Two9A

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[–] Two9A@lemmy.world 10 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

It's not all roses and rainbows: Thatcher was a chemical engineer, and the only thing she engineered while in power was the downfall of England as a world power.

 
[–] Two9A@lemmy.world 79 points 3 months ago (4 children)

For real though, the shortest license is probably the WTFPL:

  1. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.

Might've used it a couple of times myself.

[–] Two9A@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

If the police and/or Crown Prosecution Service claim you're hiding Material behind a password, you can either hand over the password or get thrown in jail under RIPA §53.

I don't know what section of the US Code would apply for the same, but a generic "Obstructing Justice" wouldn't surprise me.

[–] Two9A@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

This was on PM earlier, they were interviewing one of the named postmasters: she only found out about this leak when The Mail called for a quote.

As she said herself, there's accident and there's incompetence; this leans heavily to the latter.

[–] Two9A@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That's law in the UK:

Section 49 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 gives the police the power to issue a notice which requires the suspect to disclose their PIN or password if necessary. You are not compelled to provide your password to the police in any instance.

However, section 53 of RIPA makes it a criminal offence not to comply with the terms of a s.49 notice which is punishable by up to two years imprisonment and up to 5 years imprisonment in cases involving national security and child indecency.

[–] Two9A@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein.

Snopes says this sentiment was actually expressed by Einstein, though perhaps not in this exact phrasing.

[–] Two9A@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

As I understand it, the prophecy is that when the state of Israel is fully unified once more, and the temple of Solomon is rebuilt, Jesus will return and the second battle of Armageddon will commence.

End of the world, rapture of the believers into Heaven, the whole bit.

[–] Two9A@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A tip one contractor passed on to me when caulking: use pieces of toilet paper to smooth it out after applying. You won't get your fingers gunked up, and toilet paper's cheap enough that you can use a bit to smooth off a few inches of caulk and throw the paper away.

Think I got through half a roll when sealing up a window frame a couple years back, looks great.

[–] Two9A@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Essentially. If the end user is being asked to make a financial outlay to get to the same things they did before, it's unlikely that will go down well.

[–] Two9A@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Excellent. I'm on Stage 4 on the Thursday afternoon: "Brewing Tea Over The Internet".

Should be fun times, see you there.

[–] Two9A@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I haven't been exploring in the depths of EFnet in ...many years. I'm confined to the programming-related channels I found in the Way Back When, nowadays: at the moment, #c is probably the most active and it's almost all old-timers.

[–] Two9A@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Did the predilection for tea give me away?

 

Let's get the AMAs kicked off on Lemmy, shall we.

Almost ten years ago now, I wrote RFC 7168, "Hypertext Coffeepot Control Protocol for Tea Efflux Appliances" which extends HTCPCP to handle tea brewing. Both Coffeepot Control Protocol and the tea-brewing extension are joke Internet Standards, and were released on Apr 1st (1998 and 2014). You may be familiar with HTTP error 418, "I'm a teapot"; this comes from the 1998 standard.

I'm giving a talk on the history of HTTP and HTCPCP at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress in Berlin later this month, and I need an FAQ section; AMA about the Internet and HTTP. Let's try this out!

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