Malta. You just have to pay a (largish) fee, and they’ll have you.

Also punish the people responsible, like the developers, for their software and choice of used libraries.

What??

If the Tories completely collapse, then next time the FPTP nonsense might favour Reform. If they get in, they’ll do everything they can to undermine democracy, and ensure they never get voted out.

Look at Hungary, and Poland. It took an almighty effort to get the fascists out in Poland, and it will take a lot of work to undo all the damage they did.

We urgently need proportional representation.

The inews article does quote that paragraph, but it does not say whether the Russian media who praise Farage mentioned it. I’m going to guess not.

Aside: Farage is so full of shit it’s amazing he manages to sit down without it dribbling out of his mouth… “[Here’s why Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is the fault of Western ‘liberals’…] I have never sought to justify Putin’s invasion in any way and I’m not now.” Sadly, his open contempt for the intelligence of his supporters seems to be entirely justified.

I have no idea why I am being down-voted.

Just FYI. I downvoted you for the whiny edit.

So now every site has cringe popups that nobody reads or understands, thanks regulators!!

It’s not the law that mandates the awful UI of those popups… it’s Google. I’m an adwords publisher, on my blog and a couple of (formerly!) popular web-apps. My sites were all compliant with the legislation, but not with Google’s policy for adwords publishers. Their algorithm sent me an e-mail threatening to cut off my income unless I implemented one of their “approved” cookie scripts. As any fool knows, it’s simply not possible to contact a real human at Google, so I was forced to do as they wished. So now all my sites have pointless, annoying cookie popups.

Everyone hates those popups, but don’t blame the legislation - blame Google for forcing the whole Internet into malicious compliance.

Your Mum’s journey seems quite positive, overall. Is she now in favour of re-joining? If not, then she still has a long way to go.

It’s crazy crazy sort order that I can’t stand. They deliberately go in and remove certain characters from the filename, specifically to make the sorting behave weirdly.

It treats desktop clients as first-class citizens. That’s a huge, huge advantage over Whatsapp, for me.

They missed my personal favourite:

SHIFT + INSERT … paste the content of the PRIMARY select buffer (currently selected text).

I fucking love Cory Doctorow

Just wait. Some asshole Google employee will read his blog, and unapprove him.

I certainly want a MicroSD slot and a headphone jack on any phone I buy. These are features I use. A lot.

This is behind a paywall. Please post the article text.

I’m usually a bit scornful of “bling” commands, but bat seems genuinely useful.

r/Wellthatsucks is now a subreddit about vacuum cleaners.

Made my day.

LOL. They list Digg as a Reddit alternative.

Someone had a giggle when they wrote that.

Better pricing will make electricity cheaper for everyone.

I’m in the UK, and I use Telegram. It’s far superior to WhatsApp, and has somewhat better ethics (for now).