Dear angry driver in the yank tank SUV/Pickup/Boeing 747 crossover: I get that you are ANGRY that an electric hatchback is in front of you, traveling at the speed limit on the link road to the autoestrada; so angry, in fact, that you're going to tailgate it without any regard to the road conditions. However, there are things that I, the driver of said electric hatchback think you should know about electric cars.
First, they are heavy out of proportion to their size, because of the battery, and they carry that weight low. This means that when you tailgate me into the 270º bend on the entrance ramp, which has a speed limit of 40kph, and I decide to have a little fun with you by continuing at my previous 80kph, I will stick to the road as I go round the bend.
The sight of you weaving all over the place as you scrubbed off your speed moments after the realisation that you had made something of an error of judgement was very amusing! Thank you.
Secondly, on exiting the cloverleaf and joining the autoestrada, you should know that electric cars tend to go like an F
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Dear angry driver in the yank tank SUV/Pickup/Boeing 747 crossover: I get that you are ANGRY that an electric hatchback is in front of you, traveling at the speed limit on the link road to the autoestrada; so angry, in fact, that you're going to tailgate it without any regard to the road conditions. However, there are things that I, the driver of said electric hatchback think you should know about electric cars.
First, they are heavy out of proportion to their size, because of the battery, and they carry that weight low. This means that when you tailgate me into the 270ยบ bend on the entrance ramp, which has a speed limit of 40kph, and I decide to have a little fun with you by continuing at my previous 80kph, I will stick to the road as I go round the bend.
The sight of you weaving all over the place as you scrubbed off your speed moments after the realisation that you had made something of an error of judgement was very amusing! Thank you.
Secondly, on exiting the cloverleaf and joining the autoestrada, you should know that electric cars tend to go like an F16 with the afterburner activated, and the Leaf is no exception. While your ridiculous parody of a road vehicle made screaming noises as it struggled to change gear and locate its power band, I was pressing my accelerator about half way as you got smaller and smaller in my rear view mirror.
Yes, you passed me at 160kph, eventually. Well done. I'd been at my cruising speed for some time by then.
The Nissan Leaf, model of 2018 I guess, of the local car sharing organization here can do 160kph - but I guess because general speed limit in .pt, one should not do that there, also it's not economic. I do like leaving other cars behind when starting from traffic lights though. Especially those that look like their owners need to compensate something. Sometimes I'm a bit sad I don't often have a need to use a car...
Yep, but they probably shouldn't have... Well, my point was, you *could* probably have done 160kph too, but you didn't, because of no need to compensate something.
Reminds me of somebody I knew in the 1980s with a 2CV being tailgated by a BMW. He went over a speed bump at the full speed limit which the 2CV didn't notice, of course, but the BMW did. No actual damage as far we know (unfortunately) but he did see the BMW driver holding his head.
Presidential elections have begun in #Russia. #Putin will be re-elected for a 5th term.
According to Ukr intelligence, the Russian DefMin has allowed military personnel fighting in #Ukraine to vote for Putin without even showing up at a polling station. This includes those who have already been killed or gone missing.
Defence Intelligence of Ukraine reported that the Russian Defence Ministry leadership has allowed servicemen participating in the war against Ukraine to vote for Vladimir Putin without even appearing at the โpolling stations.โ
Watching discussions of cross border rail ticketing in Europe on my TL while living in Portugal and being like, โyou guys have trains that go to other places?โ
The other day I asked for transit directions between Lisbon and somewhere near Mont-Saint-Michel and holy shit no wonder people fly everywhere and rent cars locally. Even inside France it kinda sucks, since they built the TGV as a star centred in Paris, so you always need to go through Paris if youโre travelling between two different places. The only viable option to leave Portugal by train was Vigo which turns into buses as soon as it reaches Vigo. Lisbon-Madrid is badly neededโฆ
@TimWardCam Spain and Portugal use the Iberian gauge (not sure what the historical reasons are). However, the AVE (Spanish high speed network) was built using the standard gauge so the trains can continue to France without interruptions. The Portuguese high speed network will be built using the same standard gauge but of course we have been debating it for several decades instead of building it, per fine Portuguese tradition.
