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by amiga386 10mo ago
https://wikipedia25.org/en/the-first-day > Founder Jimbo Wales on a challenge overcome Aren't you forgetting someone, Jimmy? Your co-founder Larry Sanger, perhaps? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by amiga386 10mo ago
I don't begrudge them the odd party, anniversary, meetup. And some of their subprojects are a great idea and could go much further -- it'd be fantastic to have a Wikipedia atlas, for example. The WikiMiniAtlas on geolocated articl
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by amiga386 10mo ago
Depends on the whisky. You could buy a bottle of Teachers and serve yourself 25ml for 70p. You could buy a bottle of 30-year aged Macallan matured in sherry oak, and serve yourself 25ml for £160. In a pub, you should be able to get a shot o
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by amiga386 10mo ago
Yes. It scales with a government agency's estimate of the property's annual rent (even if you own it), based on market rates in the area over the past two years, which they then scale up/down based on floorspace and how dilap
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by amiga386 10mo ago
Existing tax. Proposed new calculation for the "value" of business property, disproportionately affecting pubs. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8e57dexly1o > In her November Budget, Chancellor Ra
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by amiga386 10mo ago
> it's just comedians listing off london tube stations I'd prefer to view it as comedians parodying games that do have complex rules. There's also a parallel to Zork's "Double Fanucci" [0] and the League o
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by amiga386 10mo ago
Do you think this doesn't happen in other countries? Just to give an example from the UK of "state" media, the nominally independent BBC has to answer to a board, and to the regulator Ofcom. But in 2021, Boris Johnson install
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by amiga386 10mo ago
Touche. But you miss that not all social media (e.g. blogs and forums, instant messaging) are "social media platforms ". Also, the trick doesn't work with social media platforms in the same way. Rupert Murdoch bought Myspa
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by amiga386 10mo ago
All together, everyone! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZggCipbiHwE "This sharing of biased and false news has become all too common on social media" ... say the local TV presenters parroting an identical script f
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by amiga386 10mo ago
This is madness. Prime costs $139 per year. It may be a sunk cost for you, but it's explicitly a cost. Try giving the USPS $139 per year and see what you can send with them.
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by amiga386 10mo ago
Oh for fuck's sake. HN: "Ireland fast tracks Bill to criminalise harmful voice or image misuse" TFA: " Calls to fast track Bill to criminalise harmful misuse of someone’s voice or image" Call to action. Not action.
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by amiga386 10mo ago
Having looked up the text, I can now answer my own questions. 1. As "the production of an individual’s photograph, voice, or likeness" is not Illustrator's "primary purpose or function", Adobe are off the hook. So i
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by amiga386 10mo ago
This is the entire proposed bill: https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/bills/bill/2025/11/ https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/bill/2025/11/eng/in...
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by amiga386 10mo ago
So if I draw a caricature of a politician in Illustrator, then Adobe goes to prison? What if I draw a caricature of my own friends, in Illustrator, without first getting their consent? Does Adobe go to prison? What if I captioned my illustr
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by amiga386 10mo ago
I've been to the Sistine Chapel, and yes it has a lovely ceiling, but it's also jammed full of other tourists who are also craning their necks and not looking where they're going. While the Vatican has a lot more loot and bli
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by amiga386 10mo ago
To go down that rathole, here is Tom Scott talking about the NIST standard reference materials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvJzi0BXcGI
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by amiga386 10mo ago
You will find that written constitutions are about as effective as unwritten ones; if the people in power choose to disregard them, and have popular support, they tend to get away with it for long enough to do damage. Fun fact: The UK has t
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by amiga386 10mo ago
https://www.aminet.net/package/util/mouse/EgoMouse Anyone still using an Amiga should try EgoMouse; it makes your mouse pointer rotate to face to the direction of movement; yes, this makes it ridiculously dif
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by amiga386 10mo ago
That's awesome! That's exactly what's needed.
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by amiga386 10mo ago
It's very cool, but it's also a shame that measuring in characters leads to the metagame of using 97 multi-byte Unicode characters that decode to 194 ASCII characters when reinterpreted. Almost everything is in the format: e
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by amiga386 10mo ago
That's a good point. I think they meet the definition of "terrorists" by their stated goals and acts. But it seems there's reticence by the CPS to break out the Terrorism Act. Palestine Action is already a proscribed
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by amiga386 10mo ago
> The quote from the article continues. You cut it off. I quoted three separate snippets from the article that I wanted to draw attention to, and gave you the URL to read the rest yourself. I'm of the opinion that, someone who sledg
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by amiga386 10mo ago
There are a lot of definitions for violence, but most would include "destruction" along with "harm", "pain", "suffering" and so on. If I intentionally wreck your home, like I properly ransack the plac
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by amiga386 10mo ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1dzq41n4l9o > Giving evidence earlier, he said the group's only intention was to "break in, cause as much damage to the factory as possible, destroy weapons and pr
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by amiga386 10mo ago
> Do you have the name or names of the person accused of 'attacking police with sledgehammers'? You should be less flippant. The accused's name is Samuel Corner. He and his friends are still on trial for their actions. Her
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by amiga386 10mo ago
Yes. They're a bunch of violent criminals. But that's not the point. There are lots of violent criminals who harm businesses and injure, or even kill people. They should be prosecuted and imprisoned. It's not illegal to say &
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by amiga386 10mo ago
It's Bob, all right... but look at those vacuous eyes, that stupid grin on his face - he's been domesticated, I tell you.
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by amiga386 10mo ago
The comparison with WINE is quite apt, though. Although it is using a 68000 emulator, unlike WINE which is purely native code, it is taking the same approach to implementing AmigaOS as WINE took to implementing Windows: it offers the normal
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by amiga386 10mo ago
It's about a million miles away from that. It's a 68000 CPU emulator, with no Amiga hardware, and just enough OS structures sprinkled into memory, such that quite a few Amiga CLI utilities work. What you're looking for is a
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by amiga386 10mo ago
I also note that the most recent changes to amitools / VAMOS are from the amifuse guy, e.g. https://github.com/cnvogelg/amitools/commit/7be270c4c844127e... That's a lot of PRs from him: https:&#x2F

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