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- Comment on Do British people say "brr" when they're cold? If so, how do they pronounce the R? 1 week ago:
We kind of go “brur”.
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 1 week ago:
My fork is the correct fork. None of these are my fork.
In the event of a fork loss, any of these forks could become my fork after a period of time, probably about a month or so until it felt right.
- Comment on UK bans EU cheese and meat imports to prevent foot and mouth disease spreading - BBC News 3 weeks ago:
Oddly it looks like the article is only referring to people coming back from holiday, bringing a bit of meat or cheese with them. It doesn’t seem to cover the cargo ships full of the stuff.
Obviously this makes sense, as whenever I go on holiday and bring back some delicious foreign cheese or meat, the first thing I always do is go down to my local farm and share it out with all the animals :)
- Comment on Michael Gove gets lifetime seat in UK’s House of Lords 3 weeks ago:
“Hi, is that Guy Fawkes? I’ve got a little job for you”
- Comment on Remember when she fucked up the economy 3 weeks ago:
I think others have pretty much covered her social and economic destruction of the UK, so I’ll add “Section 28”.
To “protect our children”, she introduced the policies to ban any books/songs/art/plays etc from schools which mentioned or suggested homosexuality in any way neutral or positive - obviously this led to an increase in the already fairly popular “gay bashing”.
Thankfully nothing like that would happen anywhere now, outside of the few countries Vladimir Putin runs.
- Comment on Adobe Creative Curse 4 weeks ago:
I’m assuming you’ve already tried Scribus? scribus.net
If not, worth a pop (again?). You can export an existing indesign project as an idml file, and import that into Scribus and see what’s broken :)
How well it’ll work is a little dependent on how complicated your projects are, or how embedded you are in Indesign or the wider Adobe ecosystem. In truth, I don’t know the full extent of Indesign’s abilities - but you can absolutely use Scribus to produce professional large scale graphics and short run publications etc for print though - though that’s obviously a little dependent on what format/spec your printer wants off you.
If you’re just using it for single page posters/graphics etc, Inkscape covers a lot of the same ground too.
- Comment on Russell Brand charged with rape and sexual assault 4 weeks ago:
This is Russell Brand we’re talking about.
I think you meant:
“He always seemed a bit rapey-wapey”
- Comment on Petition: Ban behavioural data extraction for advertising 1 month ago:
Tony Blair’s in 2006 originally, then it got binned off for a while, but came back under the Tory/Libdem coalition, which has gradually morphed into what we now use. More info on wiki page
Sadly doesn’t give us a very good idea behind the intent without, as you say, reading a lot more about it.
- Comment on Be alert. Don't let Santa trick you 1 month ago:
“That’s a challenging wank”
Sean Lock on “8 out of 10 Cats” (skip to 3 minutes in)
- Comment on Petition: Ban behavioural data extraction for advertising 1 month ago:
Short answer : Not a lot.
Long answer : If they reach a certain amount, they get discussed in parliament and you get an official response to the issue. The response is normally “no”. I don’t know of any occasion of one causing major changes.
What it does do though, is force (somebody within) the government to take a position on an issue, and they can no longer say they are ignorant of it. Having an official response means they must explain their counterarguments and reason for denial. If this is then brought up by other means in future, you know what you’re arguing against.
Depending on where you live and who your local MP is, you may get better results writing to your local MP, who in theory should be supporting the views of their constituents.
Ultimately, it’s a bit weak. Perhaps the response is worth it, as a stepping stone to further methods on an issue - though it’s been suggested that it’s a distraction, making people fill in a form to “get the anger out of their system”, and then not protesting or raising awareness by other means.
I still fill them in, but I don’t expect much from them.
- Comment on Asking the important questions. 1 month ago:
I wish I could be a big enough
thotcapitalist to sell my farts for $45k.You should give them away for free, comrade. They are the people’s wind.
- Comment on Pineapple was never the problem 1 month ago:
I know society expects me to dislike a macaroni cheese pizza, but that looks absolutely delicious.
- Comment on Meta seeks to block further sales of ex-employee’s scathing memoir 1 month ago:
Also available on Kobo (Canadian Company) as an e-book. It does contain Adobe DRM though, so you would need to remove that with Calibre if you want to keep it on other devices.
- Comment on Got y'all some nightmare fuel 1 month ago:
Yeah, but with “RFK Jr” in charge of everything medical, and Donald’s age, poor health and probable lack of a vagina, I don’t anticipate either the baby or the birthing-parent surviving childbirth.
So when we take the horrific pain, and 0% survival rate into account, perhaps it’s more of a "twisted and bleakly sadistic dream’ than a nightmare?
- Comment on Murica 2 months ago:
Revolution to mean revolving/rotating
- Comment on Current chain of command 2 months ago:
Surely the child has a toy bear or glove puppet that outranks Trump in the chain of command?
- Comment on What do you use to digitize your old vacation VHS? From SECAM tapes?!? 2 months ago:
The TV card looks promising - I’ve never tried one myself - do let us know what you end up with, and how well it works - it’s good to know about other options :)
- Comment on What do you use to digitize your old vacation VHS? From SECAM tapes?!? 2 months ago:
The MiniDV camcorder was being used basically for its Firewire output (ignoring the actual tape deck), but I don’t think Firewire tended to be used for output on any VHS kit.
