vlgr 100% FAKE POSITIVE NEWS
endesk

# BRITISHISLES

22 articles

EU and Britain show their love for Linux by banning it. Only de facto, not de jure.
# BRITISHISLES
vlgr

EU and Britain show their love for Linux by banning it. Only de facto, not de jure.

New product liability rules in the EU and proposals under discussion in Britain could have far-reaching consequences for Linux and the wider open-source ecosystem. Add growing government enthusiasm for age verification and operating-system-level controls, and the future of independent computing starts looking rather less independent.

Who Needs Gas or Oil? The World Is Moving To The Next Stage Of Planetary Evolution (not the EU)
# BRITISHISLES
vlgr

Who Needs Gas or Oil? The World Is Moving To The Next Stage Of Planetary Evolution (not the EU)

The world is building energy generation in orbit, transmitted across space and delivered wherever it is needed. The United States, Japan and China have spent years developing their own systems, Russia is pursuing nuclear power in space, and Israel sits inside the American aerospace ecosystem. Europe had a roadmap too. It appears to have misplaced it somewhere between another feasibility study and the tax paperwork for your €12 package.

British Citizens Ask: Is a Democratic Failure Running for Years the Absence of Democracy?
# BRITISHISLES
vlgr

British Citizens Ask: Is a Democratic Failure Running for Years the Absence of Democracy?

A new way to run a border. UK government that knows the crossings are coming, knows most of the country wants them stopped, and still meets the boats and disperses the passengers. This is choosing the fight with its own voters over the fight with the courts, the contractors and France. It does not look sane from the town where the coaches arrive.

Britain Creates Yet Another Ministry of Truth
# BRITISHISLES
vlgr

Britain Creates Yet Another Ministry of Truth

Prime Minister Andy Burnham has announced a new National Centre for Information Defence, tasked with detecting, attributing and “disrupting” hostile-state information attacks. He also complained that Britain had given too much ground to people spreading a “negative, corrosive narrative about life in Britain.”

Ukraine Just Got More Expensive for Europe.
# BRITISHISLES
vlgr

Ukraine Just Got More Expensive for Europe.

The Biden administration supplied Ukraine with billions of dollars in American weapons. Donald Trump has now concluded that this may have been an accounting error and says Washington intends to collect the bill after all.

Unemployed? Lose Weight or Die. Either Way, You’re Off the Statistics.
# BRITISHISLES
vlgr

Unemployed? Lose Weight or Die. Either Way, You’re Off the Statistics.

Britain floated weight-loss injections as a way to get people back into work. The MHRA has now received more than 158,000 suspected adverse reactions involving the drugs and reports of hundreds of fatal outcomes. Apparently there are several ways to improve the employment figures.