@jamesjklmn.bsky.social
Germany had conscription from 1956 and 2011 and other countries like Denmark, Sweden, Norway Switzerland, and Finland have conscription too. Collecting relevant data for organising national defense is perfectly legitimate.
November 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Germany had conscription from 1956 and 2011 and other countries like Denmark, Sweden, Norway Switzerland, and Finland have conscription too. Collecting relevant data for organising national defense is perfectly legitimate.
Using waste heat for residential district heating would be a good idea too.
November 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Using waste heat for residential district heating would be a good idea too.
You don't need a phone / computer, but yet here you are using one to post on a platform hosted in a data center. Time to practice what you preach and log off.
November 14, 2025 at 1:45 PM
You don't need a phone / computer, but yet here you are using one to post on a platform hosted in a data center. Time to practice what you preach and log off.
Oh the intellectual heft of that 'rebuttal'.🙄
Swearing and toxic behavior is not tolerated. Blocked
Swearing and toxic behavior is not tolerated. Blocked
November 14, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Oh the intellectual heft of that 'rebuttal'.🙄
Swearing and toxic behavior is not tolerated. Blocked
Swearing and toxic behavior is not tolerated. Blocked
You are seriously going off-piste. My original post was about the BBC being centrist which is obviously the case when the terminally online left decry it as right wing while the GB 'News' watching boomers call for it to be de-funded and the license fee to be abolished for its alleged left wing bias.
November 14, 2025 at 9:44 AM
You are seriously going off-piste. My original post was about the BBC being centrist which is obviously the case when the terminally online left decry it as right wing while the GB 'News' watching boomers call for it to be de-funded and the license fee to be abolished for its alleged left wing bias.
No, I replied to the poster above's assertions about "moral and intellectual dishonesty". Try being a little less terminally online.
Centrism is the set of views held by a plurality of the general public rather than those held the extreme minorities on each end of the political spectrum.
Centrism is the set of views held by a plurality of the general public rather than those held the extreme minorities on each end of the political spectrum.
November 14, 2025 at 9:07 AM
No, I replied to the poster above's assertions about "moral and intellectual dishonesty". Try being a little less terminally online.
Centrism is the set of views held by a plurality of the general public rather than those held the extreme minorities on each end of the political spectrum.
Centrism is the set of views held by a plurality of the general public rather than those held the extreme minorities on each end of the political spectrum.
Shame that it has ended up in legal wrangling due to an oversight in leaving the plaintext publicly accessible. Interesting thoughts on the nature of secrets and power. The mystique of Kryptos is in the secret and I hope that prevails until such time as someone is able to crack the cipher itself.
November 14, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Shame that it has ended up in legal wrangling due to an oversight in leaving the plaintext publicly accessible. Interesting thoughts on the nature of secrets and power. The mystique of Kryptos is in the secret and I hope that prevails until such time as someone is able to crack the cipher itself.
Plenty of moral and intellectual dishonesty across the political spectrum but that is tangential to point about the BBC being a bastion of establishment centrism. Decried by the extreme left as right wing and extreme right as left wing.
November 14, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Plenty of moral and intellectual dishonesty across the political spectrum but that is tangential to point about the BBC being a bastion of establishment centrism. Decried by the extreme left as right wing and extreme right as left wing.
Same on this side of the pond. Not welcoming or safe to visit the USA while the current regime is in place. Plenty to see here in Europe anyway.
November 13, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Same on this side of the pond. Not welcoming or safe to visit the USA while the current regime is in place. Plenty to see here in Europe anyway.
And yet right wing people I know complain about that the BBC is far left and woke. In reality it is a boringly centrist organization, whatever the terminally online left and right wingers say.
November 13, 2025 at 10:26 PM
And yet right wing people I know complain about that the BBC is far left and woke. In reality it is a boringly centrist organization, whatever the terminally online left and right wingers say.
I can't find anything on the ONS website with wealth shares by year but given the rise in house prices relative to income I would guess the share went up in the late 90s to through 2010s. Probably reached a plateau now, house values falling relative to income balancing other asset price increases.
