Interesting Links for 04-02-2019

[andrewducker]

6 weeks to go, and May appoints Brexit hardliners to backstop working group

(tags:doom uk europe )

Crypto Exchange Says It Can't Repay $190 Million to Clients After Founder Dies With Only Password

(tags:technology bitcoin epicfail security )

Fake News - how automated video production spread across YouTube

(tags:lies video youtube automation )

How failures of journalism mean politicians can lie with no comeback

(tags:journalism lies politics uk )

The inside of this cottage is simply amazing

(tags:design housing uk )

This article on dangerous chemicals in common usage is terrifying. Anyone knowledgeable care to chime in?

(tags:chemistry terrifying )

USA and Russia both pull out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty

(tags:usa russia nuclearweapons apocalypse )

Labour's membership in Scotland down by 20% in the last year

(tags:Scotland Labour doom )

Comments

[andrewducker]

As a temporary measure I've knocked up a PowerShell script to post links.

It's a manual operation I have to run once a day, but it'll work. If anyone wants a copy then shout.

[marahmarie]

Shouting!

My mouth dropped open when I saw this like, "OK, how...did he DO that?" lol

Will definitely take a copy of the script in the meantime, thanks. :)

[andrewducker]

Emailed.

With some instructions.

[marahmarie]

Thank you! Will check it over, asap.

[andrewducker]

Any luck?

[marahmarie]

Nope. Outlook apparently doesn't know what a .ps1 is, so it's disabled file download altogether (I can't even find a way from the source). Is the file publicly available so that I can just grab it and go? Or if you want to try my GMail address (maybe Google won't disable file download on it?) I can PM that to you.

Still need help

[marahmarie]

Emailed you on it a few minutes ago. A (sort of messy) record of my progress can be found at https://marahmarie.dreamwidth.org/447277.html - if you want sort of a history on it (it's the closest it's been to almost working since I started, but something's still wrong).

Re: Still need help

[andrewducker]

Hi!

I totally will get back to you on this, but it'll be at the weekend when I have some spare time.

Re: Still need help

[marahmarie]

Okay - thank you! :)

[dewline]

1. Who is blackmailing May to compel such choices from her?

2. The dead man didn't set up a continuity-of-operations plan, and now look what's happening to his clients.

8. I'm not surprised. Corbyn's ignoring the will of the Scots, after all.

[aldabra]

Hooray, linkpost. Thank you.

[fanf]

Links! Sweet! The date is backwards tho :-) </nerd type=iso8601>

[andrewducker]

They have been for years. Possibly always.

[ckd]

No better time to fix it than when you're already having to update your process, though....

[alithea]

Yay! Nice to have these back :)

[cmcmck]

You have worked some sort of magic and well done you! :o)

[doug]

David Gerard is on top of the QuadrigaCX story, if you're not already tracking him:
https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2019/02/04/quadrigacx-collapse-what-we-know-so-far/

[movingfinger]

Thank you very much for persisting with getting links up! Your posts always have interesting items I've not seen in my own rounds of the interwebs.

[birguslatro]

Re chemicals. Firefighting foam has been in the news here of late...

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/364070/firefighting-foam-a-second-region-s-petrochemical-site-contaminated

[birguslatro]

That's a nice cottage, but the TVs are too small. :(

[melchar]

I am SO happy to see the links back up. The link page was okay - but I missed the comments. *hugs!*

[nancylebov]

I'm another one who's very glad to see the links back-- thanks for finding software to make it feasible.

[andrewducker]

I'm glad I have a fix. I still want to work on a long term solution though.