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 Find Your Local COVID-19 Mutual Aid Group - or set one up Also check: https://freedomnews.org.uk/covid-19-uk-mutual-aid-groups-a-list/ https://secretldn.com/uk-community-aid-groups-by-area/ https://queercare.network/our-work/resources/covid-19/ March saw us going from the first confirmed death from Covid-19 in the UK to entering the oh poo poo phase of the exponential curve, and the cabinet go from 'herd immunity' and 'take it on the chin' to 'oh poo poo that might include me' and a moderately enforced lockdown. The FTSE crashes, sterling crashes, health minister Nadine Dorries infects half of the legislature, and all the sports and festivals are cancelled. The Bank of England cuts interest to 0.1%, the lowest rate ever, Charles takes drastic steps to try and speed up the order of succession, and Boris Johnson threatens Prohibition before testing positive himself and isolating. Welcome to the Roaring Twenties.  https://twitter.com/cmgaston/status/1243545879237271552 Also concluding this week is the Labour Leadership Election, that's still going so get your vote in. Some good news though, the contactless payment limit goes up from £30 to £45 today, so you can buy more without having to touch anything. Hesiod posted:For the gods keep hidden from men the means of life [crops]. Else you would easily do work enough in a day to supply you for a full year even without working; soon would you put away your rudder over the smoke, and the fields worked by ox and sturdy mule would run to waste. But Zeus in the anger of his heart hid it, because Prometheus the crafty deceived him; therefore he planned sorrow and mischief against men. He hid fire; but that the noble son of Iapetos stole again for men from Zeus the counselor in a hollow fennel-stalk, so that Zeus who delights in thunder did not see it. But afterwards Zeus who gathers the clouds said to him in anger: "Son of Iapetos, surpassing all in cunning, you are glad that you have outwitted me and stolen fire—a great plague to you yourself and to men that shall be. But I will give men as the price for fire an evil thing in which they may all be glad of heart while they embrace their own destruction." So said the father of men and gods, and laughed aloud. In Other News  • Corbyn-19 reverses austerity, gives people money to stay at home, nationalizes the trains, and declares broadband a vital utility. • Alex Salmond is cleared of all the sex touching he did. • Other news cancelled due to Coronavirus. April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.  Boris Johnson visits local hospitals. Après moi, le déluge All Previous Threads (thanks Pesky Splinter) Après ski Europol Thread Scotpol Thread Trainchat Thread Political Cartoons Thread C-SPAM: BREXIT BYOB: UKMT Après Lounge Podcasting is Praxis - The official podcast of the UKMT with UKMT goons talking into microphones about things. Off the Fence - Brighton based, covering UK & Global topics. Pretty chill and professional peeps. Older 'casts can be found in the PLATFORM B archive. Reel Politik - The Original Leftie Hate Trolls. Check 'em out. We Don't Talk About The Weather - Two cool guys discuss news and other stuff. The second-most UKMT-iest of Podcasts. Desolation Radio - Socialism from a Welsh perspective. Informative hosts. Revolutionary Despatches - Two new guys starting out. Connected & Disaffected - Breezy discussions of lefty social, and historical topics, and news updates. Pretty Good. Trashfuture - Theme of the week style podcast about capitalism and how much it fucks up. Cool podcasters, sometimes working with Reel Politik Agitpod - Owen Jones & Ellie Mae O’Hagan discuss news. Reasons to Be Cheerful - Former Labour leader Ed "Red Ed" Milliband and Geoff Lloyd shoot the poo poo, and discuss general politics. Sometimes with guests. Novara Media - Numerous fluctucating commentators including Matt Zarb-Cousin, Max Shanly, and James Butler among others. Varying topics with guests. [Citations Needed] - Covers the US, focussing on the media, PR, and assorted bullshit. Also some socialist history topics. Very informative. Chapo House Media - More US focused, from a leftist perspective. Basically a US version of Reel Politik, but with better mics. Worth a listen. General Intellect Unit - Podcast of the Cybernetic Marxists. Examining the intersection of Technology, (Left) Politics, and Philosophy; decently in-depth and theory-driven as podcasts go. Alpha 2 Omega - Tom O'Brien talks political strategy. Requires Improvement - Podcast of lefty teachers exploring all things education, from a socialist perspective. Swampside Chats - "The highest communist podcast" Après-soleil Stop, Thief!: The Commons, Enclosures, And Resistance – Peter Linebaugh Demanding The Impossible - David Morland Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism - Peter Marshall Chav Solidarity - D. 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learnincurve posted:Need something added to every OP. DWP have been told not to tell sanctioned people about this. Maugrim posted:
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On the first day of the March EPL thread I made the following post:goddamnedtwisto posted:And realistically that's fine, absent an extinction-level event Liverpool are still likely to win the league by a record margin. So I want to confidently state there is no way at all that I could possibly win ten million quid on the lottery this month.
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I wonder what the April fools' jokes are going to look like on the news sites this year.
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OwlFancier posted:How would you tell? The url will look like this https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/boris-johnson-takes-control-of-drive-for-coronavirus-tests-3gffbsg7m
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OwlFancier posted:How would you tell? There'd be positive news.
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Oh someone asked about FF14 server in the last thread I am on Excalibur-NA with a shitload of other goons
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I posted on the old thread at the exact moment you killed it so my words of wisdom have disappeared into the ether. Boo hoo. Anyone else feel like they wasted most of March? I'm determined from tomorrow morning to try and get back on track with life and stop obsessively watching sky news, online newspapers, twitter (a really bad habit I have fallen into this last month). Lockdown doesn't make too much difference to my life except I can't help noticing that Waitrose now has lots of empty icecream freezers - only the very expensive stuff left - and the chocolate shelves are looking very skimpy except for the easter eggs.
