Yeah, I was just having a little joke - I actually have quite a lot of respect for his various environmental/social/other projects… but it’s still quite funny to get a medal from your mum :)

Is the “Queen’s service order” (presumably from his mam) basically just like when my mum gave me a sticker for helping do the washing up?

Instant Knighthood and control of the BBC?

In a way, I think them saying he’s dead as in ‘irrelevant’ and ‘just a meme’ is probably better than him being dead as in ‘not alive any more’, at least for the time being.

Nobody’s going to try and make him a martyr of anything, just sort of ignore him and occasionally laugh at him.

That said, I feel I wouldn’t be too upset if he expired in prison.

You may already have the answer from the other comments - but specifically for subtitle transcription, I’ve used whisper and set it to output directly into SRT, which I could then import directly into kdenlive or VLC or whatever, with timecodes and everything. It seemed accurate enough that the editing of the subs afterwards was almost non-existant.

I can’t remember how I installed Whisper in the first place, but I know (from pressing the up arrow in terminal 50 times) that the command I used was:

whisper FILENAME.MP3 --model medium.en --language English --output_format srt

I was surprised/terrified how accurate the output was - and this was a variety of accents from Northern England and rural Scotland. A few minutes of correcting mistakes only.

Just a few small questions, out of interest - would you buy art if it was significantly cheaper, or free? Or would it just be so low on your priority list that it would never be important enough?

If it was very cheap, or free, would you take “whatever was on offer”, or would you still have very particular tastes in what you liked?

Another way of saying “We will not follow legal requirements” is “We will break the law”.

Who would even offer a job to a wealthy, infamous paedophile?

Oh. Turns out it’s lots of places.

“GB News introduces its newest presenter, Andrew Windsor, who talks about how he has been falsely accused, and had simply spent private time with young people to protect them from being molested by immigrant foreigners. Andrew will also be talking about how he’ll be joining the Reform party, to help other wealthy men with private boats, aircraft and islands to protect our children from evil rapey foreigners”

Working fine from mobile phone, Yorkshire. 4G Talkmobile (using Vodaphone’s network). Loaded immediately.

1. No “Oh, are we doing badly? It must be because our socially right-wing policies are not right-wing enough! Let’s copy a few more things from Farage’s manifesto”

2. Yeah, but like others have already mentioned, I’m not sure how much it matters now, and I’m not sure who’s left at labour that isn’t part of Starmer’s weird little group.

Sadly it’s not just inflexibility of Universal Credit - the base rate of Universal Credit isn’t high enough anyway, but you’ve also particularly got elderly people on state pension only, people with disabilities and people with children.

Surprisingly, the majority of food bank food apparently goes to households with at least one person in work - though this might not be “old style” work where you have set hours and wages and rights, but instead “zero hours” or “flexi hours” or “our company considers you self employed” etc.

Huge increases in gas costs are one of the biggest contributors - children, the elderly and the ill couldn’t manage to just switch the heating off all winter. Ridiculous house price/rent increases are also a massive factor.

I’m also a little unsure about a nationalised supermarket - but there are probably some solutions in this direction that would work.

It would be an improvement on Reform/Tory/Labour current policy of spitting in the food in the hope that nobody wants to come here any more.

It’s not the fairest assessment - It has delays as “trains more than three minutes late”. Not ideal, especially when you’re changing trains, but 3 minutes rarely makes a difference, compared to the 10/20/30/40 minutes late ones.

A few years back, when working in places “two trains away”, I was getting trains 10-20 minutes late every day, which normally meant missing the connection.

By my own experience, Northern and Transpennine have had fewer cancellations and fewer noticeably latest.

However, Northern are still shit at sending a two-carriage Sprinter as a commuter train that needs 3-4 carriages for everyone waiting to actually get on.

That can’t be true because he’s medically unable to sweat.

Not, as he likes to say, because of something something Falklands or whatever.

It’s because he’s a lizard-man in a human suit.

Prince Andrew is a lizard nonce.

It’s the good way round.

A Tory had pressured a local school to ban a few books because they showed white-on-black racism as a negative thing, and this fact hurt his racist Tory feelings.

A comparatively large group of anti-racist parents complained, and got the anti-racist book unbanned.

Do you mean like Guy Fawkes, The Big Bad Wolf or ‘sucky sucky’?

At their heart, most distros are approximately “made of the same stuff”. There’s differences in package management in the background (e.g. how the “software centre” works), but essentially the difference between a “gaming distro”, “normal distro” and “creative distro” is just what programs are installed by default, and how a few things are set up by default.

Nothing stops me playing games on Mint (and historically, Ubuntu and Ubuntu Studio) - and likewise, nothing will stop you installing office programs, audio/video/graphics programs etc on something presented as a gaming distro.

There’s a sort of order from least to most destructive:

Exactly correct driver >
using an elastic band or other thin piece of rubber, between driver and screw, for grip >
different screwdriver that fits differently (e.g. a small flat driver in any cross-headed screw) >
again, with elastic/rubber >
other, unlikely drivers >
other grippy options, like steel wool >
superglue the driver to the screw >
epoxy resin a driver to the screw >
cut a new flat-head into the screw head with a dremel >
use a screw extracting bit >
drill out the screw head >
cut or drill out the plastic surround

I’m sure there’s other options I’ve not remembered. A lot of it depends on which screw is stuck, and how accessible it is.

Yes, I know what you mean, but this is not happening in isolation. This is happening in context with a bunch of other stuff - some of it is badly thought out Tory policies which are being enacted by the current government, and some of it is newly invented policies from the current government.

So if we think about it combined with their current crackdown on peace and environmental protest (potentially on its way to being outlawed entirely), enforced ID to access websites and (imminently) requirement to give the government access to your bank account to receive any benefits (including, of course, child benefit and disability benefits)… and suggestions about replacing all train tickets with GPS tracking your ID and location… these could all add up very quickly into a scenario as described. If they can explain how these definitely won’t happen, maybe we’re fine?

Also, agreed on the ‘sensible implementation/concrete proposals’ bit, but that’s exactly what they’re not doing, and there’s no suggestion that that’s been done in the past with anything recently, and no suggestion it will be done for this.

Are they consulting the EFF and similar? Are they consulting University Professors who are experts in their fields? Or are they consulting right-wing American surveillance companies?

There’s no sensible assessment of how this would work, with thought, research, expert opinions etc - like the “ID for websites” thing - it was just pushed through by people who didn’t understand how it would work.

I think this diagram explains it a bit clearer:

Basically, the most likely outcome is sadly that it will be shoddily implemented by morons and criminals, to make some right-wing twats more rich and powerful.

Truthfully, I hope I am over-reacting.

Cool. Put controls and regulation on the stock exchange, investment banking “venture capitalism”.

Oh, you didn’t mean that? Do you just mean “poor people gambling”, where people gamble with their own money?