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razakel··on Online age verification is the hill to die on
Over a decade ago, on the website of a cable news network named after vermin, you could watch an uncensored video of terrorists setting someone on fire.
razakel··on Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs
The original idea was this:

>I almost want to put some of these faces next to pictures of farm animals and have people vote on which is more attractive.

razakel··on College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work
This is what happens when you make education a business. You end up testing credit score instead of aptitude.
razakel··on US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional
>Prohibition regarding alcohol was not accepted by almost every demographic strata.

It's very difficult to ban something when even the police do it. I'm guessing that the number of cops who like a drink is somewhere around "most".

razakel··on Cambodia unveils statue to honour famous landmine-sniffing rat
They've been banned since 1997, though Lithuania has withdrawn and Estonia, Latvia, Poland and Finland plan to.
razakel··on Gone (Almost) Phishin'
It may be worth looking into getting him a phone that only allows trusted numbers to call him.

But regarding scammers, asking "is your mother proud that she raised a thief?" really annoys them.

One of them threatened to come over and rape my sister.

I don't have a sister.

razakel··on Gone (Almost) Phishin'
An interesting one is .uk, because the UK's country code is actually GB (the ccTLD is delegated, but unused).

And that's before we get into the really weird not-a-proper-country ones like .im or .pn.

razakel··on Inside Nepal's Fake Rescue Racket
Normal travel insurance doesn't cover high-risk activities like mountaineering. You have to buy a specialist policy.
razakel··on Oracle slashes 30k jobs
Was the hospital affiliated with a religious order?
razakel··on Apple Business
I'd take Dun & Bradstreet seriously if:

- They didn't sell your data to spammers, and

- Their website actually worked

razakel··on Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email
The coup has already happened.
razakel··on ‘Energy independence feels practical’: Europeans building mini solar farms
Maybe it looks like you're trying to trick the meter into running backwards?
razakel··on Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events
Endocrinology wouldn't be an entire specialism of medicine if things were that simple.
razakel··on Apple discontinues the Mac Pro
Apparently upgrading the SSD can be done, but it's a weird form factor and you need another Mac to restore it.
razakel··on Supreme Court Sides with Cox in Copyright Fight over Pirated Music
Federal law says you can't. The PLCAA passed in 2005.
razakel··on Apple Business
I gave up when it wanted a Dun and Bradstreet number (whoever they are) and the website to get one didn't work.
razakel··on Bombarding gamblers with offers greatly increases betting and gambling harm
One thing the UK did was to ban gambling companies from accepting credit cards.
razakel··on Bombarding gamblers with offers greatly increases betting and gambling harm
The BMJ publishes an annual Christmas joke paper.

For example, "The survival time of chocolates on hospital wards: covert observational study".

razakel··on Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers
And those who are actually curious will look into what it's doing under the hood.

Everyone has to start somewhere.

razakel··on AI is a horse (2024)
The BBC made a docudrama, Micro Men, with Alexander Armstrong as Clive Sinclair and Martin Freeman as Chris Curry.

Sophie Wilson cameos when they have a fight.

razakel··on Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes"
He was the first person in Europe to buy a Mac.

Stephen Fry was the second.

razakel··on Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes"
>you rarely see in the UK

And when you do, the establishment resorts to skullduggery and smears them.

"The life-long anti-racism campaigner is somehow a racist because he didn't act on the report we deliberately hid from him!"

razakel··on East Germany balloon escape
Authoritarianism isn't the same thing as fascism.
razakel··on 6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available
Has anyone actually given a good explanation as to why TLS Client Auth is being removed?
razakel··on Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13
As the article says, it's based on Schongauer's The Temptation of St. Anthony. There's even a version by Salvador Dali.
razakel··on More than 100k people urge MPs to ban social media for under-16s in UK
Maybe, just maybe, parents could use the parental controls that are widely available for free?
razakel··on Inside The Internet Archive's Infrastructure
Of course they are. Had to block anything at work coming from one certain company because it wasn't respecting robots.txt and the bill was just getting silly.
razakel··on VW is bringing physical buttons back to the dashboard with the ID. Polo EV
They've still got QNX.
razakel··on Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damaged
Why wouldn't it work? The oligarchs would certainly be a bit upset if they lost their yachts, mansions, sports teams, and everywhere else they keep their wealth away from Putin.
razakel··on France targets Australia-style social media ban for children next year
And yet there's opposition to teaching it in schools!

"I love the poorly educated"

- Some Guy

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