CGI really made him put on weight.

The pink oboe.

The fishing thing is a good example of how Brexit was handled. Fishing has been stirred up by the media for decades causing some strong feelings against the French and Europe. While fishing is pretty meaningless for the average person it became important because people who read certain newspapers thought it was important. That, to me, seems like the backbone of Brexit. Shite from newspapers.

I’m convinced all the talk about fishing was to stir up these feelings in the public and use it to the politicians will. Raising it with the EU was a message to the people that their concerns are being addressed. Illusion of the people having power.

Speaking to people who voted to leave I had answers like fishing given. Other answers were that people didn’t like talking orders from Brussels, that was more common than fishing. Some racist comments (some REALLY racist). And one person claiming after Brexit he will get gold capped milk back (apparently the EU banned his favourite milk, and that alone was worth leaving the EU…). I know a few people who didn’t know what to vote for so went with the “default” to leave. I’m assuming they meant they just followed the crap in the news and didn’t apply proper thought.

This media bollocks is still happening now. I saw the other day an article about being able to buy wine in pints. Sigh.

It really was a shit show and still is!

I’ve not noticed any problems with Google myself but I just did the same search you did. It brought up Google maps at the top, quite helpful as it showed local photographers. But as I went down to the results the only one in my local area was the top result. The rest were things like photographers in Majorca, Peterborough, a random motorcycle website.

I’ve never noticed how broken Google is until now.

Were talking about somebody using their own personal email for work purposes. There’s absolutely no assurances on encryption their using. It’s a bigger risk than WhatsApp, although I again should say I agree WhatsApp shouldn’t be used either. Both options aren’t good but for slightly different reasons, in my opinion anyway.

Yeah totally agree. WhatsApp shouldn’t be used by government.

Email can be secure both sides, one side or neither. You can’t rely on it being secure.

Not disagreeing, they shouldn’t use WhatsApp at all, but email is way less secure. Emails are easier to “hack” and if I remember right they were stored on her personal server so she personally keeps the data, a bit like how Trump was found with government documents in his personal belongings. WhatsApp is encrypted end to end and presumably (I hope) are used on gov work phones.

For me it’s more about the lack of controls on accessing and retaining data used in WhatsApp. It’s not stored on a central government system.

I don’t know if the gov have an official messaging app. But hearing all this in the news really sounds like people in gov are intentionally using WhatsApp as a means to keep conversations secret. Like everything else with this government, it stinks.

Oh nice. I have a Mario Bros game watch. Think it’s from 86 or something like that.

Then plug in a DVD player which will probably do the same thing.

I didn’t used to vote when I was in my 20’s. At the time I didn’t listen to the news or watch TV. I didn’t vote because I had no idea who to vote for. Totally disconnected. It seemed a bit wrong to vote on something I know little about so I would choose not to.

If voting was mandatory it wouldn’t have changed my lack of interest or knowledge.

Thankfully I’m more engaged these days but I think there’s a lot of people out there who aren’t.

I wouldn’t be surprised if she puts forward plans to relocate them to a hidden corner of the UK, barge ship, or something like that so long as it’s out of sight. Then use it as an arguing statistic that they’ve reduced homeless by x%

I can believe that. Where I work people use the Bi system to dump data out to Excel to then build the reports they want to see. Madness.

My family have a thing for bright lights, we don’t like them usually, and they trigger sneezing. No idea why.

Do any of you sneeze when looking at bright lights?

I found my old Motorola SLVR in a draw, I think I last used it in 2006 or so. It needed charging but when I turned it on I was greeted by the T-Mobile logo and tune. I’d forgotten how loud the sound was when it got turned on. It had the game “bounce” on it. Had forgotten about that.

That’s what I said to her. Defaulting to exit is voting for the unknown, without understanding it might be good but it could also be bad. Or vote to remain to continue living the way you always have been.

I’m sure some people voted with anger or desperation. Hoping change, any change, will somehow better their lives. I can only think that’s what my sister did what with living in border line provety.

I know two people who voted to leave because they had no opinion on the matter so thought leaving would be the default option. One was my sister. Neither pay attention to news or current affairs. Baffling.

Both got extremely defensive when I pointed out how backwards that was then started making up rubbish in efforts to justify their decision.

I know somebody like this. Conversations end up with him raising a few dumb points, which he claims is worth it.

We both work in the same company which used to export 40% of manufactured goods to the EU. The customers we have managed to retain now come with additional costs. If it was a smaller business it could have forced closure. It baffles me how he thinks the way he does.

A few years ago I installed Ubuntu on a laptop, used it a bunch of times then it got put away for a year or so. When I booted it back up it told me the OS was out of date and needed to be updated. When I tried it gave me some errors. I searched online and basically I couldn’t update because it was too old. I needed to update in stages but the next release was also out of support.

I realised I don’t use it enough to care. I installed windows on it.

I do use Linux at work and on things at home like routers, retro gaming, etc. They’re not really comparable though.

I use a business VPN which allows me to securely connect to my works network using only my work equipment. All legit.

I host my own VPN at my home so I can connect into my network while out and about. All legit.

I then do sometimes use a VPN for bypassing regional restrictions. This is the one I assume they would target but I don’t understand how.

Surely they can only ban the use of it and not the technology. It would only add to a list of crimes to somebody the police has been targeting already. A bit like in my local area where the only people charged with illegally using an electric scooter are drug dealers.