Paul Brownjohn @Paulos_the_fog@qoto.org
Retired software engineer & woodworker.
Anglo-francophone.
Detest tories. Subscribe to green, leftish radical politics but not to any particular political party!.
Love the EU and all it stands for, moreover, I spent the last 10 years of my career working at an EU agency.
Enthusiastic photographer, especially wildlife and most especially butterflies.
Slightly knowledgeable gardener.
Atheist; loathe almost all religions and pity the people deluded enough to follow them. I make exceptions for Buddhism as it isn't really a religion in the strictest sense of the word as it doesn't postulate the existence of any god, and Jainism which is the epitome of peace.
For anyone who is interested, my header photo is of the most stupendous sunset I have ever seen. On the right is the waterfront of Vientiane, the capital of Laos, on the left is Thailand and in the middle, acting as the border between the two countries is the mighty Mekong river.
Joined Nov 2022
Paul Brownjohn
boosted
MAGA: We need to run the country based on the Bible
Leviticus 19:34: The foreigner who resides with you must be to you like a native citizen among you; so you must love him as yourself
MAGA: Not that part
Deut 27:19: "Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner."
MAGA: Or that part
Paul Brownjohn
boosted
"Looks like you're using an ad-blocker"
Looks like you're trying to install 52 trackers on my computer.
Paul Brownjohn
boosted
@ChrisMayLA6 @TCatInReality I have said this many times. This destruction of the NHS began in the 70’s, I witnessed it first hand. The Torys never play a short game. What we see now is the culmination of planning since 1948. The damage may be irreversible, but we have to fight for the survival of the NHS. Our lives literally depend on it.
Paul Brownjohn
boosted
We asked NASA why they were so determined to travel through space.
They replied that travelling through anything else damaged the front of the rockets.
What I do not understand is why the filthy feckin lying scumbags who were executives and senior managers at the Post Office and Fujitsu who KNEW full well that there were massive problems with the Horizon system, have not been prosecuted - they should be serving LONG prison sentences!
Paul Brownjohn
boosted
I tell her I can’t believe
that I am living in
the pandemic’s fifth year
but she insists that I
need to keep things in perspective
and so she reminds me
that the 20 warmest years on record
have all occurred in my lifetime
which I must admit
does not make me feel any better.
Paul Brownjohn
boosted
@ChrisMayLA6 @AVO8OHM This is my feeling too. It's all about trust in standards. The "Not for EU" may be intended as merely a tool for import.export, but suppose suppliers use it to drop standards. Eg, I have a pack of bacon "Not for EU" from Netherlands. It's fine, at the moment, but how long before the production line diverts rashers which don't meet EU standards into a line for UK sale?
It's the same with standards marks - I trust CE, but not UKCA. Just as well CE will remain.
Paul Brownjohn
boosted
Spanking new Boeing planes have nosedived out of the sky, their fuselages have blown out mid flight, yesterday you had a door fly off mid flight in Alaska and Boeing has admitted to defrauding the FAA on their safety —
AND YET
the only person at Boeing who has been prosecuted is literally a technician.
Remember that when your boss ask you to do some questionable shady shit 'for the team' #CapitalismIsKillingYOU #StrikeReady2024
Having wondered for some years whether it was in fact an old wives tale, the other day I proved to my own satisfaction that it wasn't!
I'm talking about eggs. I was told years ago, I cannot remember by whom, that if you put eggs in water, they should sink and, that if they float, they are either bad or extremely stale. The other day I grabbed a carton of six eggs with five eggs left in it and put the five eggs in a saucepan of water to hard boil them. All five of the eggs floated and I was slightly surprised at this as I was sure that the carton of eggs with one missing was fresh as I'd only bought it the day before; For that reason, I dismissed it as a problem. Then one of the eggs actually burst and the smell that came out was not pleasant, so I fished the carton they came in out of the wastepaper bin and checked the use-by date on it. Sure enough, the use by date had been and gone several months previously, somehow the carton of eggs had got hidden under other things and overlooked when I threw out all the eggs that were past their use-by date. As you might guess, I took them out of the saucepan and threw them straight on the compost heap where no doubt the local Pine Martens will deal with a few lightly boiled stale eggs without further ado.
I thought the business of eggs floating or not was an old wives tale but it seems that that is not the case at all!
