SwizzleStick

It’s not, and it’s the bloody daily heil too.

The thing is, he hasn’t been digging through the dump because the local authority won’t allow it. This story is near to me and he’ll pop up in the local rags now and again to whine about his lot in life.

This guy has spent a long time chasing after a mistake that he’s never going to be able to rectify, dragging it through the courts, and generally being a pain in the arse. The sooner he lets it go, the better for everyone - including him.

Besides the legalities and the environment concerns - it’s a spinning disk drive that has been sitting exposed in landfill for over a decade. It’s fucked.

Use a different service, or encrypt your data before upload & share password separately. For anything remotely private, should be doing that already.

For chaotic good, upload LLM poison to fuck with the training data.

…Goddamnit.

Exactly - some are perfectly fine. The cheap ones are terrible, crossthread too easily, get up in your face, dribble, or all of the above.

Sports style bottles solved the problem long before standard caps got in the game. They get disposed of together here either way, even if the cap gets yanked off for being stupid.

I don’t understand how they end up separate in disposal in the first place. The whole point is that you can reseal the bottle and move/store it without leaking. If you’re not actively using the bottle, it gets resealed to move or store. When you finish the bottle, you probably have the cap still in hand or very close by.

Tangentially, I’d love to see a Pfand type system here.

proper keyboard navigation

• Goes on shitty website that doesn’t play nice with password managers
• Enters username
• Presses Tab
• Begins typing password in the now highlighted ‘forgot username’ element
• Unfathomable rage
• Tabs and types again
• Presses Enter
• Nothing happens
• Continues to mash Tab, trying to find when the submit button element will select
• Break, and click the button like an animal

Belt sander pillows for the people that design this shit, please.

Thanks for choosing us at .zip :)

We’ve opened a piefed instance too - early days yet though: piefed.zip

As nearly always, there is a relevant xkcd.

It’s better to name known safe options rather than leave it up to user search. The entities that work against extensions like uBO are already well aware of their existence, so hiding their names has no benefit.

Case in point - uBlock and uBlock Origin are not the same, with the former being a bastardised version that does ‘acceptable ads’. There are plenty of other poor blocking options out there for the unsuspecting to stumble into besides that.

Personal setup is Librewolf/uBO on the client and pfBlockerNG/Snort for network level blocking/additional security layer.

And welcome to .zip :) Hope you enjoy the new home!

Thank you, what a gem.

Well we can do you the dragon at least: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

At that point I would expect control of it, or at least for it to respect the configuration it is given. If neither are true, then it just doesn’t go online at all. If that’s part of the main function, then I find an alternative or live without it.

Nothing on the inside should be sending anything to the outside that can’t be inspected before it leaves, with the exception of stuff that is directly driven by a human (guests browsing, etc).

This is the best way, really. Generally, you have much more control over what you plug into it.

A display shouldn’t have anything even approaching what can be called an ‘OS’ on it. Yet here we are.

Sometimes even that’s not enough. I’ve had some questionable kit before that would just ignore the DNS settings fed to it if it thought they were no good, and fall back to something else preconfigured.

pfSense is a wonderful tool for situations like that. Anything intended for local use only here just doesn’t get outside at all. Handy for stuff like a fire stick that only needs to be calling up a local media library.

It can also mangle any DNS requests going out to a different server and redirect them to itself instead. You could do this without it with iptables/nftables on a generic Linux box, but pfSense makes it much friendlier.

There are other packages that can do the same, but physically all you need is one piece of hardware as a bouncer that manages connections between inside/outside.

I usually get up by 5. If breakfast isn’t out by 6, I will certainly know about it.

They are a useful backup to have.

Nah - I just can’t address a question to the right user, you’re all good haha

Was about to say, £s not pence :) 50s will also out you as a tourist, if nothing else does. Whereabouts are you planning to visit? Just London for the touristy stuff or going for more of an explore?

As mentioned above, electronic payments are now the norm here and have been for ages. Shouldn’t have any problems using a phone or contactless card to pay in most places. Chip/PIN covers most everything else & when you get prompted to insert the card as a security check after trying contactless.

Swipe & sign is possible last time I checked, but pretty much defunct with chip/PIN being readily available. Cash only places are rare and usually associated with food or drugs.

.zip isn’t blocking UK access via apps/api, but it is for browsers. I like VPNs and supporting my home instance, so here I am :)