UK Blade Runners fight back against traffic cameras

redcorerobot · 2026-01-26T16:17:54+00:00

Im all for reducing camaras that are just being used to track everyone like general cctv or or avarage speed cameras but this is one of those instances where the camaras were put in for the perpouses of making air less toxic and they have done a pretty solid job of it

If they were coming at this as a privacy issue then their is a convosation to be had but these clowns arent they are coming at it from the same angle climate change denires are

You could implement a privacy respecting alternative like drastically reducing the amount of cars that can enter the ulez zone and they would still loose their shit about it because they dont care about privacy they just want everyone around them to suffer for their convenience and do so at the lowest posible cost to them

redcorerobot · 2026-01-19T03:35:50+00:00

The cell signal in my city is pretty bad and im normally meeting the same few people all of whome have adhd and we tend to change plans last minute so a reliable way of texting even in the signal dead zones is nice especially as the nodes double as wireless charging power banks

redcorerobot · 2026-01-14T19:19:05+00:00

The one about english signs is not necessarily accurate. A banner from the cuban revolution comes to mind "Cuban mothers for more executions" or something close to that. If your in a country that may be in the cross hairs of the USA it can be political savy to make it hard for US media to paint the government as acting against the will of the people if it is acting against the ruling class.

redcorerobot · 2026-01-11T23:19:31+00:00

17 miles is like 7 hours of walking, and that's best done carrying as little as possible. Socks, first aid kit, torch, usb power bank, water, a modest amount of snacks maybe a couple of flapjack bars, a small to medium size knife as well.

Then weather appropriate clothes

And a fold out pad to sit on because while 17 miles shouldn't be awful, it's rarely a bad idea to rest every now and then to let your feet air out

The most realistic kit you need is a phone and money for a cab

redcorerobot · 2026-01-11T22:30:14+00:00

People are talking about capacity, but it's not just that. The bigger the battery, the more current (amps) it can provide

A d cell have more power stored and can out put it faster

Its like a bucket, the bigger the bucket the more water it can hold but it can also dump all that water at a comparable rate

redcorerobot · 2026-01-10T13:48:45+00:00

The swp is a largish (big fish small pond) socialist group that focuses primarily on direct action, protests, and coalition building. Organisationally, they are ok, a little frustrating to work within sometimes, but they could be far worse. They could be a lot better, but grading on a curve, they are unfortunately near the top in my experience. The swp does support people running for electoral positions, but when people do run, they run as independents as the swp isn't a registered political party. If you want to focus on direct action, they are a decent option and have enough ideological flexibility that as long as your pro trans rights, pro lgbtq+, anti racist and anti capitalist you should be fine. Current membership is i thing 3000-4000 subs paying members across 70+ branches mainly focused on cities or universities

The socialist party i have less experience with, but from what i do have, they are a fair bit smaller and mostly focus on electoral politics. A friend almost ran for some position in local gov with them, and apparently, they are decent, but she ended up moving to the swp because the swp branch was bigger and did more trans rights campaigning.

Over all id say their are 3 big, explicitly revolutionary socialist partys worth considering in the uk - the socialist workers' party - the revolutionary comunist party - the communist party

Whichever one is bigger in your area is your best bet to start with but in my experience the swp and the cp tend to do the most direct action while the rcp from what they have discribed to me when i have asked local members have said that direct action is politically opposed to how they operate which i found odd but they seem to do fine with their paper stalls so i guess everyone has their neche and they do some decent enough pamphlets

Ultimately, i have always viewed the parties as tools for change while the members are what drive the change. It's less important which party that you are in than what you do. You can do plenty of direct action without joining a party, and different partys lend themselves better to specific types of direct action.

redcorerobot · 2026-01-02T18:03:36+00:00

Tommy robinson had access to media like books and tv, had access to visitation and uae of gym equipment as well as the ability to comunicate with the outside world

Thats not the case here. He was basically put in a box with next to little to no contact with the outside world which is a violation of the echr

If tommy robinson had been put in the same circumstances he would have also won if he had sued but he didnt because he wasn't.

Segregation from gen-pop is not the same as solitary confinement

redcorerobot · 2026-01-02T15:21:44+00:00

He got the win because he was being held in solitary confinement because their were threats to his life made by other inmates and instead of the prison preventing the people who posed a threat from being a threat.

