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A financial services company called Synapse just collapsed in the US, turns out that customer funds were not protected by Federal Deposit Insurance and the customers have lost almost everything.

DOGE advisors are asking Trump if he'll abolish FDIC altogether, which would strip every bank account of protections.

Will Americans roll over and accept being ruined at the whim of the oligarch class?

They optimise it for the Heathrow - Sydney flight I think, that's half an hour wait whilst they hose out the cabin and hose in some fuel. You get off, wander out into the hall, into a departure lounge and then back onto your plane- same seat you just left usually.

I'm flying back to the UK on Monday, with a ticket I bought in January, which feels slightly odd for some reason.

Between Dubai, Qatar, Singapore and Hong Kong, which one is the PC choice?

Two of those have slavery, one's rapidly losing any semblance of rule of law (that isn't instantly amendable to be what mainland China wants it to be) and the final one is technically a democracy but is in reality so heavily gerrymandered that it's an authoritarian one party state.

None are great, but Singapore definitely wins if compared to the others (unless it's including countryside, where HK wins hands down).

Amen

The software that we use is constantly being probed for bugs by researchers and hackers, the first to enable what they find to be fixed* and the second in order to exploit said bugs to attack people/organisations.

What that announcement is saying is that as of the 9th of July anyone using Outlook who received a maliciously crafted email with a link in it would, if that linked were to be clicked, allow the attacker to execute commands on the machine in question.

Microsoft fixed that, but this is a constant process - so the older your version is the more likely it is to be vulnerable to this type of attack.

In general you don’t want to allow yourself to be in a situation where you are running software that’s not received updates - especially something as widely used as Outlook as it’s very heavily attacked.

*Unless they work for a government of course…

I just want the paddle going across to start the timer, and the paddle going back to stop it.

Why do you not use the one on your scales? The Timemore black mirror/Acaia definitely have auto timers.

Because they won't trigger until the liquid hits (I believe, I have a pair of scales that cost me $6 from the local cooking equipment place) and I have a pre-infusion set that floods the puck with line pressure water before the pump goes on, which I want to include.

The traditional Conservative* things like small state, de-regulation, free trade and a focus on the economy have all been torched by Boris "fuck business" Johnson, the TCA, Truss and then Sunak burning down the university sector (one of our key exports in a falling export sector).

The UK has failed to secure it's borders for what, the sixth time now, due to lack of state capacity to perform the inspections, and is also currently an outlier in Europe with it's 180 day visa waiver, which again is a reflection of a lack of state capacity to stamp people in and out again.

Choices made by the Tories (largely, but not exclusively around the type of Brexit they pursued) have lead to an increase in civil servants (as jobs done by Brussels now have to be done by the UK), and yet there is still a requirement for between 50-75,000 more civil servants if the UK wanted to meet it's legal requirements around border security.

Which I suspect means that the ground the right has to fight on that is least shaky is "brown people - don't you just hate them?" And I think that's going to find a ceiling - or maybe I just really hope it will.

Talking to people on another forum that literally venerate Tommy Robinson (a man whose world view my Grandfather and his brothers literally fought against) is extremely depressing however -but they're squarely in the white, male, over 50 with barely any education demographic, and that's finite.

*Other than the racism and endemic corruption that is

How old is the version of Outlook that you have reverted to?

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38021

The danger is that Labour follows the course they currently appear to be on of demonising immigrants- then there’s no reason not to pick the party that sounds harshest, which I suspect is Reform.

What is needed is a counterpoint to the existing narrative, probably based around the NHS and social care- but, they maybe too terrified of the media.

Ah, good point.

Would I be liable for UK VAT on those? I’m assuming yes but I’m not sure on the rules for second hand stuff.

I think the Reform vote will gain a bit of ground but will run out of people with “reasonable concerns” before they get to a significant figure. The Tories will chase them, but a) each time they move further right they’ll shed voters to the Greens and Lib-Dems, and b) will never be able to go far enough to stop the cunts going to Reform.

Then it’s a case of what coalition would be possible? They’d likely need Reform+Tory+LD, and that group won’t work.

They don’t have to be new at all - the more affordable the better, although I’d prefer the gold faced ones.

Does anyone know what the score is with BBS now - are they still bankrupt or have they been refinanced/sold/whatever? I’m interested in whether I can get a set of LM’s in 5x130.

Coalition with the Tories?

That certainly looks worth a go - thanks!

The old iPad mini that I was using as a shot timer for the Micra has corked it, and using my phone is annoying - what automatically triggered shot timer systems are people using, and would they recommend them?

I really want to run it on Haltech or similar as it’s a lot more affordable than Syvecs, but the engine builder knows Syvecs and wants to run it on the Dyno with the system he knows.

Which, thinking about it, is going to be very simple so maybe that’s straightforward.

Yes, but how to make it work via the stalk that at the moment talks to the cruise ECU?

If I did that then I lose the cruise control (which is a separate ECU and motor that literally pulls the throttle cable), if that wasn’t in play I’d change to an electronic throttle.

It generally suggests that something is either worn or fucked, when were the belts, pulleys and tensioners last changed?

I’ve been wondering about this, on the M96 you have intake vacuum going to the air-oil separator, without which I think we’re going to need a vacuum pump and a vacuum reservoir.

On the ITB’s themselves we want to try to keep the cable throttle, which in turn has a bunch of knock on requirements in terms of idle control - whereas an electronic throttle can handle that without any additional gubbins.

The ECU is (going to be) a Syvecs unit so plenty of tuning ability there, but the entire throttle side is going to be analogue.

I submit: the noise it makes is worth doing it.