November 12, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I can't find anything on the ONS website with wealth shares by year but given the rise in house prices relative to income I would guess the share went up in the late 90s to through 2010s. Probably reached a plateau now, house values falling relative to income balancing other asset price increases.
Sure, they can't ban them at the protocol level without affecting business users but I expect that they will try regulating commercial VPN companies with AA / logging requirements and IP block / payment block for non-compliance.
UK is determined to be China but without the decent railway network.
UK is determined to be China but without the decent railway network.
November 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Sure, they can't ban them at the protocol level without affecting business users but I expect that they will try regulating commercial VPN companies with AA / logging requirements and IP block / payment block for non-compliance.
UK is determined to be China but without the decent railway network.
UK is determined to be China but without the decent railway network.
They can't ban them at the protocol level without affecting business users but I expect that they will try regulating commercial VPN companies with AA and logging requirements and IP block / payment block for non-compliance.
UK is determined to be China but without the decent railway network.
UK is determined to be China but without the decent railway network.
November 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
They can't ban them at the protocol level without affecting business users but I expect that they will try regulating commercial VPN companies with AA and logging requirements and IP block / payment block for non-compliance.
UK is determined to be China but without the decent railway network.
UK is determined to be China but without the decent railway network.
They can't ban them at the protocol level without affecting business users but I expect that they will try regulating commercial VPN companies with AA and logging requirements and IP block / payment block for non-compliance.
UK is determined to be China but without the decent railway network.
UK is determined to be China but without the decent railway network.
November 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
They can't ban them at the protocol level without affecting business users but I expect that they will try regulating commercial VPN companies with AA and logging requirements and IP block / payment block for non-compliance.
UK is determined to be China but without the decent railway network.
UK is determined to be China but without the decent railway network.
Top 1% income share is the lowest since 2002 dataset began 6.8%. Overall while there was a rise in top 10% income shares in the 1980s the trend has been flat since then.
November 12, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Top 1% income share is the lowest since 2002 dataset began 6.8%. Overall while there was a rise in top 10% income shares in the 1980s the trend has been flat since then.
Which I why i think that there will be a move to double signing software updates for critical devices. Signed by the manufacturer and also by a regulator on completion of a code review of any new build. Without both signatures the device won't accept the update.
November 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Which I why i think that there will be a move to double signing software updates for critical devices. Signed by the manufacturer and also by a regulator on completion of a code review of any new build. Without both signatures the device won't accept the update.
The demand to unlock the phone was ruled unlawful. It’s hardly a radical proposition that those that investigate potential breaches of the law should have to abide by the law and due process themselves. All this slap dash approach has done is give a loudmouth a soapbox. It’s counterproductive.
November 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The demand to unlock the phone was ruled unlawful. It’s hardly a radical proposition that those that investigate potential breaches of the law should have to abide by the law and due process themselves. All this slap dash approach has done is give a loudmouth a soapbox. It’s counterproductive.
The classic authoritarian response:“You should hand over your basic civil rights to make life easier for the government”
Have a look across the pond for how things go when the checks and balances on governance are weakened.
All this case has done is make him a martyr and given increased publicity.
Have a look across the pond for how things go when the checks and balances on governance are weakened.
All this case has done is make him a martyr and given increased publicity.
November 4, 2025 at 1:28 PM
The classic authoritarian response:“You should hand over your basic civil rights to make life easier for the government”
Have a look across the pond for how things go when the checks and balances on governance are weakened.
All this case has done is make him a martyr and given increased publicity.
Have a look across the pond for how things go when the checks and balances on governance are weakened.
All this case has done is make him a martyr and given increased publicity.
The biggest threat to our national security (especially under a future Reform government) is the avalanche of surveillance and ’anti terror’ legislation enacted over the last couple of decades. Not some two bit gobshite.
November 4, 2025 at 1:06 PM
The biggest threat to our national security (especially under a future Reform government) is the avalanche of surveillance and ’anti terror’ legislation enacted over the last couple of decades. Not some two bit gobshite.
No, it’s the correct ruling. Anti terror legislation should not be used to allow the state to go on a fishing expedition. Too many people are all too willing to throw the rule of law under a bus if it means ‘getting’ unsavoury individuals like ‘Tommy Robinson’.
