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ABC News segment on the theme remix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoEHf21KgFk

If you’re happy with OpenDNS logging your traffic, you could set the router to use them as the DNS server (assuming your network is DHCP and your father-in-law’s devices just use whatever DNS server your router says). As long as one of your devices keeps OpenDNS updated with your IP (the one provided by your ISP), then you can look through the traffic to see what is being accessed (and even enabling category content blocking if you wish). Of course, if your father-in-law is IT savvy, he’ll just manually set the DNS server on his devices.

The crew should come back on the Dragon and Boeing be required to solve the problems and carry out another test flight. It is unacceptable that Boeing wants to bring the astronauts back without understanding some of the failures on the Starliner.

This is why you do staged rollouts of updates… not the entire planet at once.

Yeah, I saw this article too and thought it was ridiculous.

Well, I guess that’s one ISP everyone will want to avoid…

This measure of 199 out of 200 is the US population equivalent of 1,650,000 people.

So, roughly in the ballpark of how many COVID has killed thus far (best estimate I could find was a little over 1.2 million). Even that didn’t really motivate people, unfortunately.

Unless the human mortality rate is much higher than COVID, this is just going to be the same thing all over again. Vaccines take time to prepare and even though this is a flu strain (which should give us a headstart), there doesn’t seem to be much happening with this yet (even the US has only just started getting organised with an order of 4.8 million doses, which is a drop in the ocean if their burgeoning outbreak amongst livestock manages to jump to humans). Waiting until we have rampant human-to-human transmission to order vaccines will be too late.

So, basically nothing new in Windows 11 that I want and a whole lot of things I don’t.

Indeed! Covers most of the instances where I would otherwise have to use find.

Turns out one of the video-editing programs I use (VideoRedo) has shut down anyway (I think the owner passed away) and so I’ll need to look for an alternative anyway - I don’t think I can activate it on new machines anymore.

Because I haven’t yet updated from Windows 10 to 11 and had been putting it off. In the past week, though, I have seen a number of news articles highlighting issues I am going to have with Windows 11 and this particular article, indicating that they have been effectively leaving systems vulnerable simply because they have applications they don’t like installed is just not good enough. I’d understand it if they were saying “we can’t guarantee your OS stability with these apps” or “we can’t guarantee these apps will work anymore” if they were removing older API support, but this is ridiculous.

Good to know. I don’t play many games, but do have some older ones from GoG that would be nice to keep.

Thanks, will do!

I was already dubious about upgrading from 10 to 11 and this is final straw. I will have to look at Linux options and see if my Windows-only programs will run effectively under WINE.

Given how bad the show’s writing has been for years and the declining in viewership in the Chibnell era, I’m actually surprised the BBC actually reversed course for once.

Ugh.

My experience has been that Coles paper bags were already weaker/more prone to tearing than the Woolworths ones, so looks like they are doubling-down on their inferior product.

Very likely to be the physical force applied by the headphones, depending on how they are worn. I cannot use certain designs because they become uncomfortable even if only worn for short periods.

This is utterly disgusting and I hope the officers involved in this appalling abuse of power lose their positions.

It serves as yet another example of why the neurodiverse community should never trust law enforcement.

Thanks for that. A very interesting read; I am inclined to believe the author, given how they describe the failure of processes.