@TimWardCam Likely bollocks. Although I havenโt read it fully, the determination of the gauge was made in this 1844 doc, based on technical criteria (allows narrower curves which was handy given the local orography, faster trains and less wearing out). They recommend 6ft, which seems higher than the current Iberian gauge, but that can probably be explained by the feet as unit of measurement being shorter in Spain in 1844 than it is today in the imperial system. agrupament.cat/documents/Inforโฆ
@TimWardCam According to what Iโm seeing, a feet at that time in Spain would be approx 278.6mm, which results in 1671.6mm, very close to the original Spanish gauge (which was then slightly reduced to be compatible with the Portuguese one).
I see another cis investigator has decided that there should be no consequences of any kind for any kind of transphobia, even if the trans person dies, again.
I think I’ve seen the perfect example of why enshittification is a thing. I downloaded that “Royal Match” gave that keeps getting advertised. No ads, free to play. Whatever. I like a bit of colourful match-3.
But they have to make their money somewhere, so they try to get you to buy stuff for in game tokens.
Now when you fail a level, you are given the option of spending in game tokens to continue with a few extra moves or dropping out.
Most of the time you want to drop out. In game tokens are limited and you want to save them for when it matters.
But the button you’d normally click for the default “carry on with expected behaviour” is actually the one to click to spend the in game tokens (scarce resource), and the default “I want to quit and try again” button is a small red X off to the side.
This is objectively terrible user interface design. They do it on purpose because they WANT you to waste your tokens by accident.
Because then you might spend real money to buy more.
They made their int
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I think Iโve seen the perfect example of why enshittification is a thing. I downloaded that โRoyal Matchโ gave that keeps getting advertised. No ads, free to play. Whatever. I like a bit of colourful match-3.
But they have to make their money somewhere, so they try to get you to buy stuff for in game tokens.
Now when you fail a level, you are given the option of spending in game tokens to continue with a few extra moves or dropping out.
Most of the time you want to drop out. In game tokens are limited and you want to save them for when it matters.
But the button youโd normally click for the default โcarry on with expected behaviourโ is actually the one to click to spend the in game tokens (scarce resource), and the default โI want to quit and try againโ button is a small red X off to the side.
This is objectively terrible user interface design. They do it on purpose because they WANT you to waste your tokens by accident.
Because then you might spend real money to buy more.
They made their interface bad and confusing on purpose.
Do cis people in the UK actually think there has ever been a point at which transgender medicine was widely and routinely available on the NHS?
Guys, it never has. When they exist at all, the services are chronically underfunded with waiting lists that literally stretch for decades.
To a first approximation, if you want to medically transition in the UK, you are on your own, unless you want to fight a war of attrition for years.
TERFs like to pretend that you can easily access NHS gender identity services as if it were just a thing people do.
It appears some people have believed their fairy tales. However badly you think trans people are treated by the medical establishment in the UK, I promise you that the reality is worse, and always has been.
โChildren on puberty blockersโ. Fucking state of it. There are no children on puberty blockers. Not because theyโre trans, anyway.
Totally endorse your summary of the lies, but there is a difference between underfunded and an exercise in bloody-mindedness on the one hand and wholly unavailable on the other. Many of us have no choice but to grit our teeth and grind through the system. Which is as bad as you say.
@Isabel Ruffell I transitioned with a lot of people who tried and were unable to access it.
Even at the peak of trans acceptance in the UK, being able to access ANYTHING depended on your postcode at least, and probably a few other things. Some PCTs as weโre basically refused to refer anyone for anything at all.
At which point, you either had the money to go round them, or you found ways to get it ๐
yes, my first attempt at transitioning was without any guarantee that the local health authority would pay for anything but hormones (and having to persuade the local shrinks to refer me to a GIC at all). I am now in my ninth year of a second attempt. Now that I am relatively close to finishing, I am in a position to make other arrangements, but that wasn't the case earlier. And it is awful that I feel fortunate to have made it so far, but then I conside whatr other folk face.
