Notices by Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK (vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de)

@thomasfuchs I've encountered stuff like this before in early 90s, we had Casio watches which had a speaker and would output DTMF (to dial a phone number on an analogue phone) and you used a similar method to attach the names to the telephone numbers..

@ellieraejaye @Geri

Whilst it did get a few reports on crime sections of "liberal" news sites, it took me quite a while to find those, and much coverage was on specialist sites for solicitors and other companies offering background checks (presumably over and above what DBS provides), specifically as a warning for those carrying out such checks *not* to go via stereotypes!

The names of the defendants suggest entire White British family units were involved, which is even worse than the Asian grooming gangs who were mostly "roadman/drugdealer" types who would already be estranged from their families.

On the 90s rave scene there was a fuckton of grooming by mostly white men in 20s/30s of teenage girls, much of which went undetected and unpunished..

@thomasfuchs @dheadshot wax and aluminium discs (covered with acetate plastic) did exist, but the first were (and still are) used to generate the masters for both shellac and vinyl gramophone records by an electroplating process rather than direct replay, and the aluminium ones were as you mention used for one-off recordings such as in radio stations before magnetic tape was widely available and in reggae soundsystem culture and the rave scene for DJ's "dub plates".

There has always been a colloquial reference to all gramophone records as "wax" due to the mastering process..

In my old region there was a jungle/drum and bass producer called the Wax Doctor, who published on a label from the Record Basement in Reading, SE England and the parent company was known as Vinyl distribution 😁

@skinnylatte I always have imposter syndrome at the Asian stores in town (I have to read the label printed discreetly in English on the shelves for some products where I am not sure what they even are) and fear that some white hipster is going to mistake me for one of the shop workers (especially in the shops where the staff don't wear obvious uniform) and ask me for advice 😁

@stux although I'm not going to travel to Trumpland, every time I see a blurred out building on Google near me I've been tempted to drive up there and check it out to investigate exactly what folk want to hide and why..

@spytfyre @selzero @mehdi_benadel

to be fair I think the problem with Fedi is not so much that folk aren't friendly but they are scattered about the UK and the wider world (so it tends to be folk living in cities or who go to events like CCC, EMF or the gamer/maker type gatherings (and furry cons) who tend to meet up IRL...

@Artemis201 @xgranade

then a few years later they burn out and close down as no ones buying their stuff. I see this happen all the time round my way and quite often I never heard about the business (until it closed down) *because* they only used Meta assets to publicise it (I deleted all my Meta accounts about a year ago)

@markhburton @ChrisMayLA6

the difficulty here is other than relatively minor drugs dealing/possession and the handful of political prisoners from Palestine Action / environment protests, this is already happening in recent years (*apart* from a populist trend to put people inside for those minor drugs offences)

Most people who go to prison in my area have used violence and hurt someone. In many cases, more than once.

I think (as well as rehabilitation), a *lot* more effort should be put in to violence reduction and de-escalation when young men interact, this could keep them out of prison in the first place..

@Lazarou

So much fossilised poop was harvested in Ipswich during 1800s (as it was valuable for fertilizer) that there's an entire street in town named after the stuff where the fertilizer works used to be..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprolite_Street

@rupert @kibcol1049

I live in the region.

TBH (putting aside the issue with US military staff being able to escape UK justice), he's not much worse than many of the locals, who often find their way before the Courts for similar crimes.

At my workplace (health and social care, so its about 70% female staff) we lose 3-5 every year from domestic violence and misogyny. Not even that they are being raped or murdered, but men disrupt their lives to such an extent (even without violence) that the staff cannot cope with the demands of the job and end up quietly resigning. And its not our immigrant staff (of which we have a fair few) who tend to be affected by this!

@rgulick @msbellows @the_etrain @SecularJeffrey in my old town around mid-late 1990s someone would wheatpaste posters of a random Alsatian dog, amongst the others for raves/gigs

No other text, just the doggo, usually A3 size.

I can only assume it was their own pet and it was an early way of sharing what a good girl/boy they were before the days of online social media..

@MediaActivist I live in East Anglia (which borders the Netherlands) and study military history from WW2 to present day.

Folk round here were divided during WW2, especially the middle/upper classes - many would have been perfectly happy with an Axis victory and saw the war with Germany more like sportsball (where the idea of course isn't to eliminate the opposing team but to treat them as worthy opponents)

@chuff @kibcol1049

the equipment which creates more of an actual safety risk dates back from 1950s to 1970s (long before the analogue cellular mobile network even existed), and would be rarely found nowadays as technology has improved, although even today not all radio transmitters are approved for use in explosive atmospheres and there is specialised (and premium priced) kit available for this purposes (such as safety critical comms at oil refineries)

@dalias @SheamusPatt @anon_opin

In UK risk is more the machine being attacked with cordless power tools to extract the cash (or uprooted altogether with heavy plant and processed elsewhere) than an armed blag on the person taking away the cash (this kind of crime is relatively rare nowadays due to less use of cash and better security procedures and CCTV/surveillance)

I'd be happy with a choice between card and cash (coin/banknote readers aren't that reliable, again due to greater security procedures which can create false positives on valid coins/notes) but whats happening in some areas is the machine is defective or altogether absent, and you are forced to use a parking app (which is only "cheaper" to the Council because its harvesting your data to pay for the service)

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116862528952241826

TBH this just seems like normality on the Fedi 😀

@skinnylatte @b in UK even if you are someone who is habitually awake late at night due to work patterns (such as truck driver, on call tech support and maintenance, or just someone who keeps odd hours) its near impossible to get decent food here (only USA style hamburger retaurants and kebabs, and none of that is healthy)

@b @skinnylatte

I've only been to Malaysia (where my family are from ) twice in my life, but one thing I remember is everything was open well into the middle of the night (especially food, and even random things like DIY supplies, they were all sold together in the corner shops)

@alice @lrhodes I remember GNUsocial - was even told about it in about 2010/2011

A lot of it seemed to be "absolute free speech" which mostly consisted of anarchists and rightwing edgelords bitterly arguing at each other in English, German and Swedish all at the same time and it was quite frankly a hostile environment (even though I can understand German quite well) and no better than anything else available at the time, compared to modern Fedi the LGBT+ folk and furries built over the years (and wrestled away large parts of control from centrist techbros)

I know which kind of network I prefer...

@skinnylatte what is F&B in this context? Seems to be Singlish, does it stand for "food and beverages?"

Goose was not valued 🪿

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