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- Comment on Brand will face 'hell on earth' in Wandsworth prison, says former inmate 4 hours ago:
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- Comment on Oh, Hereditary (2018), you will always be that girl🖤 23 hours ago:
Funny, I just finished watching Midnight Cowboy. Relentlessly bleak. Highly recommended.
- Comment on Phones to be banned from pupils' bags or pockets under stricter rules for schools in England 3 days ago:
Good. There is literally no reason to have a phone in school. Most schools already have bans already and a few I know have had EXTREMELY belligerent parents cause havock because they insist on being able to constantly monitor their children. Having the government on side is helpful. The kids will manage. The ones that complain the most are also the ones that need time away from their phones the most, and they quickly get used to it.
- Comment on Choose wisely 3 days ago:
How long does the enbiggenining process take? Instant, fair enough, but what if it takes a few seconds? Those are seconds you could have spent on the bean.
- Comment on World's Biggest Battery-Electric Ferry Enters Commercial Service 5 days ago:
Oh, yeah, sure they get to plug in a goddamn boat no questions asked, and yet my phone says I shouldn’t connect it’s charger if it’s wet. Once again, it’s one rule for the elites and another rule for the rest of us. The hypocrisy is sickening.
~/s, ovbs~
- Comment on World's Biggest Battery-Electric Ferry Enters Commercial Service 5 days ago:
Leave the car behind and joule be saving the planet and your wallet.
- Comment on What would you do if you got message that says "do not look outside" 5 days ago:
Roll my eyes and get pissed off that my local TV channel is having technical problems. Again.
- Comment on Everywhere I go I see this stupid AI gen font 6 days ago:
Comic Sans was hand-crafted, technically excellent, highly legible and served it’s purpose perfectly. The only thing it has in common with this shite is that people used it for fucking e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g.
- Comment on Everywhere I go I see this stupid AI gen font 6 days ago:
Comic Sans was - is - a frigging superb font. It was destroyed by being abused.
- Comment on The UK has its own network of Flock-style AI cameras. So where’s the outrage? 6 days ago:
We don’t have “Flock-style” cameras at all. We have a statutory system with a strictly defined remit that was subject to years of argument, scrutiny and rewrites before it was turned on, not an invasive profit factory run by ruthless, messianic psychopaths. Secondly, our cops are all educated to degree level, they’re not just a bunch of otherwise futureless thugs who sit a three-week impossible-to-fail class and are given a gun. Neither is perfect, far from it, but both are orders of magnitude better than what you have the Land Of The Free™.
I know enough about the ANPR systems on public roads that the UK police have access to. Firstly, it’s centrally managed through the PNC and every single query is logged: each query has to me made by an authorised officer who signs in with a federated identity and has to make the query in the context of an investigation - any query made without that immediately launches to an internal investigation and instant no-questions-asked dismissal is on the cards for anyone who makes a query without official justification. You know how American cops can shoot a protester and go back to full work after a two-week fully-paid break? Last month a cop in the UK was fired and blocked from ever working in the police, as a security guard or even as a doorman for the rest of his life without any possibility of appeal. He stole a reusable carrier bag from a supermarket.
Also, different people in different organisations have different levels of access. The DVLA can see if a particular license plate has been logged anywhere in a given month to see if an untaxed car is in use, for example, but they can’t see anything else. A traffic cop can see if a car has insurance, tax and an MOT certificate, but not the owner’s name or address. The biggest loophole at the moment is private car park owners who can ask the DVLA for the details of the owner of a car to issue parking fines, but that’s being clamped down on and, regardless, is nothing to do with public cameras.
- Comment on Bleh. These were gross 1 week ago:
Your name is an anagram of “go, dragomen”.
- Comment on The horror! 1 week ago:
A friend of mine loves in Vermont. He told me about a house that used to give our little black-and-white comics full of Republican-flavour Christian propaganda that were so bad he actually thought they were parody. But, yeah, fuck all that shit. If it doesn’t make your spit hurt, what’s the point?
- Comment on Did I hear powdered toast? 1 week ago:
~hmmmm…~
Mist.
- Comment on Move over powered milk, it onion time 1 week ago:
Goannae get me cuuuube, Mort-ee.
