apis

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[–] apis 3 points 6 months ago

As someone who ADORES bare chipboard, and glazed brick tiles, and whose favourite colour is green... I ought to love this, but jfc it is nightmarishly bad.

[–] apis 3 points 6 months ago

Who knew you'd find this level of hyper-chintz bordello in Acton?

Am impressed & not for the first time want to become a documentary maker just as an in to get to hang out with people I never knowingly encounter & to tell their story.

[–] apis 2 points 6 months ago

Banging me with my favourite Irish painters tonight, so you are, though this one I feel isn't her strongest.

There's a glorious documentary on Manie Jellet, which you might be able to find on youtube by now. I

[–] apis 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Have always loved Lavery, but have never seen this one or any like it.

Suspect the nunatuk in the background could be Ben Bulben https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benbulbin.

Lavery mixed in the same circles as Constance Markievicz, who lived in Sligo at a similar distance to the mountain, and who fought for Irish independence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance_Markievicz

A 1922 Lavery portrait of his wife, Hazel as the embodiment of Ireland, Cathleen Ní Houlihan, was used as the watermark on Irish banknotes until the adoption of the Euro in 2002. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Portrait_of_Lady_Lavery_as_Kathleen_Ni_Houlihan_.PNG

[–] apis 3 points 6 months ago

That likely explains things. Thank you! Am here via Memmy.

[–] apis 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Cheers. That worked. What a spooky coincidence! Can't think why it would have been blocked.

[–] apis 2 points 6 months ago (6 children)

The word it translates to is not visible for me in your comment.

Could be that it got censored out somehow - there's a double space between "as" and "which".

[–] apis 12 points 6 months ago

It is also a natural thing to think of, and easy for anyone over the age of 7 or 8 to figure out how to do it effectively.

[–] apis 1 points 6 months ago

Quite, lol. Nuffink to lose tho'!

[–] apis 2 points 6 months ago

As it is true that very little of settlements or awards like this will be paid out to affected users, I'd like to see legislation amended so that a large percentage of the sum has to be used for major privacy education campaigns, pushed online & through every other media, created and overseen by robust privacy organisations.

In a case like this, I'd want to compel Google to target users of Incognito Mode with privacy education material - again created & overseen by privacy orgs.

Last thing Google wants is to be compelled to show slick, unskippable privacy education clips on every Youtube video.

[–] apis 1 points 6 months ago

It probably does, but users would have to click through to an information page. Mostly people seemed to be using it based on misinformed recommendations from others.

Also got the impression that most believed the sites they were using via Incognito mode could not recognise them unless they logged in. Similar features on other browsers had similarly misleading names.

"session mode" might be a less misleading term, but it isn't nearly so snappy.

[–] apis 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The article does not suggest that it is.

The guy is appealing to the sympathy of the British government, but also does not suggest it is a British problem, and likely knows he won't even get a response - he just has nothing to lose by asking.

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