The "https everywhere" people are attacking our right to free, unencrypted expression.
It seems like at some point Unfogged will have to go with https.
Then we'll be Sunfogged. Which makes no sense.
nntp://ftp://https://alt.ftp.http.www.unfogged.com
I've been running into this problem using Safari on my iPhone, but switching to Chrome has worked.
For a long time I've used http://unfogged.com as a connectivity test after joining new public wifi networks because damn near everything else is https and some networks have captive portal redirects that only work with vanilla http.
IOW, the lack of encryption is what keeps bringing me back to this place.
Most recent iphone update is what sarted it for me when using safari.
I just updated the OS on my macbook and now Safari won't connect me. I guess I'll have to use Chrome (which I never do otherwise)
11 was me. This morning Chrome tried to lock me out, too, but I got past it.
Oh, OK. In case someone else is in the same situation (how are you reading this, then?), in either browser, I get locked out with a warning, but if I then click on the url up top, which reads "www.unfogged.com", the browser then adds "https://" and THEN I can delete the "s" and I'm in. So I can delete the S but only if I call up the S first.
Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX: The Beginning actually delivers rather more than what you might expect from a film entitled Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX: The Beginning.
For anyone who might be wondering, "GQuuuuuuX" (or more accurately ""Gquuuuuux!") is the traditional noise made by the pilot of a Mobile Suit Gundam when he closes the zip on his Mobile Trousers Gundam without due care and attention.
The only thing I know about Gundam is that it's under the control of the Japanese Department of Agriculture.
That sounds like a very convincing feature. Actual bureaucracies evolve in some very weird ways. The US Department of Agriculture is heavily involved in financial services regulation. The US Treasury Department used to be responsible for VIP bodyguarding. The world's first computer was designed by the Post Office.
Entirely plausible that huge war robots (I assume that Gundams are huge war robots?) would be seen as agricultural business as well; Red Banner Tractor Factory, and so on.
I can't figure out if the USDA people I work with got fired or not. I'm not sure I have any forms this year.
If only they'd finished their giant war robots on time.
In the very excellent game "Scythe" (which you should all be playing) you are always running into war-surplus giant battle robots that have been repurposed by Central European peasants to pull ploughs, herd sheep etc.
IIRC they chose Scythe because a scythe is an agricultural tool that can if needed be used as a weapon. A ploughshare is metaphorically a weapon that has been turned into an agricultural tool because you don't need weapons any more.
22: I like reading this as though "a porn" has become a standardized unit of measure. I'm curious what the SI equivalent would be.
And how many mouse orgasms equals one porn.
I like reading this as though "a porn" has become a standardized unit of measure.
Measured and recorded presumably using an instrument known as a pornograph.
My ekranoplan is full of feels.
20 and as I suspected from the description it features the art of Jakub Różalski whose work I really like. Now I just need a group of people here to play board games with.
And Flow takes the Oscar! Fuck you Pixar!
30: I believe that the artwork came first and Stonemaier saw it and loved it so much they decided it needed to be a game.
No Other Land too. Now maybe they'll finally get a distribution deal in the US. It was a good day.
32 I wouldn't doubt it. His work has a peculiar haunting quality, a general feeling that something bad is about to happen suffuses a lot of it.
It reminds me of Simon Stålenhag's art only his has the general haunting quality of looking at some strange yet familiar landscape where that something bad did happen.
I don't know who might need these but I'll just leave them here: https://certbot.eff.org/instructions?ws=apache&os=pip
33: Our local pro-Palestine advocates have been trying like hell to get that movie shown around town. They did have a screening at the library once, but most of the other venues have found reason not to. Perhaps this Oscar will help them make their case.
36: Was shown this weekend at the Carnegie Museum here. My wife and son saw it. And then we came and watched Flow on the TV machine. So 2 for 2.
My granddaughter (age 3) on Flow: "Thank you for giving the scary parts of that movie in my mind. They will be in my mind forever."