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Cake day: May 28th, 2024

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  • Lol.

    Seven years ago I spent hours trying to explain to my MP that this would happen if they weakened encryption and put in back doors.

    He seemingly couldn’t get his head round the fact that you have to assume foreign adversaries have access to everything in transit and they’re not going to be worried about longer prison sentences designed to make up for weaker security.

    I should send him an email asking if he understands the argument now it’s coming from an American in a suit and not just one of the plebs.




  • I actually support the farmers in this tbf. I just wanted to make a shit joke about them blocking green lanes and footpaths.

    I try to avoid conspiracybrain but this policy seems so badly designed it seems as if the point is to force farmers into reverse mortgages.

    If the real point is to make money for the treasury, discourage land banking and encourage more productive use of land, then a very modest land value tax would be more suitable and much fairer.

    As it is, it’s going to dispossess farmers of land and make a tiny amount of revenue from a tax that big business is immune from.









  • it’s pretty good for things that I can eye scan and verify that’s what I would have typed anyway. But I’ve found it suggesting things I wouldn’t remotely permit to things that are “sort of” correct.

    Yeah. I haven’t bothered with it much but the best use I can see of it is just rubber ducking.

    Last time I used it was to asked how to change contrast in a numpy image. It said to multiply each channel by contrast. (I don’t even think this is right and it should be ((original value-128) * contrast) + 128) not original value * contrast as it suggested), but it did remind me I can just run operations on colour channels.

    Wait what’s my point again? Oh yeah, don’t trust anyone that can’t tell you what the output is supposed to do.







  • There are sections of both the right and the left that have anti-authoritarian tendancies.

    The libertarian right tends to view things purely in terms of government over reach, whilst the left tends to view things in terms of the power of capital.

    Leftists saw Facebook pushing propaganda for the highest bidder, Reddit trying to be safe to sell to investors and twitter basically becoming a project to reflect Elon Musk’s personal opinions.

    Out of that came a bunch of attempts at creating new social networks. The right wing attempts were not cognisant that the aforementioned were the natural result of trying to get rich off it, while the left attempted to make it impossible to get into that position.






  • Almost went to Stonehenge after visiting family down south. They wanted £60 and wouldn’t let us take the dog in.

    You can apparently get in cheaper if you’re a member of English Heritage. So we looked online to see if it was a fair deal and what other sites membership grants you.

    Turns out that English Heritage are a bunch of robbing bastards (they literally stole seahenge!) that enclose our historic sites in order to charge money for access to them.

    I won’t be visiting if I have to pay them.