I got to "Mary Little" before I realised my virtual leg was being pulled.

Deary me. Hope Mary Little's lamb is doing well.

Ok, that was fun. Pipped Ginko to the win by one point, they should've calculated the last square was a flag faster than I did.

It'd be cool to be able to put your own name in though, without signing in. Just a suggestion.

> I thought we were making progress in the anti-surveillance privacy na[rra]tive

What lead to to believe that? The Conservatives and Conservative-Continuity governments both agree that our data simply must be in the hands of the police, DEFRA, and your local council.

RIPA will never be repealed and only strengthened.

I don't disagree with your analysis but i wouldn't be so fatalistic. This stuff _isn't_ inevitable and i think it's possible to win people over to our side. Things can change for the better, but they won't unless people who care don't give up

Ahh, I used to have that opinion, but I've encountered too many "It's fine if they want it, I've got nothing to hide" people. (They never give you their Facebook password if you ask, though. Funny, that.)

Change what you can, I say, VPN on the network device.

focus on the John Oliver dick pic argument.

https://www.wired.com/2015/04/john-oliver-edward-snowden-dic...

> When Oliver shows Snowden evidence that all typical Americans care about is whether the government can see our "dick pics," he encourages Snowden to go through a list of every government surveillance program and explain its capabilities in terms of access to "dick pics."

One of my all-time favorites: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41595924

I favorites this comment a while ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40228359

Yeah totally see your point, i'm just not ready to give up yet

> crisis response protocols for emergency events (such as last summer’s riots).

Or maybe the proles organising mass protests at the government. No, surely not.

Alt+Space is currently used in Windows for the keyboard layout switcher if you've got 2+ configured, at least on my setup.

I use it to switch from UK layout to US (long story).

Is that really the default? It's mapped to Alt+Caps for me as long as I can remember

Aye must be. Alt+Caps is just toggling Caps Lock here.

Shouldn't haven't modified anything for it, do my utmost best to just use WSL for work.

That's Win+Space.

Ah yes. That's what I get for touch-typing... Thanks.

I'm teaching the chapter, "Why is everyone signing off with J? A crash course in email from Windows users"

Yeah, that's a known training method, "High-Intensity Interval Training", HIIT.

I mean, you can just go and plug in the same prompt into ChatGPT and cut out the middleman, really.

Just did it for a laugh, and for "High Rise" it recommended "The Road" and "The Dispossessed". Sounds about right.

McCarthyism for the blogging generation.

> They just post inane one line comments in response to the article headline. They often have some corny joke or something like that, but it's never anything more than two sentences, and those sentences never, ever say anything insightful or even controversial - it's just an incredibly surface level and uncontroversial reaction to the headline.

I haven't used Reddit in years, but this was Reddit pre-LLMs.

Agree. And of course it's always something "surface level and uncontroversial", anything else gets you downvoted. Most subreddits (with a few exceptions) are huge echo-chambers.