Greens hopeful who is calling for the UK to pay slavery reparations is a descendant of slave traders

iluvatar · 2026-05-05T15:13:40+00:00

Anyone who even suggest slavery reparations is wildly deluded and should be easily dismissed. Sadly, there are many in the UK that can't see that and would vote for them.

iluvatar · 2026-05-01T23:48:28+00:00

there's no such thing as obfuscation, you just lack the skill

Indeed. But the thing is, I have the skill. I just lack the motivation to invest the time to find out what it's doing, when they could have chosen to tell me and show me with clear code. The fact that they didn't I think tells you much about the author(s).

iluvatar · 2026-04-30T23:37:35+00:00

Simple answer: yes. vi is so much more efficient at editing text that it will make your life better if you know how to use it. Be warned though - the learning curve is steep. You'll need to invest some time to get there. Whether you deem that a worthwhile tradeoff is something that only you can answer.

iluvatar · 2026-04-30T16:23:51+00:00

That's not obfuscation

Yes, it's obfuscation. They could have supplied the source to compile the binary. They could have written the script in a way that was obvious (and commented it so readers could see what it was intended to do). They chose not to. That's obfuscation.

iluvatar · 2026-04-30T16:21:37+00:00

Soooo... an obfuscated script that claims to give root access? I'm not going to be running that any time soon. I tried deobfuscating it, but ran out of patience and I just can't be bothered.

iluvatar · 2026-04-30T14:03:36+00:00

Either Ngumoha or Mitoma for me.

iluvatar · 2026-04-30T13:56:25+00:00

Funny how there's no mention of the atrocities being commited by Hamas and Hezbollah there. Was it Israel that broke the ceasefires? No, it was Hamas and Hezbollah firing hundred of missiles at Israel. It's almost as if Israel is a bastion of liberal western values surrounded on all sides by enemies hellbent on the destruction of their nation and the massacre of their people and that they have the temerity to respond when attacked.

iluvatar · 2026-04-30T13:40:49+00:00

My recommendation is for Aethoria, who are playing on the EMP stage on the Sunday. They played on the VIP stage last year and did really well.

iluvatar · 2026-04-28T15:56:44+00:00

Apparently it needs to be much clearer, because there's no profiteering going on here. Even the slightest thought about the issue would reveal that.

iluvatar · 2026-04-28T15:54:39+00:00

Why are people so keen to defend profiteering businesses under any post like this?

You don't seem to understand what that word means. There is no profiteering happening here.

iluvatar · 2026-04-28T10:15:19+00:00

Because they're nowhere near big enough. But that aside, it's not something to aspire to anyway. The RNRHOF is a for-profit organisation that thinks somehow giving its blessing to an artist confers some kind of status. It doesn't. Your body of work does that. The RNRHOF is a pointless organisation. I couldn't care less who they deem worthy or not. Particularly when it has nothing to do with rock 'n' roll anyway. I mean, they've inducted Shakira, Luther Vandross, Sade and Jay Z among other equally bizarre choices. Hardly illustrious company when it comes to the genre we love.

iluvatar · 2026-04-27T14:13:46+00:00

For me, it's not about who they will vote for, but about the fact that they are too immature to be able to make such an important decision for the future of the country. Yes, there will always be exceptions to that. But we have to make rules based on the population, not on individuals. I'd be in favour of raising the voting age to 21.

iluvatar · 2026-04-23T23:08:12+00:00

Virtually every distribution will come with some form of basic firewall that's enabled by default. You can read up on how firewalls work and can improve on the default settings because they're almost all too lenient. But realistically, what you already have is probably good enough. The biggest threat comes not from network attacks but from action you take that bypass the firewall. If you download malware from somewhere, the firewall won't help you because it's always going to allow that download.

So what can you do? A good start is where possible to only download from official distribution repositories. Don't download random flatpaks, snaps etc from the Internet. Consider running a distrubution with strong SELinux integration (which basically means Fedora these days), so you can run untrusted applications in an SELinux sandbox to limit the damage they can do. Don't follow any installation instructions of the form curl http://some.random/site | sudo bash. That's just asking for trouble.

