In other news today...
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Everybody needs a hobby...
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
Well that escalated quickly: Australia is apparently experiencing a shopping frenzy as people are buying all the toiletpaper:
NEWS UPDATE: We found where most of it went:
Guess they'll not run out until corona season is over...
NEWS UPDATE: Now even the Australian wildlife is gathering toilet paper when it can:
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
Does whoever made that video have vax instead of brain in their head‽ They are making a video to show something that has main purpose of making sound, and they add fairly loud music so we can't hear the sound in question‽
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In other not exactly great news today from Germany (no English translation yet):
In the first criminal case against two British traders involved in the Cum-Ex scandal, the court gave out suspended sentences. These two were involved in stealing €440 million of public money, while the whole scandal (for which about 600 more traders/bankers are up for trial) amounts to at least €55 billion only in Germany, with similar situations in other EU countries.
Now, the good part is that this clears up the legal status and will probably mean a whole lot of further convictions before they run up to the statute of limitations (which would IMO be a massive scandal of judiciary failure itself). The bad part is: why are these people not going to prison?!
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@topspin Perhaps because Germany doesn't have jurisdiction to enforce penalties on British subjects...?
Maybe they could ask for extradition, but I wouldn't expect that request to be filled.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
Perhaps because Germany doesn't have jurisdiction to enforce penalties on British subjects...?
Courts have jurisdiction over anybody who comitted crime in their jurisdiction, as long as they can actually get hold of them. Or even without getting hold of them, but then it will only have effect if the person later comes in their jurisdiction or if they have any property there.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@topspin Perhaps because Germany doesn't have jurisdiction to enforce penalties on British subjects...?
Maybe they could ask for extradition, but I wouldn't expect that request to be filled.We've currently (started just before you-know-what) got a high-profile court case going against three Russians and a Ukrainian, all of them currently in Russia. As I understand it, they're accused of illegally bringing an anti-air missile system from Russia into Ukraine and using it carelessly.
Though I do think there's jurisdiction transfer from Ukraine involved there.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@topspin Perhaps because Germany doesn't have jurisdiction to enforce penalties on British subjects...?
Maybe they could ask for extradition, but I wouldn't expect that request to be filled.I don't know the details of this and thus didn't think this through. It was only briefly mentioned but I assumed it to be something along the lines of British nationals living in Germany. You need to be somehow doing business in Germany to be stealing German tax money.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
Perhaps because Germany doesn't have jurisdiction to enforce penalties on British subjects...?
Jurisdiction is mainly determined by the location of the crime not by the nationality of the subjects or victims.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
the Cum-Ex scandal
I guess that's what large-scale fraud looks like these days.
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facepalm
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
@Bulb said in In other news today...:
Does whoever made that video have vax instead of brain in their head‽ They are making a video to show something that has main purpose of making sound, and they add fairly loud music so we can't hear the sound in question‽
Personally I like to imagine that all day long the "honey bee sound system" is playing that buzzing beeswarm sound overlaid with the "country-inspired" muzak you hear in the video.
"Look, it's proven to work, have you ever seen an elephant in the recording studio where they make it?"
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
the Cum-Ex scandal
The truth is out there...
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Original paper:
Article that explains it and doesn't require $9.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
FTP is an insecure protocol.
So is HTTP, but no one's dropping that!
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FTP is insecure
People keep making mean comments about it.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Well, for downloading, FTP(S) does not have any advantage over HTTP(S), it's just being pain in the ass due to all the masquerades permeating today's internet. And since Firefox does not support any of the other features, it does not really make much sense to support it.
@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
FTP is an insecure protocol.
So is HTTP, but no one's dropping that!
Yup, that argument is retarded. Last I've seen actual FTP¹, it was over TLS.
ftps:
schema is a thing. Not all clients support it, but it certainly exists.
¹ Colleagues still use it to deliver to customer, but I am not on that project since start of last year.
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Yeah, I am fine with firefox dropping FTP support (and chrome too apparently) I can't remember the last time I did FTP through the browser and not a dedicated client or command line.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
I can't remember the last time I did FTP through the browser
It happens occasionally, but there's not really much to notice about it when the browser uses the protocol other than that the site in question is a bit slow. HTTP tends to be faster than FTP, and that's been true for a couple of decades at least…
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Yeah, I am fine with firefox dropping FTP support (and chrome too apparently) I can't remember the last time I did FTP through the browser and not a dedicated client or command line.
Same here. I'd actually forgotten you could still use FTP in a modern browser.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Yeah, I am fine with firefox dropping FTP support (and chrome too apparently) I can't remember the last time I did FTP through the browser and not a dedicated client or command line.
