Wrong wing

 Are the right in their right mind. I say this as a soft right, old liberal guy, as the right hasn't been itself since SARS 2 Electric Boogaloo hit. 

Most of the damage was done over facemasks and not following the science, even though you follow said science over gender stuff. I personally hate the narcissist Self ID pricks and forced diversity which seems to be the totality of modern TV, and don't get me started on Nonbies and calling everything queer. But it seems that the right, post Covid have fucking lost their mind.

The whole Groomers thing is especially cringe, and though I don't want sex talk pushed to primary school kids, secondary school should be fine, if only to say that some people are x and that's OK, and that trans is not a lifestyle choice, nor a shortcut to solving all your problems. 

It helps that I'm an atheist, and that I don't have to deal with god or whatever made up fiction your deity uses, that the US right, in general bank rolls. If I hate Islam, its because of religion rather than a subset of people. The same way I hate Christianity.

Also, while pro Brexit, and Scots indy stuff, (if you're big enough to go alone then do so.) I'm not going to bang on about globalism and the death of nationalism. I'm proud of where I'm from and as a rapacious capitalist all about the money. Thanks to the internet and the modern hyper connected world, we should be able to take those willing to work from wherever and at the same time kick out the criminals who have no place in the UK. 

And no, I doubt that Rwanda plan will work of Priti Patel's. Though when it comes to immigration, I have no problems with people coming, lawfully and legally and kicking out those that are criminals.

Easter

 Happy dead Jesus day my dudes.

I spent mine at the boot sale and came away with a shed load of videos and CDS, including some weird South African thing for Archive.org.

Looks to be dental related and is a bunch of quicktime clips to run in WIN95, WIN 3.1 and long dead x68 MACS. There's a program to run them possibly, but looking at the folders on PC, I can see a bunch of MOV. files and will have to make an ISO in IMGBurn. 

Incidentally last weeks post was reverted to draft somehow so I've posted that as well as a late birthday present to you all.

Edit. It's up in Archive.org now, and while I haven't got it working in any computer I own, I've seen the clips which seem to be root canal and dental work narrated in German. I guess the program adds subtitles for those who do not speak German. But that is just conjecture.

Sky Sabotage

 Another one down, and this has to be the lowest effort localization ever. Whereas before you'd have terms like prowl car and various Americanisms and spellings and such Anglicized for the UK market, now its just the same story but with a typo on still as sill as the only change I can see. Maybe subs were asleep on this one.

But enough whining, what you want is a full review before the inevitable download afterward. 

Tale of two halves, this, as it concerns a space satellite going missing and the theft of valuable sea creatures from not Sea World and private citizens.

Joe Hardy overhears two guys plotting to bring down a satellite, whilst waiting for Chet Morton to finish summer school. It quickly moves to Florida where they apprehend a dude with a surface to air missile attempting to carry out this threat, only for the satellite to disappear in orbit, and Joe to be singled out for elimination, as he's the star witness, by a corrupt corporation.

You can tell its set in Florida as there is a guy keeping stolen electric eels in his shack to shock people, a stunning and brave tribute to the ranks of Florida Man.

Apparently the satellite stuff had help from a Douglas D Lloyd ,who I can find no leads on. There's quite a bit on old computing stuff in this, so if you're fans of mainframes and loading stuff from tape, its not a bad read. A special mention must be made of the hardware Emulator used to load the dummy program in, as whilst stuff like MAME is commonplace now, I believe this is one of the earliest mentions of it in print I've seen so far.

Anyway Sky Sabotage #77 can be read here.

The 700 club

Forgive me if I'm banging on about this again, but there is nothing FOSS to explore phone stuff in 2022. 

No file grabbers, no unlockers, nothing to explore the system with. All you get is the usual Indian shill stuff and the buy our program bollocks. 

I've found yet another old phone, this time one identical to mine, but password locked, and have decided to see what there is, in 2022, to unlock for free...

And the answer is, nothing. It's basically ransomware type stuff that does nothing without payment, or you get to piss around with the factory reset settings. Either way the data you have on there is wiped, which is no fun at all.

In an unrelated story, I also scratched my ATM card, because it was in my work jacket, so I had to pop into the bank to sort it out and get a new one. Not fun this week. At all.