morning

o/

ugh

i can't uninstall google+ from my phone

@allquixotic my laptop had this when I first got it

Back in '15. The default Qualcomm drivers and software could do it

But that was in win8.1

The functionality was removed with updated drivers for win10

@Burgi lmao

Heh. As a kid, it was always my dream to go work at Google

That changed.

They do way too much stuff that's misaligned with my ethics

ethics are great until you have to pay for things

@Burgi eh. I have plenty of stuff that I can do

> The new approach brings definite security advantages, notwithstanding that we’ll be entrusting Google and its peers with even more data on us.

forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/04/22/…

Can someone please explain how DNS-over-HTTPS would "be entrusting Google and its peers with even more data"

?

Those who run the DNS, know where you're going.

Wait, what do you mean we've been telling people to use Google for DNS for years because no one is funding the infrastructure of the internet?

wait the internet has infrastructure? I thought it was just a big amorphous cloud!

;)

do you know... today would be a great time to invade North Korea

kim jong un is on his armoured train, that travels at a maximum speed of 30mph, in russia

30mph? wut

is that an anti-assassination thing?

no, its due to the weight of the train

@Burgi I dunno man, he probably has standing orders that if he gets killed, to launch all their nukes (they probably don't have enough long range nukes to destroy the US, but could easily take out South Korea and Japan with short range ones and seriously put a crater in California)

@allquixotic if they have 'enough' nukes, they don't need to reach the mainland US.

Only cause an earthquake / tsunami

they have 5 iirc

@bertieb Your balance is now £ 10.79!

what is my balance?

@Burgi prob 0 as you didn't sign up

@bertieb if i wait til £20 and use circle, no fees, i'll do that

Just found this gem shitbuntu.com (warning: mildly flashy, do not click if you're sensitive to that stuff)

@djsmiley2k Nice one!

@allquixotic That only works if the surviving generals have drunk the Kool-Aid and don't go "yeah... nah" ;-P

@djsmiley2k i want in on your money making scheme!

:D

k

wait... are you a nigeran prince?

@bertieb how do i get a referal link o_O

How is babby formed, you say

Err, I'll check

Good question

very good question

Help pages says it's at app.prolific.ac/account/referrals

But I don't see one there

Hmm, their help page only talks about researcher referrals

Maybe they removed user referrals?

is this some sort of surveys site?

Sorta

It's mostly legit research surveys

from academia

i used to do google surveys but the app just stopped working one day

there's the occasional marketing survey tho

I only seem to get Google surveys on one particular device

and you get paid for filling them out?

Correct

Do the current one!

Min of around £5/h

It says you get £1

you can get lots more

I'm not gonna say anymore than that, other than I just got £5.20

Availability depends on demographic information

@djsmiley2k Dots II ?

@Burgi re: google surveys, same thing happened to my wife

i think she lied too much or something

i was just being honest

I get a lot of 'have you visited this place: with 3-4 places I've not visited/not even heard of and one I might of

Ah weird

But these surveys are deffo worth doing.

the yougov ones aren't bad either, but they don't pay out til £50, which took me about 3 months of almost daily ones

i'll retry the google one

i got about £5 with it

The Dots one was interesting

Cheers @djsmiley2k !

I've got around £6 on my google one atm

it pays for my google drive

How much is GDrive?

I had terabyte[s] from being a level something Local Guide but it expired

Ah, £80 per year

ouchies

i think i get 100GB free with my chromebook

The one Google sent you for 'considering' them?

Or were you so amazed by it you went and bought one of your own? ;-P

@bertieb this

:)

Hurray, it finally arrived! \o/

i was so surprised when it arrived

:P

Ha

> 10 of 15GB used

sadface.jpg

I'm sure I had more way back when

@Burgi warning will robinson, that'll only be for a year

@djsmiley2k yeah i know

sneaky buggers aren't they

i get 1TB with O365

Weird. Firefox somehow changed its default font from DejaVu Serif to FreeMono. I haven't updated Firefox recently.

All its dialog boxes and goddamn Wikipedia were in FreeMono. +_+'

@bertieb 0.0

Yeah... it'd probably be cheaper than the frankenserver I have upstairs

But, muh RAIDs!

@ThatBrazilianGuy I wonder if that's why Riot's font looked different for me recently? Seems to have sorted itself out now though

I'm on a grandfathered plan, USD 4/year for 20 GB

"Google Apps for your Domain" ?

That's what I'm on, but I never bought their storage

Nah, just regular "your gmail space is filling up fast, click here to buy

Me: "Hm, what's the cheapest plan?

Ah righty

@bertieb Oh I also have infinite lifetime storage on this student account but I haven't ever used it yet

infinity bytes you say

you should resell segments of that

something something countable infinities

That reminds me, I should sign up for some student things before I graduate

Rahul mentioned Github

Any more for any more?

Ah, a little under infinity ;-P

Nice tho

@bertieb Oh you a student? Watcha giving up your sleep for drowninig in debt for studying?

Muh debts!

Oh, unusual subject.

Here at Money U you get your debts and study them at the same time!

Something something something mumble healthcare related

Hah

You jest, but there's probably a PhD in that, just for the title alone

"Debt Accrued While Writing This Thesis: An Analysis"

<cough>https://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/9738<cough>

@CowperKettle Oh my god that's not satire

@djsmiley2k "eh, some fraction of an aircraft carrier"

That being said, it's kinda hard to cancel 5/7ths of an aircraft carrier to balance out student debt

the other half don't swim so good

lol

roar

> something something something

> mumble mumble

at work, for another evening

think of the £££.

however it's payday in .... 2 days

So this wont come thru til next month

Well... decided to upgrade my Flickr account to Pro. $50/year isn't much to pay when camera equipment purchases routinely run several hundred dollars a pop...

Also updated my password there since they've transitioned to the new account system.

@bwDraco how much storage space does that give you? Actual unlimited?

Pretty much. But that's not the only reason I signed up.

> NaN%

waffles