November 4, 2025 at 12:56 PM
No, it’s the correct ruling. Anti terror legislation should not be used to allow the state to go on a fishing expedition. Too many people are all too willing to throw the rule of law under a bus if it means ‘getting’ unsavoury individuals like ‘Tommy Robinson’.
Publicly known STEM. When K1 K2 and K3 were publicly decoded by Jim Gillogly it transpired that CIA and NSA had already solved them. I would not be surprised if NSA have already likewise cracked K4 many years ago and are just keeping quiet until there is a public solution.
November 2, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Publicly known STEM. When K1 K2 and K3 were publicly decoded by Jim Gillogly it transpired that CIA and NSA had already solved them. I would not be surprised if NSA have already likewise cracked K4 many years ago and are just keeping quiet until there is a public solution.
Sorry but this is just nonsense.
The top 1% of Income Tax payers received 12.5% of total income in 2020 to 2021 but accounted for for 29.1% of total Income Tax in 2020 to 2021. i.e. 2.3 times the amount as a proportion of their income.
The top 1% of Income Tax payers received 12.5% of total income in 2020 to 2021 but accounted for for 29.1% of total Income Tax in 2020 to 2021. i.e. 2.3 times the amount as a proportion of their income.
November 2, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Sorry but this is just nonsense.
The top 1% of Income Tax payers received 12.5% of total income in 2020 to 2021 but accounted for for 29.1% of total Income Tax in 2020 to 2021. i.e. 2.3 times the amount as a proportion of their income.
The top 1% of Income Tax payers received 12.5% of total income in 2020 to 2021 but accounted for for 29.1% of total Income Tax in 2020 to 2021. i.e. 2.3 times the amount as a proportion of their income.
Yes, it is a bypass of the cipher which is how encryption is defeated these days given the mathematical robustness of ciphers like AES.
Social engineering, scraping improperly secured keys and credentials, side channel attacks on hardware etc are the way modern encryption is bypassed or “broken“.
Social engineering, scraping improperly secured keys and credentials, side channel attacks on hardware etc are the way modern encryption is bypassed or “broken“.
October 22, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Yes, it is a bypass of the cipher which is how encryption is defeated these days given the mathematical robustness of ciphers like AES.
Social engineering, scraping improperly secured keys and credentials, side channel attacks on hardware etc are the way modern encryption is bypassed or “broken“.
Social engineering, scraping improperly secured keys and credentials, side channel attacks on hardware etc are the way modern encryption is bypassed or “broken“.
Define “works well”. The output may appear reasonable to a lay user but anyone versed in the subject matter will see the errors.
Kryptos is a sculpture at CIA headquarters with an as yet undeciphered code K4.
AI makes stuff up mixing real information with complete nonsense:
Kryptos is a sculpture at CIA headquarters with an as yet undeciphered code K4.
AI makes stuff up mixing real information with complete nonsense:
October 21, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Define “works well”. The output may appear reasonable to a lay user but anyone versed in the subject matter will see the errors.
Kryptos is a sculpture at CIA headquarters with an as yet undeciphered code K4.
AI makes stuff up mixing real information with complete nonsense:
Kryptos is a sculpture at CIA headquarters with an as yet undeciphered code K4.
AI makes stuff up mixing real information with complete nonsense:
Good at spewing superficially plausible text but there is no real thinking behind it.
A case in point is all the idiots using AI to “solve” Kryptos K4. The output is meaningless drivel dressed up with technical jargon to the point that the KryptosK4 subreddit has banned all AI “solutions”.
A case in point is all the idiots using AI to “solve” Kryptos K4. The output is meaningless drivel dressed up with technical jargon to the point that the KryptosK4 subreddit has banned all AI “solutions”.
October 21, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Good at spewing superficially plausible text but there is no real thinking behind it.
A case in point is all the idiots using AI to “solve” Kryptos K4. The output is meaningless drivel dressed up with technical jargon to the point that the KryptosK4 subreddit has banned all AI “solutions”.
A case in point is all the idiots using AI to “solve” Kryptos K4. The output is meaningless drivel dressed up with technical jargon to the point that the KryptosK4 subreddit has banned all AI “solutions”.