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28:45 – Ruben Schade slips in and joins the addendum festivities!
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Norfolk Island is famous for its beautiful pines, but I didn’t realise it has such adorable fauna. Below we have the Gannet and the White Tern, photographed by Steve Daggar and uploaded to Wikimedia Commons.
I was going through my old Pinboard (previously del.icio.us) links, and remembered Robert A. Bogash’s incredible photo archive of the original 727! Among images of blueprints, building the fuselange and test flights, this was my favourite:
From Robert’s description:
An historic picture - the 707 Prototype (Dash 80) in the foreground, then E1, and, in the rear E2, in the Boeing Flight Center hangar at Boeing Field, 1963.
There’s something cool about the continuity of Boeing’s original nose design. 737s manufactured today share parts of the nose design as the original 707, and the 727s shown there. That colour scheme was also something else.
I’ve never flown in a 727, or a 707 for that matter. It’s likely stuff you and I have bought has arrived on a cargo version of those planes though.
Jessica Elgot, Patrick Wintour and Peter Walker reported this incredible news in The Guardian:
The sudden resignation of Britain’s ambassador to the EU has prompted angry accusations from remain supporters that officials who express caution about the Brexit process risk being pressured out of their jobs.
No kidding, though the leave crowd would likely use fluffier language:
John Redwood, a longtime Eurosceptic Tory MP, said: “Sir Ivan’s heart was not in the negotiations. The talks do not need to be that complicated. If you leave, you leave.
See! Nothing to see here, move on people.
You take control of your borders, your laws and your money and that is not something that needs to be negotiated with Mrs Merkel.”
Let’s quickly unpack these for fun.
Borders. Europe is the UK’s biggest trading partner. Most of their immigration comes from outside the EU. And England voting to leave may be the final push for Scottish independence. The first two render the borders argument moot, and the latter is not what they wanted.
Laws. UK exporters will still be bound to EU regulations on their products if they want to sell, and now they won’t have a say in them any more. Mr Redwood is right about “Mrs Merkel” not negotiating, just not in the way he thinks.
Money. You mean, the money the leave crowd promised would go to the NHS, then turns out it didn’t? And what about all the money pouring into the City of London as the former financial capital of the EU, or foreign businesses that chose to have their European headquarters in the UK?
Having said all that, the real epiphany I had last year is that using logic and reason against emotional arguments is fruitless (moot, you could say). Those who dislike the principle or idea of the EU are free to do so, but they shouldn’t obfuscate by selling it as some big win for the above points, when they’re not.
I’d also point out I have a genetic foot in the game. My mothers side of the family were from Scotland, and my father is from Germany, so I fear a Brexit with Scotland still in the UK will tear my genes apart. My enemies would like this, but I rather like existing at the moment.
MyBB sites, such as forum.vyos.net, enforce bad password policies:
Please correct the following errors before continuing: The password you entered is of invalid length. Please enter a password between 6 and 30 characters.
The 30-character limit doesn’t matter, it gets salted and hashed either way. It’s an entirely arbitrary limit that renders passwords less secure. Don’t do it.
Even better, call then passphrases, because that’s what they should be.
I’m building a nostalgic DOS tower as a long-term project, but finding a small, two-tone beige keyboard for it is painful. Every keyboard manufaturer uses horrible black parts now, and customisable ones still use a black bezel.
So far, the only ones I can find are:
Topre Realforce, which are expensive, only recently ended production, and aren’t compatible with PS/2 adaptors.
Unicomp Ultra Classic. I love the buckling springs, but my desk space is too limited for the extra numeric keypad.
If anyone out there knows of a small, two-tone mechanical beige keyboard, let me know!
New year celebrations aren’t my cup of tea. But at least I’m a caucasian gent who doesn’t have to put up with this crap, as reported by Michael Safi at The Guardian:
Thousands of people gathered on two central streets in Bangalore on Saturday night to celebrate the new year. Local newspaper reports and witnesses said the crowd became unruly and began to subject women to sexual assault and harassment.
And what caused it?
G Parmeshwara, the home minister for Karnataka state, appeared to brush aside the incident on Monday in comments to the news agency ANI.
“They tried to copy the westerners, not only in their mindset but even in their dressing,” he said. “So some disturbance, some girls are harassed, these kinds of things do happen.”
The charitable interpretation of the home minister’s words is that he’s merely corrolating dress styles with crime.
The other, sadly more likely explanation (based on the treatment of Indian women in general, and other political comments) is women bring it upon themselves by dressing a certain way, which is bollocks. Are these men also so weak as to devolve into animals at the mere sight of a women in a miniskirt?
To remove all ambiguity, the only reasonable thing to say is attire is never an excuse for assult.
This originally appeared on the Annexe.
This originally appeared on the Annexe.
This originally appeared on the Annexe.
Using OpenSSL:
openssl s_client -connect hostname.tld:443
And if you’re testing an xmpp server:
openssl s_client -connect hostname.tld:5222 -starttls xmpp
Use the -ssl3 command if you know you’re dealing with an older server.