From now until the #election, I'm playing the Benny Hill theme tune at full volume and adopting a Kenneth Williams "oooh matron" voice, because it's now the only way to keep a grip on #reality
@NormanDunbar@PaulNickson@TCMuffin@spytfyre@Man
It's not about potentially getting hay fever 50m underwater, it's about what having allergies says about your lung and what diseases can develop (easier).
And diving is not exactly a natural environment for the human body.
It's like testing for being a military pilot. They basically take only the 101% specimens.
Gee. People are misinformed about the economy and crime. Think that might be the failure of the institutions charged with informing the public: journalism? You'll never see journalists reflect on that.
Their OKR are set for the benefit of the business and their owners.
Sorry, that myth that “journalists” have some function beyond earning their owners a good return (either in money or influence) is a fundamental misunderstanding of how, especially, the USA works in the past couple of decades.
Pre-warning to my followers: I'm going to leave #reddit for good and I'm blogging about the reasons - mostly because reddit management gone crazy (latest: my #firefox isn't working any more for reddit) & also because of https://karl-voit.at/2020/10/23/avoid-web-forums/
@saint@publicvoit
Not sure if NNTP would fulfil, especially if it become popular, the DMA/DSA requirements. Or even the copyright directive requirements, e.g. regarding upload filtering.
@realTuckFrumper 🤷 According to his lawyers and what they are arguing at SCOTUS, if Biden really decided to do so, it would be 100% legal. So I'm not sure why the Orange Ape did not simple stand like a good patriot and let himself be executed?
Though not serving as Trump’s attorney when he appeared as a witness today in Trump’s trial for criminally falsifying business records, Robert Costello is a lawyer, bound by New York’s Rules of Professional Conduct. Costello repeatedly showed his ethical unfitness, violating the most basic principles that inform the entire code. I’ve screenshot the very first paragraph of the entire code, highlighting the most pertinent phrases. 1/ #LawFedi#Ethics#LegalEthics
A few years ago, a Reddit user asked for help in finding a “BOTTOM trackball,” which is an anecdote perfect for explaining how completely the optical mouse defeated the mechanical one.
If the US becomes a fascist state, it will differ from other historical examples because all of the steps toward it happened right out in the open in front of the whole world, with media coverage.
I know it's not completely trivial, but have a look at the history lane, and look around at newspapers from the 1920/1930s.
And while we await the verdict of possible the sole criminal trial of the orange monster in NY, might I remind my readers here, that Adolf spent ~1 year in prison of his 5 years for treason (Funny, he tried to revolt against the legal Bavarian government. 5 years for a capital charge. But hey, he had a RW judge.)
Update on the weird payment issue, from the publisher that said I’d been paid and the payment totally definitely went through and this is clearly all your bank’s fault and please stop bothering us:
The payment was today confirmed as rejected. Because of course it was. Although quite why it’s taken over a month and half a day of my time on the phone to my bank to reach this point, I’ve no idea.
Anyway, movement is movement. Fingers crossed I might have the money soon.
@craiggrannell Just a side remark, it's extremely unlikely enter a valid IBAN with a typo, they do have two positions that are used for a checksum. Possible. Yes. Probable, no.
Now a mismatch IBAN/BIC that's an option, or a wrong BIC, but I'd expect at the latest the sending bank to spit out an error message about that. (We had a truncated BIC on our invoices for some time, till a customer forwarded the nice message from their bank with the corrected one. And sure, it was one W more.)
Publisher states a payment has been made + sent remittance.
I have not received the funds (after six weeks now) and my (UK) bank’s customer services, fraud and international teams have all stated they cannot see any payment and that I do not have a block on my account.
Any advice on what to do? I’ve never been in this situation before, and the amount of money is not insignificant. But also, the publisher appears to be very much in “we’ve paid so nothing we can do” mode now.
Your relationship is almost certainly already f%cked up.
Why?
Because if you do not fix it, chances are good that they will again use the wrong way to pay, and you won't get your money.
So chances are you'll end up fixing this via the legal department.
We had it once the other way around, when our ISP was swallowed by a bigger one, the new accounting Dept was incapable of assigning payments correctly. (Yes we have a complicated address.)
Welcher Internet Browser ist "sicherer"?
Gute Frage und nicht simpel zu beantworten, doch nach meiner Auffassung ist es Firefox und weniger der sehr beliebte Chrome Browser.
So viel ich weiss, gibt es den Firefox länger und hat doch (knapp) weniger bekannte, so wie meistens behobene Schwachpunkte. Weshalb glauben so viele lehre Versprechungen von Konzerne?
@kubikpixel@dividuum@dillo
Oh, das Problem ist, dass Google als Konzern bei Weitem böser ist als die Mozilla Stiftung & Co.
Mein grundsätzliches Problem ist die "Attestation" dass das Endgerät jungfräulich ist. Google wollte das ja auch für Browser durchdrücken.
Ich kann sehen, wo aus der Sicht der Konzerne die Attraktion ist, wenn sie sicher sein können, dass keine Cheatsoftware die Eingaben/Werbung/etc manipuliert.
@kubikpixel@dividuum@dillo
Nur die Idioten vergessen, dass der USB Standard für Jahrzehnte nicht in keinerlei Hinsicht authenziert sein wird. Sprich ein Rasppi der USB gadget mode kann, und ich kann praktisch 10000 Standard USB devices (HID, Webcams, etc) emulieren. In diesem Kontext, plus AI (Nicht LLM) wer ist auf die so blöde Idee, mit Video-Ident gekommen? Sauber einen Perso im Videostream zu modifizieren ist BSc Praktikums-Level Spielerei.