Ian Kenway @iankenway@social.cleverlibre.org

Boy on the floor #photo prompts Boris to add #larceny to #mendacity | Marina Hyde | #Politics | The Guardian

Nice strategy: When in trouble, just try to ignore the evidence by nicking the reporter’s #mobile, then just say sorry. No problem, you’re just the PM, that’s all.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/dec/09/boy-on-the-floor-photo-prompts-boris-to-add-larceny-to-mendacity

#UK #GE19

Strictly speaking he's not currently my MP but merely a candidate standing in the election.

Got a visit this evening from my local #MP asking if I’d be voting. Nice to see a bit of the personal touch.

#UK #GE19

Don't vote Tory.
Because if you do they will carry on doing the shit they have been doing for the last 10 years, and only the rich will prosper.

Reposting some old comments on UEFI, since I got riled up about it again:

UEFI is perhaps the single most egregious pile of garbage ever concieved by humans. I don't think it's possible to overstate how awful it truly is.

Here's how BIOS works: basically, the computer loads the first 512 bytes of disk into memory and jumps to it. The OS takes over from there and does whatever it needs to, like bootstrapping stage 2 and loading the kernel from the filesystem. The spec[0] is 46 pages long and you are granted the rights to reproduce, distribute, and implement it free of charge.

Want to know how UEFI works? The spec[1] is a 2,899 page PDF which you have to pay to use in any way, including writing an implementation.

Every copy of this specification should be found and burned. The ashes should be buried deep in a dark place and the earth above salted.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20110715081320/http://www.phoenix.com/resources/specs-bbs101.pdf

[1] https://uefi.org/specifications

Evidently almost no educated middle class person understands the concept of "presumption of innocence". Or that an arrest is not proof of guilt. Or that bail is given pre-trial. Or the prosecution has to prove the case. Or that punishment is pronounced after the verdict. Or that innocent people often get accused. Or that killing a random person because you are upset on behalf of the victim makes you no different from a rioter. Or that mob vigilante justice is no justice at all.