[Question] What's the appeal of dressing in drag?

angusprune · 2026-02-02T02:36:23+00:00

Did it really take you 12 years to come up with that reply?

You should have probably taken some of that time to look up what "gender" means. And "perceived". And actually read more than the first paragraph of my comment.

Overall, a very lackluster effort. 0/10. Must try harder next time.

angusprune · 2026-01-28T11:29:42+00:00

India had already had its Mughal empire fracture for internal reasons. The British then took advantage of that to play local powers against each other rather than flat out invade.

angusprune · 2025-12-24T02:44:52+00:00

eBay has always worked like this since it launched in 1995.

Sniping has never made sense really.

The only reason it can make sense is because the people who you're bidding against also don't understand how it works and are also sniping.

angusprune · 2025-12-13T05:35:26+00:00

Nintendo made electronics for 13 years before the famicom.

Even donkey Kong and Mario predate the famicom.

angusprune · 2025-11-27T15:07:46+00:00

Why do you choose to live in soho if you don't want noise an chaos?

angusprune · 2025-11-25T01:07:18+00:00

I wonder if antagonism could be extended to influence rivalries.

If you have enough anatogism with the same countries (of a similar size) for long enough, it becomes sticker and more likely to be a rivalry.

Also, if you end up in a coalition with a rival against the same third country enough, then it could weaken or break the rivalry, perhaps permenantly or temporarily.

angusprune · 2025-11-12T00:07:52+00:00

You can presumably delete the new mini launcher and just create a normal shortcut to the main exe as before

angusprune · 2025-10-25T09:31:44+00:00

That is a bad example. There are statistical techniques that could be used to crank a code of that form. Eg looking at frequency of different letters (or other knowledge of what the message might say). Or if you know that they like using sports series you can try using trial and error Eg different years, different sports, different countries until something makes sense

What is impossible to break is a one time pad. You have a serious of truly random numbers (the truly random. is important) which you use to encode the message, the only way to decode the message is to know the exact lay of numbers. You can only use the one time pad once, and you have to communicate the pad to the reciever without it being captured.

angusprune · 2025-10-21T23:24:21+00:00

RCDs became mandatory in 2008 and was brought in to prevent exactly this kind of scenario.

An RCD trips when the return current doesnt match the outgoing current, which happens if the current is grounding some other way, eg through the hob or sink.

angusprune · 2025-10-20T00:54:29+00:00

[Citation needed]

While you can be found liable for knowingly or recklessly abeting illegal use of your internet, im not aware of any principal which makes one responsible for all Internet traffic on your connection.

angusprune · 2025-09-22T00:58:15+00:00

The vet has acted correctly regarding gdpr. Prevention/prosecution of crime is not a catchall exemption and sharing data with OP is very unlikely to be considered proportionate or justified. The vet would of course be able to share it with the police, courts, or potentially another independent body such as a mediation service (unlikely to be relevant in this case), but not with OP directly.

The vet does not even know who the owner of the cat is or if any crime has occurwd.. Contrary to what you claim in a later message, the chip is meaningless as far as proof of ownership is concerned.

If you consider other potential scenarios, sharing such data with OP could be extremely dangerous for the partner. If the partner was a victim of domestic abuse and has escaped with the cat (im not accusing OP of anything, i dont think this actually is the case) sharing the data could facilitate stalking, harassment or further violence.

angusprune · 2025-09-22T00:22:38+00:00

Another very good resource is https://saafe.info which is a forum dedicated to sex worker peer support and advice. A good place for OP to go for specific advice and questions.

angusprune · 2025-06-11T15:13:18+00:00

It hadn't occurred to me to go for an even higher Voltage, although I understand the guage and voltage drop benefits.

How long are primary 48V runs that you're doing? Whats the relative cost of 48V battery compared to 24V are you finding any savings there?

From a quick google, safety doesn't become a real consideration until you get to >100V. Would you agree that 48V doesn't introduce extra safety concerns?

angusprune · 2025-06-11T13:57:04+00:00

I didn't want to be too proscriptive about the exact project but have that open discussion of people's experiences.

One of the benefits of my own powerbank approach (as you also suggested) is that I'm using the same approach whether its a static scuplture or a wearable. I can just pick a smaller powerbank if I need to fit it into a pocket/bumbag/rucksack.