I basically had to self fund treatment to a certain extent but was incredibly lucky, combined with have a great GP, and being in Wales where they didnโt have a GIC at the time, that surgery was referred directly so I was one of those rare people who went to Heywards Heath. My partner did not so I used what I had saved, expecting I would have to pay, to pay for her. I know plenty who did the exceptionally slow NHS grind. I was just lucky with my circumstances.
I would love to ask a TERF to summarise their achievements in removing healthcare from trans people, and then summarise how easy it is for trans people to get it now. They know, of course they do. It's all doublethink.
โNHS to end practice of back rubs for Godzillaโ
If you think the NHS was ever actually giving trans children puberty blockers, then Iโm afraid you have fallen for a TERF fairy tale. The NHS has never actually done decent treatment for trans children. news.sky.com/story/children-toโฆ
The decision follows a review after a sharp rise in referrals were recorded at the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) run by the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, which is closing at the end of March.
One of my best friends has a trans daughter, who is just on the point of being prescribed blockers after a battle of about five years. We don't at this point know whether she's sufficiently far along that this will 'only' make it harder to find a sympathetic GP, or a final last-minute defeat after so long waiting.
So yes, even within an awful system, this will make things materially worse for some trans people.
@David Matthewman they’ve always given these drugs to adults. They gave them to me in my 30s.
The issue is that they have pretty much never, as far as I know, given them to trans children for the purposes of arresting puberty.
I think the media narrative of referring to GnRH agonists as “puberty blockers” here is probably not helping any attempt at comprehension. It makes people think that’s all they do. They’re gonadotropin inhibitors, and they are useful after puberty for transition to allow HRT to work unopposed by endogenous hormones.
Now trying to stop them being prescribed for that is their next target, and without invading the privacy of the person you mention, you say it’s been a five year battle.
There’s no point prescribing these drugs before the initial onset of puberty because … well, they don’t do anything.
So five years … puberty is mostly done by then, and you’re
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@David Matthewman theyโve always given these drugs to adults. They gave them to me in my 30s.
The issue is that they have pretty much never, as far as I know, given them to trans children for the purposes of arresting puberty.
I think the media narrative of referring to GnRH agonists as โpuberty blockersโ here is probably not helping any attempt at comprehension. It makes people think thatโs all they do. Theyโre gonadotropin inhibitors, and they are useful after puberty for transition to allow HRT to work unopposed by endogenous hormones.
Now trying to stop them being prescribed for that is their next target, and without invading the privacy of the person you mention, you say itโs been a five year battle.
Thereโs no point prescribing these drugs before the initial onset of puberty because โฆ well, they donโt do anything.
So five years โฆ puberty is mostly done by then, and youโre looking at a young adult transition type situation.
For reference, the daughter in question turns 13 soon. And it's not that anyone was trying to give puberty blockers to an eight-year-old, but the battle was to get her the possibility of having them when they would help.
@David Matthewman Ok. Credit to her parents for fighting that battle, and maybe the Tavistock might have considered possibly doing it on a trial basis at some point (โmaybeโ is doing a lot of work there), but they basically donโt do that, and never have. Their standard mode of operation is to just keep talking until people age out of their service and can join an adult GIC waiting list.
The headline is literally just a reaffirmation of the way the NHS has always behaved. Itโs giving the impression that itโs ending a practice of medical intervention for trans kids.
But to end something, it has to have started in the first place.
Portugal is in the news after the "success" of Chega, the Portuguese far-right party. A lot of friends are talking about this.
Now I'm not deeply embedded in Portuguese politics the way I was in the UK, but I do have some observations as someone "observing" (I can vote in local elections, but not national ones yet).
Chega is the personal vanity project of Andre Ventura, a former TV pundit who ragequit the centre right Social Democrat Party (ignore the name, there are historical reasons it's called that). His entire thing is that he is an adult man throwing a temper tantrum against "the system".
This may sound very familiar, but Ventura is not, to my mind, any kind of Trump. He's not Farage either. He is riding a wave of discontent about the state of the Portuguese economy, and a population that has real grievances about housing and wages, which he is blaming on the usual suspects (immigrants, but not the rich sort, ethnic minorities, LGBT people, etc).
