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simon_brooke

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot

Anarcho-syndicalist, autistic, crofter, cyclist, depressive, entrepreneur, geek, searchable, Zapatista. Politics & environment, especially #LandReform. he/him.

Twitter: https://mastodon.scot/@simon_brooke
GitHub: simon-brooke
FetLife: Simon_Brooke

Credo: Life is harsh. What we can do - and what we should do - is strive to make it less harsh for the people around us.

Addendum: you would not deliberately block a wheelchair ramp. Do not post images to social media without alt text.

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simon_brooke, (edited ) to random
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The problem with standing on the shoulders of @cemerick is, I CAN'T SEE THE BLOODY GROUND FROM UP HERE!

simon_brooke,
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@cemerick However, I have -- despite my fear of heights -- seen further, at last.

Find the most current stable version identifier of a #Clojure (or #Java) package.

https://gist.github.com/simon-brooke/b7bc96e3ca92def994ff0b5b8f2bd4da

simon_brooke, to random
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“The lesson from 1938 and 1939 is that if aggression pays off somewhere, it serves as an invitation to use it elsewhere” -- Estonian prime minister Kaja Kallas

I greatly fear that this is true.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/08/putin-war-ukraine-forgotten-lessons-of-history-europe?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Wen, to DadBin
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Vulnerable children locked up and ‘gravely damaged by the state’, England’s former top family judge warns

Sir James Munby says measure reflects government’s ‘shocking moral failure’ to help those with complex needs

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jun/09/locking-vulnerable-children-up-moral-failure-says-england-top-family-judge-james-munby

simon_brooke,
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@Wen As someone who spent much too much of his childhood in mental hospital (in Edinburgh), I feel this.

A much better, kinder, cheaper, more humane, more rational thing to do with us would have been to kill us.

simon_brooke, to random
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I need to face the fact that I am funking getting the tractor running again. And then I need to stop funking it and actually do it.

I think this means I need to abandon the idea of lifting the head to investigate the compression problem. This ought to be done, but realistically I don't have it in me just now.

mykhaylo, to random
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What’s the right way of doing protection in ? It seems to be a lot of hassle.

simon_brooke,
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@mykhaylo Start with @yogthos' , it does it automatically.

(:require [ring.middleware.anti-forgery :refer [wrap-anti-forgery]])

(defn wrap-csrf [handler]  
 (wrap-anti-forgery  
 handler  
 {:error-response  
 (error-page  
 {:status 403  
 :title "Invalid anti-forgery token"})}))

(Yes, obviously, the key library here is ring, but Luminus packages it all up neatly)

https://luminusweb.com/

simon_brooke,
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@mykhaylo Well, seriously, look at how Ring does it and crib from that.

Never be afraid to stand on the shoulders of giants.

simon_brooke, to random
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"the small cabal of people who fund all our mainstream parties... don't particularly care which of those parties they back wins, because none of them will seek to bite the hand that feeds them.

Our politicians may be useless human beings, but they're excellent dogs. They'll do what they're told, come to heel when called, beg and whine for treats, and defend their owners loudly and fiercely from all perceived threats"


https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2024-06-06-the-triumph-of-the-mediocracy/

simon_brooke, to random
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"the last thing party managers want is bolshy back benchers, They want a quiet life. They want a party which appears disciplined, and united. So they select for people who don't have strong opinions. They select for people who don't have strong principles, robust consciences. For people who are not deep thinkers. And, the thing is, they've (now) been doing this for generations"

#UKPol
#GeneralElectionUK

https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2024-06-06-the-triumph-of-the-mediocracy/

simon_brooke, to random
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"As the UK's General Election campaign stumbles uncertainly into its third week, one thing becomes abundantly clear: none of the leading politicians in any of Britain's mainstream political parties are any good at their jobs. Every one of them is mediocre at best, utterly incompetent at worst."

#UKPol
#GeneralElectionUK

https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2024-06-06-the-triumph-of-the-mediocracy/

simon_brooke,
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@Wen I am honestly not sure I believe this, but we'll see.

simon_brooke, to random
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In case you wanted to know what a fine upstanding person our Prime Minister is, have produced this handy little biopic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnwurflqrfQ

pvonhellermannn, to random
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I take it back! Two weeks in and I AM excited about these elections. I am hopeful that apart from Tory annihilation (yay) and Labour majority (no to neg feelings on this), this will be the election where the really surges, and where hopefully independents like Jeremy Corbyn, Faiza Shaheen and Andrew Feinstein win some seats. In other words, an election where we (eco-socialists) can and do vote for the actual people we want. It’s a start. https://mastodon.green/@pvonhellermannn/112488900685395946

simon_brooke,
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@pvonhellermannn I wish I believed you were right.

https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2024-06-06-the-triumph-of-the-mediocracy/

simon_brooke, to random
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This evening I have been rehafting my favourite hand axe.

