At an IT-related business, I had a colleague reformat and install Ubuntu after he foolishly clicked on something he shouldn’t and compromised Windows on his machine. The rest of us weren’t affected and stayed on Windows, but I did feel a twinge of guilt that maybe I ought to have done the same (Installed Linux, that is, not clicked on malware).

For the work we were doing there was almost nothing that didn’t have a Linux equivalent, so it didn’t affect him much if at all.

For the rare exceptions, we had a virtual desktop server, which had existed prior to any of that, because we occasionally needed very old versions of software that would conflict with the modern versions on people’s PCs.

This was all over a decade ago though, so it’s hard to determine whether the same circumstances would have the same result.

There’s a saying about Yorkshire folk, probably invented by rival Northerners, but could just as easily have been a self-deprecation:

“Yorkshire born and Yorkshire bred; Strong in t’ arm and weak in t’ 'ead.”

I think we’ve found the Yorkshireman the saying was about.

Source: Am Yorkshireman.

Condolences to his family. Double if they’re as daft as he was.

Somewhere, sad Cinnamon noises.

US to Canada: Bend over.

Canada: No.

US: You’ll enjoy it.

Canada: Are you serious?

US: You’re unreasonable.

Canada: You’re creepy and weird.

US: Well then I’ll rob my family under the guise of robbing you and you’ll have to watch them cry. What do you think about that?!

Canada: … ~leaves the room~

US, to family: This is all Canada’s fault. Bend over.

They’re rolling it out piecemeal. For a while after people started reporting that they now needed a login, I was still able to get to both.

Now there’s no way around it for me.

It’ll happen to you, @korthrun@piefed.social, and everyone else eventually.

And no combination of Incognito, uBlockOrigin or noScript cancelling or deleting elements will grant me access.

However, I do notice that they have an “e-mail me a one time link” option, and I haven’t tested if they block temporary e-mail services, so if you’re really desperate, maybe that will work.

Although I recommend not bothering with Reddit any more. Let it die.

This is all clearly Ukraine’s fault. If they’d simply capitulated right back at the start of the special military exercise, honest, hard-working Russians wouldn’t have these fuel problems.

(I shouldn’t need a /s, but it’s here anyway.)

Lobbying is and always has been legalised bribery. That they’re extending it to parties that aren’t political (at least, not officially), is not a surprise.

That the law allows this scope creep ought to be a surprise, but alas…

Welp. I’ve altered my comment to reflect my mistake.

Sites are getting better at frustrating users who remove elements from pages, so I expect that Reddit would have implemented the latest tech.

But perhaps more importantly, this is about mobile, not desktop, so there’s no uBO anyway.

Edit: Didn’t read my source properly at all. My bad.

Once I read the article it became abundantly clear, yes, but my attempt to imply that my initial impressions were from the headline alone wasn’t a good one.

It’s an indictment of our society that I wasn’t completely sure if this was going to be about ethnic Chinese targeting their own, or ethnic British taking advantage of foreign students.

The fact the headline mentions Chinese specifically had me leaning towards the former, but there was still an element of doubt in my mind.

And I’d still not be surprised to learn that the latter also happens.

“Your plan was not ‘Rid the land of all the troublesome brown people’ and so we must reject it. Feel free to try again.”

The difference between Gaza and Greenland is that Greenland is a European dependency (or colony if you prefer). This shouldn’t make a difference, of course, but it does.

I’ll grant you that if this drilling is to be on indigenous-owned land, there’s a possibility that there might be an unpleasant echo of Palestine.

It’s all going to come down to how far Denmark are willing to put up with Trump.

That’s why I made the recommendation in the paragraph after that. If they start murdering Greenlanders after the drill, and only the drill, is blown up, that’s likely to get Europe to call foul.

Well, that’s a very (current, if not always) US way of going about it. I was opting for a more humane alternative.

At least at first. I’d wait for the US to fire the first light weaponry, and then, if you’ll forgive the mixed metaphor, the gloves would come off.

Sounds like the way to head this off is to clearly announce that any unsanctioned drilling will be taken as an act of war. Say that the moment any US drill cuts Greenlandic soil, the shooting will start.

And I’d recommend that the first shot be heavy artillery at the drill after a very loud and distinct warning, in English, to stand clear.

Growing pains. The eastern arm of the new Himalayas is just getting started.

Will our descendants be around to remember that we knew all this time ago? Will something else evolve in the absence of our lineage and be intelligent enough to figure it out like we figured out the original Himalayas?

But in the meantime, and perhaps long after, we’re in for a few rumbles and broken pots.

Did people go out and learn modern Italian after seeing Gladiator?

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not against anything that might be good for Greek and Greece in general. Good for them and those who choose to learn the language. It just seems a bit… misplaced?

It’s still poor taste to glorify past transgressions, no matter whether each have given as good (or bad) as they have to each other.

And the last thing Zelenskyy would want is for Poland to decide to ally with Russia. I’m sure Putin would love that. Another few million troops, and then no-one to defend Poland or Ukraine when they’ve both destroyed each other, so he can roll in and take control of both.

I think your reading of the situation is a little twisted, but I agree that Zelenskyy has made another poor choice here.

That is, the UPA weren’t Nazis, they were playing the “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” game and trying to take advantage of the destabilised political situation in Europe at the time.

What the UPA did, however, is not forgivable and Zelenskyy should have thought twice about invoking that memory.