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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • Any news outlet will have a bias. If nothing else, the broader culture a news organisation operates in will inherently influence their decisions.

    I would say BBC is nowhere near the worst, though. Arguing they are Government controlled is just silly. You drawing a comparison to Russian media organisations is a load of tosh.




  • If tech for you means software, then yes, you can decouple from global supply chains with relative ease.

    If, however, you look into some other areas of tech a different picture emerges. Global dependencies especially in semiconductors are much deeper. Products built from such components are the same. Decoupling in those domains would be significantly more difficult.





  • JohnSmith@feddit.uktoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldConsent machine
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    3 months ago

    I happen to have BBC News on just now. Besides factually reporting on what Trump said, over the past hour they’ve interviewed a number of people about the topic each offering different perspective. Many of them commented on what utter rubbish Trump’s statements were. I’d say BBC reporting on the topic has been factual, balanced and to a good standard I’d expect of them.








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    10 months ago

    Remember when email was useful? I remember when it was magical!

    Time for a story from the ancient times. I had this idea and asked my professor for advice. He said he knew a person on the other side of the world who would know all about it. “This is his ‘email’ address.”

    I had never heard about ‘email’ so I needed to learn what it was and how to send one. I wrote my message and off it went. The very next morning I had a reply. One of the best experts on a topic I was keen about had shared their thoughts from the other side of the world, just like that.

    In that time, a long time ago as you’ll appreciate, that interaction was magical.

    In an instant I understood the power of the Usenet. A while later and with a couple of additional protocols they started calling that the Internet.



  • So far I’ve found everything I looked for, and a few new ones too. Their app features for lyrics and other songs you might like work great. Admittedly, I’m an old metal head who loves singing to a song at the top of the voice, out of tune of course, so I might not be skirting the kinds of niches you like.