I can’t confirm the linked one off Amazon definitely works, but it’s that type of device I used with Linux, just a ten year old one. I think I ended up running it through VLC to capture, or possibly I’d found a small dedicated program for it. I’d likely use OBS, if I was doing it again.
I don’t know why it killed your previous device - that looks a lot more well made than the shoddy little wire thing I was using!
- Comment on What do you use to digitize your old vacation VHS? From SECAM tapes?!? 2 months ago:
I’ve previously used a bog-standard £20 “video capture to USB” device (like this sort of thing (amazon link)), but from about 10-15 years ago. That particular one says it does Secam, apparently.
Anyway, this went into an S/Video/RCA to SCART adapter, which went into the VHS player.
The VHS player played PAL, SECAM and NTSC. The majority of tapes I was working with were PAL, but there were a handful of SECAM and occasionally NTSC, so I can’t 100% confirm that device worked with SECAM - but If it didn’t… this other method must have…
The other method I used was running the signal through an old Mini-DV camera, which I guess must have had an input through the AV port (3.5mm jack from RCA) or an Svideo port, then it outputted through the DV/iLink/Firewire port, then into the Firewire port of the computer - through this “daisychain”, you could capture VHS directly into Mini-DV capturing software, but also output video from the computer directly to VHS.
Bear in mind I was mostly doing this between 2002 and 2008 (and even using “Windows XP”), so I can’t guarantee that pathway even works these days.
The USB capture card method I’ve done far more recently on Linux.
- Comment on "Reach" news websites 2 months ago:
Other than the ads, there’s also the issue of them posting local articles for other towns on all of their linked websites, without necessarily specifying what town it relates to.
Especially “fun” if they have an article about a really interesting local project or a shock workplace closure etc, and get everyone excited/worried but the newspaper website doesn’t reveal it’s actually from an unrelated town 300 miles away.
- Comment on Twinkle Tush 2 months ago:
Looks like someone’s been reading the Thesaurarse / Thesaurass.
- Comment on I will take no arguments 2 months ago:
That sounds amazing. I’d love to see a photo. I’d planned a similar project with an old radio, but it’s one of those things that’s been on my “I’ll get round to it eventually” list for 5 years :)
- Comment on I will take no arguments 2 months ago:
I guess it’s very much a matter of taste.
Ten years or so earlier, you could still get a TV where the sides of the case were made of wood. Wood, metal and black plastic throughout. Physical buttons that went ‘clunk’, a physical slider to adjust the volume, a metal dial for tuning.
To me, that was peak design.
- Comment on It's coming 3 months ago:
- Comment on WH Smith in secret talks to sell historic high street arm 3 months ago:
I suspect that whoever they sell it to is going to carry on doing exactly the same thing. I’m sure part of the appeal in the sale is all of those “captive audience” shops in train stations etc.
- Comment on my escaping the matrix moment was when i stopped being ashamed of my anthropomorphic wolf porn obsession 3 months ago:
I believe it’s an artist’s rendering of close-up of a cartoon rabbit’s bumhole.
- Comment on Digital driving licences to be ‘put on phones this year’ 3 months ago:
I don’t know about guest user stuff either actually - I might look into it at some point if I feel the need.
And yes, I’ve only ever used the “pin app” practically for letting young relatives play games and stuff on my phone, knowing they won’t be able to switch apps and send anyone a message - like the “Poo poo willy bum” incident last year :)
- Comment on Digital driving licences to be ‘put on phones this year’ 3 months ago:
Well yeah, if they really wanted to “get you” for something, I’m sure they’ll find a way - but it’s a good bare minimum for casual snooping - avoiding the awkwardness of someone accidentally swiping onto your Jerboa app and then you having to explain how “writing silly comments about guillotining billionaires and throwing right-wing politicians into the sea isn’t actually a serious terrorist threat, officer”.
- Comment on Digital driving licences to be ‘put on phones this year’ 3 months ago:
It won’t solve the above, but if you’re not aware already, you can “pin” an Android app to lock it to the screen, so nobody can easily switch to another app without using your login pin/code/pattern.
Firstly, to turn it on, you need to go to Settings>Security & Privacy>Other Security Settings and switch on “Pin App”. The location of this setting may be different depending on the manufacturer of your mobile phone.
Then, to lock a particular app to the screen, press the three-lines button (maybe a square on your telephone?) to open up the program switcher, then press the circular thumbnail of the icon at the top of the screen, to open up the menu you didn’t know existed, and select “pin this app”.
Without your password or login pattern, your telephone will only show the currently open app. Nobody can switch to other programs or mess with other stuff without unlocking the phone.
To unlock it afterwards, you then hold the < and the three lines buttons for a few seconds, then enter your normal login code/pin/pattern to unlock. It will tell you this when you lock it.
- Comment on Darn it 3 months ago:
The invention of Racism is often credited to Scottish inventor Alexander Graham Racism - though it’s generally now considered that German inventor Johann Philipp Reisism had a practical example of Racism fifteen years earlier.