Chromium browser stopped working again...

I don't know if that is related to the problems I've been having with Chromium 113 and the BBC News website on my Bullseye Pi 4s, where all apart from the first picture on the page isn't displayed, videos aren't displayed too. I removed ublock origin and no-script to eliminate them, and it still happens with no extensions.

Firefox-ESR shows the BBC News website correctly, however it's noticeably slower, videos do work though.

---druck

That's most curious. I'm looking now at

YouTube still won't load.

Thanks for writing,

bob prohaska

Try going down to a story page. The BBC loads images in articles on demand via javascript.

Must be a different problem as it loads for me and plays videos.

---druck

The story on solar panel recycling seems to load fine, pictures and all.

The story about tornados, consisting of a video, didn't load, couldn't be paused either.

Alas, 'tis true. Trouble is not a conserved quantity....

Thanks for writing,

bob prohaska

Indeed: trouble is usually served up by cons. ;-)

Surely some mistake. Trouble is what the liberal politician seeks out, identifies, and then manages to propose state engendered solutions to, that manifestly will not fix it, so that it remains a problem, and an excuse for yet more centralised bureaucracy, state subsidy, and restriction of personal freedom to fix it better. The logical progressions of this is full communism, where nothing works, and the politicians are the problem.

Please lets not turn every thread on legitimate technical issues in to a left vs right slanging match.

And this is just as true of right-wing extremists. As a wise person once pointed out to me, they all meet somewhere around on the dark side.

Mr. Philospher, very well said.

I see I wrote unclearly. I should have used the slightly longer version of the last word. Here's the new-and-improved version:

Indeed: trouble is usually served up by con artists. ;-)

The 30s era fascists only differed from the communists in the aspirations of their supporters. The end result was the same. A narrow totalitarian elite.

Comes to the same thing, That's an apt definition of politicians.

I suspect a similar situation to that of Europe in the '30s is currently developing in left-pondian political circles. The parallels are 'interesting' to say the least.

My point exactly - and it still applies today.

Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort. -- Robert A. Heinlein: The Notebooks of Lazarus Long

Good stuff!

I've just been re-reading Heinlein: 'Methuselah's Children', 'Time Enough For Love'.(Are the other LL stories as good?) Followed those two off with 'Friday'.

FWIW I tend to rate 'The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress' and 'Job' with those LL tales.

On a sunny day (Thu, 8 Jun 2023 22:24:44 -0000 (UTC)) it happened Martin Gregorie snipped-for-privacy@mydomain.invalid wrote in <u5tkfc$1hrgd$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me:

You forgot the capitalist Now The US Military Industrial Complex sucking the taxpayer for wars they create to sell their useless crap (F35 etc) a loss making industry (losing wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan, etc)... and their politician clowns and slaves now raising the debt limit and reducing spending on everything for their own people. EXCEPT that military complex. They are not even under attack, but may well be soon, destroyed! I was just reading the UK soldiers need food banks to make ends meet...

What makes you think its only the UK military? Add in teachers and medics too, but thats the result of 14 years of true-blue Tory government for you, but the next 12 months should show a change.

We're now returning you to our usual program.