The axe rehafted.
The Smith's initials (MM) on the axe head. This is a genuine Gränsfors Bruk axe head. No, of course I can't afford such things – I found it broken be a long-abandoned camp fire many years ago.

simon_brooke, to random
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There is a woman -- an immigrant -- living in a tent hidden in the woods two miles from here. She's in her fifties and has mental health deficits. As far as I know, she lives entirely on charity, mainly from local . If found, she has no security where she is.

I have land; I could offer her a secure pitch. But I fear my own mental health would not cope.

It gnaws at my conscience. There is someone who needs help, whom I could help, and I'm not doing it.

simon_brooke, to random
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On @Eceni's podcast this week, someone (I think it was @Eceni herself) described 's cabal as 'Stalinist'. I don't think this is right, but I think it's pretty close. I think they're more Leninist.The unprincipled pursuit of power at any price, the ruthless factionalism, the bad-faith negotiation, the mean-spirited opportunism are all very Bolshevik.

Their enemies may fear them, but their friends should fear them more.

https://accidentalgods.life/breaking-the-doom-loop-of-uk-politics-with-neal-lawson-of-compass/

simon_brooke,
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@Eceni as to that, I could not possibly comment.

simon_brooke, to ubuntu
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I think I've whinged here before about my difficulties with after switching from to . Well, I've fixed it, and I've published a gist in case anyone wants to do the same.

https://gist.github.com/simon-brooke/d1ed98e731a57212398597f10ce166e0

simon_brooke, to trans
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If you're saying that #Trans people cannot use lavatories of their legally assigned and recognised gender, you're essentially saying they cannot safely use lavatories in public places at all. Which means you're saying that they cannot travel, and cannot exist in the public realm. Which means you're also saying that that legal recognition is meaningless and worthless.

Trans people are our brothers and sisters, our comrades. Is this really the world we want to build for them?

simon_brooke,
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@considermycat I think that they actually are intending that, and they're certainly intending that the public should believe they're intending that. Which means that the risk of folk being assaulted for using public lavatories will get even worse than it already is.

This is not a zero-consequence announcement, even if no actual legislation follows.

ChrisMayLA6, to Futurology
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More evidence the water companies have been getting away with rubbish service as the regulator(s) that oversee water provision are either asleep at the wheel or have been 'captured' by the sector.

Now, the Drinking Water Inspectorate would (alongside OfWAT) seem to be rather reluctant to use their powers to prosecute.

If they thought a softly softly, engaging with the firms approach was a better bet, the state of England's water supply demonstrate it isn't!

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/04/regulator-prosecutions-unsafe-drinking-water-england-wales

simon_brooke,
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@ChrisMayLA6 who is the chair of the Drinking Water Authority, I wonder? Who appointed them? Would it be the same people that privatised water in the first place, one wonders?

How do water consumers sack the board of the Drinking Water Authority? How do they elect a new board?

Tony Benn's famous questions spring to mind.

https://youtu.be/HfZYLvUGf9s?si=O_Gb407EA-fiJciE

ozzelot, to random
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Do not compile recklessly.
But if we can be reckless, can we be reckful? And what is this reck? Is it related to gorm?

simon_brooke,
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@ozzelot to both gorm and ghast, I reckon.

simon_brooke, to trans
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The propose to 'amend' the act to make it completely clear that people don't have equal rights.

Into the sea with them.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jun/02/tories-will-allow-bars-on-trans-women-says-kemi-badenoch

Edent, to books
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I'm trying to read "Soul of a New Machine".

Two chapters in and it just feels… dull.

A fairly bland corporate biography - almost a hagiography.

Does it get better / more interesting?

simon_brooke,
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@Edent I did enjoy it, and it's still on my shelves. But it's probably thirty years since I read it, and, yes, the world has changed.

GossiTheDog, to random
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For those who aren’t aware, Microsoft have decided to bake essentially an infostealer into base Windows OS and enable by default.

From the Microsoft FAQ: “Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."

Info is stored locally - but rather than something like Redline stealing your local browser password vault, now they can just steal the last 3 months of everything you’ve typed and viewed in one database.

video/mp4

simon_brooke,
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@GossiTheDog PLEASE use when posting things like this! Folk with visual impairments are JUST as vulnerable to information theft as the rest of us!

[Image in the post above shows incontrovertibly that Microsoft's new 'recall' feature makes passwords available to hackers]

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