He is portrayed as "far right", but frankly he's probably slightly to the left of the Tories in the UK rig
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Portugal is in the news after the "success" of Chega, the Portuguese far-right party. A lot of friends are talking about this.
Now I'm not deeply embedded in Portuguese politics the way I was in the UK, but I do have some observations as someone "observing" (I can vote in local elections, but not national ones yet).
Chega is the personal vanity project of Andre Ventura, a former TV pundit who ragequit the centre right Social Democrat Party (ignore the name, there are historical reasons it's called that). His entire thing is that he is an adult man throwing a temper tantrum against "the system".
This may sound very familiar, but Ventura is not, to my mind, any kind of Trump. He's not Farage either. He is riding a wave of discontent about the state of the Portuguese economy, and a population that has real grievances about housing and wages, which he is blaming on the usual suspects (immigrants, but not the rich sort, ethnic minorities, LGBT people, etc).
He is portrayed as "far right", but frankly he's probably slightly to the left of the Tories in the UK right now, or would be if he were a serious politician, which he is not.
Chega just came third on 18%. This is disturbing, but it's in-line with what you would expect for a "protest party" after the fall of the previous government due to a corruption scandal (and the details of said corruption are such that, again, were the Tories doing it, it wouldn't even register as something they were supposed to cover up, but the previous prime minister resigned over it anyway), and I suspect most of the people voting for Chega don't actually want or expect them to be in government. They're angry and they want people to know that they're angry.
Now Brits know first hand how dangerous this can be, after our own little electoral temper tantrum in 2016 resulted in us imposing economic sanctions on ourselves, but as I sad above, I don't think Ventura is any kind of Trump, or Farage, or Johnson. I don't think he has some sort of long term plan. He's a man child throwing a tantrum who likes to see his face on big billboards proclaiming himself some sort of knight fighting "the man".
If he actually got into government (and PSD are saying they won't work with him, but I don't see how they could form a government otherwise and we may be seeing a new election sooner rather than later), I don't think he would know what to do with it. Unlike Trump, I don't think his personal "angry man throwing a tantrum" brand would survive the transition to power. He'd end up like the Liberal Democrats did who, after getting 22% of the vote in 2010 (4% more than Chega just got), entered coalition and promptly destroyed themselves because they could no longer be that idealised opposition party that people protesting against the system felt able to vote for.
Chega and Ventura (and let's be honest, Chega is Ventura) are repulsive stains on civil society, but they are not indicative of a collapse in Portuguese democracy and a slide into fascism, nor is Portugal about to go the Hungary route.
This is not to say that we should be complacent, but I don't think that the sky is falling.
Anyway, that's what I think. I could be wrong, and frequently am when it comes to my read on politics, so this analysis is probably worth what you paid for it ๐
thanks for this pithy description of Brexit: "imposing economic sanctions on ourselves". I have a feeling this will be my go-to description for recent UK political history
When Costa was speaking last night he was basically saying that Chega was a protest vote and itโs worth looking into the reasons for that, but ultimately itโs just a protest.
There was something on the election coverage about the Presidentโs discretionary powers but I didnโt quite follow it.
@Alexandra Lanes I mean heโs right. The Lib Dems were in 2010 too, but unlike Chega the Lib Dems actually had real policies and real politicians. Still got shafted.
World press: Far right surges on Portugal elections!
I mean, yes, as someone who lives in Portugal, it's scary as hell, but in the ongoing love affair that the western press has with fascists, let's not lose sight of the fact that this "surge" is actually them coming third, and not a particularly close third either.
What's worrying is that there's no stable coalition without either them, or the centre right and centre left joining forces.
Every election so far people have been saying itโs their high water mark and then they triple or quadruple their voting. Iโm not optimistic. 1.1M people voting for these fuckersโฆ Iโm still in disbelief. And some of the regions I love the most and the worst. The world is really turning to shit.
@Miguel Arroz They’re a receptacle for angry people to project anything they want onto. They can do well as a perpetual party of opposition, but they are, ultimately, bullshit merchants with nothing to offer beyond that piece of shit, Ventura, ranting about “gypsies” and nebulous “corruption” (presumably he’s angry that any potential backhanders aren’t coming to him).
