More that 500 private individuals raised £400,000 for the expedition in the hope of discovering whisky treasure, but only 24 bottles were retrieved with a value of £12,000. The venture turned out to be disastrous for its investors, returning just £24 each.

Most was then used to mix into other whiskey's

Sadly the SS Politician blend wasn’t popular, and its producer, SS Politician plc, went into administration.

In 1987, a local South Uist man, Donald MacPhee, dove the underwater remains of the SS Politican and retrieved eight bottles of Scotch, which he sold at auction for a total of £4,000. His success sparked interest in what else might still be in the hold of the wreck, and in October 1989 SS Politician plc was formed to salvage what it could.

The authorities, however, did not share this view, not least because the whisky was destined for the United States – and so no duty had been paid on it.

There followed a second, attempted, land-borne salvage operation, with the police raiding villages and crofts in an effort to recover the liquid cargo – and the locals secreting their ill-gotten gains wherever they could. Or else they just drank them.

This blended whisky represents one of the greatest stories in scotch whisky.

To the locals, beset by the privations of war and rationing, this was too good an opportunity to miss. Unofficial local ‘salvage parties’ began to form, with the men even donning their wives’ old dresses to prevent their own clothes becoming stained by incriminating ship’s oil.

In 1941, the SS Politician ran aground off Eriskay in the Scottish Hebrides Islands, carrying 260,000 bottles of whisky. As war rationing gripped Britain, Hebridean islanders saw the wreck as a godsend. Under cover of darkness, they salvaged thousands of bottles, hiding them in caves, haystacks, and peat bogs. A cat-and-mouse game ensued with customs officers who were determined to stop the whisky smuggling.

#History

https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/c9d3b489-8482-47d4-87da-5a16b1f78b7f/episodes/0aa1f571-3537-40be-87d9-5240ae01d187/dan-snow's-history-hit-the-scottish-island-the-shipwreck-and-the-whisky

Targets are folks who "wanted to increase their 'followers audience' in Twitch, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, Trovo, and TikTok or use other tool-related features for Kick Chat, Telegram, Email, and Discord."

Beware the stargazing goblin 😆

Malware crew Stargazers Goblin used 3,000 GitHub accounts to make bank - May even have targeted other malware gangs, and infosec researchers

The research, penned by Antonis Terefos of Check Point Software, named the collection of GitHub accounts "Stargazer Ghost Network" and asserted it's operated by a threat actor the cyber security firm labelled "Stargazer Goblin."

https://research.checkpoint.com/2024/stargazers-ghost-network/

Terefos opined that email is viewed with suspicion, so Stargazer Goblin posts nasty links on services

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@b4cks4w

Sidenote; on android use URL check

https://counter.social/@ecksmc/112637034324970454

That way you can click a link from within apps and pick what browser you wanna open link in

Set URL check as default browser - it has some neat modules also to keep you safe

@b4cks4w never been a fan of ddg browser

I have several browsers on mobile Firefox focus is the one I use for opening links from SM sites mainly its fast and reliable and wipes everything once closed - Cromite is another good privacy focused browser with loads of extra settings like set proxy - ad block lists - add custom filter lists - "sec-GPC" setting controls right to opt-out of selling/sharing of data(only states under CCPA & CPRA though) and more

@b4cks4w yeah on my Chromebook I have lite version and original version set as search engines with shortcuts via chrome settings - search engines - then via address bar I can ddg [tab] for original ddg or lddg [tab] for lite version input query [enter] get result

On mobile in certain browsers i have lite ddg set as default search engine others i use original ddg

@AkomoCombine apparently someone leaked that the algorithm is allowing certain accounts to say anything with no fear of being banned

Certain keywords, phrases, that other accounts would be "flagged" by algorithm if said there's an other algorithm protecting certain accounts from being flagged if they accounts say them

Assuming that's what the "silencing" some is coming from

#TipsAndTricks

Get a better search result by using

https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite

Instead of

https://duckduckgo.com

"Lite” version of the DuckDuckGo page that loads results much faster - only UI elements on-screen are the search bar and a DuckDuckGo logo—all ads and other images have been stripped away from results

@stueytheround @Museek @wolfwoman @grayman just observing...... For now "gie it laldy" is on hold

@Museek tread carefully now @stueytheround @wolfwoman @grayman

OpenAI is announcing its much-anticipated entry into the search market, SearchGPT, an AI-powered search engine with real-time access to information across the internet.

#AI

https://chatgpt.com/search

OpenAI is releasing a prototype of its search engine to rival Google, Perplexity

https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/25/24205701/openai-searchgpt-ai-search-engine-google-perplexity-rival

meanwhile;

Reddit Is Giving Google a Search Monopoly

https://lifehacker.com/tech/reddit-blocks-non-google-search-engines

https://counter.social/@ecksmc/112080755857091460

@Render 😠 muthafukas

Tbh buddy I'd probably leave if i was you.... Don't wanna see you actually leave though

Its not people being ignorant to facts or being mislead by media at this stage its down right hatred by some and choosing words to circumvent breaching terms & conditions they know what their doing... Some of us see it

Hate that phase has left again cause of some people... 😞

@Render 💔

By having the laptop physically present in the US and connecting from a US IP address, they had hoped to avoid raising suspicion.