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Peeked at Bluesky the other day and was thinking “wow a lot of these posts are in Portuguese”. It took an embarrassingly long time for me to connect the dots.

Anyway, my point is, damage has been done to Xitter’s user base in Brazil. How much damage remains to be seen.

In Britain, if not Europe, “purple” is often blackcurrant, not grape.

Nitpicking here, but unless there are multiple sites, that’s just a LAN (local area network), and even across multiple sites without certain other bits and pieces, it’s still “only” a WAN (wide area network).

Admittedly, the latter can be called an internet (lowercase i important). The LAN would be an intranet.

To replace the Internet (capital-i and all) you’d need, at the very least, a DNS server of some sort, if not reimplementation of any tools that assume IANA and ICANN are at the top of the hierarchy (or successfully lying to them about where those roots are on the network).

To head off the question of where VPNs fit into all of this: Any or all of this could be implemented over a VPN that uses the existing capital-I Internet to transfer data, at the expense of some bandwidth.

Some care would be needed to not let data leak onto the real Internet at any of the end points, but it could be done. This is basically what TOR does for the Dark Web.

Link to actual file. Needed it for reasons.

Both absurdity and repetition can be funny and the sketch has both in uncomfortable number.

I find it a bit grating, but I think that’s the point. And the sketch writers were clearly aware there was something (deliberately?) off about the whole thing which is why they make overt with DSP’s catchphrase.

I think I could live with the scale error, and even forgive the lack of asteroid belt, if only Venus wasn’t smaller than Mercury.

… Maybe I’m taking this a little too seriously.

.net.uk and .ltd.uk are also regulated to some degree. You have to be an ISP (or very similar) for the former and have to provide proof you’re a real limited company (by way of company number) for the latter. There may be others.

In fact, I think a company number might have been required to get a .co.uk at one point.

Caveat: This knowledge is mostly from before they opened up the second level for registrations. Originally there was a fixed list of second level domains all under control of the same entity, and they lasted a surprisingly long amount of time before going for the money grab of opening it all up.

I daresay that there are still restrictions on that. I can’t imagine they would have let police.uk go to someone other than, you know, the police.

… without consulting a structural engineer and one of those walls was supporting.

You know how I know this didn’t happen?

The ball should be white with a yellow stripe.

I really hope this doesn’t age like milk.

You pick up the glass and lift it to your lips. It feels strangely heavy. You realise it is a solid lump of glass that merely resembles a drinking vessel.

The waiter laughs good naturedly and gives you your real drink.

I suppose this bar might be called Djinn and Tonic.

TIL.

Edit: I’ve just noticed that there’s an active QMMP project. That would be an even better option.

With that licensing, I think it might be better for anyone wanting to contribute time and effort to be looking to resurrect XMMS or XMMS2* instead. Heck, they even supported Winamp skins.

* There were apparently two unrelated projects called XMMS2. Take your pick.

If the block feature goes away, I guarantee it will come back for - at the very least - the highest tier of paid accounts almost immediately afterwards.

I can’t imagine any of the large corps that still use Xitter for customer communication will be happy not being able to block serial trolls. Or people with legitimate grievances who won’t go away.

I’ve never read a fictional book. They don’t exist. hurhurhur

But seriously, I did kind of enjoy reading the Manifold series (Origin, Space, Time) by Stephen Baxter way back when. If you’re a quick reader, I reckon you could probably zip through one of the novels in a day.

And I’d recommend reading at least a couple in order to get to know the characters, because then you could pick up the short story anthology set in the same multiverse (Phase Space), where for some you’d only need half an hour.

(Baxter has a bunch of other books and short stories - the Xeelee Sequence springs to mind - but I never got around to those, so have no idea how long the novels are, or whether they’re any good.)

Google’s money is a bit scummy these days, and definitely not something that should be relied upon long term, but I hope Google are making some kind of monetary donation.

The video of the soon-to-be-very-disappointed kid eating a spoonful of drinking chocolate powder just played in my head. And oh, there goes a cinnamon challenge one as well.

I think I’ll pass.

The place I use allegedly uses robots to pick the orders, so, in theory anyway, it’s a machine making the decisions. Or someone sat in front of one, rather than on the warehouse floor.

Online grocery order had a like-for-like product substitution, but the substitution was from a producer that uses a slightly different set of ingredients, one of which I have an intolerance of. Sending it back garnered a refund… and might have helped train an algorithm somewhere.

That is, if they have some kind of semi-random procedure to choose which customer gets a substitution, someone else who’d be more likely to accept it might get it instead, and I’ll get the product I can eat.

This feels like one of those “is water wet?” pseudo-paradoxes.

Is MSG actually tasty or does it make other things tasty while not actually being tasty itself?