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After sending a letter to HMRC in January, we finally got a response today (November 14). What did it say?
It said we should resend the letter, but include a declaration that its content is true. 🤦♂️
They are ridiculous, honestly.
I have never had a straightforward experience with them.
The one time I thought I had back in January came back to bight me in the ass in June and showed they'd just utterly bollucksed things up.
Of the six people I spoke to on the phone, 5 didn't even pretend to give a shit.
Shocking.
I was claiming some of my wife's tax allowance, being married. She started work in January and we informed them as you're supposed to. We all agreed she'd not earn enough by March for the claim to change, but somehow that turned into me telling them I didn't want the extra allowance anymore, so they started taking it back from April.
Nike’s new easy open backpack was designed to prioritize accessibility
Nike’s new Elite EasyOn backpack was designed for Paris 2024 Paralympic Games athletes with low dexterity or motor skills but is now available to everyone.Andrew Liszewski (The Verge)
The new Level Lock+ includes Matter support, with a free limited-time upgrade available for existing users - 9to5Mac
Level Lock+ with Matter support brings seamless compatibility with Apple Home Key, Google, Alexa, & SmartThings. Free firmware upgrade for existing users until 1/14/25.Bradley Chambers (9to5Mac)
Patrick H. Lauke (@patrick_h_lauke@mastodon.social)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvTyg1kJGzMMastodon
It's real. It's really real.
The Onion bought InfoWars.
apnews.com/article/onion-buys-…
The Onion buys Alex Jones' Infowars with help from Sandy Hook families
Satirical news publication The Onion has bought Alex Jones’ Infowars at a bankruptcy auction with the backing of families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. For decades, Jones has peddled in conpsiracy and misinformation.DAVE COLLINS (AP News)
Every other Ridley Scott movie to hit theaters has gay fanservice that literally everybody wants to see cut from the final version
gayety.co/denzel-washington-re…
Denzel Washington Says He Had a Gay Kiss In 'Gladiator 2' But It Was Cut - Gayety
Hold onto your helmets—Gladiator II is heading to theaters on November 22, 2024, and it’s bringing all the intense, muscle-packed action we’ve been craving.Caitlynn McDaniel (Gayety)
A Beginner's Guide to Editing Text Files With Vi
Ever wanted to learn one of the most powerful text editors?How-To Geek
A bunch of people around here saw a nice fireball yesterday morning, and I just talked to a local radio show about it. From what I can tell, this fireball wasn't anything particularly weird, perhaps on the brighter side of "normal" fireball range, and I think a lot of people saw it because of the time of day (~7:30am local), visible from Utah to mid-latitude Sask!
Great info (and videos!) on the American Meteor Society website: fireball.amsmeteors.org/member…
American Meteor Society
We received 170 reports about a fireball seen over Alberta, British Columbia, ID, Idaho, Montana, MT, ND, NV, Saskatchewan, UT, WA and WY on Wednesday, November 13th 2024 around 13:33 UT.fireball.amsmeteors.org
In case you ever see a fireball (a *very* bright shooting star), the American Meteor Society has a great reporting tool and tutorial. Just like "did you feel it" reports for earthquakes, this is very scientifically valuable crowd-source info!
fireball.amsmeteors.org/member…
(Also, I hate hate hate that they now have Starlink in their list of "this is not a fireball, please don't report this")
American Meteor Society Report a Fireball: it's fun and easy!
You saw something bright and fast? Like a huge shooting star? Report it: it may be a fireball.fireball.amsmeteors.org
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Work on Sliding Sync – which provides a significantly faster and more scalable sync experience in Matrix clients – has moved to focus on native support, and away from the proxy.
The Sliding Sync Proxy on the Matrix.org homeserver will be decommissioned on November 21st.
More details for users as well as server and client developers in our latest blog post: matrix.org/blog/2024/11/14/mov…
Sunsetting the Sliding Sync Proxy: Moving to Native Support
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsWill Lewis (matrix.org)
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iOS 18.2’s Genmoji and Image Playground have three key guardrails you should know - 9to5Mac
iOS 18.2 brings powerful new image generation tools to Apple Intelligence, but they come with three key guardrails you should know.Ryan Christoffel (9to5Mac)
Big Foot has officially been spotted … among other new emoji proposals
We’re still awaiting that wacky pack of emoji characters previewed in May. And we probably won’t actually see the shovel...Zac Hall (9to5Mac)
Train derails in Longueuil, Que., raising concerns about chemical spill
cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/tr…
Probably a testimonial of the safety and the track maintenance. Remember it's the same railroads that want to increase the workload and reduce safety. Because the Oligarchs love the cheap and expendable labour.
Maybe I'm thinking too hard, but I can't get the idea "all communication is inherently manipulative and absent consent" out of my head.
The idea being, that just by communicating something to someone, you are inherently influencing their mind to interpret and process your ideas.
And you can't seek someone's permission to share an idea with them without sharing an idea. And you certainly can't seek someone's informed consent to share an idea without sharing at least some details about the idea itself.
messy messy
Links to any publicly available PDF with good semantic structure, tagging, and accessibility to elements like tables and images would be very helpful
although of course you may also use this thread to dunk on the format, if you wish
pdfinfo.
GitHub - jsvine/pdfplumber: Plumb a PDF for detailed information about each char, rectangle, line, et cetera — and easily extract text and tables.
Plumb a PDF for detailed information about each char, rectangle, line, et cetera — and easily extract text and tables. - jsvine/pdfplumberGitHub
This is the result.
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Why is the first Windows drive always called C:? Here's the answer
On your Windows PC, the drive designations start with C. Where are A and B? The answer can be found in the history of Windows.Hans-Christian Dirscherl (PCWorld)
The Incredible Story Behind the First Transistor Radio
The Regency TR-1 helped Texas Instruments launch its semiconductor businessAllison Marsh (IEEE Spectrum)
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Wife was convinced she'd loaded her phone into the washing machine along with a handful of blankets.
She'd left it upstairs, but the few minutes of worry were an interesting adrenaline hit.
Right now, even a few hundred pounds to replace a phone would be hard to swallow, yet we can't live without it.
perhaps my New Year's resolution will be to keep an emergency fund to replace a phone or computer, now I finally have a better paying job.
Even if you count the War Doctor, Paul McGann is still the Eighth Doctor, as he comes before John Hurt's War Doctor, who is technically the ninth incarnation of the Doctor, not counting the Timeless Children Doctors.
Completion of Montreal's new light-speed rail lines pushed to fall 2025
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/rem-light-speed-north-west-island-1.7383026?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Montreal @montreal-cbcnews
In other news, my Canon G7X MkII is back into non working state. And of course Canon can't repair anything since they don't repair but replace, with inexistant stock.
I might attempt the procedure. It feels like a broken sensor/switch/connector of some sort.
Two things that they don’t tell you about the Trolley Problem
1: it’s a shopping trolley
2: you’re playing it every time that you purchase something
My whole life, I've lived in New England: the land of blizzards and ice storms. When there's a storm on the forecast, we prepare. Stock up on bottled water and nonperishables, refill prescriptions that are running low, charge the flashlights and electronic devices, have a stack of blankets on hand, make sure there's fuel in the car and (if you're lucky) generator, restack the indoor wood pile. 1/3
If the worst does not actually come to pass, I don't think I'm going to be sitting here going "oh noooo I can't believe I strengthened my communities, made sure I'm up to date on my healthcare needs, and volunteered for causes I believe in"
3/3
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