Voltaire said it's for the best
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Last Notes npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton Question for the Fediverse: is #DeltaChat just a front end to PGP-encrypted e-mail, or is there more to it than that? npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton @nprofile…la7y npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton @nprofile…tfur npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton @nprofile…x9tq npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton @nprofile…x9tq npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton @nprofile…l7em @nprofile…zwwz @nprofile…49d7 @nprofile…ldw4 npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton @nprofile…x9tq npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton @nprofile…gj0l And when you could get your blirer at Woolworths, and car registration plates not only told you what shape boot they had, but got it wrong. npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton @nprofile…hzyj I'd say its greatest failure is inherent in its terms of reference: that it measures the budget deficit by the rate of change of public sector net debt, not by (minus) the rate of change of public sector net worth, thus strongly disincentivizing any public-sector investment. npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton @nprofile…hzyj npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton Believe tonight's #BBC3 #DoctorWho agenda is Cold Blood followed by Vincent and the Doctor. Looking forward to that. npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton Is that the Saxon Master's theme? #BBC3 #DoctorWho npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton Joo Janta Peril Sensitive Sunglasses! #BBC3 #DoctorWho npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton The same special effect as Sutekh's dust of death. Tempted to infer an in-story relationship. #BBC3 #DoctorWho npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton And snow. Portentous retro lampposts in the snow. #BBC3 #DoctorWho npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton If it's a Possible Reality in Leadworth, it must have Portentous Retro Lampposts. #BBC3 #DoctorWho npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton Yay River! #BBC3 #DoctorWho npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton First mention of the Headless Monks! #BBC3 #DoctorWho npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton As Jeje over on Twitter would say, it's the joker smile crack. #BBC3 #DoctorWho npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton I'm presuming all the Daleks we encounter for the remainder of the Moffat era spring from the New Paradigm Daleks in this ep? #BBC3 #DoctorWho npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton I suggest they're not so much ribs as motile structures for gripping and drawing in prey, as seen on the Nazi-eating giant slugs in #DoctorWho. That's not unheard of in real-life molluscs, right? npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton Yes. In fact, searching back over old social media threads, I'd say the unjustified hate started at the start of series 10 and has got steadily more intense ever since. #DoctorWho npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton "This or Leadworth: what will Amy Pond choose?" Nice foreshadowing. #DoctorWho #BBC3 npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton The Rani calling humans "the beasts below" was a deliberate homage to this, right? #DoctorWho #BBC3 npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton Of course, we now know both where the ducks went, and that Prsoner Zero's conviction was quashed on appeal. npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton Boom! #DoctorWho #BBC3 npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton Nice callback to Spearhead from Space. #DoctorWho #BBC3 npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton Wait a minute. Prisoner Zero needs to take on the appearance of someone whose photo is not present in Rory's phone, and chooses Amy. #DoctorWho #BBC3 npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton All this action is set, in Earth chronology, in 2008, presumably between Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords and Voyage of the Damned. #DoctorWho #BBC3 npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton No ducks in Amy's pond. #DoctorWho #BBC3 npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton First portentous retro lampposts of the Moffat era. #DoctorWho #BBC3 npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton Why does Amy's police officer character have such a posh accent? #DoctorWho #BBC3 npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton Most on-trend actor in smallest role moment. #DoctorWho #BBC3 npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton And there's Amy's theme. So evocative. npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton There really should have been some broader significance to Amelia having a beehive in her garden. #DoctorWho #BBC3 npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton Everything's going to be fine. npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton @nprofile…r5de npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton @nprofile…r5de npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton @nprofile…r5de npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton @nprofile…60lz Also: is that "followed all legal rules currently in force", or "followed all legal rules the govt is currently legislating in the Renters' Rights Bill"? Because I have a feeling