The SID chip was such a nice sound engine it’s a shame I never had a C64 to hack on as a kid. I started with the ST’s crappy YM chip.

When Boris (?) cut the Foreign office contribution to the world service I thought it was a terrible idea but good old Auntie kept it ticking. This cut compounds on those bad decisions when soft power is one of the few things we have in this world.

It used to be more common. Back in the 90s when I was working in an office we’d often head to the pub for Friday lunchtime and roll in later in the afternoon. Going along for a free lunch and a few beers with visiting sales reps was also pretty common.

I couldn’t do it now - the thought of nursing a proto hangover before I’ve even got home seems insane in retrospect. God knows how much productivity used to be wasted due to work time tipples.

Fair.

Still enjoyed it more for not being a third act CGI slugfest.

You would have thought for $33mil a pop they would have some countermeasures. I guess they are still several orders of magnitude cheaper than a jet with an expensive pilot so are more disposable?

I assume you need fairly sophisticated SAM systems to take out these drones. Are they all coming from Iran? Is this a step up in their missile capability?

Thanks for that - I forgot that it’s not as well known as other few software despite being the default virtualization software on most free software distros.

I really enjoyed GoT so I’m tempted by this. Once you get the hang of the combat it’s very satisfying.

PipePipe seems to work with my login to play age restricted stuff. I do generally have to trigger a login through settings and then research the video through.

It’s probably cowardice.

I totally get why people are upset but the real question is what to do next. You can try lobbying the government with the massive majority by accusing them all of being bigots or form a new party (or join an existing one) with this reform at the top of their agenda.

Sadly while there may or no may not be a majority in the country who have sympathy with the plight of trans people I doubt there are enough where it is the top off their priorities when deciding who to vote for.

Urinals. Most restaurants and cafes have unisex cubicles. When you get to pubs and nightclubs you can get more pee draining space per square foot with a urinal.

As far as I understand it nothing stops an establishment just declaring all their toilets as unisex. I’ve certainly been in a number of drinking establishments where this has been the case.

“when looking at the Equality Act” is the key missing part off the quote. Would you expect an ex-barrister to contradict the ruling of the supreme court?

What’s actually needed is new clear primary legislation to address all these issues. Parliament still had primacy here but good luck getting MPs wading into such a toxic debate?

Does anyone know what the underlying filesystem is on DSM? The ability to easily replace disks with a degree of redundancy across the 4 bays is the biggest plus point for Synology although I have no doubt all the bits underneath are the Linux storage stack.

It’s a shame because I really like the point and click nature of DSM. Although I’m a happy Linux hacker I don’t want another Linux box to suck up my limited admin time just to store files.

I think there is certainly a case for baring MPs from consultancy gigs where they are effectively being paid for influence. It gets trickier with some professions needing a certain number of hours to “stay current”. Who’s going to take a worse paid job which guarantees they can’t return to their old career if they lose the next election?

I’d prefer paying MPs and ministers more but with the same sort of anti corruption approaches they have in Singapore. Get paid well for an important job but get the book thrown at you if you do anything dodgy. I’d quite like to see professional ministers as well so MPs can concentrate on being MPs but I appreciate that would need some changes to the way parliament work.

I doubt the Gemini model is going to be running locally so something is going to have to pay for that. It’ll either be subscription or ads.

Pretty much the same for me. I’m a FLOSS developer and it made sense to join the host closest to the development of Lemmy. I don’t really follow any of the more political groups, I’m mostly here for the science, trek and programming memes. I guess I’ll have to test the subscription portability if the home server gets more widely de-federated though.

How many un-federated free speech micro-blogging sites can the market support? I’m surprised Truth Social is still going now Twitter will let anyone pay these days. Are Parler and Gab even profitable?

It’s not either/or - a lot of actors take training for action roles seriously and they work closely with the stunt team to get the best coverage possible.

I migrated away from the mobile app to PipePipe just to avoid shorts and I pay for premium.