- Comment on Don't stop until you hit the saturation point! 2 weeks ago:
I used to work with someone who, mid-afternoon, would declare “ooOOooOo, I think it’s time for a ⨍ɑׁׅ֮ꪀׁׅᝯׁᨮ꫶ׁׅ֮ ᝯׁᨵׁׅ⨍⨍ꫀׁׅܻꫀׁׅܻ” and slink off to the kitchen. We had a Nespresso so I just assumed it was one of those but, no, what she did was this:
- Mug of full-cream milk with several teaspoons of Coffee Mate added
- Microwave until steaming/bubbling
- Mix in three or four Canderel
- Mix in a teaspoon of Nescafé instant coffee
- Vanilla syrup
- Add a couple of coffee granules on the surface where they can dissolve to make a pattern because “that’s what they do at Starbucks”.
So, yeah, these people walk amongst us.
- Comment on They Take the Character Limit Off Twitter and This is What Happens 2 weeks ago:
Consider yourself embiggened.
- Comment on Anon thinks she's exaggerating 2 weeks ago:
Perhaps she’ll d- EVERYONE IN DPRK IS WELL AND HAS ACCESS TO EXCELLENT HEALTHCARE
- Comment on GB News is allowed to promote Reform, so I’m setting up Woke TV 2 weeks ago:
Tongue in cheek, obvs, but it’s easy to forget that GB News hemorrhages cash and can only function because a bunch of foreign billionaires provide it with an unlimited cash stream, a form of financing that only right-wing extremists can call upon, sadly. Does make me wonder, though, why Ofcom doesn’t have rules about channels being viable, lest they become puppets of their paymasters…
- Comment on Anons text isn't green but that's far from the worst. 3 weeks ago:
I feel conflicted about even upvoting this repost. It’s nice to know I still have some scruples left.
- Comment on Time of death: 1:19 am October 18 3 weeks ago:
It’s not as bad as you think. If you read it carefully you’ll see that you can press any key to make the banner go away. I’m so glad I could help 🤗
- Comment on Ketamine addict Elon Musk believes puppets are attacking him 3 weeks ago:
Ketamine addict Elon Musk believes puppets are attacking him
Every accusation is a confession.
- Comment on You've Just Been Hit By The Front Burner Gang 3 weeks ago:
Hmmm…
- Comment on You've Just Been Hit By The Front Burner Gang 3 weeks ago:
Where all the juices slorp off to so chef can have a little lap-lap-lap if they’re getting a bit tired.
- Comment on trap 3 weeks ago:
Fuck you. Upvoted obvs but still fuck you.
- Comment on People playing loud music on buses could face £100 fine 3 weeks ago:
“How dare we deal with minor problems while there major problems even if those major problems are also already being dealt with and we have the capacity to do both.”
- Comment on People playing loud music on buses could face £100 fine 3 weeks ago:
No, it won’t. I’ve been on buses and trains where this has happened. “We will not be moving until the freeloaders depart or the British Transport Police arrive.” Well, the people who don’t care they’re pissing off everyone around them already won’t care if it’s being pointed out, meanwhile all of the paying customers are being delayed, being made late for work, being made to miss the connections.
- Comment on Zack Polanski says application of Zionism is racist and no state has right to exist 3 weeks ago:
I agree with what he says up to a point, but then he always says something else and I’m like, no I don’t agree with that bit, that bit is stupid.
Well, if your comment isn’t a self-illustrative example of this I’m not sure what is.
- Comment on true story 4 weeks ago:
I visited the US a few years back and wanted to do what the local do so we went to Applebee’s. I had the most boring steak ever with a bunch of flavourless sides and later on ended up in A&E after I had a violent allergic reaction with an additive that is illegal in virtually every other country.
- Comment on Anything less than 1 liters is completely unacceptable 4 weeks ago:
Maybe, you can keep your hands clean by suckling directly though.
- Comment on Why dont we say "WWW" in front of website URLs anymore? 4 weeks ago:
Something I’ve not seen anyone else mention is the increase in processing power. It used to be that running a file server, mail transport, web server, etc were full-time jobs that a whole machine might be dedicated to. DNS allowed different addresses to resolve to different IP addresses which usually meant different machines, so each machine got it’s own domain. But different services run on different ports so it’s actually possible to run a web server (ports 80 and 443), email (25 and 465), file services (20 and 21), etc on a single machine with a single IP address - if the machine is capable enough. Even in situations where there are still multiple machines running different services, routers and reverse proxies have become more powerful too, so multiple services or even multiple versions of a single service can share a single external IP and domain name with the traffic being routed to the appropriate endpoint.
And, as others have said, saying “WWW” usually takes longer than saying the rest of the address so fuck that.
