And we are supposed to believe that Palantir is just an ordinary supplier when it publishes political statements like this: twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

By refusing to admit that's what happened, he's just storing up more problems down the line where it just gets revealed that this is what happened. Take the political hit now while your challengers are still weak.

I don't understand why he doesn't just admit that he made a political decision to override officials, which is clearly what happened. Anyone who is a casual observer of politics over the last 30 years knows that he would not pass vetting.

I imagine almost every backbencher would be absolutely thrilled to have a stab at her department. Its bizarre that she is a Labour MP so clearly disinterested in the job.

For some reason polling of labour members still has her as one of the most popular ministers... maybe because she is so out of view that members haven't updated their priors yet, but surely the she must have lost support in the PLP at this point?

This Labour government, and Ed Miliband in particular, is actually one of your best allies globally. There are definitely more worthy targets than this Labour government when it comes to failing on energy policy, even if it's disappointing in lots of other areas of policy.

We aren't doing too badly. Often the majority of our grid comes from renewables, and the net zero and energy sec, Ed Miliband, is going out of his way to grant approvals for every solar, wind, and battery solution he can. He is going approve plug in home solar and battery storage this summer.

Oh this is like whenever Andy Murray was winning at Tennis the English press called him British, but if he was losing he suddenly became Scottish.

This is basically just regulatory capture.

HMRC insists that they want there to be free options, but structurally all of the requirements they have set combined with not delivering an option themselves means free software is nearly impossible to sustain without a commercial entity behind it.

Many sole traders are probably going to quit and a new form of regulatory capture has been established - there are going to be industry interests now to pressure HRMC to keep extacting rents from traders and not provide free means of filing.

HMRC created a documented API for filing these taxes, but did not build a compatiable version of the software itself to let people file their taxes and have onerous regisitation requirements for software such that basically only private companies are going to be suppliers. Its a slow moving disaster

Yeah, I think we are about to fall into this trap. The government's 'Make Tax Digital' requirements for sole traders essentially makes it mandatory to use a third party supplier to file taxes that previously could be done entirely via HMRC.

Time to relocate to Europe!

I may be considering stocking some long shelf life foods at this rate.

Outer wilds, harvest moon, the legend of Zelda wind waker, civilisation V, total annihilation, final fantasy V, pokemon blue version, hollow knight, paper mario

There are better games that I might rank higher than some of these, these are probably the games I have the fondest memories of.

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He could just be an idiot and a fascist

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Lovely city - lived there for 6 years and still miss it a bit. I can recommend Skosh for dinner if you can get a table - often booked out.

Some distributions have gone so far as go make it very hard to modify the system by making the OS and DE an "atomic" and most user applications and cli tools are installed as sandboxed images, "toolbox" containers, or installed using homebrew (yes, I know). Fedora Silverblue and Bazzite are examples

A lot of things have moved to containerised cross distribution images - flatpak and appImage. Fedora user so not super familiar with what Ubuntu is like atm.

He isn't landed gentry or aristocracy, he comes from the British empire officer class - civil service stock :P

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Right that the prime minister has resigned. His successor, Keir Starmer, has a very difficult inheritance.

One thing that was rough for me with AMD on Linux was with just released GPUs. AMD drivers on release on Linux are often not as mature as their windows version. Happened with both 6800xt and 9070xt it took about 3-4 months for AMD drivers to be stable. Don't buy just released hardware for Linux.

The demo curse in reverse. Of course it mostly works when you record it! :P Wonder if big picture mode is part of the problem? I have AMD hardware so generally don't need to worry about many of the issues you are facing on Linux - drivers are baked into the kernel and just work.

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main issue with using them for minor tech purchases is shipping costs are not cheap if you are buying one small item

Scan I guess, but that is mainly for PC components and network stuff.

Horrible case, but why didn't staff notice they were failing a student with a 2:1 average? When I was at uni grade boundary students were routinely reviewed before final award. Failing in your final year is not normal. I'm guessing the student must have suffered in silence and didn't appeal?

Its actually the year of the Linux desktop, for reals this time.