Also, Stract

“Oh, perhaps we could assign it to the actual Indian Ocean, as that’s quite a persuasive 💰 argument 💰.”

“… Or perhaps NASA would like to administer it on behalf of the aliens on Io until we make contact…”

Only about four years after everybody else!

Link for easy clickage: !product_reviews@slrpnk.net

Ha ha, yeah, I forgot the photo would have needed to be taken!

Somebody’s been recording home movies!

Personal: Booted up a friend’s infected disk on my Amiga, which then infected the HD. Mass panic for ten minutes or so as I ran Virus Checker or VirusZ on it.

Work: In 2003-ish we had an infection of… I can’t even remember the name of it, but we had to manually go round and run a program on everybody’s computer to get rid of it.

Since then I’ve seen a few people get their files encrypted by Ransomware, but no major infections.

But it’s OK to send more - and probably PII - tracking data directly to the website without consent?

How does this violate the GDPR? It increases privacy and stops advertisers tracking everything you do. This seems to be a good thing.

Advertisers have always been interested in where their ads are seen and whether they convert to purchases. A common example is vouchers, which will tell the advertiser exactly this (10p off, customer redeems, store returns to advertiser, advertiser knows where you got the voucher from/where you saw the advert, where you bought the product - exactly what Firefox is trying to tell them)

Apparently this is the one thing which is controlled by a single gene, and works as you were taught in school with dominant and recessive traits.

Nothing else does, including the things you were taught like eye and hair colour - they are much more complicated.

Yeah, it’s early days.

There’s an open source Linux reimplementation called Notepad Next.

Yeah, it’s a bit odd how it looks like it’s broken, it was working for me randomly and then I worked out I needed to clear cookies.

It was upgraded - it is up but looks like it isn’t if you were logged on previously. If you clear cookies it should work again.

An Acetronic MPU1000 games console, from the 1970s - 76 or 78 I think. Still worked last time I powered it up, I also got some extra games cheap off eBay a while back, interesting playing something other than the three or four games I remember from childhood.

I don’t always, but when I do it’s mostly to do with character customisation. If I’m playing a game where my character is constantly visible I’d rather it was something I wanted to look at, and male clothing is boring. OK, some games don’t restrict clothes but many do. So I tend to create a character which is a female version of me, except in the cases where I prefer a male character (which isn’t often if I have the choice!)

This one: https://feddit.uk/post/5822127

Accessed from: Mobile, Desktop

Platform Name: Mastodon

• Accounts: Lots, Main one on oldbytes.space

• Apps: Tusky

• Uses: Mostly following retrocomputing folk, and running friendly bots.

Platform Name: Lemmy

• Accounts: This one is my main, a few bot accounts and others just for creating communities

• Apps: Connect

• Uses: You all know what this is! I also run a few posting bots

Platform Name: Mbin

• Accounts: Fedia.io

• Apps: None, was testing Artemis until it went AWOL

• Uses: Hosting a few communities still. Was my main Lemmyesque account but Kbin was horribly unreliable. Mbin seems much better but waiting for app support as I like Connect more than the mobile web interface.

Platform Name: Bookwyrm

• Accounts: wyrms.de

• Apps: None

• Uses: Logging and reviewing books I’ve read, keeping track of what is on my pile of books still to read.

Platform Name: Takahē

• Accounts: Technically one, but it supports multiple profiles

• Apps: Tusky

• Uses: Mostly testing, run a few minor accounts there because the multiple profiles feature is ace.

Platform Name: Funkwhale

• Accounts: One (can’t remember domain offhand)

• Apps: None

• Uses: My bots also post here, I’ve never managed to get federation working on it though.

I think that’s it. I did have a PeerTube account but the instance it was on closed down, and I haven’t bothered to make a new one elsewhere.

I had to buy an adapter. I much prefer wired earphones, as somebody else commented, it’s much easier to switch wired ones between devices. With wireless you also have the issue of disconnecting them if you want audio through the phone speaker. I hate Bluetooth anyway.

I also prefer the earphones which sit just in the ear, rather than the current style of ones that need to be forced inside. I don’t think you can get wireless earphones like that, probably because they would be lost easily. I like proper headphones too (so that’s an option for wireless), but they are quite bulky so not always convenient.

Woman across the way chatting to somebody and randomly exposes her breasts. The person she was talking to said, “whoa, that man might see!” (I don’t think this was even a reference to me as I was at a weird angle and don’t think I was visible). She got them out some more and shouted something about getting a good look at them. I’d backed away more by this point.

(I have an even more X rated one, maybe later)