palordrolap

@palordrolap@kbin.run

Some middle-aged guy on the Internet. Seen a lot of it, occasionally regurgitates it, trying to be amusing and informative.

Lurked Digg until v4. Commented on Reddit (same username) until it went full Musk.

Is on kbin.social but created this profile on kbin.run during a week-long outage.

Other Adjectives: Neurodivergent; Nerd; Broken; British; Ally; Leftish

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. For a complete list of posts, browse on the original instance.

palordrolap , to News in Appeals court seems lost on how Internet Archive harms publishers

The way things are going, libraries themselves will be outlawed.

palordrolap , to World News in Squatters take London’s housing crisis into their own hands

"Homelessness is a direct political choice."

Talk about a quote that can be read both ways.

palordrolap , to News in China honours woman who died saving Japanese family

It's complex I guess. There's a stereotype that doing a good deed in China usually ends up backfiring on the doer of the deed.

Here she died and was praised, but then, the backfire had already taken effect.

We could conclude from this that the only correct way for a Chinese citizen to do a good deed is to die in the process.

Then note that the praise could be not for doing the deed but for saving whatever other forces are at play from having to provide the backfire.

The hard part is determining the shades of truth of all the various aspects here.

palordrolap , to News in China honours woman who died saving Japanese family

Unsure if sarcasm

palordrolap , to World News in Hong Kong says school children sang anthem too softly

Ah, an excuse to attack an organisation that worships something other than Mighty Xi and the CCP.

Using children as the pawns too. Masterful.

palordrolap , to Linux in [Vent] Please avoid BusyBox

anaemic* (Sorry, that bothered me for some reason.)

As for capture groups, you'll have to find another way. Perversely, perhaps BusyBox continues to be included on certain systems because they know that the extra space is required for the code that works around BB's shortcomings. That sounds asinine until you realise that "solving the problem properly" most likely leads to that one XKCD comic about the proliferation of competing standards.

At worst, multiple sizes of BusyBox itself.

palordrolap , to Technology in FCC hits Verizon with $1M fine for dropping 911 calls, again • The Register

The real punishment ought to be an atomic wedgie. For everyone who was a C-level for more than a month at that company in the last 10 years.

This ought to be the punishment for a lot of unethical business practices. You can't delegate that to a customer's wallet.

palordrolap , to Futurology in Tax the rich, say a majority of adults across 17 G20 countries surveyed

Because they're the ones that donate the most to political parties give the most back to society, therefore they should be exempt, obviously.

palordrolap , to Technology in NBC to use AI-generated version of Al Michaels' voice during Summer Olympics

If we tried this in the UK with someone like, say, the late David Coleman, I'm not entirely sure anyone who remembers him would be able to distinguish - other than, as I said, the knowledge that he's been gone for quite some time now.

Coleman, was considered a go-to commentator for decades despite being gaffe-prone even at the best of times. He was occasionally oblivious and apparently lacking any self-awareness too. (He did kind of learn to laugh at himself though and was a good, well, sport, about it all.)

Sounds very AI to me. Come to think of it, he may even have been kept around precisely because of the entertainment value.

I assume that Al Michaels is not of this bizarre calibre and it wouldn't take long for people to notice.

palordrolap , to News in MAGA panics before Donald Trump's first debate with Biden

I've said this before and I'll say it again: There are better things to attack Trump for than how he looks, what physical conditions he has or how he smells.

At face value, those sorts of things have little effect on the ability to run a country well.

Even his hair is a better target because how he wears it would appear to show vanity, a quality that might actually interfere with stable management. That's still a relatively big stretch without other evidence (of which there would appear to be plenty) though.

Attack his ideas, his intents, his politics. He makes this easy enough, right? Start there.

"LOL u smel" is something you expect in the playground. Something Trump himself might use, perhaps.

We have to be better than that.

palordrolap , to News in New Jersey gamer flew to Florida and beat fellow player with hammer, say police

For "academics" read "two guys we found in the cafeteria at a local university" unless otherwise specified.

palordrolap , to Fediverse in Welcome to the fediverse: Your guide to Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, and more

If they've heard of Lemmy then it's probably the Tankie connection that's putting them off. If.

Guessing Kbin/Mbin is also either unheard of or tainted by association.

Or it could just be: "But why male models not Reddit?"

palordrolap , to United Kingdom in Farage urges Zelenskiy to seek Ukraine peace deal with Russia

In other news, Fred Bloggs from Bournemouth has been on the phone to the White House telling Joe Biden to stop using toilet paper.

palordrolap , to World News in Netanyahu says he won’t agree to a deal that ends the war in Gaza, testing the latest truce proposal

He won't stop until every last potential Hamas member (read "Palestinian") is dead or out of Palestine.

He's been pretty clear on this.

palordrolap , to World News in Members of Britain’s richest family get jail terms for exploiting Indian staff at Swiss mansion | The Straits Times

Maybe not in any legal sense, no. How people and even news media use it, there's plenty of wiggle room.

e.g. allowing the ambiguity of "British home owner" to go unclarified, that is as "home owner who is British" as opposed to "owner of a home in Britain", and any similarly loose interpretations that go along with or derive from that.

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