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Jacky Holyoake 🇬🇧🏴
Islamism is the antithesis of British Values and has no place in Britain.
British Values
Democracy Rule of law Tolerance and respect Individual liberty
We need to rid Britain of these Islamists. ⬇️
Islamic man living in Britain says he ‘hates’ British values and says he wants Shariah law implemented.
I’m surprised that trump and the Republicans aren’t recommending that Floridians drink bleach or take a horse dewormer to keep them safe from Hurricane Milton … just the way they did during their disastrous handling of the COVID pandemic.
#trump #florida #climatechange #hurricanemilton #voteblue #KamalaHarris
PHONE ZAP
EVACUATE BUNCOMBEY
US COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY COUNTY JAIL
As of 10/6/24 a report from inside indicates grueling conditions:
• No running water, only one 20-oz. of water received every 12 hours
•
People locked in cells with
unflushable toilets & feces
The county is actually increasing the amount of people subjected to these dangerous conditions by:
Cancelling court dates that could lead to release, claiming that they can't hold court until water is restored
Locking up new people, including on warrants without any new alleged crimes
DEMANDS
Evacuate the jail
• Immediately release all people in BCDC being held pre-trial on secured bonds
Buncombe County Manager Avril Pinder
ITY
-(828) 250-4100
Buncombe County Chairman Brownie Newman
- (828) 243-0107
Detention Major Jill Banks
-(828) 250-5248
Buncombe County Sheriff
quentin.miller@buncombecounty.org
You can also support by donating to the Asheville Community Bail Fund, a volunteer- run, donation-funded grassroots project to get people out of cages in Buncombe County.
paypal - avlcommunitybail
We have confirmed folks are still able to be bailed out of BCDC during this disaster but have been told everything is handwritten and takes longer. We have an $80,000 backlog of requests* we were already
unable to fill due to lack of funds before this occurred, and we are committed to working our way through it. Some people in our backlog have bails as low as $1000, so any donation, no matter how small, can add up to make a huge difference for someone during this traumatic time.
*excluding our 3 highest bail amounts
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Here's what people inside are sharing about their dehumanizing and dangerous conditions.
- There is electricity, but no water. Told it may be 3 weeks before water restored.
- Can use their tablet. However, as late as 10/6, BCDC wasn't allowing video visits to be scheduled.
- No changes of clothes for almost 2 weeks so far (no fresh clothes, sheets, or blankets).
- No showers for over a week - told portable showers coming sometime.
- Get one 20-oz. bottle of water every 12 hours (this is their sole drinking water and has to be used to brush teeth as well).
- New people being booked into the jail on outstanding warrants (i.e. without any new alleged crime).
Can use toilets inside for peeing; barrels of water to flush; have to hope person before you didn't poop.
- Taken outside to poop in port-a-loos, but only when guards say you can.
- No disposal of feminine hygiene products.
- Some are in an "open dorm," called "overflow," with over 15 other people; it's not too bad there.
- However, for those not in an open dorm, 1-2 people are locked up per room with a nonfunctioning commode you have to use, so you're locked in there with urine and feces.
- Told the truck with their commissaries is on the way from Atlanta, so will hopefully be getting their commissary orders.
- Were supposed to have court this week, but were told "no running water, no court" (this means people will be locked up longer than they normally would).
More context:
• NCDAC evacuated 5 facilities without water in the aftermath, but only a portion of BCDC inmates have been transferred - why are the rest in BCDC being neglected?
• FEMA recommends each person have access to at least 1 gallon of water a day during a disaster, with 1/2 gallon a day being the minimum. BCDC is reportedly providing less than 1/3 gallon a day.
• Between 9/26 (NC Emergency Declaration) and 10/6 (Sunday), 30 people have been added to the system". according to Buncombe County
Police2Citizen website
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How many lines of code did Atari Pong have? None, it was all hardware, and here's a nice page with interactive circuit-level simulations of Pong's various bits:
Paul Falstad's circuit simulator is also a nice way to learn about electronic circuits in general. Take a look at the examples in the "Circuits" menu:
I've used it often in the past. 💯
#retrogaming #arcade #gaming #history #electronics #simulator
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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 10, 2024
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 10, 2024 is available.
Some of America's finest writers (and one so-so one) are featured in 270 Reasons to vote for Harris/Walz. Find one or two that might motivate someone you know.
Mine is quite out of character. It's about how that empty pit in our collective stomach turned into a mosh pit.
I don't use an ad blocker anymore but I do pay for a bunch of services and I always pick ad free. I never see ads really.
If I were to use an ad blocker I would set up a pie hole or similar. I had that before and it worked pretty well but with the server side ads on YouTube you would still see those.
On Linux or Windows? Firefox + uBlock origin (there’s nothing better than that)
On Mac? Firefox + uBlock origin (worse alternative: Safari + AdGuard, since you might synch browser with iPhone)
On Android? Firefox + Privacy Badger + uBlock Origin
On iOS? Safari + AdGuard + Vinegar + Baking Soda
On SmartTV it’s different.
Hardest overall solution: Get yourself a Pi-Hole pi-hole.net/
For WebOS TVs use this: github.com/webosbrew/youtube-w…
Android TVs should get SmartTube: github.com/yuliskov/smarttube#…
RokuTVs got either this thing: channelstore.roku.com/en-ca/de…
or the open source alternative: github.com/iBicha/playlet
I look forward to the day apple is forced to allow other browser engines to run on iOS.
Unfortunatly, they were smart. To the average lawmaker, Firefox, chrome, edge, etc all run on ios, so there's no issue.
I've been using this one for years, which filters out ads and sponsor segments:
Only for Android though. If you use iOS, switch to Android and you'll also get a really Firefox browser with ublock origin that blocks all the ads compared to that 30something% what every iOS browser does.
