GeneralRetreat @ GeneralRetreat @beehaw.org

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Canada does good work squashing OPCA claims. I'm very much a fan of Justice Rooke's utter obliteration of the ideologies' rhetoric back in 2012.

When the ICO recieve a complaint they usually send an initial notification email to the data controller to advise that a case officer will be assigned in due course.

Well, unless it relates to a serious or ongoing data breach, which tends to be triaged immediately into an active investigation.

Initial notification letters do usually recommend trying to resolve the issue with the data subject in the interim though.

That probably spooked Reddit into moving your case up the priority list as I imagine they've got a pretty substantial backlog of SAR, erasure and objection requests, considering the circumstances.

The response window for most of those rights is 30 calendar days + extensions if applicable, so they could also have just been responding as late as allowed, accounting for aforementioned probable backlog.

Do let us know when the ICO gets back to you though, will be fascinating to hear what they have to say.

It looks like the TLD was sold off to a private business by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority in 1997, with those rights subsequently being sold on to other corporations.

The British government have issued an FOI response advising that they recieve no funds from .io domain registrations. The Chagos Islanders still don't benefit, but it looks like that'd need to be squared with a hedge fund rather than a government.

...It is weird that territorial domains can be auctioned off in the first place though.

Wait... why doesn't the USA have a system like this already?

I always found cryptobro preaching about instant cash transfers perplexing, but this explains a lot.

Maybe Amnesia: The Bunker is something to look into. I've not played it myself yet, but the reviews I saw made it sound like it might meet most of your criteria.

Oof

UK district and borough councils have a homelessness prevention duty which also applies to refugees. Unfortunately said councils are also largely falling to pieces and social housing stock hasn't met demand since Thatcher eviscerated it in the 80s.

This basically means that a bunch of them are going to end up living long-term in 'emergency' B&B placements due to a lack of available social housing, unless they can find private arrangements themselves.

So... was this intended as suicide by border guard? I imagine whatever his original plan is he's going to end up regretting it.

1. It'll be funny if Georgia also gets off the pot and indictes too.
2. Could this go in US News instead? Lemmy is broadly very US-centric already, so posting US politics here too drowns out other global stories.

Is that a Space Marine Chapel Barracks I see there?

Make rhino and then blow it up with TNT. Take away their metal boxes...

One of my all-time favourites is Freelancer, 2003. Just a really fun arcade space sandbox with an engaging campaign and great multiplayer and modding scene.

Something else that can help with this too:

If you're using Bing, it can read the web page you've got open and use that to inform responses as context.

It can't read anything that's gated behind an account like a Google document, but it can read a PDF if you open it in the browser.

Due to that, I created a single document containing setting info, plot hooks, NPC details, session recaps and party details etc.

When prompting Bing I'd ask it to refer to the campaign document and that cut out a lot of the parameters I'd otherwise have needed to repeat at the beginning of each chat otherwise.

It also means it's got access to a much wider pool of material to iterate on. For example, if I ask it to generate more plot hooks for a particular district in my city-based game, it'd cross reference NPCs and plots from elsewhere in the city, rather than providing a tailored (but generic) output.