#MikesElectricStuff recommends some fast-turnaround #PCBA companies in the #UK: <https://hcd-electronics.co.uk/> which he used to use and <https://www.fringeelectronics.co.uk/> (not fast), plus <https://www.ablcircuits.co.uk> (which he hasn't tried) and <https://www.pcbtrain.co.uk/> (“nearest thing UK has to JLC, but at much higher prices”). Also a discussion thread about how to qualify suppliers and reduce BOM delays. #electronics #hardware #manufacturing
on 02026-09-03Kara Dimitruk and Ben Southwood claim that the #history of capitalism in the #UK and specifically #England is due to the Glorious Revolution in 01688, which allowed Parliament to “untangle excessively strong and complex property rights”, ending the “vetocracy” that paralyzed #development. “The Glorious Revolution resolved the conflict between landowners and the Crown by handing the country to the landowners.” William of Orange invaded, James II fled to France, and William and Mary were crowned.
on 02026-08-06#David-Arday quits Cambridge following #plagiarism accusations he says are motivated by #racism and are definitely from racists. #UK #politics
on 02026-08-06#video about radio hams in the northwest #UK who couldn’t track down a nuisance radio operator called the “Laughing Policeman” for years
on 02026-04-28#4chan #Ofcom #UK #censorship #lawsuit filing history. #human-rights
on 02026-04-14#news: #Cyprus wants to remove its #UK bases after #Iran attacked one of them! #politics
on 02026-03-19“Chinese #EVs banned from #UK military sites over spying concerns.” “Staff were also advised to avoid having official conversations within electric cars from #China (...) officials are concerned that microphones mounted within the car which are supposed to be used for voice activation systems and phone calls, could instead be used to eavesdrop by the Chinese state.” #security #politics
on 02026-01-16#Scott-Helme computes that his #UK #solar #energy setup (three #Tesla Powerwalls for £25420 and a £13940 Perlight #Enphase #photovoltaic array of 4.2kWp, which is US$18753 or US$4.46/Wp, roughly 45 times current wholesale solar module #pricing) saved him £3078 in 02025, which at £39360 would be a 7.8% return on investment during that year. But he only had “export capabilities” for 7 months, and he anticipates that the ROI would have been 9.2% if he’d had it all year. No thoughts on what the ROI will be when utility-scale solar drops the cost of grid power and eliminates his export capabilities.
on 02026-01-13#Farage is trying to revoke #Alaa’s British citizenship and get him deported back to #Egypt. #UK #politics
on 02026-01-13Using a #VPN to escape the #UK #censorship of #Imgur’s geoblocking in response to #Ofcom
on 02025-11-28SaSu (Sanctioned Suicide) is attempting to stop #UK #censorship by IP-blocking the whole country, but apparently that’s not enough. #human-rights #politics #Ofcom
on 02025-11-11#history of #ribociclib getting approved in the #UK in only July of this year. #medicine #politics #cancer #ciclibs
on 02025-11-05#4Chan is apparently in a lawsuit with #UK’s #Ofcom over the new #censorship law
on 02025-10-17Journalist Jemima Kelly from the Financial Times somehow ended up at a party in Surrey at Norman McKenzie-Richmond’s house with #Moldbug. #politics #USA #UK #toread
on 02025-10-02#DHH comes out as believing that descendants of immigrants to Britain aren’t “native Brits” and that he wouldn’t want to live around them: “I thought I might move there one day. That was then. Now, I wouldn’t dream of it. London is no longer the city I was infatuated with in the late ‘90s and early 2000s. Chiefly because it’s no longer full of native Brits. In 2000, more than sixty percent of the city were native Brits. By 2024, that had dropped to about a third. A statistic as evident as day when you walk the streets of London now.” Then he endorses Tommy Robinson! “But a demographic nightmare worse than [the prospect of Denmark being less ethnically Danish] has already enveloped London!” #racism #politics #UK
on 02025-09-28Graham Linehan got arrested upon entering the #UK because he tweeted, “If a trans-identified male is in a female-only space, he is committing a violent, abusive act. Make a scene, call the cops and if all else fails, punch him in the balls.” He thinks this was an unreasonable response. #politics #trans
on 02025-09-28#UK fires ambassador to #USA Peter Mandelson “over links to #Epstein” #politics #news
on 02025-09-11#UK #news: #facial-recognition vans with #neural-networks to search for, supposedly, sex criminals. #human-rights #privacy
on 02025-08-13#UK government recommends deleting old emails to save water #politics #humor
on 02025-08-12“Sir Keir Starmer’s government is seeking a way out of a clash with the #Trump administration over the #UK’s demand that #Apple provide it with access to secure customer data, two senior British officials have told the Financial Times.
