tenebrisnox

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Rightwing campaigners claim there is covert deal to return Parthenon marbles in c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
[–] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 1 points 1 hour ago

For me it's a conspiracy theory (and most likely untrue) - but it's quite an interesting one rather than "stupid". Raises ideas about authenticity and what people are doing when they go to look at artifacts in museums. There HAVE been paintings, for instance, hung in galleries for years that have turned out to be forgeries but - for a long time people were happy staring at the "art". Also, ones that have been restored beyond a point where they are pretty much not the original piece. How much would it alter things if the Marbles were all replaced with exact replicas at the British Museum?

Rightwing campaigners claim there is covert deal to return Parthenon marbles in c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
[–] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk -1 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Isn't there a conspiracy theory that everything on show at the British Museum is a replica anyway and that the real artifacts are carefully stored elsewhere?

DietPi is great! in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 7 points 15 hours ago

It's great. I've been using it for nearly a year and it just works brilliantly.

Reform UK's 'Children's Book Bans' Could Open The Floodgates for Censorship in c/uk_politics@feddit.uk
[–] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do you think I could get away with some serious financial crime if I just quoted the Psalms and declared I was a repentant sinner? I'd be happy to pray for any of my potential victims if that helps.

Thames Water refuses to claw back executive bonuses paid using £3bn emergency loan. in c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
[–] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago

You might be in with a chance... of higher water bills. Just for your friends, of course.

Thames Water refuses to claw back executive bonuses paid using £3bn emergency loan. in c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
[–] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 9 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I'm also not rich to start with and didn't go to public school either. I guess I just need to learn my place and celebrate the achievements of others.

Reform UK's 'Children's Book Bans' Could Open The Floodgates for Censorship in c/uk_politics@feddit.uk
[–] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Just heard Tice on LBC being questioned about all the lying and he used being a Christian as a defence. Everyone sins, he told Tom Swarbrick.

Thames Water refuses to claw back executive bonuses paid using £3bn emergency loan. in c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
[–] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 13 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Anyone able to give me career advice about how to become a Thames Water executive? Doesn't look hard to do and you keep getting bonuses!

‘There will be an alternative’: Jeremy Corbyn vows to form socialist political party - Politics.co.uk in c/uk_politics@feddit.uk
[–] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

I struggled to understand his Brexit stance - a bit like Mick Lynch. Something about EU membership preventing future nationalisation.

I'm more interested in his other international views... though I should really just look it up.

‘There will be an alternative’: Jeremy Corbyn vows to form socialist political party - Politics.co.uk in c/uk_politics@feddit.uk
[–] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Which ones? Genuinely interested.

Sealioning - a community for posting examples of sealioning and other forms of trolling on social networks in c/newcommunities@lemmy.world
[–] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 4 points 2 weeks ago

That's probably the best way of dealing with it.

Sealioning - a community for posting examples of sealioning and other forms of trolling on social networks in c/newcommunities@lemmy.world
[–] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 3 points 2 weeks ago

That's one of the issues, isn't it? I recently found someone who only responded to comments about Margaret Thatcher, challenging negative comments about her. This person's history went back years and ALL of the comments (thousands!) only challenged negative ones about her. It could have been a bot, of course, but if real, it was a pretty weird way of engaging online. That goes beyond contrarianism, it's some sort of "distributed sealioning" maybe?

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Tasks and Calendar and CalDAV... why not? (feddit.uk)
 

Does anyone know why there's no desire to see a working standard (protocol) for calendar/tasks?

It's clear that CalDAV doesn't function consistently across devices (and does seem to be dying as a standard). If you work across different devices/OS it's virtually impossible to get things set up seamlessly. Companies and developers of task apps seem happy to create silos and not look at interoperability.

If you want to self-host, it's too hard to do this and you really are limited to a tiny number of options.

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Pinry - HELP! (feddit.uk)
 

Can anyone help me with Pinry?

I've run Pinry in a Docker container on a Synology NAS for a couple of years and it's always worked great with no problem... up until I upgrades DSM to 7.2.

Pinry still works fine if I upload saved images. If I try to use the Firefox extension or paste in the url it does nothing. It must be a permissions issue that changed when I upgraded the DSM. I've tinkered with all sorts of setting to no avail and the logs say nothing. I've done the obvious searches online to see if I can find a solution.

Does anyone who hosts Pinry know what the problem is? (It's bound to be REALLY obvious). Thanks in advance.

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Pinry - help! (feddit.uk)
 

Can anyone help me with Pinry?

I've run Pinry in a Docker container on a Synology NAS for a couple of years and it's always worked great with no problem... up until I upgrades DSM to 7.2.

Pinry still works fine if I upload saved images. If I try to use the Firefox extension or paste in the url it does nothing. It must be a permissions issue that changed when I upgraded the DSM. I've tinkered with all sorts of setting to no avail and the logs say nothing. I've done the obvious searches online to see if I can find a solution.

Does anyone who hosts Pinry know what the problem is? (It's bound to be REALLY obvious). Thanks in advance.

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SATs OFQUAL asks if marks are accurate (www.tes.com)
 

Doubt being thrown at the accuracy of the KS2 tests. Again. Bearing in mind that these tests cost somewhere in the region of £45-50 million a year to administer (plus the time, staffing and resources primary schools put in) surely there are better, cheaper ways of monitoring pupil progress? Secondary schools frequently ignore data coming from primary and SATs results only seem to have a use in the equally questionable activity of predicting GCSE outcomes.

As a parent of a Year 6 child, I’ve been horrified at the pressure put on children and then - once the SATs were over - hardly any teaching going on (my son barely had a maths lesson after the tests and his time at school filled with “fun” activities like watching movies). I’d prefer my son’s education to be focused on his learning, not some high-stakes test. And I’d like it to carry on to the point he left school.

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State of Big Finish (feddit.uk)
 

What is the state of current Big Finish Doctor Who?

I used to keep up with - and enjoy - the monthly ranges until they turned into the boxed sets which I was less engaged by. I recently tried Stranded and didn't like it at all.

I get the impression that BF is producing far too much material which isn't a good as it used to be. Is this the case?

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