I have a friend who went on holiday in Amsterdam. Got a flight back home. When he got in the taxi from the airport, the driver asks if he smokes weed. "Yeah a bit. Why?" "Cause you've got a bud stuck to your hat". Dude managed to go through customs with weed on full display on his beanie and didn't get caught out.

Tesla/Musk.

Back in 2014 Tesla and Ecotricity had an agreement to upgrade Ecotricity's charging network to be compatible with Tesla's superchargers. Tesla whined that it wasn't being rolled out fast enough. Ecotricity wasn't a very big company and was basically working for free, so asked Tesla to actually support the roll out if they needed it faster. Musk went mental has been trying to destroy the company ever since. The 2014 Tesla patent release was never about collaboration or saving the planet, he just hoped somebody, somewhere would use it to undermine Ecotricity.

The thing I don't get is why it happens in the summer rather than the winter.

In the UK it gets dark at about 4pm in winter. We basically get no leisure time during daylight but we do get a bit of light during getting ready for work time when we don't really need it.

It seems like the atmosphere is changing now but I've been saying this for years.

The language of privilege is backwards and counter productive.

It doesn't have to be a solemn vow. The definition of insurance is that it's a guarantee. If it's denying claims it's technically not even providing insurance.

I bought a convertible car that was completely ditched once. The canvas roof was in such a state that it consisted mostly of black bags and duct tape.

I ring a friend and ask him what he's doing and if he wants to go for a drive in said car.

He said he's too busy 'cause he has a bunch of jobs to apply to and wants to spend the day handing out his CV. I say that's a perfect excuse to drive the new car round.

Get to his house and show him the car and we decide we should drive round with the top down because it's sunny. The top is made of duct tape and bin liners though, so we grab a kitchen knife each and set to work on getting it off.

First place he wants to go is a job for a theatre tech. We drive over to the next town and I pull up and he runs in with just his CV and leaves all his possessions (coat, phone, wallet, etc) in the car.

Unbeknownst to me, the guy he handed his CV to gave him a tour and a bit of an interview on the spot so I'd be stuck there for an hour in the same parking space.

Also unbeknownst to me, the theatre was at a high school so I'm now suddenly surrounded by kids leaving at the end of the school day.

It's awkward enough that I'm a guy in my late 20s parked outside a school in a convertible, but it took me a few minutes to realise that all the staring I was recieving from the kids was because the back seat was covered in black bags and duct tape held down with the two biggest knives I could find in my kitchen.

The police even came and I was hoping they would stop so I could explain but they just kept driving past me at walking speed.

The article doesn't say anything about productivity or targets. They got as much done as someone who manually wiggles the mouse while thinking instead of going for a walk while thinking.

Almost went to Stonehenge after visiting family down south. They wanted £60 and wouldn't let us take the dog in.

You can apparently get in cheaper if you're a member of English Heritage. So we looked online to see if it was a fair deal and what other sites membership grants you.

Turns out that English Heritage are a bunch of robbing bastards (they literally stole seahenge!) that enclose our historic sites in order to charge money for access to them.

I won't be visiting if I have to pay them.

This is a good answer.

I'm not sure if I'd agree that instance to client is infeasible though. Peertube does it OK.

I don't know what that post is about. It's not possible to change the contents of a torrent. The torrent file itself is a list of checksums which validate byte ranges within the files being downloaded. If a client downloads a poisoned piece, it discards it and deprioritises the seed it got it from. Perhaps they're transcoding a file, whilst still seeding the original.

Torrents can work as a CDN for static files, because the downloader has to validate that the file is the same one as on the server using the checksums in the torrent file.

I hope you like sad acoustic covers of beach boys songs, cause you're getting sad acoustic covers of beach boys songs.

We also have to thank the FBU (fire brigades union) for this. They're one of two or three prominent unions left in the UK that are still radical. Thanks to them, firefighters refuse to help police arrest protesters.