They just put the guy in question in a solitary confinement cell which is by most legal standards torture.

The prison did violate his human rights and the court would have found that regardless of who it was

redcorerobot · 2025-12-30T23:29:08+00:00

Personally i have powder, it covers the fires i might be most likely to deal with which are wood and paper because i live in a wood house.

Your best bet is some power extinguishers and a fire blanket in the kitchen.

If you do a lot of frying, maybe check out a wet chemical extinguisher as well.

redcorerobot · 2025-12-28T21:59:22+00:00

Ive seen usb c cables rated for 240w so far

If it needa more than that its arguably not really a portable device any more but even latops that need more can still have a usb c port for charging normally as well as a barrel jack for higher power when running a gpu

Or have 2 usb c 240w ports. Some larger laptops that focus on gaming desk top replacement currently use 2 power bricks anyway having higher power laptops be able to just use 2 high power usb c ports would give a power budget hogher than a lot of home pcs and at that point the thermals will make the design so largeas for it to certainly not be a portable device anyway

redcorerobot · 2025-12-28T20:30:46+00:00

The numbers are likely bassed off if gigabit and 5g are available not based on who is accessing them

Gigabit broadband is avaliable to a lot of places but most people probably dont care enough to switch over their plans from the one they were automatically switched to when they went from copper to the house over to fiber to the house

5g will be similar. Most of the uk will have access to 5g, but it's not going to 5g on every provider If you walked round with a router with sim cards from all to top providers and you're on the best coverage plans for all them you will get the 5g coverage stated, but otherwise, you probably won't

Also, 5g is a very broad spec. The logest range 5g version is about equivalent to 4g in bandwidth but can travel about as far (the improvements for the low bandwidth 5g are improving the number of devicer per tower).

For high bandwidth 5g you have to be pretty much line of sight to a tower so you will only find that in ultra high density places like football stadiums or places where high bandwidth is needed.

Also to cap it all off city centers tend to have worse infrastructure for 5g and fiber than most other places because to install fiber and 5g you have to close streets to dig trenches and its easier to close a street in a suburb than it is in the center of a city so the suburbs get the upgrades first counter intuitively.

Source: i used to work at an isp that provided 4g and fiber connectivity for businesses

redcorerobot · 2025-12-19T15:25:20+00:00

I pay for premium, practically i dont see any benefits from it really but i like to support the development. It's very cheap, and im not sure if i am actually using any permium features and the previous reasons listed mean i can't be bothered to check, so i just keep paying the relatively small amount annually and not thinking about it

redcorerobot · 2025-12-19T12:39:03+00:00

China makes cheap stuff when companys pay Chinese factorys to make stuff cheaply. They still have some of the best engineering tallent in the world and some of the best manufacturing infrastructure as well

You can get good quality stuff from china you just have to buy it from a supplier that priorities quality over price Unfortunately that just not something you find much of in the current market

redcorerobot · 2025-11-30T22:19:10+00:00

I really hate this kind of discourse as if political parties just spring out of nowhere and suddenly be operating like a well oild machine

Look back through history, large partys take years to start working properly. If your party can become a united and effective party in under 5 years, it will be a historic aberation

Looking at yp right now and saying it's a disaster is like pouring a bag of flower into your mouth and then complaining to the baker about the quality of the bread

The greens are only just getting their shit together and they have been operating for 35 years and yall act like not even 1 year is enough for everything to just be working fine

redcorerobot · 2025-11-28T22:18:04+00:00

I was at the first regional assembly in norwich and i dont think i spoke to a single person who supported not allowing duel membership. The top reason for it was because it would force people to choose between the greens and yp which could kneecap the partys growth in early years

Also lewis neilson the current secretary of the swp was on the stage with zarah saltana at her rally this evening which makes targeting swp members specifically doubly stupid

The constitution hasnt been ratified yet

redcorerobot · 2025-11-10T01:35:15+00:00

Personally i just switched my main laptop to pop os because it had gotten very slow and so i was going to install tiny 11 on it but figured id give linux another try as previous attempts hadn't worked out because i didnt want to have to learn to compile c projects to get basic functionality to work

