@mondoweiss@palestine@israel I want to see a war crimes trial over this. I mean key people in Israel, USA, my own UK and anyone else involved.
I don't pretend that Hamas and other resistance fighters in Palestine are innocent. But the world will only be able to judge them after the full truth comes out.
In the most glorious "fuck you" I have seen in a while, you know the book that Cumberland City Council banned because they're homophobic bigots - Holly Duhig's "A focus on Same Sex Parents"? Well, the publisher, BookLife Publishing, have made a PDF version of the book available for free.
Sure be a shame if it was shared far and wide now, wouldn't it?
Every time you ban a book filled with hope and kindness, and care and love, we will resist.
Like Oscar Wilde, "I can resist anything except temptation," and my slow and halting journey to adulthood is really just me grappling with this fact, getting temptation out of my way before I can yield to it.
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@pluralistic I think of "felony contempt of business model" every time I install the CSS library (to read copy-protected DVDs) along with apps such as VLC to play DVDs on Linux :-)
Apparently, doing that to watch DVDs (which I bought new) on the wrong sort of player is naughty. Oh well.
I swear every time I pick up a little website rendering bug, it turns out to be Safari being a weird little guy and deciding to not bother with standards.
Safari's rendering engine is my Cato, lying in wait in the fridge to catch me when my guard is down.
If you've ever found yourself missing the "good old days" of the #web, what is it that you miss? (Interpret "it" broadly: specific websites? types of activities? feelings? etc.) And approximately when were those good old days?
No wrong answers — I'm working on an article and wanted to get some outside thoughts.
@molly0xfff My good old daze of the Internet were pre-web, which is why I said before 1995 (when it seemed to me everyone discovered WWW and the signal:noise ratio dropped).
It was hard work then, but I always went back for more.
I had to order a 9-pin plug and solder my first modem cable, and that meant a friend dictating pin numbers on a rotary dial phone--like a savage :-)
@tripplehelix@revk Later standards allow negotiation between the 2 devices about which is the host, and where (and how much) power can be delivered.
It's why these days having the right cable is important for fast charging. PD allows negotiating a much higher voltage, up to 20V I know and possibly higher to allow greater power supply.
Trying to get in to a routine with the new Apple Watch.
For years I have used a Powerwatch which does not need charging, well, maybe a couple of times a year in the Winter. It uses solar and thermal, which is great.
The Apple watch lasts 3 days, but what I need to do is get in to a habit of charging at some point every day.
Not while sleeping, as use to track sleep.
But also not every 3 days, as no way to make that a "routine".
@revk My Samsung S3 Frontier goes about 3 days too, and I just plant it on the charger pod when I sit down with the first hot drink after work. It's usually up to around 80% by the time the drink is drinkable, so I put it back on again.
It doesn't matter much though, because I've got a spare charger pod and battery bank with me at work :-)
@fbstj@davidbisset I was working on an internal date util that allowed "NWD", "LWDM", something that meant 'penultimate Thursday monthly' and also "Feb 31" as a shorthand for 2 days after 29th.
Very handy. But during testing I found it converted "Hello, Graham" to a date. Probably not so handy...