clara
@clara@feddit.uk
- Comment on Handy guide for today's eclipse. 7 months ago:
cloud cover map, showing 8 oktas of cloud cover for the whole uk
i’ll be honest, unless you’re at the west coast of ireland, probably give this one a miss. :(
- Comment on New York inmates are suing to watch the solar eclipse after state orders prisons locked down 7 months ago:
- Comment on Greggs hit by IT issue affecting card payments - BBC News 7 months ago:
my headcanon on this is delayed leap-day bugs from february 29th, only showing up just now
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid? 10 months ago:
op, it’s not just you, i promise. 🙂
i encourage you to watch this in it’s entirety. while it covers a different life story, it explores some avenues of what you are possibly feeling when you ask this question.
- Comment on Google announces April 2024 shutdown date for Google Podcasts 11 months ago:
google tries not to kill one of it’s products challenge (impossible)
- Comment on Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies. 11 months ago:
the current solution for that would be similar to the current “sponsor block” plugins, here’s an example
crowdsourced start and endpoints for embedded sponsorships
something like this tool, but for future embedded google adverts
- Comment on Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies. 11 months ago:
the “open source hackers” are always going to win this one, for a simple reason. if the data of the youtube video is handed to a user at any point, then the information it contains can be scrubbed and cleaned of ads. no exceptions.
if google somehow solves all ad-blocking techniques within browser, then new plugins will be developed on the operating system side to put a black square of pixels and selectively mute audio over the advert each time. if they solve that too? then people will hack the display signal going out at the graphics card level so that it is cleaned before it hits the monitor. if they beat that using some stupid encryption trick? well, then people will develop usb plugin tools that physically plug into the monitors at the display end, that artificially add the black boxes and audio mutes at the monitor display side.
if they beat that? someone, someone will jerry rig a literal black square of paper on some servos and wires, and physical audio switch to do the same thing, an actual, physical advert blocker. i’m sure once someone works that out, a mass produced version would be quite popular as a monitor attachment (in a timeline that gets so fucked that we would need this).
if that doesn’t work? like, google starts coding malware to seek and destroy physical adblockers? then close your eyes and mute your headphones for 30 seconds, lol. the only way google is solving that one is with hitsquads and armed drones to make viewers RESUME VIEWING
as long as a youtube video is available to access without restriction, then google cannot dictate how the consumer experiences that video. google cannot win this.
- Comment on Complaints about poor NHS dental services rise 66% in five years 1 year ago:
yeah people i talk to don’t seem to get what’s coming. like, they haven’t had the misfortune of a medical emergency in their life, and so they’ve never actually experienced how bad the service provision is getting. but not just for healthcare, it’s for every service.
me personally? i’m saving up that money for sure. not for the next emergency, oh goodness no. i’m going to use that savings pot to leave this island for good. ideally before i get my next medical emergency. selfish? yep, you bet! 🙂
but, i am fundamentally sick of living in a place where we pay all this money and get little service to show for it. for me, one of these two options is fine:
- somewhere where i pay low tax and rightfully get poor service.
- somewhere where i pay high tax and get premium quality of service.
one or the other i am fine with, preferably option 2. but what we have in the uk is the downside of both of these options.
bit of a tangent i know, but…
rather than national or local governments fix any of this, they’ve instead embarked on massive campaigns to massage the statistics, through changing the measuring sticks used to assess service quality across the board, and in doing so, hide all the problems. this extends to water standards, and unemployment statistics, and cancer waiting times, etc etc.
don’t even get me started about the filthy liars who do the passenger rail statistics 💩
- Comment on Britain Admits Defeat in Controversial Fight to Break Encryption 1 year ago:
The so-called “spy clause” in the UK’s Online Safety Bill, which experts argued would have made end-to-end encryption all but impossible in the country, will no longer be enforced…
oh okay. so they’re still going to pass it into law anyway, and then pinky promise not to enforce it. right… 🤦
- Comment on Lidl recalls Paw Patrol snacks after website on packaging displayed porn | TechCrunch 1 year ago:
real world link rot, lol
- Comment on Man in gimp suit allowed to watch Shakespeare’s Globe play with children in audience 1 year ago:
if you ever go to a place that has strange rules and laws, it’s because of people like this
like, yes, okay, there’s no rule saying that said you couldn’t attend a public event in a gimp suit. it doesn’t mean that he had to, did he? 🙄
i think it’s obvious he’s exploiting the freedom provided to dress in a gimp suit, which freedom you would use to attend a fetish/like-minded event or convention, to then attend something vanilla, where people are definitely not consenting or opting-in to the behaviour.
sure, it’s legal. but it’s fuckin weird, in the same way that attending in a furry costume would be weird. buying a yard ticket too? he knew what he was doing. if you can afford a fetish suit, you can afford a seat.
i will say that the moral “think of the children” arguments don’t have any weight in this scenario, because you’re taking those kids to a shakespeare play, lol. i could understand being morally outraged if this loser turned up to wacky warehouse 😄