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Total Meatlove posted:The url will look like this FFS the bit I could read without logging in for my free article is worded to make it look like the hospitals are the ones slacking on testing and Johnson will make them do it.
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OwlFancier posted:How would you tell? Annoying. I tried to quote your last post in the previous thread about how you don't check your phone to own you.
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Has Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch felt any damage from COVID-19
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I imagine it would be very difficult to pronounce with a sore throat as the ll sound requires fairly fine control.
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People are using the signposts to measure social distancing.
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Just lol if you don't know the Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch song for perfect pronounciation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BXKsQ2nbno
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OwlFancier posted:I imagine it would be very difficult to pronounce with a sore throat as the ll sound requires fairly fine control. A Town, Lost to Coronavirus Join us on BBC's feature length documentary "Bollocks to the EUnion made virus i say, don't need no masks if we've dranken 120 proof innit
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:A Town, Lost to Coronavirus They would say 'isn't it' not 'innit' at the end there.
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For people asking why Zoom sucks so much, Ars has done a handy summary of their privacy blunders and “oops haha didn’t mean to” fixes so far. They’re sketchy as hell and there’s plenty of other options out there. Edit: Actually I don’t think that article even mentions the secret webserver they previously installed on user’s computers. TACD fucked around with this message at 01:15 on Apr 1, 2020 |
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TACD posted:For people asking why Zoom sucks so much, Ars has done a handy summary of their privacy blunders and “oops haha didn’t mean to” fixes so far. They’re sketchy as hell and there’s plenty of other options out there. Thanks for posting it. But yeah it's more of something to start from, Zoom is shady in so incredibly many ways it's honestly a little impressive.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Graun cartoon: Michael Goat staring into our souls.  Also, Guavanaut, updated the list of Previous threads.
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Pesky Splinter posted:Michael Goat staring into our souls. It's inspired by 'The Scapegoat'  
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Pistol_Pete posted:It's inspired by 'The Scapegoat' Thought it looked familiar. Weren't they literally anathema in the sense of being set aside from other sacrifices for destruction (or am I thinking of azazel)? Either one is fitting for Gove.
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Pesky Splinter posted:Thought it looked familiar. I thought it was where you put all the sins of the community into and then let it go into the wilderness to let Azazel have their due? I think we are going to need a bigger goat if we want to put all our sins in one.
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Here we go, here we go, here we loving go! Determined to use this month to get some ground work done on the new business and not piss it away - want to have something to show for the compete lack of a month.
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Ms Adequate posted:Oh someone asked about FF14 server in the last thread I am on Excalibur-NA with a shitload of other goons That was me; I went with Omega with the EU goons. Finally made it to Heavensward, the fabled point where the game got gud (and it really did).
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:That was me; I went with Omega with the EU goons. Finally made it to Heavensward, the fabled point where the game got gud (and it really did). I resubbed the other day on Omega too, but I'm at the end of ARR and I'm faced with 100 boring fetch quests before the first expansion and I just...can't. I'm considering paying for the skip - is Heavenward that much better that's it's worth it?
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to clear up the hdmi/vga security talk from the last page here's some probable considerations that got overruled by time - vga is pretty simple and is one-way video, whereas hdmi can do everything including networking with manufacturer extensions to a very open protocol so 'validating' it is a never-ending task - on the other hand hdcp keeps being popped open and there's a great writeup on key extraction for hdcp 1 floating around - tempest is screen emissions mainly and if you're into sdrs you can try it at home since you have time to spare - these kind of attacks do still get used for intel gathering but pale in comparison to what the cabinet would just handover to a friendly consultant so it's more security science than practice
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UKMT Solidarity Fund Monthly Update - April 2020 Thanks to donations from many generous goons and goonfriends, the fund is thriving! Here's the summary of income and outgoings since we started: 
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Have the symptoms? Get a note from the NHS website https://111.nhs.uk/isolation-note Made redundant? Take it to the union https://www.tuc.org.uk/workplace-guidance/redundancy Need benefits? Get scraps from the table here https://www.gov.uk/government/news/coronavirus-support-for-employees-benefit-claimants-and-businesses Volunteer for the NHS? Good https://www.goodsamapp.org/NHS Have a computer? Fold protein https://foldingathome.org/2020/02/27/foldinghome-takes-up-the-fight-against-covid-19-2019-ncov/
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Wiggly Wayne DDS posted:to clear up the hdmi/vga security talk from the last page here's some probable considerations that got overruled by time Van Eck phreaking (and the vast majority of sidechannel attacks that get publicity) are academic curiosities that are incredibly clever and completely useless in practical use because they always require big equipment in close proximity to the source, at which point you might as well just nick the system instead. This is why most TEMPEST measures are actually really simple stuff like "all the cables should be above the desk, visible, and clearly marked" and "RED equipment must be kept at least a metre from BLACK equipment".
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I BEG YOUR PARDON???
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Miftan posted:I BEG YOUR PARDON??? He got perma'd remember
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Maugrim posted:He got perma'd remember I didn't know that! I thought this was an April Fool's joke.
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Why are we using the US spelling of metre in the thread title? Pls fix.
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Loonytoad Quack posted:Why are we using the US spelling of metre in the thread title? Pls fix. brexit means brexit
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Loonytoad Quack posted:Why are we using the US spelling of metre in the thread title? Pls fix. We GOT BREXIT DONE and so will not be using filthy French spellings any more.
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