all praise the ventoy usb

looks like you have your Halloween decorations sorted

basic media literacy is really needed, hopefully it doesn't come with any political bias built in

cat lawyers are proud

I don't think it's intended to be enforced very well, just to 'boil the frog' so to say. Either that or incompetence & not realising it won't work.

Even if it passes and isn't enforced well it'll legitimise more surveillance & identity checks. It'll probably be terrible for privacy on people who aren't as tech literate to avoid it.

very cute, I wonder how easy saluting is to teach a cat. moral boosting fluff blob

all hail the void kittens

yea, its a blow to uk user's privacy & security but not caving. Caving would be implimenting a backdoor. Title was a bit of an annoyed initial reaction, sorry there... maybe best to improve it, i'm not sure?

Honestly, dark chocolate tastes much better than the milky stuff anyway, its way too sweet. Still, i'm not sure how 'healthy' it is compared to anything else.

I think the future of wikipedia looks a bit bleak if they drop archive.today now. They need a decent archiver to function. Internet archive is good but its a single group hosted in the US, plus any site with a paywall isn't surviving on the internet archive very well.

They've needed good alternative for awhile and the need is just growing. I wish public libraries could fill the gap but its probably not realistic. We've had legal deposit requirements for non-print media in various jurisdictions for awhile but i'm doubtful how effective it is, nor is it convenient to access or use for wikipedia.

"If your client is cleaning handles again make sure he doesn't do it near schoolchildren"

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Whenever I need a bootable USB I always go for ventoy, much easier to just copy over the image.

That said, if you're having a lot of trouble it might be something else, say a bad USB, port or image. I've had devices that can't recognise particular usb sticks or from a particular port for no apparently reason. Sometimes its just cursed.

'unborn human' sounds like some variant on undead

that curtain is a curtain to aspire to. For both the cat and me, I want one

I'm intrigued how that would work with some styles of plug that disconnect before coming out of the socket like the uk type-G plugs. Unless they're not touching the socket itself and connecting somewhere else? I have no idea, i'm not an electrician.

yeah, it feels kinda petty on behalf of the dairy people tbh

that's a very good loaf🍞

MY THRONE HAST BEEN STOLEN

EU Regulations are directly applicable to all member states, so its not needed to transpose those into domestic law for them to be used. Some countries' constitutional setup mess with this(like the uk eh pre-brexit I guess), but in general regulations are as important if not more than domestic law.

Directives can be directly used in domestic courts but only under certain conditions. The defendant/respondant needs to be a public body and the transposition deadline must have passed. Its basicly 'you failed to implement it in time — tough'. Also if they're not implemented correctly. But in general yes, they're only instructions for the members to pass domestic legislation.

I think even on a technicality both are law. Sorry if this was a bit padantic.

oh and yes I'm not aware of any EU legislation on admissibility of evidence. But, not really my area :/ I think there have been proposals for cross-border stuff but can't remember what became of that. If you know any in force i'd be interested in reading that? thanks

In the limbo analogy, I suppose this would be a very high bar, you could just walk on through, no limbo-ing needed