Corporal_Punishment
@Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk
- Comment on How did internet viruses spread before the internet was invented! 9 hours ago:
First thing you need to realise, the internet has been around in one form or another for decades.
The internet as we know it has been around for over 30 years.
However, before widespread adoption of the internet, viruses were spread either by BBS services or via disk.
As a young Acorn achimedes user in the late 80s and early 90s I would obtain floppy disks with games on from friends, they would have obtained them from other friends who either downloaded them via BBS or bought them from a dodgy market stall. You could also buy them from magazine advertisements (I once bought a few floppy disks with porn on them).
There was always a risk that one of these disks had a virus on. For me it wasnt an issue. The Acorn used ROM to store the operating system and all your other files were kept on disks. We couldn’t afford a hard drive so we were immune, however I did once have a disk that had a virus called Marburg on it according to our virus killer at the time.
- Comment on Why does it seem like teenagers killing people is way more commonplace in the UK now? 20 hours ago:
I was in the police from early 2004 until end of 2016.
Things were significantly and statistically worse back then, including violence. The kids especially were fucking feral.
I worked in a predominantly rural area and in 2004/2005 our station was firebombed twice, police officers were regularly assaulted and we would have to attend incidents as a three because we needed someone to look after the vehicle whilst dealing with a job.
It wasn’t a friday night if we weren’t having bottles chucked at us from alleyways, and youth drunkeness and antisocial behaviour was rife.
Over the years we managed to get a grip on it. Council evicted a lot of the troublesome families and we locked up the rest. By the time I left, the job was almost boring.
- Comment on Failed asylum seeker families to be offered up to £40k to leave 1 day ago:
I know logic suggests that this is cheaper than following the legal process to remove someone, but fuck me is this a brain dead idea. Its as if they want Reform to get in
- Comment on BrewDog bought by US cannabis and drinks firm for £33m, costing nearly 500 jobs 2 days ago:
I’m no fan of brewdog, but yet again a British company is being bought out and asset stripped by an american conglomerate.
- Comment on Is Cuba okay? 1 week ago:
No, they’re socialist. And they’d be doing fine if America wasn’t trying to starve them all
- Comment on Met police using AI tools supplied by Palantir to flag officer misconduct 1 week ago:
Would be interested to see the data protection impact assessments that were done before the software was rolled out.
Particularly how the benefits of using this outweigh the rights and freedoms of the data subjects. Would also be interested to see the consultations that took place.
Except its the police. I bet they did fuck all.
- Comment on "Moon landing" photo where the angles of the shadows are all off. 2 weeks ago:
Oh he’s absolutely lost.
Fortunately he at least still believes vaccines are essential for children’s health, which is good as I have young nieces and nephews.
- Comment on "Moon landing" photo where the angles of the shadows are all off. 2 weeks ago:
“They’re in on it”
- Comment on "Moon landing" photo where the angles of the shadows are all off. 2 weeks ago:
My brother believes the moon landings were faked and filmed on a giant soundstage.
He cited all sorts of “evidence” including the flag flapping in the “wind”.
I asked him why, after going to all the trouble and expense of trying to convincingly fake the moon landings, would NASA install fans.
- Comment on Lloyds investigating after using staff’s bank account data in pay talks 2 weeks ago:
Clear breach of the GDPR confidentiality principle.
The data might have been aggregated and anonymised by the time it got to the presentation, but along the way individuals have had their bank accounts accessed and their accounts viewed for reasons other than what was required to provide banking services to that individual.
- Comment on Openreach said yes to full fibre broadband, then branded it ‘uneconomical’ 2 weeks ago:
When I couldn’t get full fibre broadband becaise the connections were fucked up on my estate I just registered my interest with openreach.
Couple of months later I got an email to say the issues had been rectified and now I have full fibre internet.
It didnt occur to me to complain to the press…
- Comment on Officers call for police cars to be equipped with guns 2 weeks ago:
Agree. I’d have been fine with a middle ground
- Comment on Beyond fucked up 3 weeks ago:
I’d forgotten they did this with Charlotte Church. Christ.
- Comment on Beyond fucked up 3 weeks ago:
Cool, thank you for your valuable insight.
- Comment on Beyond fucked up 3 weeks ago:
This is grim, but those of us born in the 80s will remember how absolutely obsessed the media was with Britney Spears becoming “legal” and reporting on her virginity every chance they got.
- Comment on Retro StarCraft prizes 3 weeks ago:
I mined a couple of bitcoin on my mobile phone right at the very beginning.
Scratched my head, couldn’t see the point of it, especially as it made my phone hot.
So I deleted the app and the coins.
Sigh.
- Comment on Growing number of adults avoid booze, says NHS survey 3 weeks ago:
I’ve stopped drinking during the week, and cut down at the weekends. Went out last night and insisted on driving so I had a reason not to.
Mainly health reasons, I’m 42 and the pounds don’t fall off as quickly as they used to
- Comment on Price of average UK home passes £300,000 for first time, Halifax says 4 weeks ago:
Whilst this is horrifying, it still only really applies to anything south of Nottingham. With the exception of outliers like York and Leeds most of the Midlands and North is affordable.
- Comment on When you know your boss is an insane moron 4 weeks ago:
Or have a wank.
- Comment on Universal basic income needed to cushion blow from AI job losses, says UK minister 5 weeks ago:
UBI will never happen. There will be too many right wing grifting gammons like Farage, Lowe and Mogg who continually put it down
- Comment on Ex-Tory Home Secretary Braverman defects to Reform UK 5 weeks ago:
When “drain the swamp” starts to sound more and more ridiculous
- Comment on Ex-Tory Home Secretary Braverman defects to Reform UK 5 weeks ago:
Agree…
Farage and pals are totally hanging out of Putin’s arse and a lot of what they do and say will no doubt make him happy, especially when it comes to support for Ukraine.
Not sure which of their policies are the same as Putins though
- Comment on Ban phones throughout the school day, Phillipson tells teachers 5 weeks ago:
They already are banned in schools.
Difficulty is parents are arseholes and dont support the schools.
- Comment on Why Do We Keep Fretting About the Future of the Full English? 5 weeks ago:
It’s another thing for right wing grifters to get pointlessly upset about.
In the real world we dont give a shit if people eat them or not.
Personally, I love eating them. But as a 42 year old bloke who could do with losing some weight, I try and avoid them except once every few months.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Explains a lot i guess
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I’m not bothered about trying to get back now I’ve discovered Lemmy. I did try and evade the ban but they must have flagged hardware info. Despite registering with a VPN and fake email I got shadow banned immediately
My wife uses reddit so don’t want her getting caught up in the ban
- Comment on What's the best free version of word? 5 weeks ago:
You can probably get it cheaper, but I’ve used this site a few times and it’s never failed me
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I got a life ban for saying idiots riding their motorbikes on pavements deserved a slap.
Reddit is shit.
- Comment on What are the limits to masked so called ICE agents? Are they just let off the hook and disobey laws while not identifying themselves? Why can't I be in the right by them stopping me first and shoot? 1 month ago:
The murder, yes we have seen. The rape though? Not heard that one
- Comment on If the protests in Iran win/topple the government what will it look like immediately afterwards? Also what would be the good or bad about installing a monarchy again? 1 month ago:
They won’t. There’s no precedent in that region of the world for what you’re suggesting.
It’ll start off with a noble idea but would, at best, end up looking like Russia.