yourdogsnipples

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[–] yourdogsnipples 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

A good read about British water companies dumping raw sewage into rivers:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/04/sewage-sleuths-river-pollution-slow-dirty-death-of-welsh-and-english-rivers

Audio: https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2022/aug/15/sewage-sleuths-slow-dirty-death-of-welsh-and-english-rivers-podcast

Summary:

The article "Sewage sleuths: the men who revealed the slow, dirty death of Welsh and English rivers" discusses the pollution of rivers in England and Wales due to sewage and agricultural waste. Water companies have been accused of releasing billions of litres of raw sewage into rivers, including the Thames. In response to these allegations, the Environment Agency (EA) and Ofwat announced an investigation into water companies in England and Wales on November 18, 2021 . However, the article also highlights that most of the pollution in rivers like the Wye comes from agriculture rather than sewage works, and there is no quick fix for this problem. Regulators have retreated from checking whether farmers are following the rules around pollution, just as they did for water companies, leading to similar consequences . The article emphasizes the lack of government action and enforcement of environmental protection laws, which has allowed river pollution to continue. It also raises concerns about the potential impacts of this pollution on public health, wildlife, and the environment .

[–] yourdogsnipples 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

No judgement on what you're doing online. In your case, don't download untrusted files, stream where you can. For all users, whether on the black seas or not, you should as a matter of habit use uBlock Origin in your browser, turn on the filterlists for security, ads, annoyances in particular.

[–] yourdogsnipples 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A declining nation, still putting on a brave face of over-confidence about its place in the world, citing long-past glories (but don't you dare get all woke saying that the empire was built on enslaving people to plunder their own resources.)

[–] yourdogsnipples 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Looks interesting, bookmarking to try this out.

Is it fair to say Webmesh is your open source version of Nord VPN's Meshnet? https://meshnet.nordvpn.com/

[–] yourdogsnipples 18 points 11 months ago

https://www.collaboraoffice.com/nextcloud/ sounds like what you're looking for. I've not tried it myself as I actually like the Google docs/sheets etc offering.

[–] yourdogsnipples 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

In your cloud sync app, you should be able to ask it to sync your camera folder - I know the nextcloud app asks if you want this, and you can also point it to specific folders to keep in sync.

If your self host cloud doesn't have an app, just use https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.tacit.android.foldersync.full to sync chosen folders.

[–] yourdogsnipples 5 points 11 months ago

Screenshots from Stormy Daniels' phone.

[–] yourdogsnipples 1 points 11 months ago

Ahhh, just found this in the FAQ, sadly I think it's not possible to backup app data using Shizuku.

https://swiftapps.org/faq#appparts

"The private app data in /data/data/ or /data/user/*/ that stores your app preferences, login info, databases, etc. This is the most important part to restore apps potentially with their state preserved.

Requirements: ⚠️ Root required for backup & restore ⚠️ Shizuku mode (ADB access) cannot read/write at these path"

[–] yourdogsnipples 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Hold up... So are you saying that I could use Shizuku / Swiftbackup, and it would do backup and restore of app data, just like when I used to have root and Titanium Backup?! That would be a game changer, I never fully trusted Google backups or Samsung Smart Switch to do the full job.

[–] yourdogsnipples 1 points 11 months ago

Apple Mac: it juuuuuust works.

[–] yourdogsnipples 10 points 11 months ago

https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/still-pay-m25s-dartford-crossing-17268853

"Tolling was supposed to pay for the Dartford Bridge and then end, which would have been in 2003. However, it became a nice little earner which raises around £70 million a year."

Bastards.

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