Can… can they do that? Just shut you out of the room if you annoy them?

often social eng attacks rely on a vulnerability as well e.g. getting your mark to open an Excel file that exploits a vulnerability in MS Office.

ah so you were already paying to visit a GP? How much is that then?

yes I’m using my regular email and messaging family members using theirs.

It’s working fine, except for the occasional issue like I mentioned, i.e. sending multiple emails for one message.

I don’t know what it’s doing about encryption - it seems to use it when it knows the other party supports it, but that’s not my priority at this point, my aim is to encourage people to move off WhatsApp (this is what all my chatting takes place on). I’m kind of using the family chat as guinea pigs really.

Nice, I’ll give it a whirl. Their their website says, “ArcaneChat is a Delta Chat client” so maybe it deals with the issues I’ve had better.

bug reporting

I’m looking for projects I can contribute to in some way, so definitely not averse to bug reporting. From some discussions on the forum, the way I’m using it isn’t really supported and they’re really aimed at people who want to chat securely without being tied to proprietary networks. But I’m certainly not the only one who would prefer not to use proprietary chat protocols like WhatsApp, but there’s just too many other people I’d have to convince to switch to yet another chat app. Delta Chat / ArcaneChat really seem to offer a way forward for people like me, but the chat experience for people using regular email clients has to be very good - people get annoyed quickly if they receive 5 emails in a row each containing a single picture followed by a 6th email that just contains text (which is how my attempt at a message sharing some photos came through for email users)

what is this, is it anything like Delta Chat? (i.e. the UI of a chat app but using email for sending/receiving messages)

I’ve been trying out Delta Chat for messaging my family. It’s a bit kludgy and messy though, at least when interacting with others who are using regular email clients. For instance, it sometimes sends multiple emails rather than bundling it up as one.

“Better luck next year Jo x.”

Saved you a click!

I just slammed my balls in the rear door of my Range Rover a couple of times. Am I good now?

Better than Worcester police then. I had my bike nicked from a bike rack by a park & ride’s mini bus station. The guy working there spent a little while shuttling through the video and found crystal clear footage of the rapscallion arriving on a worse bike, messing around by my bike for a minute or two (cutting the lock), then riding off with it. You couldn’t hope for better evidence of the crime, and if he was known to police - he certainly acted like he’d done this sort of thing before - it would’ve been easy to identify him. The cops didn’t even bother to go in and see it.

After several weeks, I got a call from our trusty boys in blue about it. Ah great, I thought naively, they haven’t forgotten, just backlogged. But it quickly became obvious, from his leading questions, that the copper was actually hoping to catch me out as an insurance fraudster and had no intention of doing jack-shit to actually get the thing back. I lost it a bit with him and I think he did end up feeling kind of bad - although not bad enough to send someone round to view the footage of course.

yeah nice. my fave is to go to Starbucks and boof a double frappucino while everyone just stares in awe. then I recite the first 2 million digits of pi before having sex with one of the stools.

they know what they’re doing - they’re trying to create an artificial distance between meat and modern plant alternatives. Can’t blame them for trying but the government should not be so happy to do their bidding.

I care that the government cares (or more specifically that it was bribed to do so by lobby groups)

Vegetarian or not, you should care about this. Propping up the meat and dairy industry is not in the interests of the public. This move is part of an agenda by the meat and dairy industry to deceive the public into thinking there’s something “natural” about the modern meat processing industry. It’s bullshit and if we had a government that actually worked in our interests instead of that of the fat cats, it would be the meat and dairy industry being forced to change their labelling, to highlight to the public the real costs of meat consumption.

The most green option is probably to just sell it on the open market. Some takeaway shops would give you a good price for it.

This does sound like it might be a very interesting book. I am intrigued to find out more about Mary’s point of view. She says she almost dumped him when he came clean, not because of his direct support for the IRA but because of the deception:

“I know Michael isn’t a terrible person, he’s a very good person,” she said. “He just didn’t put me first, and I don’t know whether I see that as betrayal. He didn’t intend it.”

It seems there’s a wider question about when is it acceptable to keep secrets from a person you’re in a relationship with. It doesn’t seem like he was deceitful about his political leanings, just about details of his direct involvement. That kind of seems very forgivable, although given the circumstances I can see why she contemplated ending it at the time.

Firefox has Firefox Relay, which lets you create aliases (they call them masks) for one destination email for free

https://relay.firefox.com/

I love it when they pretend to be asleep like that. They’re about as good at it as a 5 year old child.

sunshine I love you but you do post quite a few things that would really be better suited elsewhere, like !europe@feddit.org or in this case !vegan@lemmy.world

As a compromise, why not cross-post? that way your articles - which are often interesting and IMO discussion-worthy - will be seen by more people with relevant interests and thus might spark off more discussion. (Yes I messed up cross-posting this particular article and managed to double-cross-post - I deleted one but annoyingly both links still show up here 🤦 )

I personally am really excited about what this kind of technology can achieve (in particular in the area of dairy products manufactured without any animal involvement) and if analyses such as this will encourage more government investment, all power to them.

Yeah but this article is about spreadable butter, not normal decent god-fearing butter. So it’s already been fucked up by blending in vegetable oil along with whatever stabilsers and other shit they have to use to allow you to mix vegetable oil and butter in the first place.

best method I found to watch old movies

especially as many public libraries loan out DVDs.