allywilson

There's a bit of nuance here. Mad cow disease (BSE) was a big deal, yes, but vCJD (the human form) was not prevalent - as of a few years ago, I think there was less than 200 cases in the UK, and less than 250 cases worldwide - ever. As it can be dormant for decades they believe, it's why the UK population and visitors at those times is not allowed. Keep in mind, in the UK we do still donate blood - we don't have to import it from elsewhere. But as it's such a horrific disease, it's easier to just say "No one from the UK can donate blood." it's not like it would impact other countries blood supplies, and keeps them a bit safer.

What's worse I find is self-checkout's (at least in the UK) require a member of staff to clear your failed payment. Like, there's no reason it couldn't just go back to "Try again", instead the light goes red, the single person who has already approved your over 18 purchases, your brought your own bag alert, etc. has to come back on their route of 40 self checkouts to check that you have in-fact not got enough money on your card, and then to stand next to you (or worse, bugger off to someone else) for you to try again or use a different card. Argh.

I mean, I did quote the partial sentence from the link. You can look that up.

with focus shifted towards completing the port to GTK3

Is that a typo? I would have thought most software was shifting to GTK4 now?

They hired the man behind systemd (controversial, I know, but he does have a vision). I hope they listen to him and/or he starts directing how they should do things from the ground-up.

This is kinda how I feel about Windows these days. It's interface, directory structure, shudder the registry, user specific apps (from MS Store or Winget), buttons being inserted into the menu bars on some apps, but not others, button sizes being different sizes, some parts still using the Metro interface. The whole thing either needs a re-write, or should be dropped and something new to replace it. Don't even get me started on things like the eventvwr hanging for 20 seconds after it opens, event tracer API, their in-house abandonment of powershell modules once powershell was open sourced, Windows containers being a disaster, etc.

raises pendantic finger Ah-hem, sorry, but KDE Plasma isn't an OS. It's a desktop environment. For an OS bundled/built-around Plasma then Kubuntu or KDE Neon are both Linux distributions that would better fit that description.

An OpenVPN profile generator with valid client certificate and the private key never leaves the client workstation.

• Client browser logs in with their IPA creds + OTP.
• Browser generates key pair and CSR (all stored in session storage)
• Node requests certificate for user from IPA using CSR, returns cert to browser.
• Browser combines new certificate with CA cert and the private key into the OpenVPN profile.
• Browser downloads the OpenVPN profile file.

I don't think you need to learn it, you just need to use one command. Even from a CMD prompt you can invoke powershell and a powershell cmdlet in a one-liner:

powershell send-mailmessage -from "me@somedomain.co.uk" -To "me@someotherdomain.co.uk" -subject "Test to me" -smtpserver My.Mail.Server.co.uk

According to this PDF, there is a "SANETO Takanori" who works for Sony Japan it seems.

Also, "Playstation Cares" listed as a donor here.

Is there a reason not to use PowerShell?

In the UK we tend not to tip if there's a service charge.