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As the Internet Gets Scarier, More Parents Keep Their Kids’ Photos Offline (getpocket.com)

Here's a non-paywalled link to an article published in the Washington Post a few days ago. It's great to see this kind of thing getting some mainstream attention. Young children have not made an informed decision about whether they want their photos posted online.

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Syncthing!

Android Phone/Linux/Windows/Mac/iOS clients. Simply sync your photos to all of your devices, if you only have the one device, use a trusted friend and cross sync…

Don’t bother with cloud.

Also Signal groups for sharing with those that matter.

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The lord of the rings!

I love reading…I read a lot. But Tolkien’s style just never worked for me, the movies were great.

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The Hobbit was pretty good. It’s been a long time since I read it.

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That’s pure bullshit, my three boys all like them. 8, 5 & 2

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Grow your own, let them help. Then they are eating “their” zucchinis, it helps a lot.

Eat them small and sweet ~15cm (6in) long. Lightly steamed (add a very small amount of salt)/stir fried (last in once everything else cooked).

Over cooking turns them into terrible tasting mush.

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One of the few movies I have rewatched.

The plot is both intricate and simple, it is very well done.

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Yep. This works pretty well.

Got the whole family to convert to signal by using kid photo sharing as a catalyst.

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“work smarter, not harder” Scrooge McDuck

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Dear Americans, I’m not writing this to gloat… But what the fuck have you let happen to your country. Health care is a human right!

I’m currently in hospital, for a second time in a month. First time, I came in with a “very nasty pneumonia”, which turned into sepsis, I needed surgery to help clear the crap from my lung. They sent me home after 14 days. They also flew me from my local small hospitals to the bigger one I’m in now.

I was home for 4 days and started getting severe chest pains around my heart. So I’m back, feeling way better now, is a long weekend so no doctors to make decisions… I’m stuck in here till Tuesday at least. On Tuesday it will be a total of 24 days. Various medications and treatments etc…

My expected bill at the end of all of this is $0.00.

The only real cost is the gas from hour each way for my family coming to visit. All meals are covered.

I honestly have no idea how much my time here is costing the national health service. The are no numbers discussed, everything is just what you need to get better.

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Total wait time… Hmmmmm let’s see, about the amount of time it took for me to say “I’m having trouble breathing, my name and DoB” so they could look up my NHI number, all of 3 minutes.

I think you have hit the nail on the head with the “rugged individualism” comment. Just across from me is a dude from Sri Lanka, broken leg at the local mountain bike park. He deserves the best treatment we can give him, I have no idea if he has travel insurance or doesn’t really matter, he is here we treat him.

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That is very confusing.

Thousands of dollars, but also somewhere between $3 - $120, what a fucked up system.

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There certainly are waiting lists for non-urgent stuff, and it does kinda suck. But FFS if you need help NOW you get it.

I’m in socialist New Zealand… The current new government is trying to be less socialist, but they are getting a lot of bad press because some of their policies are just mean.

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I ran Ubuntu 8.04 for a while, it was the unstable. I gave it another crack when 10.04 came out. I haven’t looked back.

Currently running Mint, cinnamon is a great desktop

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I love in NZ, most places in the country have good tap water, sometimes slightly over chlorinated.

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I used to work at a checkout operator, long ago.

I ALWAYS order the belt, cans and heavy stuff goes first, then usually cold/frozen stuff, veg and fruit, baking products (flour, sugar etc), then finally the light/soft stuff.

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This article is completely wrong.

Watts doesn’t have a time factor at all.

Power is measured in W (Watts).
Energy is measured in J (Joule’s), or Wh (Watt-hours) where 1 Wh = 3600 J.

So 1.21GW is enough power to light 12.1 million 100 W bulbs, if you kept them powered for 1s you would use 1.21GJ of energy, which is 3.36MWh.

I can’t believe how badly the article gets it wrong.

I’m an engineer, I work with this stuff regularly.

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Agreed, we should be spending the communal load, rather than creating ghettos. Make it unprofitable for gangs to target are area.

By concentrating the lower socioeconomic people into areas, it becomes a great place to target, not just for gangs, but payday loans, roving grocery trucks, look at the concentration of liquor stores in today areas Vs wealthy areas…

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Hi guys, I’m in hospital at the moment. I don’t think I’ll be very active for a while yet.

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Cheers, I hope so also.

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Get the orange ones, sweeter and retain their moisture better when roasted.

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