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@Thayer

I’m not sure if this will help, but the same NHS guidelines that require medical practitioners to use this AI transcription nonsense also requires them to accept personal liability for all errors in the transcription. If you remind the doctor of this and give them the opportunity to correct it, they may choose to do this.

@to @neil

This is especially true for FOSDEM dev room talks, where I often want to go to one in a session, and where the times in different devrooms plus travel time mean I often want to duck out a couple of minutes before the end of the talk.

@eLearningTechie

Sadly, there seem to be very few tools with a good UI.

OmniGraffle 3 was more or less feature complete for me (the one missing feature I want is still not in 6 Pro: export to SVG keeping each layer as an SVG layer). I want that because Sozi can make layers appear and disappear in animations. A clone of OmniGraffle 3 would make me very happy. Newer versions of the same app make me a bit less happy and the alternatives I've tried just make me sad.

@eLearningTechie The best I can say about Inkscape is that it works, but the UI is incredibly clunky and I spend so much time fighting it that I can't focus on what I'm trying to draw.

@eclectech @eLearningTechie

I just tried Krita for five minutes. I could not work out how to draw two shapes with a line connecting them. That's the thing I do most often in a vector-drawing tool. OmniGraffle 3 had a really nice magnet model, 6 made it worse but still okay.

@eclectech I have a similar issue with non-animated drawing programs. I have been using OnmiGraffle since it came bundled with the first Mac I bought and it's great, but they're increasingly moving to the 'pro' market.

I paid $25 to upgrade to OmniGraffle 3. I'm not. Now the new versions are $75 (upgrade pricing, $150 full price). Except they've moved a bunch of features I use to the Pro version, which is $125 ($250 full price). Oh, there's also a $125/year subscription option, but since I bought OmniGraffle 6 in 2014 and 7 is the latest version, that's a lot more expensive (it does come with the iOS version, but I have zero desire to use an app that is nice on a 43" monitor and a bit of a struggle on a 16" one on my iPad).

And that's just silly money for a thing I use as infrequently as I use it. I tried InkScape, but I cannot overstate how much rage the UI induced.

@eclectech

Please note I am aware of a lot of animation packages out there

Are you aware of any open-source animation packages that do even a half-arsed job of doing what Flash could do in the late '90s (simple vector drawing, keyframe-based animations)? Ideally ones that can export to something viewable in a browser.

I miss Flash.

@GossiTheDog

The trillion dollar deal has a bunch of financial targets in it. At current rates he will not make any of them.

Hopefully some of the loans he guaranteed with Tesla stock will start to see margin calls soon.

@cstross @Fonant

Unless I misunderstood the proposed law, it's the VPN operator that would be prosecuted in this case. They may lose their ability to take money from people in the UK.

If I'm over 18, it is not illegal for me to use the VPN, so someone would have to prove that I am using it but no one checked that I was over 18. If I am under 18, then the provider is at more legal risk but they could claim that they did age verification and this user managed to bypass it somehow.

The simplest way of doing age verification is to require a payment from a credit card in your name. The easiest way of bypassing this is to use a parent's credit card. If a company takes payment for VPN use via credit card, and makes a minimal effort to not accept debit cards or pre-paid cards for folks in the UK, they're probably okay.

Which doesn't mean that this is in any way a sensible law.

@kbal @cstross

I know a bunch of people who did this without a VPN and didn't get any legal notices. The worst that they got was bandwidth throttling from their ISP.

If you have a VPN, then it's trivial for someone in the right jurisdiction to subpoena the VPN provider and require them to provide data on which account was responsible. Asking an ISP and asking a VPN provider for this information are no different, and both may have legal obligations to keep the information to be able to answer this kind of question (and, even when they don't, may have commercial incentives because their choice is often something like 'tell us who was using your service to attack Google's servers, or the entire Google infrastructure will block or severely rate limit every IP range that you own').

If you use something like Tor, no one has this data, but last time I heard of someone torrenting over Tor they were getting MODEM levels of speed.

@Fonant @cstross

Self-hosted VPNs already have age verification. I know 100% of the people who use my own WireGuard tunnel (i.e. me) and all of them are over 18.

The same is true of corporate VPNs: credentials are given only to employees and they are over 18 for various existing legal reasons.

@LevZadov @catsalad @Em0nM4stodon

Come for the cats, stay for the donkeys.

@Em0nM4stodon By being easily reachable on a platform, you are actively incentivising people who wish to reach you to be on that platform.

@futurebird @Anke @va2lam @bucknam

When I was four, I learned both methods, but the second was much easier if I started with the first. The knot helped hold the thread in place for the first few stitches. When you are just learning, it’s very easy to accidentally pull the thread through when you go back, the knot stops that happening.

@0xabad1dea @draeath

Restarting the services is also annoying. The troubleshooting thing used to restart three services, which have to be shut down and come back up in the right order. You can do it manually, but if you get it wrong it’s easy to get into a state where they won’t exit.

@neil

In related advice: if you think you have fixed a bug and it looks like it’s still there, it might be worth double checking that the copy of the program that you’re testing is actually the one containing the fix.

@campuscodi Presumably because there are sanctions on acquiring dollars directly. Once again, money laundering is the principle use case for cryptocurrencies.

Researchers have discovered a new vulnerability in FreeBSD’s telnetd:

If run in a non-default and unusual configuration[1], it implements the telnet protocol.

[1] Enabled.

@gsuberland The search results for std::vector are quite different if you don’t put the colons in the middle!

@jwildeboer There are some companies now recycling EV batteries for home storage. For fixed locations, the efficiency Is a bit less important (space and weight are at less if a premium than in a car), but cost remains important.