Spudger

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[–] Spudger 2 points 2 years ago
[–] Spudger 3 points 2 years ago

Ask ten people what good defaults would be and you'll get ten very different responses. This is exactly why Dolphin, and Plasma in general, are so easy to tweak to your ideal.

Dolphin the file manager I always wanted.

[–] Spudger 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

The problem with No. 10 is that there's no one in there old enough to remember walking to school through winter smog. Pollution kills and legislation saves lives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Air_Act_1956

[–] Spudger 2 points 2 years ago

Just read what I said again. Mrs Spudger does this for a living. She knows what she's talking about. The phone doesn't have to be connected to the public internet. It can just be connected to a private wi-fi network for this purpose.

Phones like this are very tightly locked down. This is not the iPhone you may be used to. The management software even has its own private Apps Store. The user can't just add or remove random apps from the public App Store. The device manager can also prevent any deletion of content.

These things aren't left to chance, especially when we're talking about the highest office in the land.

[–] Spudger 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Mrs Spudger manages a fleet of mobile devices, mostly Apple. She uses an Apple service called Business Manager to administer the devices. Here's a quote from the manual:

"Reset user passwords

If users forget their password, you can reset it. Resetting their password allows them to get a new temporary password, at which time they will have to create a new password for their Managed Apple ID."

In other words, Johnson is talking utter bollocks. He doesn't need to know the password. His best defence is to drop it off a North Sea ferry, in a Rebekah Vardy stylee.

[–] Spudger 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Didn't the Tories bring in some legislation that would enable the government to store all our private communications? I know this buffoon will argue that the law is only supposed to apply to the little people. It doesn't count for old Etonians.

[–] Spudger 13 points 2 years ago (10 children)

I don't know what the authors are complaining about. All the AI is doing is trawling through a lexicon of words and rearranging them into an order that will sell books. It's exactly what authors do. This is about money.

[–] Spudger 14 points 2 years ago

Oh, it's not that simple. I could call, email or any number of other methods. It's just that I'd rather not communicate with a right wing, paranoid, fear-spreading, racist nut job. I just need to know they're still breathing. This individual is spewing bile every single day,

[–] Spudger 1 points 2 years ago
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Some gems there among the Des O'Connor stuff. Cheers.

[–] Spudger 1 points 2 years ago

Last weekend I was rummaging around in the clearance bin at the local entertainment shop. I picked up One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and A Clockwork Orange for $5.00 each and Quatermass and the Pit for $2.95. That's this weekend sorted for telly time. Mrs Spudger hasn't seen any of these.

Oh, and new speakers too, at long last.

 

From the BBC's Later... with Jools Holland.

 

Another hugely underrated band from the 70s. Great songwriters, talented musicians, a very satirical edge and a stage show like nothing else.

 

Police are already using self-driving car footage as video evidence:

While security cameras are commonplace in American cities, self-driving cars represent a new level of access for law enforcement ­ and a new method for encroachment on privacy, advocates say. Crisscrossing the city on their routes, self-driving cars capture a wider swath of footage. And it’s easier for law enforcement to turn to one company with a large repository of videos and a dedicated response team than to reach out to all the businesses in a neighborhood with security systems.

 

Possibly the most underrated UK punk band.

 

Today marks the first day of the Report Stage of the Online Safety Bill. As this Bill progresses through the Houses of Parliament, we hope to (once again) raise the alarm around the risks to encryption posed by this Bill.

 

In the basement today we have quite a rare machine (for North America:) The BBC Master 128. It's an evolution of the original Acorn BBC Micro from 1981. My first task is to service the PSU and convert it to 120v, then see if this machine is working.

 

Kaiser Chief's Ruby as performed by not 47, as the title suggests, but 51 acts:

Carlos Ramos Stahlverbieger Blue Sharp The Beards Drums The Word Sean Harrington Teejay Filipe Frutuoso And Yuri Bertozzi Vonnie 152 Cover Solutions Michael Mendes Vg Bass Pocket Fox Casey Thayer Jacob Heald Celo 17 David Locke Julila Dominguez Rostra Bass Andersongmann777 Andrew Lukins Frugled Wedding String Quartet Leftis 1986 Imogen Taylor Fancy Sauce Lada Alex Bourner Adam1dabest Scooby Doo Fut Como Le Gusta Seu Roque Riff Raff Choir Mike Barnes The Cowbell Man Boris Fonseca Stuart - Newbury School Audrey123talks/Kate Elie Le Storie Tese Notawurger Diana Guardado Beelzebubs Brett Le Sauvage Back By Friday Mika Ronos Fuori Tempo Жигули Gabriel David Gomez General Do One Kaiser Chiefs

 

Most of us have seen weather maps at some point in our lives – in geography lessons at school, or in weather forecasts. But what do all the lines, labels and shapes actually mean?

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Spudger to c/listentothis@lemm.ee
 

MAYDAY! MAYDAY! by Riff Bastard

 

Russian moon landings, week long traffic jams, a workforce replaced by automation and above all, too much leisure time!

These are just some of the bold predictions made in Don Haworth's 1963 BBC 'mockumentary' Time on Our Hands - a remarkable film which projects the viewer a quarter of a century into the future.

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The Warning - "MORE" (www.youtube.com)
 

My granddaughter recently started guitar lessons so I bought her tickets for The Warning's recent gig at the O2 Academy in London. It was her first ever concert experience. Hopefully they'll be an inspiration for her.

Proper vid here for those who like pictures of people :)

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Father and Son (self.music)
submitted 2 years ago by Spudger to c/music
 

I've just watched Yusuf/Cat Stevens at Glastonbury and impressed by how many people of all ages know the lyrics to songs he wrote half a century ago. Example: when he started singing Father and Son the crowd had joined in before he'd reached the end of the first word.

And the sight of tens of thousands of mostly white, middle-class fans joining in with a 74 year old Muslim grandad wasn't something I'd ever expected to see.

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