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Will be gracious and suggest that they are maybe not trolly, just very impassioned. Don't think they have anything to gain from what they're saying and again, the points they make are not invalid, just insensitively delivered. But again @user159377 we get what you're saying yet you need to allow for the fact that everyone has a different risk appetite and this isn't a bad impetus to get LFGSS on a footing which is likely also to ensure its longevity should Dee ever lose the capacity to maintain it.

golf club >>>>>

FWIW the weaponisation of troll content is also what the OSA is targeting. If you're the one who can get hit with a fine/jail time etc. for pissing around on forums then you're less likely to do it, and people were generally doing it because it's the internet and everyone gets away with objectionable behaviour on the internet. Someone posting goatse here is going to be the ofcom target, not the one getting the forum in trouble with ofcom because they've done it. I'm not saying necessarily that policymakers should go this far, but I'm saying that maybe weaponisation is actually a lower risk now that this very far reaching act exists.

Been struggling to steam just enough milk for one drink and feel like weighing my milk and changing tip angle (wand is now very close to the sidewalls) has gotten me closer to the sort of texture I’ve been chasing for too damned long (also helps with minimising waste!). Still think milk steaming technique is very tip dependent, and also dependent on the amount of milk you’ve got in your pitcher and wonder why the coffeetubes/tutorials don’t make more of a point of that and all suggest that there’s a standard angle of insertion that works!

The problem with the OSA is that limited liability through a corporation don't help you as much as you think it does, also Velocio has dealt with angry trolls with an address before so maybe revise your assumptions some, but otherwise again you make a lot of good points.

Word from Velocio is that the reading of the guidance seems to be happening. And yes precisely what I mean by someone having to be willing to step in and have their name on a register. TBF any directors of a company will have their names in public as well.

@Lebowski we are agreed there.

Out of the jurisdiction of the OSA doesn't really mean anything if UK people continue to access the forum because it's designed with extraterritoriality in mind, although in practice risk of enforcement is probably lower. Ultimately someone has to be responsible for running the thing and it's not going to be Velocio (even if servers get moved overseas). So someone still has to step up to actually keep the place running, then we can discuss implications of moving operations overseas.

Points aside, many of which are valid, you might be heard a bit better if you did away with the ad hominem. Everyone here is human and to have a limited appetite for risk while still wanting to run a public service is both understandable and commendable, not a contradiction in terms. And welcome to LFGSS.

Ok so first and foremost if we want to try to keep this functioning in the UK through compliance with the OSA, and Velocio has decided to step out, then someone has to actually be responsible for LFGSS and put their name on a register. Is there anyone here who is actually willing to step up to that and be committed for the long haul? Even if a company/CIC is incorporated it'll still need directors.

If that piece isn't in place then we can do all the thinking and put all the pieces together to ensure compliance and minimise risk and this still won't go anywhere. But if that can happen then there is a world in which the OSA is a fucking PITA but not the end of the online world as we know it which we can try to find.

Conical for espresso, flat for filter is generally the super, super broad consensus. You get more fines (and so more body but also more bitter/astringent notes) with conicals, and more clarity with flats I think. Conicals work well with a milk drink imo.

Out of curiosity what exactly is this referring to?

Hopefully you'll be able to benefit from the learnings when this community gets together and figures out how to take this site forward. There should be a way so don't get your hopes down just yet (:

Have you seen the size of that thing
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Eh, I think the tools proposed by the Act are intended to get big social media to bear responsibility for doing something. The dumpster fire that is X will not survive the OSA in its current form, for example, and the riots we previously had would also be clear targets of this sort of thing. Think the law has its uses, but when you draft something so paradigm changing (the internet has to be policed!?) it is always going to have collateral damage as the finer points get worked out and we need to find a way to navigate that.

Another forum I occasionally frequent has a "forum supporter" badge on people's profiles that shows who's donated and who hasn't - also a lot of regular prompts to people to donate... seems reasonably effective in getting people to do so going by the number of these badges on profiles, although people on that forum are largely US based and seem more willing to spend money on things generally.

If this moves overseas, wouldn't you still need someone willing to run the servers/backend etc. who is willing to shoulder the risk of enforcement (which is in practice probably low and particularly if they're overseas, though) as long as UK users keep accessing the forum..? Not sure decentralisation necessarily would help unless there is a lot of technical effort to mask IPs etc. of the people involved which is beyond my understanding (because of the wide definition of person/officer in the OSA)! I'd think the majority of the people here are UK based and would probably want access to the forum though, so if it does live on in that form it may be a very different beast to how it is now.

Not to downplay the amount of work needed to comply as you have looked into this the most, but given Ofcom guidance isn't out, is there the chance that when it does come out it'll provide some paths for lower compliance burdens on SMEs/single-person outfits? As I understand the CSAM scanning thing is still slightly in the air as the tech doesn't exist yet/is not widely available..?

Consider me corrected!

..but where is your grinder?

If you like milk art a jug with a proper spout would reallyyyy help.

I no longer use my birth name, and more of my identity is now as Dee. I wouldn't provide my deadname to be in a public register, and yet to not do so is also a crime under the Online Safety Act.

Don't know how you feel about letting go of the deadname but you don't need a deed poll to legally have a new name - technically using a new name is all that is legally required and a deed poll/marriage cert/whatever official document is commonly accepted is evidence. So being registered as Dee in the register of services would arguably not be providing information which is false in a material respect.

Not that I've heard of for basque; even heating/setting of the custard is less important and some prefer the middle runny. More importantly having too much moisture in oven will definitely interfere with maillard on top. Think there's a posh restaurant in Shoreditch that does its basques heated by a full on fire..

It takes one variable out of the very complicated coffee equation so think there's some merit to it particularly if you're working on dialling other things in.

Only if I've got somewhere to land my helicopter

Tradition aside.. chicken is the better turkey in every way unless you are cooking for a no-fat-protein-only crowd (or need to stuff as much volume of meat in an oven as you possibly can to feed the extended family and all associated gremlins) in which case then carry on

@dbr what does that hope to accomplish? Surely you want a dryer oven to get the blackening on the top.

Indeed, but I do not have it, and now I have decided I might want another tool... mea culpa, christmas innit! And wondering about peoples' experiences who do have it (rather than "I think") as the last step to talk myself out of more coffee gear

Paywalled but basically latest modelling from UK environment agency has 25% of homes with flooding risk by 2050. https://www.ft.com/content/64e788c6-5dd7-472d-ae14-26653de2b847