The officials both said the Home Office, which ordered the tech giant in January to grant access to its most secure cloud storage system, would probably have to retreat in the face of pressure from senior leaders in Washington, including Vice President JD #Vance. (...) US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi #Gabbard has also suggested the order would be an “egregious violation” of Americans’ privacy that risked breaching the two countries’ data agreement.” #privacy #human-rights #USA #politics
on 02025-07-21#UK and #India sign a deal to drop #tariffs. #news
on 02025-05-10#video #news of #UK defense minister Healey listing #weaponry sent to #Ukraine last year: “10000 #drones” is the only thing worth mentioning. Hegseth says #Trump’s approach to the war is that the war must end. “We want, like you, a sovereign and prosperous Ukraine, but we must start by recognizing that returning to Ukraine’s pre-2014 borders is an unrealistic objective. (...) The United States does not believe that NATO membership for Ukraine is a realistic outcome of a negotiated settlement. (...) As part of any security guarantee, there will not be US troops deployed to Ukraine.” Not sure what he thinks about Donetsk and Luhansk. #politics
on 02025-02-12#USA (especially #Trump) persuaded #Australia, #New-Zealand, #Japan, #France, #Germany, and the #UK to ban or partly ban #Huawei after adding them to the #export-controls list in 02019; the UK in particular mandated removal of Huawei equipment from #5G networks by 02027. #HarmonyOS #politics #China
on 02024-11-27right-wing #news #video claiming #UK export controls to Russia over the #Ukraine war have been ineffective because the same exported goods are just flowing in through neighboring countries in the Caucasus and central Asia such as Georgia and “what we would see as the Stans”, while UK luxury car exports to those same countries have “skyrocketed”, “particularly #Azerbaijan”. #Clickbait headline promises information on an announcement of new sanctions, but no such information is available. Fuck you, Sky News.
on 02024-11-26The Sun (garbage #UK tabloid) claims NATO tank #weaponry is too heavy for #Ukraine’s bridges or indeed those in most of Eastern Europe, which have a 60-tonne limit, and with active protection systems too heavy for even the ground. Lots of talking head footage and even repeating stock footage, so kind of a trash #video
on 02024-06-26argument by Caitlin Johnstone that what #Assange was accused of was #rape, but that the allegation was not credible. #politics #history #UK #Sweden #USA #WikiLeaks
on 02024-06-26Jemima Khan from 02013 on how #Assange alienated his allies #politics #history #UK #Sweden #USA #WikiLeaks
on 02024-06-26rebutting #Assange #rape allegations from Nils Melzer, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture #politics #history #UK #Sweden #USA #WikiLeaks
on 02024-06-26#UK prisons also allow you to keep your wedding ring. #crime
on 02024-06-23in the #UK “All prisoners are allowed to own pens, pencils, sketch pads and scrapbooks, playing cards and jigsaws.” #crime
on 02024-06-23Craig Murray seeks protection in #Switzerland for political prosecution as a terrorist. #UK #politics
on 02023-11-01someone on the orange website said his parents in the #UK couldn’t buy food because of the supply-chain #crisis
on 02021-10-09shortage of food in #UK due to fuel #crisis; 15% of respondents could not buy fuel, 17% could not buy essential food items in the last fortnight, 23% could not buy non-essential food items
on 02021-10-09#paper on “#Epidemiology of post-#covid syndrome” finds alarming death rates after hospital release in #UK, Boldison et al. 02021
on 02021-01-24The Long #COVID paper from the #UK ONS with truly staggering rates of new diabetes and cardiovascular disease among survivors, even those who were not hospitalized
on 02021-01-21#Russia broadcaster Russia Today (RT) has all its #banking accounts in the #UK closed, effective December 12. #politics
on 02016-10-17