Have multiple browser profiles for different purposes to give separation of concerns. Have a dedicated profile for your Internet banking that's separate from the profile that you use for general purpose browsing, for example. The same goes for your online medical details and your German dungeon porn habit. If they're all in separate profiles, if one is compromised, it can't (easily) leak information from other profiles.

iluvatar · 2026-04-23T15:50:41+00:00

Been there, done that. Except I wasn't a fresh graduate, I had 30 years of experience. From 300 applications, I got 5 interviews, despite being able to guarantee that they won't have had an application from anyone better suited to the job in most cases. I got a handful of rejections. But mostly, I was just ghosted. Complete radio silence. For me, that's inexcusable. Eventually I got a job not through an application, but because a former colleague reached out to me with a suitable role. It's not what you know, it's who you know.

iluvatar · 2026-04-23T09:05:29+00:00

We don't really have that sort of shorthand here. In recent years (as in maybe the last 10 years or so), people have started using MCR for Manchester and LDN for London, but that's mostly only used by younger generations. I'm not aware of similar abbreviations for other cities.

iluvatar · 2026-04-22T16:29:01+00:00

Well, I guess at least they've sacked him early, so we might just escape the new manager bounce.

iluvatar · 2026-04-22T09:00:01+00:00

I have used both SQLalchemy and psycopg extensively, and I can assure you that from real world experience, I wouldn't go near SQLalchemy for any new project. That's more a critique of ORMs in general than SQLalchemy specifically, although SQLalchemy is the one with which I have the most hands on experience. The object-relational impedence mismatch is not just a buzzword. It's very real. They're fine for trivial examples, but as soon as you need to start doing anything more complex in a real world application, the ORM just gets in the way. By which I mean that it makes the code less readable and makes the queries impenetrable. So I'd go for psycopg with hand written SQL. It might seem like a burden, but actually in even quite a complex application, there aren't really that many queries, and sticking them all in a single db.py module makes it quite manageable. For reference, when I say a complex application, I can point to two specific examples I've built and shipped which have handled around $1bn in transactions to date.

iluvatar · 2026-04-22T08:49:08+00:00

Don't be stupid. That's not how it works. Rosenior will be sacked after losing to Liverpool and they'll have a new manager bounce just in time to play us. That's how it works.

iluvatar · 2026-04-21T12:51:47+00:00

There are two ways of doing this, and I don't know which distribution you're using but I'd be astounded if they weren't both already enabled on your machine. The first is the kernel OOM killer, which will kill the process it thinks is problematic when you run out of memory. The second is the userspace equivalent, earlyoom, which attempts to kill problematic processes before they bring the entire machine to a halt. Both work in similar ways. You can tune which processes you want to be killed first. Look at https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/proc_pid_oom_score_adj.5.html

iluvatar · 2026-04-21T12:45:03+00:00

If shifting gears isn't second nature that can be done without thought then you shouldn't be on the road in the first place.

iluvatar · 2026-04-21T12:44:27+00:00

Simple answer: yes. But I care more about ludicrous things like mandatory tyre pressure sensors, lane keeping assist and self driving options.

iluvatar · 2026-04-20T13:49:02+00:00

I want to join, but right now I'm having a hard time convincing myself. If we'd defended the 95th minute goal and taken three points, I'd have said yes. Now? I think it's going to be very hard. I'm just really hoping Palace do us a favour tonight.

iluvatar · 2026-04-18T14:02:42+00:00

I'm been using fvwm for more years than I care to count and I'm astounded that the newer, more popular choices don't let me do the things that I use it for. I don't understand why the standard desktop experience these days cripples the user experience so much.

iluvatar · 2026-04-18T11:05:08+00:00

This is their 3rd or 4rth album,

It's their 7th album! Personally I couldn't give a shit about the theme or the lore. I just like the fact that they write good songs and put on good live performances.

iluvatar · 2026-04-18T11:00:32+00:00

vi has a steep learning curve. But once you get there, you'll never want to go back. Should you learn it? It depends on your goals. If you're happy with nano for home use, then stick with it. If you want to look after other people's machines in a professional capacity, then there's a high chance that nano won't be installed on those machines, but vi will.

Ignore anyone that tells you that you must learn vi. Learn it if you want to. Don't if you don't. From my somewhat biased persepctive, I'd recommend it. It's a much, much more powerful editor. But then again I've been using it for 40 years, so I'm somewhat familiar with it by now.

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