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Kent Sharkey5-Jan-21 10:34

5-Jan-21 10:34

Yes, I'm too afraid to post it to the Daily News[^], but not to clutter the Lounge.

Viral 5G Conspiracy Diagram Actually Shows How to Build Your Own Guitar Pedal[^]

TTFN - Kent

Re: Still my guitar gently weeps

Ron Anders5-Jan-21 10:46

Ron Anders

5-Jan-21 10:46

But will it chug?

Re: Still my guitar gently weeps

BillWoodruff5-Jan-21 11:07

BillWoodruff

5-Jan-21 11:07

Now everyone can ~~shed~~ shred like a vivisected cat ?

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Re: Still my guitar gently weeps

OriginalGriff5-Jan-21 11:11

OriginalGriff

5-Jan-21 11:11

We need to have a unique ID system for the internet so you can post stupidity like that under your real identity. The anonymity of the net lets a lot of rubbish and deliberate misinformation in, and the gullible will always believe it ...

Mind you, the one that the Pfizer vaccine causes autism in zombies is true.^*

* For a given value of 'true' (Sir pTerry)

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Re: Still my guitar gently weeps

Greg Utas5-Jan-21 14:01

Greg Utas

5-Jan-21 14:01

I don't know how it would help. People still have to filter information and decide whom to trust and what to believe. I'd far rather see accountability for those who make poor decisions that they force on others, but I'm not holding my breath.

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Re: Still my guitar gently weeps

OriginalGriff5-Jan-21 20:45

OriginalGriff

5-Jan-21 20:45

A lot of the problems with the internet are down to a lack of responsibility: you can say anything you like with no repercussions because nobody knows who you really are. Thus, people post offensive material, misinformation, and so on that they would never do in the real world because people would lose respect for them / hit them pretty hard if they did.

Look at the amount of "how to clean your facebook / twitter / blah, blah" advice there is for when people realize that potential employers will look at what they have done and said. Look at what happened to Dalek Dave when he stood for council elections - one racist post on twitter and he lost them a safe seat in the middle of the biggest swing to his party in a generation! And we haven't seen him since. That's responsibility in action: if you are going to be held accountable for what you post then you are a lot less likely to post cr@p - and if you do, you will get called on it and people will trust what you say less in future.

Re: Still my guitar gently weeps

Greg Utas6-Jan-21 0:00

Greg Utas

6-Jan-21 0:00

A great idea in a civilized world. But when a government is run by authoritarians, people who said or say things that are no longer acceptable are at risk. Anonymity is still necessary.

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Re: Still my guitar gently weeps

pkfox14-Jan-21 22:44

pkfox

14-Jan-21 22:44

I wondered what happened to DD

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Re: Still my guitar gently weeps

5teveH5-Jan-21 23:08

5teveH

5-Jan-21 23:08

OriginalGriff wrote:
The anonymity of the net lets a lot of rubbish and deliberate misinformation in

Sadly, the people that peddle this sort of sh!t, don't care about anonymity. In fact, they are probably wanting to revel in the 'glory' - and, currently, there's no penalty for doing it anyway. We just have to hope that the people pulling down 5G masts, get hit by them! Wink | ;)

Re: Still my guitar gently weeps

Slacker0076-Jan-21 0:30

Slacker007

6-Jan-21 0:30

OriginalGriff wrote:
The anonymity of the net

has always, and will always be a core defect of the internet culture. Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

Sadly, I don't think it will be resolved anytime soon, at least in my lifetime.

Re: Still my guitar gently weeps

Dan Neely6-Jan-21 2:58

Dan Neely

6-Jan-21 2:58

OriginalGriff wrote:
We need to have a unique ID system for the internet so you can post stupidity like that under your real identity. The anonymity of the net lets a lot of rubbish and deliberate misinformation in, and the gullible will always believe it ...

If requiring your real identity was a barrier to posting stupidity, fArseBook would be a paragon of truth and civility.

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Re: Still my guitar gently weeps

David O'Neil5-Jan-21 11:12

David O'Neil

5-Jan-21 11:12

I just wish this 5G scam was real, and I had been the one to make it up and rake in the dough: 5G Repellent Lotion - Imgur

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Re: Still my guitar gently weeps

Mike Hankey5-Jan-21 13:36

Mike Hankey

5-Jan-21 13:36

Too funny, thanks got my daily chickle.

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Re: Still my guitar gently weeps

Nelek5-Jan-21 14:14

Nelek

5-Jan-21 14:14

I had a stick that I have put at customers places a couple of times:

Quote:
This machine has no brain, use yours.

In this case it could be...

Quote:
This tweet is for no brainers... please find one

The biggest problem...? Darwin's law is not really active in our time and they get the chance to reproduce themselves... Sigh | :sigh:

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Re: Still my guitar gently weeps

BillWoodruff5-Jan-21 16:55

BillWoodruff

5-Jan-21 16:55

@kentsharkey

Kent Sharkey wrote:
but not to clutter the Lounge.

Is not clutter the very fossil-fuel whose burning enables the climate-change that keeps the weather on the Lounge oscillating from superficial, to relevant, to hysterical, to challenging, to conducive of the swagger-nest-building-calls of the greater CodeWitch ?

Vive la difference !

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Re: Still my guitar gently weeps

DerekT-P5-Jan-21 22:21

DerekT-P

5-Jan-21 22:21

yeah, but they would say that, wouldn't they?

Re: Still my guitar gently weeps

Chris Maunder6-Jan-21 3:12

Chris Maunder

6-Jan-21 3:12

Right. But does it have a decent API?

cheers
Chris Maunder

Re: Still my guitar gently weeps

Eek Ten Bears12-Feb-21 2:11

Eek Ten Bears

12-Feb-21 2:11

Its not a very good guitar pedal. I'd much rather be injected with the plans for a distortion pedal.

There was an article on moving the mouse, wasn't there...

glennPattonWork35-Jan-21 5:32

glennPattonWork3

5-Jan-21 5:32

Hi All,
Can some helpful sole point me the article about moving the pointer from code, the was something here wasn't there?

Glenn

Re: There was an article on moving the mouse, wasn't there...

OriginalGriff5-Jan-21 5:53

OriginalGriff

5-Jan-21 5:53

Depends on the language you are using: for C# it's trivial:

Cursor = new System.Windows.Forms.Cursor(System.Windows.Forms.Cursor.Current.Handle);
Point pos = System.Windows.Forms.Cursor.Position;
System.Windows.Forms.Cursor.Position = new Point(pos.X - 50, pos.Y - 50);