Thing is, while parties of protest can do well when people are disillusioned with mainstream politics, if they do well enough to get any kind of power (say as a junior coalition partner), it’s … difficult to maintain that vote when people can no longer believe that you can be whatever they want you to be.
I was a member of the Liberal Democrats in the UK. In 2010, we picked up 22% of the vote as a party of protest, although unlike Chega we were coming at it from the centre left.
And it got us into coalition.
And ever since, the party
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@Miguel Arroz Theyโre a receptacle for angry people to project anything they want onto. They can do well as a perpetual party of opposition, but they are, ultimately, bullshit merchants with nothing to offer beyond that piece of shit, Ventura, ranting about โgypsiesโ and nebulous โcorruptionโ (presumably heโs angry that any potential backhanders arenโt coming to him).
Thing is, while parties of protest can do well when people are disillusioned with mainstream politics, if they do well enough to get any kind of power (say as a junior coalition partner), itโs โฆ difficult to maintain that vote when people can no longer believe that you can be whatever they want you to be.
I was a member of the Liberal Democrats in the UK. In 2010, we picked up 22% of the vote as a party of protest, although unlike Chega we were coming at it from the centre left.
And it got us into coalition.
And ever since, the party has been stuck on about 7%.
If PSD and PS form a grand coalition, then Chega can keep their status as โthe plutonic opposition partyโ and will probably go higher.
It will be uncomfortable as fuck if they end up in some sort of power sharing arrangement with PSD though. As you so rightly note, they are fuckers.
But I think it will basically end them. Trump and Johnson managed to pull off the โplucky outsiderโ con while still being in power, but I donโt think Ventura has that in him. I donโt think he can survive his fans seeing him become everything he claimed to hate.
Or at least I hope so. The alternative is scary as fuck, and I already had to flee one country where these arseholes got unchallenged levels of power (although even in their case, itโs about to destroy them. Still, the damage is done)
Iโm not sure if PS and PSD will form any sort of coalition. The history on that isnโt great. Iโm not sure how long the next government will last but my guess is, not much. Iโm still hoping the emigration ridings will repeat the result of last election, causing a tie in MPs and (hopefully) more votes for PS, forcing the president to invite the left-wing โmajorityโ to power.
honestly, Iโd rather have news media freaking out and overreacting about fascists than their usual normalization and hagiography of extreme right politicians
You're having such a different experience to me, I'm starting to think I've been given a placebo. Nothing about going back for a second shot, and I asked about side effects and the nurse said maybe a sore arm, nothing else, and I've not even had that.
Yeah, mine seems to be one of the few things about my body that works close to ideally. Never had a reaction to a flu jab, or any of the covid ones I've managed to get.
@Alisdair Calder McGregor I guess it depends which way it initially tumbles. Could generate a pretty violent lift vector taking it either towards or away from the tail.
This is also why a few years ago shops stopped being able to sell you off-the-shelf painkillers in boxes of more than 16, to add extra inconvenience on top of the blister pack.
(You just go round multiple shops to stock up and decant them all into a bottle for later.)
โSo sometimes my roommate, with whom Iโve been paying a mortgage for 10 years and looking after a herd of cats, does me against the wall with a strap on. Do you think I should risk telling her I have feelings for her? Iโm pretty sure sheโs straight.โ reddit.com/r/BestofRedditorUpdโฆ
Dental surgeon just tried to fit my new crown to the implant.
Turned out it has to go back to the lab because it's too big, but it took 3 attempts with a bit of on-site drilling before he gave up.
Screwing it down deforms the gum and crushes it between the crown and the bone, which hurts. He told me to tell him when it got too much and he would pause, which I did, but a long time after he seemed to be expecting me to.
He's like, "waiting for your feedback..." and I just gave him a thumbs up, and his face is kinda like, "This should be hurting. Why aren't you yelling?"
I think trans women get kinda messed up pain thresholds, you guys.
Anyway, it has to go back to the lab for a resize, because it's too big. Also the wrong colour, because they did not account for UK and Ireland levels of tea consumption.
Today was uncomfortable but it didn't last long. Having the implant put in is a bit of a slog, but it didn't hurt. Hope all goes well. It's a bit of a process.