she may not have done the latter. npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton @nprofile…60lz The discounts weren't (at least routinely) enough to drive the sale price below the replacement build cost, though, were they? npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton @nprofile…60lz I think I might argue that it wasn't RtB per se that worsened the housing crisis, but the refusal to allow the capital receipts from RtB to be used to build new council houses. npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton @nprofile…60lz Under-recruitment of language teachers in turn perhaps being related to the decision to scrap compulsory selection of at least one modern foreign language at GCSE now being long enough ago that pupils affected by it are old enough to be becoming teachers. npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton @nprofile…gukf npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton @nprofile…60lz I think, when it comes to protection of basic human rights, it's a mistake to try and "navigate the current debates" - the aim has to be to place them beyond debate. I've suggested before inserting an anti-repeal clause in the Human Rights Act, mirroring the one in the Treason Act 1540: "It shall be high treason for any person, by word or by deed, to procure or do any thing to the repeal of this Act". npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton @nprofile…vdjy Intrigued by "I know professional cryptographers who have almost never verified a PGP key fingerprint or Signal safety number in practice." I'm just a numpty, not any kind of security pro, but 20 years ago, I quite frequently used to see invitations to in-person keysigning meets in local pubs. npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton @nprofile…60lz LibDems abstained: mostly by the "did not vote" method, six of them by the "walk through both lobbies" method. npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton @nprofile…60lz AIUI the proscription requires an affirmative resolution of each house of Parliament to proceed, so we'll at least be able to see which way they vote. npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton Did I just hear English Teacher sing "I am the world's biggest paving slab"? I think Ursula will have someething to say about that. #Glastonbury #DoctorWho npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton @nprofile…fa4k Also allow Covid to run rampant so Long Covid renders an ever-increasing portion of the population unfit for military service. npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton @nprofile…kgtr npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton @nprofile…h94j Wait a minute though: are those high positions for oil-producer countries largely due to flare-off of unwanted natural gas at oil wells? 'Cause one could make a case for putting that in the carbon budget of the country buying and using the oil from those wells, not in the carbon budget of the oil producer country. npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton Ordered some peppermint oil from an online retailer. The e-mail telling me it's been dispatched doesn't say what it is, declaring "item hidden for privacy". What on earth are people using peppermint oil for? npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton @nprofile…td39 It occurs to me that an awful lot of boardrooms have a vested interest in keeping the public sector massively underfunded because a well-funded public sector would be able to afford to enforce GDPR (and trading standards legislation, and health and safety law, and planning regulations...) npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton (To be clear, that's the article author's grandfather, not *my* grandfather.) npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton My grandfather was ‘Mr Health and Safety’. His life’s quest to make work safer has been ridiculed – but the rise of the gig economy shows it’s no joke npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton @npub1vs8…54zy I vaguely remember there are treaties prohibiting developed countries from sending waste for disposal to landfill in developing countries - I take it there are big loopholes? npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton @npub1vs8…54zy @npub1edm…gnc7 Y'see now I'm reminded of Bertrand Russell's buddy Harold Jeffreys setting up one of his seismic monitoring stations in the basement of the Vaux brewery. npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton @npub1200…aqy2 npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton @npub19kv…m4nu I have a not-very-well-deserved writing credit on a huge computer algebra system written in Lisp. It is a nifty language. npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton @npub1vs8…54zy Not wanting to disparage your work in any way: in fact, a big well done on what you do. However, none of it should be necessary: the owners of Worthy Farm have had 50 years and vast throughputs of cash to install proper sanitation and drainage and permanent ways on the site, and I cannot understand why the local authority continues to license the event in the absence of them doing so. npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton @npub1vs8…54zy The argument might hold up with a couple of extra logical steps: "you just bought a TV, most TVs are rubbish, therefore you're likely to be rapidly dissatisified with its performance and want to buy a replacement". The equivalent would definitely work for vacuum cleaners. npub1ps3r27jj8nvs6pjnejl67a0xf8v2dz86r40dc307jzlva3sxp5js9d7r7n Dan Hatton @npub19kv…m4nu Me too. 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