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So, decided to do this again. This basically a short post about nothing much, a few oh moments with various Huckleberry friends (i.e fucked) I've spotted.
First up is a woman brushing her teeth at the pool with an electric toothbrush. Shades of that Merzbow clip and a case of why.
My second is watching all the beach hawker Africans get off the morning bus and one white woman with a Straight outta Compton shirt. I guess N.W.A. now stands for N199a's with articles.
We are one of those people, who now live post stuff. Relax it's not going to be tedious, we'll give a few bits of info on our hotel and check out, as quite frankly this sounds like work.
So far the bad, we're in room 444, which if you read last week's post, isn't good. You have a view of one block and a small pool.
On the plus side, we got good food so far with a decent amount of grub. Though the main parts of our dining area have caught jokeyitis, with a liberal amount of piss poor slogans and rip on the Lady and the Tramp but with humans.
Our hotel manual is a QR code with a good run down of channels and a pitiful amount in English.
Oh and fair props to whoever is doing the music, so far I've heard Westchester lady, and the beat goes on and I come from a land down under. An ace selection if ever I heard it.
Or as I like to call this, a wild gold chase. The boys have been tasked to find some gold bars, stolen from the Wakefield Mint in an audacious heist. The guards hypnotized and a trail that leads out to Switzerland and then on to Mexico before heading home to Bayport.
The Jungle Pyramid itself is a place called Palango down near Chichen Itza in the Yucatan ( and always humorously corrupted to It's a chicken, by me), which serves as a base for an American archaeology group and prey for a looter called Rumble Murphy and his pilot, who they manage to catch in the act.
It's not a bad one and introduces some Scythian gold that was stolen too along with the Mints ingots. In fact this is what gets the boys to Switzerland and when that pans out, to Mexico, hunting a mysterious Mr Zemog.
Its an OK book and won't reveal why I call this a wild gold chase. Incidentally, copy of the text in the Weebly archive seems to be the UK edition which of course I already have, so whatever differences in text (if any) are not going to be shown for obvious reasons.
You can read both here and here and as there's no difference between them, the choice is yours.
Been reading in the Mail about a bunch of sickos making videos about torturing cats, and no you won't get any links to this. It wasn't the first I heard about it, it was a bit on BBC Breakfast, that and for some reason the remote wouldn't shut off*the TV, so for about a minute we had to watch someone go on about watching this stuff and me flicking the button like a mad man.
You may not know it from my header here, but, I've owned cats most of my life. This has been the longest without one around and can't contemplate harming one hair on their head let alone watching someone do this. Of course its China doing this and nuking West Taiwan from orbit would improve the whole world.
The article in the Mail of course is a rambling piece of trash, as its not the paper it was, drawing in bits from all sorts of animal abuse cases, and even saying it was being distributed on the normie web. I can guarantee its Telegram and darkweb with maybe a few edgelords putting it up. It goes on in weasel words how the think of the children bill will prevent this happening, with no awareness that most stuff like this isn't on the regular web.
Personally, I would love to see a like for like punishment for those taking part. You kill an animal for fun we kill you for sport, same methods, no compromises.
* Can only relate the horror of this when we cleared out my aunties place and watching her TV found that the batteries in the remote had died just as Mrs Browns Boys had come on. After five grim, laugh free minutes, we switched it off from the wall.
We have a smartwatch now. Well found a smartwatch, its not the best and leaves something to be desired but can now trigger the camera on my phone remotely like some kind of pervert, which is a bonus of sorts.
It has a companion app which has the worst watch face collection in existence and wondered what would it be like if I was going to do it. Looking into it, it seems you can use a Raspberry pi as a watch for anyone techy enough to fiddle around and solder stuff.
I always thought there would be a market place or at least an archive up on archive.org for all the watch-faces people made over the years, but I was wrong and its of course a fucking subscription.
So its got me thinking, what would my perfect smartwatch be. Let's cut to the chase here and say that what it needs to be is generic and repairable. Its got to have a USB c charger interface because I don't trust those magnet chargers, make it a wireless charger. Maybe an e Ink display so it can be permanently on and I won't have to push the button to display the time. I wouldn't mind some sort of phone integration through android itself rather than an app, but if we're going the app route then open source all the way. Oh and decent battery life.
I'd like it to disable several things in settings menu, such as most of the fitness / period tracking which do not appeal or are usable by me. I'd also like it to load 3rd party watch faces from archive.org if it ever gets them, in a regular open format. I'd also like full integration with OpenCamera or at least your system camera and have volume control for the shutter.
Lastly I'd like to call someone like in the old Dick Tracy cartoons. Though that is one thing I think you can already do.
EDIT.
Poking more with the camera controls its just shutter and the usual switch of front / back facing camera angles. You can't switch from video to camera settings and you can't zoom in via watch or app. I'd love to have something that could be used as a remote camera set up but for various reasons probably illegal that it won't do that. Or disable shutter sound.
So you all know what I'm going to talk about, and I'm pretty sure the puritans at Google are going to put this behind a 18+ filter, so here goes.
The week before, the UK finally put up its pr0n block under the pretence of think of the children and predictably it's broken everything internet related.Reddit, Wikipedia, Spotify and Twitter (still not calling it X) has been affected and a few mainstream porn sites have caved and added it. You can find out more why this is a monumentally stupid law here.
Xhamster for one and I'll tell you a hack around for this later. The only place I've been asked to clarify I'm an old git is Bluesky which needed face verification, but apart from that everywhere else has been trouble free. Oh yeah and that includes the pron.
Laughing pub bore Nigel Farage has come out on the side of repealing it in a rare W for him and a Labour MP Peter Fyle has called him a Jimmy Savile nonce apologist for opposing it on authoritarian grounds.
Lets face it, its not about blocking porn, it's about neutering the web, and turning it into a western version of the great firewall of China. X rated stuff is an easy wedge for governments and payment providers to crack down on the behalf of Christshaggers and Radfems. Just look at the ongoing Mastercard clusterfuck on steam and the Tea app controversy which held a lot of private data in an unsecure area was doxxed and leaked to 4chan.
This is why I won't add my face / payment option to any porn site, it can and will be leaked, for those with long memories the whole Ashley Madison farce comes to mind. Which is exactly why I won't do it.
Oh and some advice for those who are looking at paying for VPN's and stuff, get Brave browser instead, not only do they block ads but their incognito mode uses TOR, which means you can still look at smut from the major sites without putting in info.
Edit. Apparently even NVIDIA Shaders are not immune to this.