Exactly 4 years ago today I had what can only be described as an utterly brutal extraction of half an upper molar by a dental surgeon (the other half had been removed by my regular dentist 2 weeks prior).
My plan was to replace the tooth, which had died from an internal crack, just a freak accident from biting something hard, with an implant.
And then the world went into lockdown.
On Wednesday, 4 years and 2 days since the original was removed, I get my new tooth installed.
Hereโs why the NHS were happy to vaccinate me with MMR the other day. From UK govt advice from 2019:
โข individuals born between 1970 and 1979 may have been vaccinated against measles and many will have been exposed to mumps and rubella during childhood. However, this age group should be offered MMR wherever feasible, particularly if they are considered to be at high risk of exposure.
โข individuals born before 1970 are likely to have had all three natural infections and are less likely to be susceptible. MMR vaccine should be offered to such individuals on request or if they are considered to be at high risk of exposure.
Tl;dr: younger GenX and older Millennials in the UK were likely given inadequate protection against measles and none against mumps and rubella: vaccinate on sight.
Older GenX and boomers: just give them the vaccine if they ask for it.
Yes. I caught measles in around 1960 and had the BCG shot at school in 1967/8 but Iโve never had any protection against Mumps, which seems a bit of an oversight.
I realised when I was getting jabs for travel recently that my mum only got me the first MMR jab when I was a baby (who even knows why). So they jabbed me again, just to make sure. Hooray!
I recall that you had whooping cough many months ago, which I was reminded of because I also got it last autumn. Somebody on here told me recently that it was included in the tetanus booster. Research done some years ago shows that people don't need to the tetanus boosters, but I guess whopping cough wasn't part of the study? Anyway, I haven't had that shot in 20 years now and I'm guessing virtually no others adults have either.
Boomers: Talkin’ ‘bout my generation things my parents said to me…
GenX: What sort of things?
Boomers: Awful, cold things.
GenX: Such as?
Boomers: Er … um … tax the rich to build a welfare state?
GenX: And?
Boomers: Something about minorities …
GenX: Go on…
Boomers: I think it was “don’t put minorities in death camps”
GenX; You know you’re kind of an asshole?
Millennials: Oh hey dad, big bro. Wassup?
Boomers: Your brother was just leaving.
GenX: Well I do need to go get some overtime. My mortgage is fucking killing me and apparently someone ran away with my pension fund.
GenX: Asshole
Millennials: Wow. What was that about?
Boomers: Oh, music tastes. Anyway, let’s go into the city. There’s a matching band and something I want to talk to you about.
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Boomers: Cool band! Anyway, in the unlikely event tha
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Boomers: My generation! My generation!
GenX: Hey dad, what you doing?
Boomers: Talkinโ โbout my generation things my parents said to meโฆ
GenX: What sort of things?
Boomers: Awful, cold things.
GenX: Such as?
Boomers: Er โฆ um โฆ tax the rich to build a welfare state?
GenX: And?
Boomers: Something about minorities โฆ
GenX: Go onโฆ
Boomers: I think it was โdonโt put minorities in death campsโ
GenX; You know youโre kind of an asshole?
Millennials: Oh hey dad, big bro. Wassup?
Boomers: Your brother was just leaving.
GenX: Well I do need to go get some overtime. My mortgage is fucking killing me and apparently someone ran away with my pension fund.
GenX: Asshole
Millennials: Wow. What was that about?
Boomers: Oh, music tastes. Anyway, letโs go into the city. Thereโs a matching band and something I want to talk to you about.
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Boomers: Cool band! Anyway, in the unlikely event that I die soon after plundering the healthcare system your grandparents built and laying waste to the environment, will you defeat the plans that they, and by they, I mean โIโ have made? I know things are shit and itโs my fault, but I canโt be arsed to clean up after myself and the beach bar is open โฆ
Millennials: My older brother was right. You are an asshole.
@Ghost of Hope The single dose measles vaccine they used in the 70s was not as effective as theyโd hoped long term, but to be fair the thing was on the verge of being eradicated and they didnโt think it needed to be.
