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Call me daddy Grimm.

About Russia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_hair#Eastern_Europe

Since about three years, there are wolves roaming in my area. I'm still fat.

Like every other social awkward person?

TIL the guess in guestimating means using tools to describe a population on the individual.

I communicate way more face to face than in another way. So if I read communicating, I'm not thinking of calling, emailing, letterwriting or anything not face to face.

It's just a method for guestimating how much of a body is lean mass vs fat.

It was created to estimate the amount of obesity in a population, not on the individual level. It also breaks down for tall and short people.

Now reading "Newton's wake" by Ken MacLeod. Haven't read too much of it yet, but so far so good. I was previously reading "an inside job" by Daniel Silva, but I put it away. Like I mentioned last week, this series has always been very Israel-centered, but the last two books Silva is clearly ignoring the elephant in the room. He does so by pointing at several European countries. Once I noticed it while reading it, I also noticed the story was severely lacking in depth because of it, characters are very one dimensional and sometimes do very weird things just to get a plot twist going.

I guess the same way as with the Anna's archive vs Spotify case in the US last week?

That NL, we also have quite a few banned domains here. Basically copyright organisations like Brein will sue everyone they can get away with. Unfortunately they have been succesfull on multiple occasions, mostly because the other party won't show up in court and they win by default. Another thing they do is sue one of the large ISP's for facilitating copyright infringement to get them to block sites like torrent sites. If the judge rules in their favor, then all Dutch ISP's have to abide by the ruling.

Does that mean the rhetoric he spread and the potential for it to do harm are gone?

Nope, just stating he is dead today, since the OP seemed unaware. About Rowling; no I don't think so. But it could well be that decades after her dying people will have forgot about her world views, and the books will be in fashion again. This is assuming the books are worth reading, which I hear they're not.

Your comment triggered me to ask an LLM to create it, and it came up with something. I'm not going to test it though, so we'll never know if it works. I'd advise anyone not to try it. It gave links to an image and a sound file that gave a 404 error. LLM output:

Here’s a complete Firefox extension that replaces the text "lol" with a TIE Fighter image, plays a sound on hover, and changes the image on click.

🔧 Firefox Extension: “Lol to TIE Fighter”

1. Manifest File (manifest.json)

{
  "manifest_version": 2,
  "name": "Lol to TIE Fighter",
  "version": "1.0",
  "description": "Replaces 'lol' with a TIE Fighter image and plays sound on hover.",
  "permissions": [
    "activeScript",
    "scripting",
    "https://example.com/*"
  ],
  "content_scripts": [
    {
      "matches": ["<all_urls>"],
      "js": ["content.js"]
    }
  ],
  "background": {
    "scripts": ["background.js"]
  },
  "options_page": "options.html"
}

2. Content Script (content.js)

document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function() {
  function replaceTextNodesWithImages() {
    const walker = document.createTreeWalker(document.body, NodeFilter.SHOW_TEXT, null, false);
    let node;
    while (node = walker.nextNode()) {
      if (node.textContent.includes("lol")) {
        const img = document.createElement("img");
        img.src = "https://example.com/tie-fighter.png"; // Replace with your image URL
        img.style.width = "20px";
        img.style.height = "20px";
        img.style.display = "inline-block";
        img.style.cursor = "pointer";

        // Sound on hover
        img.addEventListener("mouseover", () => playSound());

        // Blow up on click
        img.addEventListener("click", () => blowUp(img));

        node.replaceWith(img);
      }
    }
  }

  replaceTextNodesWithImages();
});

function playSound() {
  const audio = new Audio("https://example.com/sound.mp3"); // Replace with your sound URL
  audio.play();
}

function blowUp(img) {
  img.src = "https://example.com/blowup.png"; // Replace with a larger image or "none"
  img.style.width = "40px";
  img.style.height = "40px";
}

3. Image and Sound Requirements TIE Fighter Image: Replace the URL in content.js with a public domain image. Example: TIE Fighter Image from Wikipedia Sound Effect: Replace the URL with a .mp3 file hosted on your server. Example: Sound Effect from FreeSound.org 🛠️ How to Use Create the files: manifest.json content.js Load the extension in Firefox: Go to about:debugging in Firefox. Click Add Extension and select the folder with your files. Test on any website with “lol” text. ⚠️ Notes Image/Sound URLs: Replace the URLs with your own hosted or public domain assets. Performance: This script runs on every page, so consider optimizing for large sites. Security: Ensure the image and sound URLs are secure to avoid errors. This extension replaces “lol” with a TIE Fighter image, plays a sound on hover, and expands the image on click. Adjust the URLs to match your assets!