Went through a load of changing services to ethical suppliers.

I’m now with Nationwide (UK) for banking. Not only am I not supporting corruption and the destruction of the planet, THEY give YOU money to bank with them through various offers. It’s some sort of cooperative rather than shareholders thing(?) and I’ve had about £300 off them in total with this week’s cashback.

They do switcher deals every so often, it’s worth looking out for if you’re considering it.

Help! I’m being threatened with a good time!

It will if you do it all day every day at awkward angles. Like I said tills have been redesigned so it’s not like it was.

Yes I’m saying I’m happy to bag my own shopping because I only have to do it once per trip. I think it’s a good thing staff choosing not to injure themselves.

DNS doesn’t cover ports. I think Port Address Translation as part of NAT does this? I’m aware of it but never had to use it.

For example you could route traffic using default ports to non default ports. A browser uses 80 and 443 but you could make a rule hitting www.example.com to go to 192.168.0.100:8081 and the browser doesn’t know or care.

Or you could use a remote desktop client set to use rdp.example.com:7777 but gets translated to the usual 3389 so you don’t have to change any of the RDP servers to listen on different ports.

I haven’t touched this in years and I know shitall about reverse proxies so I hope I’m not misleading you but this is where I would start if it were me.

“I don’t think a group of people who share a commonality should be allowed to express their thoughts and beliefs” ?

I’m going to assume what you meant was, their opinions shouldn’t be elevated above anyone else’s. Which I agree with. Their fame does give them a platform and reach far beyond the average person but that shouldn’t prevent them from being able to share their views like everyone else.

Also I do want to know if someone has views that I find offensive and can avoid supporting. Whatever your views, personal tastes, politics etc. Gal Gadot, Ryan Reynolds/whatshername and Sydney Sweeny demonstrated a lot of people do care about actors beyond the media they are part of producing.

Also, the average person doesn’t even know a single name at the UN or humanitarian groups so when Emma Watson speaks up for women and trans people she’s using her platform to spread the message of those organisations, to their benefit. I can tell you know I’ve never once thought to look on the United Nations website with a curiosity for their current endeavours.

I might have started this reply a bit antagonistic but by the time I finished I actually found the point you raised interesting and worth thinking through, thank you.

Same. When I saw it had reached triple digits I spontaneously cremated.

I found a workaround for Waterfox/android and also learnt ublock origin has some “annoyances” lists that automatically create rules to unfuck this. Enable them and delete browser cache works for me.

But also yes agree, infuriating enshittification x

“What stops you electrifying an entire lake?” she wondered.

“Randall will know”

whatif@xkcd.com

I switched to jerboa after issues with Connect. It’s better, but I’m more saying I don’t recommend Connect than suggesting jerboa.

My brain read “biblically accurate” and I want to know what that looks like now.

This sounds cursed so is my favourite

Pretty much everything I was pretending to. Including engaging with my mother. Life is somehow too short and lasts far too long for some things.

I never really understood why it couldn’t be accessed. It has to be decrypted on the device for the user to view and with all the other data meta scoops up from our phones why not the content too?

And that was before they stuck their AI into it. How is that not a channel out?

Oh possibly. I’ve never gone looking for it.

+1 for cat gladness. Today mine did that curl head in your hand thing and I got to see his chin from upside down. It’s one of my favourite things.

Huh. If it was one of the first to require one its a little bit less daft. And if I search my soul and answer honestly I have probably done something equally stupid in the name of “whats that for? Why would I need that?”

And Doom

https://www.pcgamer.com/heres-doom-running-on-100-pounds-of-moldy-potatoes/

My neck My back I’m in my 30s Make them crack

Cannot believe they didn’t do a background check on Malcolm Tucker’s estranged nephew.

Being living proof of that does not make it right, John