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by stordoff 6y ago
Also a known plagiarist[1] and someone who has had his book's presentation of mental health/healthcare challenged[2]. It's an interesting (albeit I think too sweeping) opinion, but using him as a source just makes me question
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by stordoff 6y ago
> I don’t have COVID-19 You can't know this with certainty at any given time unless you've been rigorous in avoiding social contact and other exposure, and at worst the mask accomplishes nothing but does no harm (in the vast ma
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by stordoff 6y ago
Vocal made it more immediately obvious, but both was fairly noticeable to me (though I'm not sure how much I would have noticed the first one if it wasn't such a well known piece).
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by stordoff 6y ago
Migraines in general are weird. It's rare[1], but I can occasionally tell when a severe migraine is about to occur because rooms feel too big. I walked into my bathroom a few days ago (which is about 2mx2m/6'x6'), and ea
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by stordoff 6y ago
I've seen it used somewhat often in the UK (almost entirely in academia as far as I can recall), at least frequently enough that I've used it in my own writings despite not studying history. At a quick search, I can find a couple
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by stordoff 6y ago
FWIW, I don't recall ever seeing this in the UK - I've just tried an in-app purchase, and it just gives the "Double-Click to Pay" FaceID screen (which lists description, account, and price, but no information about refun
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by stordoff 6y ago
Not for apps, at least in the UK - I've had four different apps (and one in-app purchase) refunded for a variety of reasons[1] without an issue. [1] One listed features that were actually (expensive) in-app purchases, one didn't w
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by stordoff 6y ago
Not CDs, but one brand/manufacturer of HD-DVDs is notorious for rot (I've heard suggestions they used bad glue, but I haven't confirmed this). Of the 20 or so I have (all Warner Brothers IIRC), at least half are unreadable (u
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by stordoff 6y ago
For audio CDs, there's also CueTools, which can repair slightly damaged rips (I assume it stores some parity information). I have a CD where that appears to have either two slightly different pressings or a bad batch, and one has an au
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by stordoff 6y ago
Selwyn's statement notes much the same: > On 16th July, Blackbaud informed us of a data security incident [...] they had been the victim of a ransomware attack between February and May 2020. > Amongst the information that may bee
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by stordoff 6y ago
Selwyn College, Cambridge issued a similar statement: > We recently learned that Selwyn was one of a number of educational and voluntary sector organisations in Cambridge, the UK and across the world to have been affected by a data breac
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by stordoff 6y ago
For some reason, something that's always stuck with me is my grandfather asking the priest at my school (it was a church school) "Do you think aliens exist?" and him replying "I'd be naïve to think they don't&q
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by stordoff 6y ago
My take would be that the CC licence used does not allow you to add additional attribution requirements, so either the image is not CC licenced (which seems not to be the case), or the requirements don't carry any weight (so are essent
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by stordoff 6y ago
I'm not surprised this can be abused - I emailed Amazon a few years ago about a pair of headphones asking if they could do anything as the manufacturer wouldn't honour the warranty (part of the serial number was illegible IIRC), 1
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by stordoff 6y ago
I got a set of Hue bulbs for less than half price (packaging was beat up, but the contents were fine), and a pair of headphones for 25% off the new price (had a cable missing). I've also had stuff arrive in _far_ worst condition than w
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by stordoff 6y ago
I would certainly be interested to see this.
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by stordoff 6y ago
The linked CC licence states (and it appears to be confirmed that this is the licence that applies[1]): > If You Distribute, or Publicly Perform the Work or any Adaptations or Collections, You must, unless a request has been made pursuan
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by stordoff 6y ago
Opera 10 faced the same issue: > The user agent for Opera 10 (eg Mac platform, English locale) will be as follows: Opera/9.80 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X; U; en) Presto/2.2.15 Version/10.00 > When we released the Opera 1
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by stordoff 6y ago
When speaking about the state, I (UK) fairly often hear people refer to "Nazi Germany", instead of just Germany (and sometimes used as "Nazi Germany invaded Poland"). With the people though, it's generally just &quo
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by stordoff 6y ago
> there are going to be strong financial ties to any VPN provider one chooses Not if you pay with cash (such as Mullvad). Then it depends on what they can infer from your traffic.
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by stordoff 6y ago
Impossible for me to verify their no logging claims, but Mullvad have worked well for me in the past, and you can pay in cash using a randomly generated numerical user ID, which strictly limits what they directly know about you. The fact th
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by stordoff 6y ago
Apparently my single rule addition to HTTPS Everywhere got me the badge. Not entirely sure what I'm supposed to do with that.
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by stordoff 6y ago
> look at reddit and boston bomber the person they accused killed himself.. Do we know this was due to the Reddit misidentification? His body was found on April 23, after being accused on April 18, but he had been missing since March 16.
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by stordoff 6y ago
I ended up putting some tape inside my Hue bridge to block out multiple bright blue LEDs. The cheap tape I used not blocking it completely (even with two or three layers) ended up working out pretty well - they're now _just_ bright eno
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by stordoff 6y ago
One thing I've dabbled with[1] is using pfSense to set up a VM with a management 'interface' that only routes to my local network and drops any packets not on the web UI port[2], and an Internet 'interface' that pfS
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by stordoff 6y ago
My sister, who uses TikTok quite a lot, referred to TikTok earlier today as "The New Vine", leading me to suspect some portion of the user base is there for similar reasons/content and that there's enough overlap for it
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by stordoff 6y ago
I'd also add that my laptop camera is pointed at me[1], and has a decent view of most of my room, whereas the vast majority of the time my phone's camera is pointed directly at my desk or straight up at the ceiling. I'd find
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by stordoff 6y ago
That's a really interesting suggestion. I'm seeing something similar - the jpeg2png output looks cleaner and at first glance more pleasant to look at, but the reference seems both sharper and easier to read. It feels somehow more
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by stordoff 6y ago
Vaguely reminds me of the Cambridge (UK) system. Your scores can be checked online, and you can now request they not be published, but the way everyone in my social group found out their results was to make the twenty minute walk to the Uni
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by stordoff 6y ago
> Yet it cannot be just a question of wine being harder to stomach in greater quantities than beer I'd also say that pennying[1], a drinking game established at Cambridge/Oxford/Durham/St. Andrews (and others) and pla

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