The proof, as if proof were needed, what a worthless, lying scumbag Theresa May was!!
https://www.richardcorbett.org.uk/falsehoods-failures-fibs-fabrications/
Paul Brownjohn
boosted
The polish train hacking saga is truly the gift that keeps on giving, now with full receipts PLUS an actual incident of a train compressor failing on the exact date that security researchers found hardcoded into the train's software, as a condition for triggering a compressor failure.
https://www.404media.co/polish-hackers-explain-exactly-how-they-fixed-trains-that-the-manufacturer-bricked/
#trains
#infosec
Paul Brownjohn
boosted
No woman should trust Donald Trump - who is a proven sex attacker. He's also an enemy of democracy
The Supreme Curt should uphold the ban on him standing for office
I learned when exposed to a case of 'open' TB on a long haul flight, that the BCG vaccine that my generation of kids were given at around age 11, is pretty nearly completely ineffective against pulmonary TB - the type that we all know and love - consumption - the scourge of Victorian life in the big cities. In fact , the BCG vaccine targeted meningitis caused by the same bacterium that causes tuberculosis of the lungs, mycobacterium tuberculosis.
In most patients, the immune reaction to the vaccine subsides 20 or so years after vaccination, however when they gave me the standard test for TB, the Mantoux tuberculin skin test, it was massively positive, suggesting either an active or recent TB infection. The local health authorities where I live then ran a Quantiferon Gold test; a test that is much more accurate, sensitive and can discriminate between people vaccinated with BCG and actual cases of TB. The Quantiferon Gold test came back reassuringly negative as did a second round of Quantiferon Gold testing six months later.
In summary, if the inexorable spread of TB in India and other developing nations is to be halted, the world needs an effective vaccine against pulmonary TB!
However, it is as well to remember that most people who are well fed are not susceptible to TB and that India, at least is no longer a poor country so perhaps they should be doing something themselves to ameliorate the nutrition status of its people!
Paul Brownjohn
boosted
I have the weirdest problem with my laptop, and I have no idea how to even debug it. So, I'm posting it here in case anyone has an idea:
I'm using Ubuntu 22.04; all updates installed.
Almost all the time, I'm connected to my home wireless network (router + APs).
Last week, the connection to the wireless was working fine. I went on vacation for one week; I took the laptop with me so it was not connected to my home network. Today I tried to connect to my WiFi, but it is not working.
The laptop can connect to the wireless network,
and it gets the IP, DNS and routes assigned via DHCP. But pinging to the router does not get any response.
I tried the wired connection (same router), and it works.
I tried the WiFi hotspot from my phone, and it works.
All other devices connected to the wireless network work.
There are no firewall rules in the AP or router blocking my laptop (again, it connects to the wireless network and DHCP works).
iptables is clean.
If it is a problem between the laptop and the AP, how can it get all the DHCP info?
If the problem is between the AP and the router, how do the other devices work fine?
If the problem is the wireless driver in Ubuntu, how does connection to the hotspot in the phone work?
I removed and recreated the WiFi configuration to my home network; it does not fix it. I also tested using a static IP.
I have no idea what this could be.
Any ideas?
Reposts appreciated. :-)
Paul Brownjohn
boosted
@fkamiah17 the USA can go to hell. The trigger happy meddlers should be chased from every country. The USA has a long history of rigging polls, supporting military coups, channeling funds and spreading political propaganda in other countries for their own gain and it’s about time the world treated them no differently than Russia. This U.S. obsession with meddling in other countries seriously jeopardises world peace.
Retired software engineer & woodworker.
Anglo-francophone.
Detest tories. Subscribe to green, leftish radical politics but not to any particular political party!.
Love the EU and all it stands for, moreover, I spent the last 10 years of my career working at an EU agency.
Enthusiastic photographer, especially wildlife and most especially butterflies.
Slightly knowledgeable gardener.
Atheist; loathe almost all religions and pity the people deluded enough to follow them. I make exceptions for Buddhism as it isn't really a religion in the strictest sense of the word as it doesn't postulate the existence of any god, and Jainism which is the epitome of peace.
For anyone who is interested, my header photo is of the most stupendous sunset I have ever seen. On the right is the waterfront of Vientiane, the capital of Laos, on the left is Thailand and in the middle, acting as the border between the two countries is the mighty Mekong river.
Joined Nov 2022
