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Both beautiful and beautifully stitched, if that is the correct word?

The first one 48 years ago : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Icelandic_women’s_strike

On 24 October 1975, Icelandic women went on strike for the day to “demonstrate the indispensable work of women for Iceland’s economy and society” and to “protest wage discrepancy and unfair employment practices”. It was then publicized domestically as Women’s Day Off (Kvennafrídagurinn). Participants, led by women’s organizations, did not go to their paid jobs and did not do any housework or child-rearing for the whole day. Ninety percent of Iceland’s female population participated in the strike. Iceland’s parliament passed a law guaranteeing equal pay the following year.

It has apparently become necessary to do it a second time…

Right!

If I had gotten 10 cent each time I heard (or said) this I would be close to 10 € by now :D
I switched to Linux back in 2006 but not everyone has the knowledge, the capacity or the motivation to do so.

But then how would you know? ;)

Around here it is called “the mystery of faith” and if I am right most of the people I know do NOT hear voices.
I can understand how comforting it must be to have a benevolent and almighty supernatural entity watching over you but… It still puzzles me.
The alternative being a purposeless universe and life being a fortuitous, localized and temporary event. I can cope with the lack of extraterrestrial intelligence ‘here’ and ‘now’ in our part of said universe, the ineluctable end of mankind and of Earth. It is not very uplifting but I’ll be fine with that, for a few more decades at least, until I disappear without leaving any trace nor residue.

Our brains evolved to be very good at analyzing our environment, to find causes and consequences and to understand “why”, even if it means making everything up. Accepting that some things might have no “why” and suspending one’s judgment is very hard.

I wouldn’t be that extreme, but I agree that it does not encourage rational thinking.
This being said, I know believers in various religions who are very good technicians, scientists or engineers. I have always wondered how it is possible to be so fact-based in your daily job and at the same time accept fantastic tales as the divine truth.

Would that be what is referred to as Eternal September? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

I discovered it only a few weeks ago and I am sad to say that 1994-1995 was when I went online for the first time. With an AOL “Free 20 hours access”. I undoubtedly contributed to degrade the quality of discussions, not mentioning choking several dial-accesses with the freakinig 50x50 pixels pictures I uploaded on my very first homepage.

Sorry, I’m so sorry…

Valid point, no offense taken. I did not think about the airbags! As for damages to the vehicle, this is something I understand an am willing to accept. If I do stupid things I have to face consequences.
Anyway, getting the help of a mechanic would be point number 1 on my list. If can find one willing to take the challenge :)

Thanks! Knowing that what I might be searching for would be somewhere under the dashboard is a good first step.

Then I am not an engineer nor have any experience in electronics BUT I know from my dad that taking the dashboard apart is not an easy task. If I would succeed I do not know what I would be looking for… Would tan antenna look like a piece of wire? Or could it be embedded in the ‘copper’ circuitry of a PCB? Do cars use regular SIM cards like the ones found in phones or would they look different?

The maintenance manual would probably be a good place to start before trying to put anything apart.

For recent cars I am afraid you are right. My current and “old” car has a built in navigation system with the map on an SD-card. No need for a connection to a smartphone - which I do not own. Therefore I suppose it is not communicating with the manufacturer.

Then, someone in my family with a more recent car got several “firmware updates” out of the blue, hinting to a ‘permanent’ connection to the manufacturer.

I have the feeling we need to start organizing and claim a “right to disconnection”. Having the car dial for help after a crash is one thing but what Mozilla’s report describes is at another, much higher level.

Thanks a lot for your post ! The future of cars looks grim.

Serious and naive question: how could I get rid of the tracking at the hardware level when I will have no choice other than to buy a connected car?
Is there an antenna or a SIM card somewhere that I could disconnect/remove? Would the car continue to work if the connection to the manufacturer’s server is lost?

The original painting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_Innocent_X
The page about Bacon’s study - or studies : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Study_after_Vel%C3%A1zquez’s_Portrait_of_Pope_Innocent_X

Am I the only one finding a ressemblance between this portrait and Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Incal or Technopriests?

'got the same keyboard and a (bigger) cat!
Although my Katzelein would sllep ON it rather than BEHIND it.

Yup: write down the password when you set up the software and feed it to your “own” RustDesk on your computer.
Although I recently had a case where the password on the remote machine seemed to have changed by its own, but it could be me or the machine owner who did something funny without noticing.

+1. I use it to help non-tech relatives. Apparently works on different OSes, including Android.
Install, setup password, create icon on desktop and name it “Help me” - Done.

Wow! That’s a creative way to use a caliper.
That’s why teaching children about metrology basics is so important.

Do you wish to submit me to a Turing test? I am sure at 92.82293 % that I could demonstrate my appartenance to your species.

It is because of rumors about Windows starting to implement this type of measures that I moved to Ubuntu… That was shortly before Windows Vista came out, back in 2006.
I never went back again, except briefly on an air-gaped machine under 7 to play Skyrim and Grim Dawn.

Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Craddle is a wonderfully satirical novel.

American Gods is very good as well, I did not try the other books by Neil Gaimlan you mention but will definitely give them a try, thanks for the recommendation.

Good Omens was like my favourite cake spiced with bits of oh-so-ironic-and-absurd British humour.