@Alexandra Lanes Dupuutren's appears to have gone into remission overnight. I guess my body is too busy doing measles things to worry about fucking my hands.
!Friendica Admins Any idea what the situation with the Docker image is? It seems like Phil isn't active and hasn't been for a while. Does anyone know if he's OK?
Hopefully he is, and is just taking a break. Does anyone else know how to generate a new docker image? At the moment, we're kinda stuck on 2023.12, which AIUI has known vulnerabilities.
Failing that, how easy is it to migrate an existing installation away from Docker?
I guess he is okay, but I guess that he currently is extremely busy, so that he can't do anything for the project. Sadly he is our only expert concerning Docker. It would be great if we found some volunteer to have a look at the whole stuff.
@Michael Vogel My partner, @Zoe O'Connell has expressed tentative interest as this sort of thing is her day job, but she's stupidly busy with her Open University work at the moment.
@Michael Vogel @Zoe O'Connell Heh, the basic mechanics of building a docker image given a base system and a set of stuff to install, I can do. I'm an utter beginner with stuff like GIt and suchlike though. Last time I was gainfully employed in software engineering, we were all about CVS.
So you have a service like Tailscale. Could actually be Tailscale.
You can install it on a barebones Linux SBC with Wifi. (Raspberry Pi zero W or equivalent). These things will run off a public USB port or a USB power pack for many hours.
Set it down somewhere with public wifi. Set it as an exit node. Go elsewhere.
Some hours later, do bit torrent, or whatever.
Some days later, if you are so minded, go back and collect it. Or not. These things can be cheap enough to be disposable.
It's traceable via Tailscale, were someone to do forensics on it, but you could set it up to wipe its Tailscale installation after a certain time period if you were paranoid. It probably wouldn't ever get that far.
Hell, in a lot of places with public wifi, cable tie a random box in place and people will assume it's part of the scenery for a very long time. Your only issue is power, and there are wa
So you have a service like Tailscale. Could actually be Tailscale.
You can install it on a barebones Linux SBC with Wifi. (Raspberry Pi zero W or equivalent). These things will run off a public USB port or a USB power pack for many hours.
Set it down somewhere with public wifi. Set it as an exit node. Go elsewhere.
Some hours later, do bit torrent, or whatever.
Some days later, if you are so minded, go back and collect it. Or not. These things can be cheap enough to be disposable.
It's traceable via Tailscale, were someone to do forensics on it, but you could set it up to wipe its Tailscale installation after a certain time period if you were paranoid. It probably wouldn't ever get that far.
Hell, in a lot of places with public wifi, cable tie a random box in place and people will assume it's part of the scenery for a very long time. Your only issue is power, and there are ways to address that.
You could easily make one that looked like, and functioned as, a USB mains power adaptor.
Random VPN exit nodes, everywhere. Just need a way of getting wifi credentials onto it.
A lot of wifis want you to log in via a website, so the work around for that is that you can record a lynx session and play it back, which is essentially automating a headless interaction with a website. Then put that a cron job.
I've done this in real life to keep a raspi authenticated on a pub wifi. It worked for several days.
Have been alerted to the existence of an MMR drop in centre. Going to attend on Saturday to see if theyโll give me one to top up my 49 year old single measles vaccine.
Interested to know how it goes -- I'm in a similar position and have had pushback from GP when trying to get vaccines which are now routine in childhood.
I queried my GP about shingles and MMR and had twin punctures in my arm that afternoon. But, since I'm to old to have any of the MMR vaccines, it's a full course not a booster. I have the impression they are keen to get them done. Achey and cross the next day, but just a bit tender in the upper arm the day after.
@anubis2814 I don't know when it changed, but the eligibility is simpler now than it used to be; between 70 and 80 instead of the tighter cohort it used to be. I'm sorry to hear about your co-worker. It's miserable at any age, though not, I think, infectious in its own right. In
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •I do like leaving other cars behind when starting from traffic lights though. Especially those that look like their owners need to compensate something. Sometimes I'm a bit sad I don't often have a need to use a car...
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Well, my point was, you *could* probably have done 160kph too, but you didn't, because of no need to compensate something.
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