Yeah, the perks of the Android ecosystem. There's also a version for Android TV such as NVIDIA Shield. Again just works and filters out ads and sponsor segments.
I remember when I first noticed YouTube had ads. They've had them a while but before they got ads I had installed an ad blocker. So when I was setting up a new laptop and just testing if everything worked I loaded up a YouTube video and suddenly there was a pre roll playing and I wondered "What the fuck is this ... Ah yes still need to install an ad blocker"
Edit: Toni? Who the fuck is he? ;)
My first contact with the web (I had been in the internet for some time already) was when a collegue at university told me about the Arena browser, and this new system, "like Gopher, but with Hypertext and pictures". And yes, I've seen the CERN website, served from Tim Barners-Lee's NeXT cube, too.
So yes, I knew the web before there were ads, the internet when services were normally open to all sides, and when people on the internet that were actually much smarter than average.
Yes we had 3 more years where numerous other variants of things like pop-up/under ads, ads that ran malicious java script, infinitely self-replicating pop-ups, ads that instantly played music at full volume, ads that kept opening themselves again as you closed them, and so on.
Basically, the time when ads were not super intrusive, on the web, was a fleeting time, in its infancy. Didn't even make it 6 years before ad blockers were required to safely use the web.
you'll enjoy a fun browser addon then! - adnauseum
it clicks on every. single. ad both doing what you're doing, but also poisoning the data Google has on you. From their website:
As the collected data gathered shows an omnivorous click-stream, user tracking, targeting and surveillance become futile
I have adblock on my Mac, but not on the PS5. Whenever I watch YouTube on my TV via PS5, I have to open and close videos sometimes 10 or 15 times before they just play the video I've clicked on and not some obnoxious 45 second long advert for some bullshit I don't want and won't use. Honestly not sure why YouTube finds it so hard to play the video I clicked on and not random other videos. I also tend to stop watching vids as soon as an ad break happens.
I work with a marketing department full time and they're exactly as annoying as expected, always pissing about on tiktok or Instagram creating shit that nobody could possibly feasibly care about.
Is there an alternative to YouTube on PS5 that doesn't have adverts? Or is there some way to get adblocking on there?
Basically me every time I open a website on my work laptop, where I cannot add browser extensions because of IT policies.
I honestly cannot fathom why large companies don't include at least simple adblockers in their browser configurations. I don't even need to block youtube ads, the banners on stackoverflow are bass enough). Would probably save fairly significant amounts of bandwidth, too.
Me if that happens:
jk, i barely use YT as it is. I'm waiting for the YT ToS update that causes a mass migration to peertube
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Personally I've been maintaining a chrome extension for about 10 years, and it's sat happily with about 7000 users that entire time. I built it because I wanted to use it, and I've declined several offers to buy the extension and monetize it.
It's an extension that makes GitHub pages full width: github.com/xthexder/wide-githu…
Admittedly the usefulness has gone down a little bit in the last couple years now that GitHub themselves have made code diffs and some other things full width by default.
When I first wrote this I had just gotten a giant 4K display at work and was really annoyed I still had to scroll left and right with the page only covering 1/3 of the screen.
This is why I just set up a media server at home.
It's mine, you can't pump it full of ads. All the media is mine and those companies can go fuck themselves.
Sail those seas folks
it has adblock + sponsorblock
put a pi-hole in my rooter
Giggity What would be the definition if it was in the urban dictionary?
Most of the tech billionare's ideas comes from watching a dystopian 80s scifi and saying "let's do this but where I'm the bad guy."
Show me one thing Elon ever came up with that isn't in Total Recall.
Show me one thing Elon ever came up with that isn't in Total Recall.
Musk is trash, but to be fair, Philip K. Dick pretty much invented like 90% of popular, modern sci-fi tropes.
The upside to using ad blockers - no ads!
The downside to using ad blockers - not knowing what any of the movies currently in theaters are.
I mean the concept is pretty simple, all they have to do is make whatever the content it is not play without the verification.
Now I do have to say, it does come down to what is the system we do want? We can agree we don't want intrusive ads. We can say that the paid for services are too expensive. But at the end of the day when we refuse to pay for the content, and then bypass the ads, we do leave content creation in a rough spot. We've kind of reached a point where we need a new system. Yet all we seem to do is try and find ways to break the existing one.
Honestly I disagree... From what I've heard from app developers etc... ads generate far less money than even $1 app sales. Now maybe that's the brokers etc... But there's also a reason why Hulu shut down their purely ad supported tier, and none of the big companies are leaning into that. Only "subscribe and get ads" lower dollar tiers.
I'm no super expert, but I think ads are still very inefficiant ways to make money... the profit per customer is very small even with the most privacy invasive blast you away with everything aspect. I don't claim to be an expert, but it appears to me an ad supported service needs around 100x more users to make the same money as a low cost service. However, in actual userbases it goes closer to 1000x when that offer is on the table.
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They took a mother crying about the loss of her son due to gun violence and turned it into an anti-Harris inflation attack ad. Disgusting...
This Philadelphia-area mother was shocked to see herself in a Trump attack ad. She’s a lifelong Democrat voting for Kamala Harris. inquirer.com/opinion/donald-tr…
Cardinal in a Tree
Here is another northern cardinal. He was around this afternoon along with at least a dozen more.
My photo gallery contains more that 700 images that I've chosen to share. Most are there for their visual appeal but there are a few novelty images. You can check out my gallery at:
swede1952-photographs.pixels.c…
#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #wildlife #nature #bird #birds #birding #birdsofmastodon #birdwatching #birdphotography #NorthernCardinal
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