I'm was surprised there is any copper in a fibre optic cable. Never really given them much thought before. But to save others googling, they have high voltage power cables and boosters every 100km or so.

Why though?

While I also object to this as a matter of principal, I genuinely wouldn't care if my government knew I flew across the country. Assuming you aren't doing something dodgy, you're putting yourself though some major inconvenience to deny them a datapoint that is actually if no use to them anyway.

Firefox already supports h265

I do, but this isn't a block on simple DNS. I just tested with some of the reported urls, and am getting a webpage with 451 error.
The message says: "Cloudflare has taken steps to limit access to this website through Cloudflare's pass-through security and CDN services within the United Kingdom". I doubt the pirate sites use cloudflare at their end, so I assume it's the ISPs that are using it as some kind of proxy, or new greatfirewall of the UK, hence their involvement - ISPs delegate enforcement to them, if all their traffic is going through them anyway.

Risky strategy, sometimes that same insurance policy gets you suicided, before mysteriously disappearing. Allegedly.

Except this article is about "full fibre" and how widely available it now is, it is not about FTTC which you used to have back when you lived here. Sure, it's not at 100%, but it will have to be pretty soon as the current tiemframe BT has set to remove copper is supposed to be end of 2026 (that's been pushed back a year I think already though).

No, in the UK "fibre" might well just mean FTTC. "Full fibre" specifically means FTTP.

There is also a contraceptive coil, but that is also not likely to be where the OP suggests.

I don't think it's unreasonable to object to doing significant harm to the country side for the sake of green power, it's contradictory and unnecessary. No one objects to underground cables, it's cutting a massive track through the country side to fill with pylons that people object to for a variety of valid reasons. Burying cable costs more on paper, but probably not by the time you've gone through the legal processes to force it on everyone, and the cost of the delays these incur. The problem is trying to do the job cheap, rather than doing it properly, and achieving neither.

The UK is doing just this, of course it would be better if we were further ahead than we are. We are paying the price of a slightly uncoordinated roll out, i.e. lots of new green power generation before power lines and storage, but we are moving in the right direction and will get there in the end. For its faults, a lot of people in parts of Europe, or even the US, would love to have a grid that works as well as ours.

I have 138.0.4 (latest) and none of this is in my address bar. The blog post doesn't say anything about needing to enable it.

It's a phrase, not maths.

1) The summary states the "UFO" was static, and the jet flew around it, so wouldn't be difficult to get it in the middle of the viewfinder. I think it also states this was the best of 6 pictures.
2) The whole picture is a bit blurry, to my eye the "UFO" looks no less blurry than the rest of the image but perhaps your vision is a bit sharper than mine.

That said, hoax is still infinitely more likely than real aliens.

I guess they couldn't find a torrent with leaked nvidia designs to train ChatGPT on - you can't plagiarise stuff you've never seen.

Don't forget poorly differentiated tumour cells may express little PSA, leading to false reassurance from a low level.