Thanks for looking into that, and for the reply - this would explain a lot.
Coupled with mlmym issue 104, noting that those settings are always stored client-side in the cookie, it explains what I'm experiencing: https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym/issues/104
I once wished for this, especially back in the days when there were next to no laws regarding it, but there's zero chance as the money and attention has moved to it. There's political capital in demonising online discourse.
s/country/world/: FTFY
"Think of the children" is somehow the gotcha for so many of the hard-of-thinking amongst us.
Thanks, and for that Issue link. As you say, I expect it's just nuking the cookie and everything related to it just disappears.
At least it's on someone's radar. :)
Edit: I sent a message to support, as suggested by slazer2au, and got a response pointing out that 30 days seems to be hard-coded into mlmym: https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym/blob/a518844b005179623d0d7a31f45966cd8a6b8a96/routes.go#L794
That and those settings all being stored client-side explains everything. Not sure why those choices were made, but now I know why.
If I'm sick in public and don't know the cause (i.e. could be COVID), I'll wear a surgical mask. If I'm in an environment where COVID/similar may be likely from others, I'll wear an N95 mask.
I have boxes of each, left over from the coronalypse, so it makes sense to me.
Staggering that Myst is at that price. Sure, it's great, but it was one of the first CDROM games and its gameplay reflects that.
Bananas. 30 minutes later it's "hello fibre and potassium, time to visit the loo!" But seriously, there are so many great fruits.
Some from me: Blackberries are my hands-down favourite (and available everywhere in the wild in the UK autumn), raspberries, apples (so many varieties), navel oranges, mandarins, dragon fruit, watermelon, pears, rockmelon/cantaloupe, soft peaches (rare; most need a hammer and chisel), plums, damsons (in jam), and grapes.
Most level-headed reaction to the issue I've seen to date. Thanks for saying it.
If a company has had a decent record to date, I prefer to wait to see if they hang themselves with their own rope rather than rage quitting on insufficient information.
They've done some questionable things in the past that can be explained by over-zealous PMs and such, so I'll wait to see how this plays out.
Linux users: People have problems with web(p|m)? Huh, TIL.
First line of the article:
Two of the biggest deepfake pornography websites have now started blocking people trying to access them from the United Kingdom.
This isn't (yet) the UK blocking access to them as part of a Great Firewall of Britain thing. This is the sites themselves blocking visitors from the UK, the same as porn sites for various US states.
As with porn sites, it'll be using the geoIP tag of your IP address, which is notoriously unreliable, especially near geopolitical boundaries.
Using a VPN or even a third-party (rather than your ISP's) DNS server will often get around them. However, doing so will eventually probably get you in trouble.
I'd love to see DOI automating a copy of each entry to archive.org. This would improve the likelihood of them remaining available.
Sure, it would make grifters like Elsevier mad, but scientific knowledge worth a DOI entry shouldn't be limited to a for-profit organisation.
Edit: Worded first para badly. I meant anything assigned a DOI ID, regardless of where the work is hosted.
Searched replies and was not disappointed. 😄
Also: phone, earphones and mask these days.