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https://act.38degrees.org.uk/act/no-subscription-model-for-bbc
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To: Culture Secretary, Lisa Nandy
Petition text

Reject GB News’ proposal to gut the BBC and turn it into a Netflix-style subscription service.
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Why is this important?

GB News just submitted a radical proposal calling for the BBC to be completely gutted – cut back, scrapped, or hidden behind a Netflix-style subscription service. Shows like Strictly Come Dancing and The Traitors, cancelled.

The plan is also being described as a “blueprint for Reform”, showing the threat to our BBC if the Reform Party wins the next election. With ministers currently making huge decisions about the BBC’s future, we can’t let these ideas take hold.

But if hundreds of thousands of us sign this petition today, we can prevent ministers bowing to GB News' demands AND show the Reform Party how unpopular these ideas are!

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https://act.38degrees.org.uk/act/no-subscription-model-for-bbc
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While waiting for my train to pull into Oxenholme station this afternoon, we we parked next to the steam engine 70000 Britannia with steam up while she was having some work done and I got a video of one of her coupling or connecting rods carried away.

Like 60163 Tornado on Friday, there was a coach with her.

There is a new Rust security alert: Rustsec-2026-0007 aka CVE‑2026‑25541.
I'm taking my understanding of this bug from
https://windowsforum.com/threads/rust-bytes-vulnerability-cve-2026-25541-memory-safety-in-bytesmut-reserve.403939/

As I understand it, Rust is a computer language designed and "sold" as being much safer than other fast languages, such as C and C++ precisely because those languages are very susceptible to bugs like this.

What am I missing ?

It seems that Royal Mail (a privately owned company) is prioritising profitable parcels over letter post.
https://act.38degrees.org.uk/act/royal-mail-letters-eoi

OK. It isn't strictly password advice.
I have just received an email from Google with the subject: [Action Advised] Review Google Cloud credential security best practices - not sure why, I have a gmail account but no live cloud stuff.

This is the bit that annoys me: Disable Dormant Keys: Audit your active keys and decommission any that show no activity over the last 30 days.

The problem is that many internet resources that want/need to be secured, I do not access frequently.

Ah. Maybe the point is that *I* don't need a continued identity, but having one makes my interaction with the resource more profitable to them.

Good Money Week (6-12 October) is fast approaching with some exciting events
and resources to help you reflect and act for a fairer, greener economy.

Good Money Sunday – 12 October
Our brand new resources for Good Money Sunday are now available!

These include:
* Worship resources, including hymn suggestions, prayers and notes for a sermon
* Lectionary reflections for Sunday 12 October
* Inspiring stories, from people who have taken steps to use their money for the good of the planet
* Practical ideas for action, for both individuals and churches

Good Money Sunday resources
(https://justmoney.org.uk/good-money-sunday/#GoodMoneySundayresources)
If you can’t use these resources on 12 October, you are welcome to adapt and use them at another point in the year.

Good Money Week events
We are also running a number of events in and around Good Money Week – check
them out and sign up here.
Events (https://justmoney.org.uk/event/)
EVENT: Energise Africa, Friday 19th September 6:30pm
Join us to hear about the work of Energise Africa, enabling investment in
clean, affordable energy for communities in Africa, and how churches can get
involved. We will hear from Ray Coyle, CEO of Energise Africa, as well as
members of our own team. This webinar is part of our work with Black Majority
Churches, and is aimed at pastors, church workers and leaders, but all are
welcome.
Sign up here (https://justmoney.org.uk/event/energise-africa/)
If you have any questions about Good Money Week, Good Money Sunday and how to
get involved, please don’t hesitate to get in touch at info@justmoney.org.uk
(mailto: info@justmoney.org.uk) .

Every blessing,

Annie Sharples
Communications and Events Coordinator

P.S. Make Them Pay rally
We are part of the Make Them Pay coalition, which is mobilising in central
London on Saturday 20 September, demanding that the Government taxes the
super-rich, protects workers, and makes polluters pay for the climate crisis.
You can find out more at www.makethempay.org.uk. If you are planning to
attend the vigil and/or the rally, please do let us know by emailing
info@justmoney.org.uk (mailto: info@justmoney.org.uk) , and we can put you in
touch with fellow JustMoney supporters.

There will be an interfaith vigil
(https://www.makethempay.org.uk/interfaith-vigil/) before the march,
organised by Faith for the Climate, meeting at Cavendish Square Gardens at
11:30am. Do sign up (https://www.makethempay.org.uk/interfaith-vigil/) so
they know who to expect.

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Microsoft Defender is available (free) for Ubuntu !
# apt show mdatp
Package: mdatp
Version: 101.25042.0003
Priority: optional
Section: devel
Maintainer: Microsoft Defender Group <mdatplinuxpackages@microsoft.com>
Installed-Size: 530 MB
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.23)
Download-Size: 157 MB
APT-Sources: https://packages.microsoft.com/ubuntu/25.04/prod plucky/main amd64 Packages
Description: Microsoft Defender (Production)
Microsoft Defender is a complete endpoint
security solution. It delivers preventative protection, post-breach
detection, automated investigation, and response.

It takes about half a gig of disk (roughly the same as ClamAV IIRC):
Download size: 157 MB
Space needed: 530 MB

From time to time I read about putting solar panels in space, where they will collect more energy, not use up the limited surface area of our planet, and (thanks to orbital geometry) power our lives at night as well as day.
[ If we had a fat enough wire going around the world, we could use terrestrial solar to power the night-time hemisphere too. ]

Sunlight on Earth is safeish.
In the UK six people a day die from skin cancer; as far as I can determine most of these are caused by exposure to sunlight.
If I went to the tropics and exposed my whole body to the sun I would get sunburnt and regret it within a day.

If an energy beam is weaker than sunlight, isn't it going to need as much receiving equipment as terrestrial solar ?
Put another way, if the beam is twice as energy-dense as the sun we are only going to halve the ground area we need to devote to solar panels or radio meshes or whatever.

So we can beam energy down from space without frying everything in its path, but we are working in the safety margin; if something goes wrong, a member of the public could be inconvenienced unless they were already avoiding legitimate activities.

Maybe some other sort of beam is safer than sunlight ?
If so we can have a more concentrated energy beam that people can more safely walk through.
Microwaves cook my tea, so I doubt that a megajoule of microwaves will do an order of magnitude less damage to my body than a megajoule of sunlight.

It seems to me that a focused beam is too big a risk.
While a diffuse beam could be technically safe, a system that was socially acceptable is unlikely to be a financial improvement on solar panels - even if the energy put into the beam cost nothing.

Clouds block sunlight and u/v; what sorts of radiation do they allow through ? Do we have better protection against this and does a constant supply give a greater energy yield ?

What have I missed ?

How would you feel about Musk's Mars colonisers having a dummy run Antarctica ?

There is a common feeling that Antarctica should be "preserved" and saved from being spoiled by man.

On the other hand, if Musk's people can't survive in Antarctica they don't stand a chance on Mars (though it does have areas without half-years of light and dark).