[-] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 5 points 6 hours ago

As a parent, I'm worried about cars. I grew up in the 1970s and 1980s and you could still kick a ball about in the road. The occassional car would drive up and we'd stop and let it pass. Now, traffic is constant and many speed up and down. It's just not safe. Recently a car mounted the path and knocked down a traffic light just around the corner on the way to our youngest's school. Outside the school parents drive and park like idiots so it's not safe to let him walk there alone. My older son walks to secondary school and there are incidents where children are knocked down from time to time. There's only so much you can teach your children about road safety when there are so many reckless drivers.

(Thinking more about it, the increase in cars has generally gone hand in hand with the increase in how shit the UK has generally become.)

[-] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 7 points 22 hours ago

I'd always assumed that Tor was slower than not using Tor and just put up with it.

[-] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 17 points 4 days ago

Obsidian is a great alternative. A plugin called obsidian_ink is actively attempting to replicate the OneNote experience (and is quite successful in my opinion).

The other plugin I've found very useful is called Hamdwriting and has a lot of online support (including videos by its dev).

[-] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 7 points 5 days ago

I wonder when the mainstream will wake up to a blackshirt militia forming in front of us in the UK. These are the same people who want civil war. We have seen this before in history. And it never turns out good.

[-] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk -1 points 6 days ago

Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was.

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Patriotic Platform's organiser, Danny Tommo's history is worth knowing.

Despite his working class pretences, Tommo's from a privately-educated backround and was (briefly) in the Army as a tank driver but was medically discharged without ever seeing any active service. He seems to have got involved with drug-related criminal gangs and was jailed in 2016 for two years for a botched knifepoint kidnapping. At some point after leaving prison he found God and Tommy Robinson and has travelled up and down the UK involving himself in anti-immigration politics. Tommo's "handpicked" masked blackshirts include many men who have criminal convictions for violence, including domestic abuse.

Tommo's said about himself:

“everyone deserves a second chance..I now go to church every Sunday and pray for forgiveness”

[-] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 45 points 2 weeks ago

Could someone kindly remind me what happened to the climate protestors that blocked roads? Presumably the same will happen here as we are a middle-of-the-road, centre-ground, non-extremist country that treats everyone the same?

[-] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 30 points 1 month ago

Much more important to note that the claims of plagiarism against a black autistic man were brought by the American self-declared "race realist" Nathan Cofnas who doesn't believe that black men and women are intelligent enough to hold academic positions and on merit would "disappear from almost all high-profile positions outside of sports and entertainment". Cofnas targeted Arday because he knew Arday was a vulnerable man.

[-] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 55 points 3 months ago

I had no idea who Young Bob was until a video of him in the front lines of the rioting in Southampton and then being interviewed by Owen Jones in Makerfield. He's certainly not a British Charlie Kirk: has zero charisma, couldn't understand Jones' (pretty basic) questions and struggled to articulate coherent answers. Jones had to continuously repeat and simplify his questioning and even then Young Bob couldn't comprehend. He's the big, loud-mouthed rightwinger who sits in Year 11 classes who won't stop giving his racist and misogynist views and everyone hates.

[-] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 44 points 6 months ago

Let's see if the Greens start to get the airtime on tv and radio that Farage and Reform have always been given... I wouldn't count on it though. Instead they'll start screaming hysterically about the Greens' more progressive policies.

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Matt Goodwin, Reform UK’s candidate in the Gorton and Denton byelection, will not face a sanction for leaflets that omitted the party’s imprint, after a high court judge accepted this was due to an inadvertent printing error.

Reform admitted that it sent about 81,000 leaflets to the constituency’s voters from a “concerned neighbour”, which did not state they had been funded and distributed by the party.

Haven't they pulled this stunt before?

[-] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 41 points 7 months ago

This sort of stuff - which indicates organised international political operations by the far-right - will get drowned out by the rabble-rousing "pedo" noise.

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Xiami Bootloader (feddit.uk)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by tenebrisnox@feddit.uk to c/android@lemmy.world

I've spent a long time looking for info about trying to circumvent Xiaomi's locked bootloader on a Redmi tablet.

My son forgot his code and Family Link prevents the tablet from allowing the usual data wipe factory reset. I've tried to get support from Xiaomi but all they provide is generic unhelpful guides.

Has anyone found a tool that can override the locked bootloader just to factory wipe it? While it's not an expensive tablet (£90) it's fairly new so very annoying from a parent's point of view.

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Does anyone know why there's no desire to see a working standard (protocol) for calendar/tasks?

It's clear that CalDAV doesn't function consistently across devices (and does seem to be dying as a standard). If you work across different devices/OS it's virtually impossible to get things set up seamlessly. Companies and developers of task apps seem happy to create silos and not look at interoperability.

If you want to self-host, it's too hard to do this and you really are limited to a tiny number of options.

[-] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 31 points 2 years ago

Great timing. The (supposed) tax cuts will pay for the electricity bosses’ new porsches.

[-] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 30 points 3 years ago

Our local big Sainsbury's supermarket has installed airport-style barriers everywhere and you now have to queue and scan your receipt to get out.

As a kid, I always wanted to live in some science fiction futuristic society. I never thought that I'd actually grow up to live somewhere where I had to scan to get out a supermarket only to be under threat of attack by ravaging killer dogs.

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Pinry - HELP! (feddit.uk)

Can anyone help me with Pinry?

I've run Pinry in a Docker container on a Synology NAS for a couple of years and it's always worked great with no problem... up until I upgrades DSM to 7.2.

Pinry still works fine if I upload saved images. If I try to use the Firefox extension or paste in the url it does nothing. It must be a permissions issue that changed when I upgraded the DSM. I've tinkered with all sorts of setting to no avail and the logs say nothing. I've done the obvious searches online to see if I can find a solution.

Does anyone who hosts Pinry know what the problem is? (It's bound to be REALLY obvious). Thanks in advance.

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Pinry - help! (feddit.uk)

Can anyone help me with Pinry?

I've run Pinry in a Docker container on a Synology NAS for a couple of years and it's always worked great with no problem... up until I upgrades DSM to 7.2.

Pinry still works fine if I upload saved images. If I try to use the Firefox extension or paste in the url it does nothing. It must be a permissions issue that changed when I upgraded the DSM. I've tinkered with all sorts of setting to no avail and the logs say nothing. I've done the obvious searches online to see if I can find a solution.

Does anyone who hosts Pinry know what the problem is? (It's bound to be REALLY obvious). Thanks in advance.

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Doubt being thrown at the accuracy of the KS2 tests. Again. Bearing in mind that these tests cost somewhere in the region of £45-50 million a year to administer (plus the time, staffing and resources primary schools put in) surely there are better, cheaper ways of monitoring pupil progress? Secondary schools frequently ignore data coming from primary and SATs results only seem to have a use in the equally questionable activity of predicting GCSE outcomes.

As a parent of a Year 6 child, I’ve been horrified at the pressure put on children and then - once the SATs were over - hardly any teaching going on (my son barely had a maths lesson after the tests and his time at school filled with “fun” activities like watching movies). I’d prefer my son’s education to be focused on his learning, not some high-stakes test. And I’d like it to carry on to the point he left school.

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What is the state of current Big Finish Doctor Who?

I used to keep up with - and enjoy - the monthly ranges until they turned into the boxed sets which I was less engaged by. I recently tried Stranded and didn't like it at all.

I get the impression that BF is producing far too much material which isn't a good as it used to be. Is this the case?

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Has anyone read this? Would they recommend it?

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