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Front page headline in today's The Observer:
"Johnson seeks legal advice on five-week parliament closure"
In some ways I hope BoJo does prorogue parliament. It would be completely un-democratic, but I'm not sure it would make much difference. We are heading for a no-deal Brexit anyway, and proroguing parliament would just demonstrate the real nature of the government.
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@yukiame
Really, not used them.
Another funny thing, the scales look smaller than my feet.
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@tfb
The people who support the Union (between Scotland & England) use the argument that it is one of equals. In practice, of course, that isn't the case. Scotland has only 59 MPs (Commons) out of a total of 650. England has 533, more than Scotland, Wales & N. Ireland combined. The parliament always delivers what England wants. Brexit is the most obvious example.
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So, we have new bathroom scales.
They are like something out of Star Trek, they not only measure your weight, but also do a full body scan. You get readings for body fat, muscle & bone density and all manner of other things.
For all I know it estimates your IQ, too. Actually, you need an IQ in excess of 130 to use them. Did I mention you need to *login*? Of course, none of this is usable without the accompanying 'phone app.
Never used the old scales, won't be using these.
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The link is paywalled:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/english-police-could-patrol-northern-ireland-border-after-no-deal-xm7gvrqqv
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The Sunday Times are reporting that in the event of a no-deal Brexit, English police may be deployed to the Northern Ireland border areas.
Well, there's a recipe for disaster, right there.
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@jk
Jings!
We played "cops & robbers" when we were kids. Much simpler. 😉
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The design of the commemorative 50p Brexit coin has been released.
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You probably need to be Scottish to understand this joke:
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Alborada de Veiga /
Muiñeira de Chantada
Carlos Núñez
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Boris Johnson has been elected leader of the Conservative party, and therefore will be the next UK Prime Minister.
Johnson got nearly ⅔rds of the vote from Tory Party members.
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Are you using Let's Encrypt?
If so you might be interested in acme-tiny. It is a 200 lines of code client to handle the installation and renewal of your LE SSL certs.
There is a one-time requirement to convert the account_key from JWK to PEM. After that everything can be automated through scripts & cron.
I like that acme-tiny is: standalone, small & so easy to review. Installable via Pip, apt-get and probably other package managers.
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Photo of Albert Einstein's office at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, on the day he died (April 18th, 1955).
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View from near the top of Beinn Nibheis (Ben Nevis)
Photo: Andy Dixon
#BenNevis #Alba #Scotland #Highlands #photo #photography
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Want to find your way from A to B?
You should try:
https://maps.openrouteservice.org
I've used it a couple of times today, and it was great.
* Uses OpenStreetMap data
* Service provided by HeiGIT
* Doesn't spy on you
* Maps look great
* Effective routes
* Share with friends
* Add your own tracks
* Export to GPX plus others
* Elevation profile
You can also go to C, D, E and many more. 😉
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@yukiame
Naturally, and the authorities in Switzerland will know that. Any number of email clients will allow you to encrypt the email content. The other supposed benefit of someone like ProtonMail is that the logs would also be secret i.e. with whom you are communicating.
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@sohkamyung
Woodpecker is a bit of a misnomer. Woodlicker more like. 😉
Do you think that was a family group you photographed?
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@kensanata
Wow! When given a choice people actually voted for it. I despair.
Matej Ľach ✅
I decided to start sharing parts of #fediQuest as they become mature.
Today, I am releasing a #Golang library for decoding ActivityStreams 2.0 objects into native Go objects and also for encoding Go objects into ActivityStreams 2.0 JSON objects.
Repo: https://github.com/MatejLach/astreams
The usage is your typical Go Marshal/Unmarshal, (see tests for examples).
The license is copyleft (AGPLv3).
Your feedback (and a star) are welcome :-)
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@zladuric
What kind of things, as a family, interest you?
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