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@nixCraft@mastodon.social "Great job on the safe landing champ!"
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@NormanDunbar@mastodon.scot @DoubleTreble@cupoftea.social One day a month I log in to my banks, savings, insurance, trade union, and whatever, and update all my computers.
It's called the Monthly Day Of Crap (MDOC).
It's today.
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@apenkop@mstdn.social @RandamuMaki@mstdn.social @ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk Binface is a satirist, Jonathan David Harvey. As such their arguments and policies are that Farage shouldn't be an MP. I think we can all trust and get behind that.
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@Lana@beige.party RD Laing's daughter asked this question.
Can God kill God?
It's in Laing's book Conversations With Children.
Explaining gay seems easy by comparison.
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@bodil Happy Ding Dong Day to all who celebrate
#dingdong #thatcher
https://youtu.be/8vXR5gjRMPk?si=Rpm6LXT8qnkz4Gdf
Klaus Nomi - Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead
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@Nickiquote I've heard that it's supposed to be a single slice of buttered bread, folded over the chips
Good news.
"The House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Act 2026 ... removed all remaining hereditary peers from the House of Lords on 29 April 2026."
I somehow missed that, maybe because it wasn't reported by news media. We still have bishops in government though.
"Numerous members of the House of Lords have said that other elements of Lords reform should be prioritised, such as the abolition of the Lords Spiritual, pointing out that the only other sovereign state where clerics are automatically granted a legislative seat is Iran."
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Act 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Lords_%28Hereditary_Peers%29_Act_2026?wprov=sfla1
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@Nickiquote@mstdn.social A couple of years ago I was at a fancy sport resort for a conference. This sign was on the gate to the pool.
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@turi@social.vivaldi.net @penguin42@mastodon.org.uk
For current work on Dasher see this website https://dasher.at/
I worked on the web version a few years ago. There's one or two proper AAC experts working on it too.
Who is Freddy Verse, the sidekick of John Mastodon?
#johnmastodon
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@fedilore@mastodon.social @taylor@social.axfive.net Thank you for the link. It says this.
backup archives are stored without a direct link to a specific backup payment or Signal user account.
It doesn't seem to be specific about how the payment details are separated from the Signal user account though. Maybe they use the anonymous credentials mentioned here. https://signal.org/blog/signal-private-group-system/
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@fedilore@mastodon.social @taylor@social.axfive.net Could it be like this.
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I enter my credit card details in Service One (S1).
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S1 generates and stores a secret account number, SAN in a table with the credit card details.
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S1 generates and stores a hash of SAN, HAN, and stores it separately as a paid account.
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S1 gives me HAN, and I enter it into Service Two (S2) which stores it with my email address.
S2 can now verify that the account is paid, by querying HAN. But there's no way to get SAN and the credit card details from the email address.
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@galacticstone@mastodon.social @johnefrancis@cosocial.ca
Princess Michael of Kent if that counts?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Michael_of_Kent?wprov=sfla1
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Or perhaps they are all just too busy implementing the next AI feature we don’t want.
Maybe suggest they address this vulnerability with an AI solution?
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@james @malwaretech Obliquely, they do accept cash which I guess would be anonymous.
https://proton.me/support/payment-options#cash
Nobody in the media or in government is able to connect the actions of Israel with a rise in anti-Semitism.
#ukpol
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@TimWardCam@c.im @cstross@wandering.shop Happy Ding Dong Day to all who celebrate
#dingdong #thatcher
https://youtu.be/8vXR5gjRMPk?si=Rpm6LXT8qnkz4Gdf
Klaus Nomi - Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead
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@bagder@mastodon.social @brynet@bsd.network @fraggle@social.coop @gruber@mastodon.social In my opinion it is good to use contractions to emphasise negativity. Otherwise you risk the reader missing the word not and misunderstanding the whole sentence.
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@bransonturner@mastodon.social @purple@tech.lgbt @Laurenlookslost@ohai.social If memory serves, only one Village People was Actually Gay
Wait, is that what the middle AG in MAGA stands for?
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@fraggle@social.coop @bagder@mastodon.social @gruber@mastodon.social To me the following have different meanings.
- runtime is a noun referring to, for example, a library that is embedded in a program.
- run time means when the software is running, for example in contrast to build time.
- run-time is an adjective form of run time.
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@purple@tech.lgbt @bransonturner@mastodon.social @Laurenlookslost@ohai.social Although that was in the new Will & Grace