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  • So has anyone managed to contact Tom yet?

  • www.theguardian.com UK households face tax rise of £3,500 a year by next election, finds IFS

    Thinktank says Tories have overseen the biggest increase in taxes during a parliament since records began in 1951

    UK households face tax rise of £3,500 a year by next election, finds IFS
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    Police officers widely misusing body-worn cameras
  • 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.

  • www.theguardian.com Prisons struggle to keep staff as officers leave for Border Force and police

    Many opt for ‘less stressful’ jobs at ports and airports, while senior officers say young staff quit as they don’t like to be without phones

    Prisons struggle to keep staff as officers leave for Border Force and police
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    Raspberry Pi 5 – Coming October 2023

    www.raspberrypi.com Raspberry Pi 5 – Raspberry Pi

    The everything computer. Optimised. Coming October 2023

    Raspberry Pi 5 – Raspberry Pi
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    UK's First Consumption Room Given Go Ahead.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Yes, the section to Manchester is being cancelled.

  • www.bbc.co.uk School absences: The school picking kids up from home to boost attendance

    Mum Kelsey tells BBC News how her school stepped in, as MPs urge bold measures to tackle poor attendance.

    School absences: The school picking kids up from home to boost attendance
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    inews.co.uk Speaker's fury at Sunak over HS2 and net zero announcements could lead to parliamentary reform

    Ministers could be prevented from making major policy announcements when the House of Commons is not sitting

    Speaker's fury at Sunak over HS2 and net zero announcements could lead to parliamentary reform
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    The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing into stupidity
  • 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.