thehatfox

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We're refederated to lemmy.world, for now in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (5 children)

So has anyone managed to contact Tom yet?

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UK households face tax rise of £3,500 a year by next election, finds IFS (www.theguardian.com)
Police officers widely misusing body-worn cameras in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why is it even possible to turn off or delete footage from these cameras? I would have thought they would be treated like black box recorders - always on, always recording, and only reviewed when absolutely necessary.

This is like a failure of both technology and policing culture.

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Prisons struggle to keep staff as officers leave for Border Force and police (www.theguardian.com)
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Raspberry Pi 5 – Coming October 2023 (www.raspberrypi.com)
UK's First Consumption Room Given Go Ahead. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (4 children)

One of the reasons illegal drugs are as dangerous as they are is because they are illegal. Their illicit nature means they are manufactured and distributed without any proper oversight or regulation, leading to dangerous lack of quality control.

If recreational drugs could be purchased with proper standards for purity, dosage etc they would be much safer for their users.

The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing into stupidity in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Home Assistant and its developers may not be perfect, but at least the imperfections are out in the open. We can’t comment on the quality of the commercial black boxes because we can’t see it.

I think that quote is a bit harsh, JavaScript is not inherently bad, or at least no worse than the people writing it. Install script piping is not an officially recommended installation method by HA. Both are also found in projects far more critical than HA.

Giving a kneejerk rejection to Home Assistant to instead adopt another proprietary hub a bit earlier in the enshittification pipeline doesn’t seem a great plan to me.

London apartment block that deviates from plans must be torn down, says council in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

What a waste. Although considering the amount of corner cutting on the building’s appearance and features, I’m not sure I’d trust the structural integrity either.

The apartments are occupied too so demolishing them is could leave people homeless.

I would hope lessons will be learned from this, plenty more rogue developments could slip through if we are ever going to ramp up house building to the needed levels without proper oversight.

Speaker's fury at Sunak over HS2 and net zero announcements could lead to parliamentary reform in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Yes, the section to Manchester is being cancelled.

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School absences: The school picking kids up from home to boost attendance (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Speaker's fury at Sunak over HS2 and net zero announcements could lead to parliamentary reform (inews.co.uk)
The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing into stupidity in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Philips are providing another demonstration of the dangers of using proprietary smart home platforms. If you don't control the platform, you don't control your home. The only way to avoid this is to use an open platform such as Home Assistant, which just celebrated it's 10th birthday and continues to go from strength to strength.