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In Scotland in the early 2000s, there was a moral panic over a tonic wine called Buckfast, made in Buckfast Abbey by an order of Benedictine monks. It's the kind of thing meant for…

Britain has a strange relationship with metric units, and there are certain things particular imperial units are still used for. Beer and milk is in pints (but nothing else), peopl…

The experience we have of sports betting shows that even extraordinarily well compensated sportspeople will cheat to influence events due to greed. That's not such a big problem fo…

I am looking at their county level distance-to-power-plant map and it's literally xkcd 1138.

I'm trying to find the charitable read on this and I'm unable to. He's saying that it would be great to allow Hindu ethnonationalist sources, because that would open up a talent po…

If most malware repos are created in the last few days by a fresh user, then it sounds like GitHub is taking action against them? Or where are the old ones?

It was a Mozilla thing https://wiki.mozilla.org/Areweyet

I think you are right, the checked pattern on the shirt is not directionally consistent

He said basically nothing on this topic in the interview. I guess he's trying to express that they are using open source blocklists in their test harnesses and they may or may not …

The reason all these meticulously designed flows have been done away with is because some manager believes that AI is omniscient and can just replace it all. Like, flagging VPN end…

Apparently Merlin and BirdNET are entirely separate projects from different teams, although they both come from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology

I've never quite understood how unions in the US work or why they have the perception of them that they do. But rest assured, that is not what a union is elsewhere in the world.

Porsche do this and have been very successful. Speaking of Porsche, they did once design a Star Wars ship and ended up with something super generic that looked like a free sci-fi m…

That one has the disadvantage of not yet existing, although South Korea has ordered

If you go to www.githubstatus.com, the downtime is not showing in the chart. I was annoyed enough yesterday when I visited this page to figure out why my Actions had failed and was…

My parents took in a Ukrainian family as part of this scheme, and I knew many others who did. They all matched with each other through Facebook groups set up for this purpose. I do…

In my experience, Linux support on Framework is worse than on a typical ThinkPad, and they don't have much interest in contributing to the ecosystem like System76 does. They still …

This really tickled me, I wasn't expecting them to just be a pair of esp32 dev boards you attach to your ears

The copy also doesn't seem to be written by someone with a good command of English, even ChatGPT would do better >technologists inside the systems that power American spaceflight, …

Dead horse but I find it astonishing that people can still miss AI writing like this. Don't you find it incredibly grating that every paragraph grinds to a halt while 3 sentence fr…

Similar to Hadrian's Wall, there's the Offa's Dyke Path which roughly follows the Welsh border all the way up.

The actual Earth and Moon are still not nearly to scale though!

This has always been a peeve of mine, but the lack of scale diagrams in coverage of this is maddening. We know what the Earth and the Moon look like, there is no need to make them …

I see loads of LLM articles where it's been prompted to never capitalise, avoid full stops, pepper in spelling mistakes, etc. it sucks.