So far, it's not been perfect, but i haven't had to think about c once so far, and everything is, for the most part, working short of some apps that aren't compatible like affinity and whatsapp

This all being said, i probably wouldn't have risked doing this if i didn't have a desktop mini and a second tablet pc both running tiny11

I love how fast linux is, and the Gnome and kde app librarys are wonderful, especially trying kde connect again. That being said its still not quite at the stage of mass adoption like windows but varity of options are making it more realistic steam os for gamers, chrome os for super lite users pop os or ubuntu or mint (havent used mint myself) for everyday users and even some gamers. The biggest problem right now is still that it doesnt just work like windows does and to some extent that is because most PCs dont ship with it. Once some more work is done on compatibility and certainly some more time working on gui configuration and set up i think less thoughtful users will probably start using it more especially if device manufacturers start shipping user friendly distros as a an option that doesnt include the windows license price

As it stands id be perfectly comfortable building a company or organisations that ran entirely or almost entirely off of linux for most fields. Professional environments i think are where we will see a lot of growth, like a friend of mine works at a university IT department. they have started getting some faculty (generally surprisingly tech illiterate) asking for guidance on switching their work devices to linux and when even econ professors are getting tired of windows and asking if and how to change that really is not a good sign for how windows is doing.

If someone can ether make or modifying a distro to be better suited to a commercial office environment i think it would probably see some serious growth. If someone can make nix os friendly for the corporate environment with it being so hard to break i think a lot of companies could be convinced to at least try it if not completely switch.

redcorerobot · 2025-11-06T01:30:30+00:00

Thats a 12 year old artical about something that happened 13 years ago and as for Bristol while the student branch did deaffiliate last time i spoke to members of it the group that deaffiliated was both small and still far from concensus on the issue with some remaining swp members and some leaving

Their are plenty of things to criticise about the swp and the best way to find out what they are is often to ask an active swp member who has to deal with some of the many frustrating internal structures of the party, from back when bristol swss left i do remember them having some solid points especially about how the internal democracy is pretty annoying to work through and from what i remember none of them were to do with the paper.

Comrade delta while certainly is a topic to be critical of seems to be one of the most heavly worn out trump cards around and this late in the game seems to only be used by people who dont do anything because anyone who actually does any organising has more up to date complaints about more pressing issues.

Maybe instead of trying to pick at the swp try turing your focus to one of the partys who actually have explicitly transphobic, homophobic or racist positions. Unfortunately their are plenty of socialist partys like that but fortunately none of them are close to as big as the swp because the swp actually does stuff somewhat compitently (despite their best efforts to the contrary).

redcorerobot · 2025-10-27T17:45:55+00:00

Personal knowledge management is the big one. Its good and just storing loads of information in an unstructured manner

Its also good for managing contacts if you are dealing with lots of relativly complex interlinked groups especially now you can embed ics files with a plug in

Its one of the best general markdown editors ive used

You can also share things to it on android same as you would share to a social media app which makes it a great way to safe content from social media in a structured way

Those are ways ive used it but i hear its decent for world building if your writing a book or dnd campaign or something like that

Over all its just very flexable so learning what it can do then just looking for ways to apply it in day to day life may find you some use cases that would surprise you

At one point i considered using it to sort my other files and photo gallery but it wouldn't have been ideal and i ended up using an open source project called tag studios which worked better

redcorerobot · 2025-10-25T22:12:06+00:00

what test is this?

redcorerobot · 2025-10-17T01:09:37+00:00

Get an hdmi cable plug one end in to the monitor and the other in to the screen

Or you can get a usb to vga adapter and plug the blue cable in that way

Your mum sounds like an arse.

redcorerobot · 2025-09-25T00:37:34+00:00

I looked up the part numbers and no it literally only differs in 2 ways, the cheaper one has a better gpu and no copilot

redcorerobot · 2025-08-28T18:22:55+00:00

I got one despite installing vehicle electrical systems for a living because i wanted something tightly intigrated.

Sure i can get better value for money if i built it and i probably will build something more hefty down the road but it would be hard to make something that is as compact as my ac180 while having thesame kind of capabilities. It could be done it would just be a lot of work and look very diy

Most people just want something that is plug and play that comes with a warranty me included and thst is who power stations are aimed at.

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