I can't remember the last time I used FTP for anything. I use
sftp
pretty much all the time for that sort of thing.
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-youtube-exclusive-idUSKBN2170OP
Welcome to the future! The revolution will be... streamed at blurry macroblocking 360p (upscaled to 4k using AI).
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
Perhaps because Germany doesn't have jurisdiction to enforce penalties on British subjects...?
Jurisdiction is mainly determined by the location of the crime not by the nationality of the subjects or victims.
But, like @Bulb said, being able to enforce the penalties requires that the court be able to actually get ahold of the person or their property. If these were British subjects living in Britain, then the German government can't really do much of anything without the approval of the British government. Maybe close down their business operations in Germany, but if they were working behind a publicly traded company, closing down the German branch of the company would be more broad than I would expect to be legally enforceable.
But what do I know? I'm just a dumb American who's never been to Germany nor studied German law. :)
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I can't remember the last time I used FTP for anything. I use
sftp
pretty much all the time for that sort of thing.I did use some sftp for transferring files, but most deliveries were over webdav lately, because that's what both Artifactory and SharePoint support. Except that one customer that has some weird file sharing service with ugly web gui and ftps.
To add a to the , the service is pretty crappy—colleague had to use multi-volume archive split to 100 MB chunks, because the service sometimes drops out, does not support resuming uploads, and there was no chance to push the whole ~5 GB archive (docker images are large and VM images are even larger) in one transfer.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
being able to enforce the penalties requires that the court be able to actually get ahold of the person or their property.
that is totally irrelevant to the decision if a court has jurisdiction or not.
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Good timing...
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
So is HTTP, but no one's dropping that!
Pretty sure that's on Chrome's Five Year Plan. You already can't download files, run scripts, or include media from HTTP origins if they're linked from HTTPS sites.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
FTP is an insecure protocol.
So is HTTP, but no one's dropping that!
I have some bad news...
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
being able to enforce the penalties requires that the court be able to actually get ahold of the person or their property.
that is totally irrelevant to the decision if a court has jurisdiction or not.They could have jurisdiction over the crime if it was performed within their bailiwick, but not over the perpetrator of that crime, if the criminal is a foreigner in foreign lands.
Jurisdiction can mean the extent of legal authority within the law or the extent of authority over a geographic/political region. I think we're using separate meanings.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
Good timing...
I can do that too, without fancy sound filtering software.
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Look guys, we're also (being seen) doing something!
(reducing our operating costs, because socialists won't let us ax a couple thousand of these useless flu simulants, is just a nice bonus)No word from Pornhub, however.
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In other news, to save bandwidth, I'll be uploading my memes to WTDWTF at JPEG quality level 10 (Optimized) instead of PNG.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
Good timing...
I can do that too, without fancy sound filtering software.
I just switch to something that doesn't make so much noise. Beef jerky, anyone?
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
Good timing...
I can do that too, without fancy sound filtering software.
I just switch to something that doesn't make so much noise. Beef jerky, anyone?
I suspect that won't work for those who love potato chips. I've read somewhere that the sound is actually part of what makes them taste good (to some anyway; I am not particularly fond of them).
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
I've read somewhere that the sound is actually part of what makes them taste good (to some anyway; I am not particularly fond of them).
Weird. I don't get that aspect.
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@Tsaukpaetra
Try eating fresh stuff instead of stale shit
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra
Try eating fresh stuff instead of stale shitStale shit doesn't sound like fresh stuff though...
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@kazitor said in In other news today...:
Imagine calling human history ancient.
For archaeologists, sure. For geologists, not so much.
inb4
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
I suspect that won't work for those who love potato chips. I've read somewhere that the sound is actually part of what makes them taste good (to some anyway; I am not particularly fond of them).
For me, it's not the sound, it's the crunch. I love crunchy things. Trouble is, most of them are really not good for me anymore... damn diabetes...
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra
Try eating fresh stuff instead of stale shitStale shit becomes crunchy. If the fresh shit is crunchy, you've got problems. On that , I've got to go walk the dogs...
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
I love crunchy things
@dcon said in In other news today...:
Stale shit becomes crunchy
That was a weird sequence.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@kazitor said in In other news today...:
Imagine calling human history ancient.
For archaeologists, sure. For geologists, not so much.
inb4He's a flying dinosaur enthusiast.
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Tomorrow! Set your DVRs:
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
@kazitor said in In other news today...:
Imagine calling human history ancient.
For archaeologists, sure. For geologists, not so much.
inb4He's a flying dinosaur enthusiast.
Bwahaha!
Imagine calling birds ancient.