it. I am thinking alliminium plate cut and riveted to mount boards etc to the inside. But would love other ideas folks have seen or can come up with.
Sorry I am expecting no here. But cannot help but hope someone knows a way around the limitation. I have a project where I plan to use an nvme on a waveshare mini b io board. I am just now learning my way around CM4 pies. So purchased a few parts to experiment before fitting to manage stuff on my boat. Unfortunately I did not know enough whan I got the dev cm4. Seeing as the cost difference between Emmc and lite was tiny. I decided there was little to lose with getting a Emmc one. Not knowing the EMMC uses the same pin address as the SD slot on io boards. I now know this will mean the SD card port is not available. As I plan to use that to move software updates. I was wondering if anyone knows a software way of enabling the internal sd port. IE basically disabling the EMMC. If not ill just set up with a USB SD reader so all my cm4 can run identical. But if I can use the one on the board. It will be simpler. Maybe have some option to reboot the boat cm4 in either option with an emergency os on the emmc in the event of a fault.
Hi again folks. I am looking at a small project. Once again for my boat. As this one really has very little need to write. Just regular temperature logging with time from multiple sources. I am considering setting the pie to store all temporary files in memory. Running the main os from the SD card. And just using an extra USB storage for logging temps etc. This should hopefully leave the system needing very little maintainance. With just the USB flash drive prown to wearing out every couple of years. I'd be greatfull for any links to folks who have set up similar systems. Or other ideas on safe low maintainance ways of running a pi zero os.
Hi. I am looking at using a cm4 and Waveshare mini io board. For a project I am setting up on my small narrowboat. As the tiny antique single cylinder diesel engine. Means the boat suffers from a fair bit of vibration. And this will be the first time I have used a CM4. I was hoping some folks could share there experiance/advice on using CM4 boards in similar rough environments. I am planning to build a system mounted to din rails with rubber pads to absorb some of the vibration. But any other experience other have can only help.
Hi I am looking for a little connection advice. I use a radio on my narrowboat. As such I am in the process of building a simple random wire antenna. Idea being I have a 5m mast I can raise on the boat while moored. Then run a wire to a local tree or another portable mast. The issue I am looking for some help with. Is finding connectors so I can set up different length antenna depending on available space. I have a large kite winding wheel to store the wire with a 9:1 unun on the end. But need to be able to set up 3 different lengths. 143-84-(36 i think) feet. To do this I need some form of connector a lot stronger the your typical bullet crimp. The wind on the towpath and movement of the boat will separate such connectos easy. As the boat rocks. But anything much larger the a bullet will not roll around the kite reel well. I am looking for some kind on single wire electrical connector. That screws together. So I can select the best length for the enviroment I am in. Unscrew the wire at that length. Commect it to an elastic rope attached to the tree or land based mast. If the worst comes. I'll make something myself using m2 bolts and inset standoffs. But would love to know if anyone has seen something ready made that will do this.
This is for new boaters on the UK waterways. As experienced boaters have worked this out for themselves. Of course the most usefull tool is your windlass. Without it you really cannot travel far on our canals. But the application of a rear ended lock level detection device. Can seriously ease your time amd stress when passing through a lock. Of course not any device will be usable. There is a disturbing fasion for people to own hand held sized portable devices. Such RELLDD are unsuitable for most UK canal lock gates. Industrial sized devices are very much required. Fortunately you will find many stores along the canal. That specialise in providing enhancement solutions to your RELLDD. At very little expense. You may be able to enhance your device over just a few years. If this is an unsuitable solution for you. Then please considers the option of other crew members with a more suitable RELLDD. Or you will often find other boaters very willing to help out. By adding their own RELLDD to the lock gate. Now if you are single handing. And lacking a suitable device. Then over the last 30 years or so. Many Internet sites have started to help link the owners of such devices together. Now I need to urge extream care with this approach. It is first important to remember many owners of such devices are unwilling to allow them to be used on the UK canal system. But more complex. Many with a suitable device whom may be very happy to travel the network with you. Tend to be uncomfortable with the suitability of their device. Due to this they will often also photograph the device using methods that limit its perceived suitability. I strongly advice. That if the device seems desirable in other ways. Do not reject the owner purely based on photos indication of its UK lock gate suitability. Ensure you meet the owner and inspect the device. This in genral seems like good advice for any boating related acquisitions. Here I feel I should remind members of our community. If you feel the urge to share pictures of your device. In the hope of finding other boaters willing to join you on you travels. Please ensure you check the rules of this community.
If ever you feel the need to thank rhe vollenteeer crt guys at some of the busy locks. Giving them a packet of biscuits to share with their cuppa. Go's down very well. I tend to have loads of foxes jam rings on the boat. Due to T1d. But have heard from others that anything is loved. A d it seems like a very cheap way to reward these people for the time they spend.
  