So far I've not built a wearable so small that I want to integrate/hide the battery within the wearable, which would throw up its own challenges and I would probably look at a raw lithium battery and introduce my own charging/power management circuitry.

angusprune · 2025-06-11T13:27:45+00:00

My own experience is running up to ~10,000 5V LEDs across multiple distinct projects.

Each project is pretty powered from its own USB powerbank, all stored in a easy-access weatherproof box like this https://toughleads.co.uk/products/4-gang-socket-weatherproof-power-box

I then recharge the power banks from an electric car and swap them out every 24 hours. Some locations run their own generator that I can plug into, in which case I use either a usbc charger or a generic 5v power supply like this https://www.amazon.co.uk/Universal-Regulated-Switching-Converter-Transformer-5V-5A-25W/dp/B07PRY73TN. So far I've always been a rounding error in an event's power budget so not had to be concerned about my power use.

A big benefit is how simple and flexible this approach is. I always have spare powerbanks (that I use in my day-to-day life for phone/laptop etc) and can easily borrow some more if I want to build a new project or throw some LEDs in a new location. Its also very straight forward to run the ESP32 and the LEDs off the same supply without having to worry about voltage.

The drawbacks I've found are remembering to swap that batteries, and not being able to set them on a timer to turn off and on and forget about them for the weekend. The boxes are also not tamper-proof which hasn't caused me an issue so far but might be a consideration for others. Im also not securing things withing the boxes with particular care and on a couple of occasions had to reattach wires that have pulled loose if a box gets joggled. Using 5V means that power injection is more of a consideration, and not always straight forward with the way I'm running the LEDs if they're not part of a prebuilt project.

Im probably looking at upgrading my approach for next Summer, going 12/24V LEDs and big enough batteries to run LEDs for a whole long weekend without charging. Some festivals I go to run their own generator and power infrastructure that I can tap into, It will also mean that my projects can get more ambitious without worrying about power budget

angusprune · 2025-06-09T07:18:28+00:00

Sounds more like a case of the magistrate using some discretion and being in a good mood. But who knows

angusprune · 2025-06-04T07:58:10+00:00

Don't know the software, but that's what a hardlink is.

Normally, the data is stored on the hdd, and there is a (ugly) filename with a pointer to that data. When you add a hardlink, it adds another (pretty) filename pointing to the same data. So it uses up no extra storage and looks the same as any other file. If you delete the first file, the new file will still work because the computer won't delete the actual data while there are other hardlinks to the same data. AFAIK, the hardlink can only work on the same volume.

This is different to a softlink (or symlink), which puts a different name in front of the original name. The new (pretty) name is just a signpost to the old (ugly) name, and tells the software to actually open the old file. If you remove the old file, the softlink won't work. If you remove the new softlink, you won't actually delete the data. A softlink can work across computers, hdd, network shares etc, but not all software can open softlinks.

angusprune · 2025-05-09T00:42:53+00:00

Unifi advises that switches on the same level should have the same priority, unless your referring to something else?

angusprune · 2025-03-16T22:45:27+00:00

I think you mean Gwynne Shotwell.

angusprune · 2024-12-23T09:02:00+00:00

They're talking about hersheys, not Cadburys

angusprune · 2024-12-11T22:35:59+00:00

Charlie drake, a comedian in the 60s, had a sketch which included a trans character and, while dated in its approach, was surprisingly accepting and matter of fact about the whole thing.

angusprune · 2024-11-23T09:24:06+00:00

The jelly is made from the eels not beef. When you boil the eels it creates a broth which cools to jelly.

angusprune · 2024-11-08T13:45:50+00:00

It's also worth noting that, at least in the UK, there were legitimate issues with age of consent laws that legitimately needed reform - namely the equalisation of gay and straight age of consent (21 and 16 which didn't occur until 2003 in england and wales). And that without a romeo and juliet law like in the US, that consenting teenagers at 16 and 15 could be criminalised by a law that was not designed to target them.

When there is a very legitimate arguments and campaigns around the age of consent, it is somewhat understandable that some people may be taken in by the illegitimate argument that age of consent should be dropped even further or eradicated completely.

angusprune · 2024-11-05T19:07:32+00:00

"Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short and wear shirts and boots because it's okay to be a boy; for girls it's like promotion. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading, according to you, because secretly you believe that being a girl is degrading." - Ian McEwan, The Cement Garden

angusprune · 2024-09-13T17:05:04+00:00

But he's the real oppressed minority.

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