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  • More than 100,000 homes in England could be built in highest-risk flood zones

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  • There's no need to be concerned because they're never going to build 100,000 new homes, never mind the 1.5M target. Building enough homes to house people would cause supply to meet demand and make the housing market "crash". And Labour will never upset those who've been tricked into thinking that home property is an investment.

  • What gameplay systems or game mechanics do you enjoy?

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  • I'm not sure if this counts as gameplay mechanics or rather narrative structure, but games like Outer Wilds, Fez, Tunic, where the exploration and discovery of the game is the end goal of playing the game, not just getting to the game's end state.

    I'm not sure if there's an accepted term for these games, but I've always thought of them as "archaeology" games. There's a bunch of stuff, both plot and gameplay, that is hidden (sometimes in plain sight), until you discover it and find out what meaning it carries.

  • Reform UK councillors resign in protest over Nigel Farage

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  • Ukip, Brexit, Reform... What are the odds on how long it takes Farage to make yet another party?

  • Seagate launches 30/32TB capacity Exos M mechanical HDD (30/32TB capacity)

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  • "The two models, the 30TB ... and the 32TB ..., each offer a minimum of 3TB per disk". Well, yes, I would hope something advertised as being 30TB would offer at least 3TB. Am I misreading this sentence somehow?

  • FBI offers $50,000 reward for information about gunman who killed UnitedHealthcare’s CEO

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  • magic databases containing the location of every flower shop cross referenced by geolocation and joined to the magic database of endangered beetle habitat

    Open Street Map has entered the chat

  • Baby red panda dies due to 'stress caused by fireworks,' renewing calls to ban their public sale

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  • I find it immensely infuriating that the article's byline shows they are reporting from 'London' when in fact this happened not just in a different city, Edinburgh, but in a completely different country, Scotland.

    Sad about the pandas, there are far too many people that simply can't be trusted with fireworks. Limiting it to a single night in dedicated display venues run by licensed organisations wouldn't remove the noise entirely, but it would reduce the frequency and would probably help all animals.

  • Autocorrect Rule

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  • Women are a better person to be in the past than a good quality piece of wood

  • It's finally up! Please sign it if you're in the UK :) Petition: Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state.

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  • 100% online games in the past were perfectly playable even after developers / publishers ended support. Online only games dying is a relatively recent invention. This petition is asking for consumer protection to return to the norm where a purchaser of an online game always has the choice of being able to play it in some fashion.

    A game developer could do this by releasing a server application. They could even do this at the barest minimum by releasing documentation describing how the server ought to work, to allow for reverse engineering.

    The Stop Killing Games campaign as a whole isn't asking for perpetual server access, just to ensure that games stay in some sort of playable state.

  • What Are Your Favorite FOSS Android Apps?

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  • Mozilla Senior Director of Content explained why Mozilla has taken an interest in the fediverse and Mastodon

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  • At this point the web is about as complex as an operating system in terms of complexity. That needs really strong specific standards in order for it to work, and in turn projects like web browsers are huge and complex.

    If someone wanted to build a web browser that only followed the simpler parts of the specifications, it wouldn't work for many websites* and people would not use that browser.

    *Whether or not sites need to be so complex is another question entirely, but the reality right now is that they are

  • ...Then you select it, and the Captcha fails.

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  • Answer wrong. The more of us humans that answer wrong, the less accurate we need to be to get past these stupid things. If google want me to do work for them, they can pay me.

  • YouTube's anti-adblock rollout has finally arrived for Firefox users

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  • It was a froidian slip

  • The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, everyone 🤦

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  • To be honest, I could get behind fines for overrunning street works. Hell, go further: fines for any overrunning, underdelivering or overbudget public contracts. That would quickly resolve the mess that the torys have made giving out dodgy contracts to their mates.

  • Superiority brings controversy

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  • I've found it easier to use KDE to switch from windows as it feels like a more complete ecosystem that I'm familiar with. And it is pretty great, until I install one bad graphics driver and then I'm stuck in a terminal only session until I can fix it. At least windows has safe mode.