Mastodawn

What are we going to call The King Of The North if he's the leader of the whole Union?

RE: https://kafeneio.social/@felixthehat/116792863262707070

There's a dark, musty room in the basement of #10, where Lecterns Of PMs Past are kept. It can only be opened by one old guy who is charged with keeping the key about his person at all times.

Occasionally, when the door is opened, the lecterns will have moved around; sometimes one is lying broken in a pile of splinters.

Thatcher's lectern is kept separately, in its own antechamber. It is chained to the walls and floor. But that doesn't stop the endless screaming.

Rob Kendrick 5d ago

David JONES 5d ago

I've been looking a bit at yabasic, and it looks fun. One of my favourite parts is that every time i see the word yabasic in the documentation and webpages, in my head it is being pronounced by Eleanor Shellstrop (played by Kristen Bell) saying "Yah basic!".

#yabasic #theGoodPlace #KristenBell

Rob Kendrick Jun 21

Natasha

🇪🇺🇮🇪Jun 21

"Thanks humans"

Poster from the Thomas House bar in Dublin 🇮🇪. All AI posters and flyers are not accepted. Love it!

The UK's social media ban for under 16s is going to be an absolute clusterfuck of epic proportions.

OK so in the list of social media sites that will be banned, which were surprisingly vague, Youtube was included. Youtube. You know. The Video Depository? The Video Depository that has things like Public Information Films for Young people? The site with REVISION MATERIALS FOR 15-16 YEAR OLDS?

So not only are they going to BORK the internet by making you age verify video embeds that they include, they are going to also block a site that kids studying from their GCSEs and National 5s use to FUCKING REVISE! How the fuck you gonna access Crash Course IF YOU CAN'T ACCESS YOUTUBE, KEIR?

OH BUT IT GETS WORSE!

So the platforms mentioned are "platforms like Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and X" BUT they stress the ban will NOT include Whatsapp or Signal. Whatsapp has Social Features like Snapchat, and even Signal has stories, so where the fuck do you draw the line?

Like that is incredibly vague. How do you differentiate between SnapChat and WhatsApp now? WhatsApp has developed into basically SnapChat with a worse UI, and even Signal has Disappearing Stories ala Snapchat!

How exactly do you differentiate between WhatsApp/Signal and Snapchat? A Streaks feature?

Oh, and on top of that, as Amnesty very aptly put it, it doesn't actually deal with the REASON Social Media is a problem. Social Media sites are designed to be unsafe. They don't HAVE to be, but they are. They are designed to keep you on the site as long as possible and keep you using it.

Banning U16s from Social Media WON'T fix that. It'll just result in a load of 16 year olds who don't know how to behave on the fucking internet, which is arguably more dangerous. it's like keeping a kid locked in their room until 16 and then telling them to drive to the shops for some smokes.

They could twist the arms of social media companies to end skinnerboxing and addictive practices, but the Social Media companies have cucked them so hard that they're doing this, so they can continue skinnerboxing people, this time with less preparation, while claiming to be "doing something."

OH AND TO TOP IT ALL OFF, all of this was announced on Twitter, a site run by a man who helped incite pogroms and riots, and makes money by letting people who pay him generate CSAM using his AI, and nothing about that is being done.

Fuck. This. Shit.

Rob Kendrick Jun 16

Lars Wirzenius Jun 16

I've been using almost nothing else than Debian GNU/Linux on i386 and amd64 PCs, since 1992. (I helped birth Linux, and I was part of Debian for a long time.) I have been happy for myself, but speaking more generally, I think it'd be awesome, nay, AWESOME, if computing wasn't so homogeneous. Almost everyone is using Windows or Mac. Outside that, it's mostly Linux, with a few BSD variants. I hope to see that change, some day.

Ideally, radically different, not just another Unix.

Rob Kendrick Jun 16

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck I want bacon and have no bacon

Rob Kendrick Jun 12

Metin Seven Jun 11

#tech #technology #BigTech #data #security #privacy #safety #InfoSec #IT #surveillance #computing #digital #online #internet #web #cloud #meme

Rob Kendrick Jun 12

There should be a spin-off media, maybe a cartoon, about what Jonesy the cat, the little shithead, got up to when he was left behind at Earth by Ripley.

Rob Kendrick Jun 12

mhoye Jun 11

Whatever they say about "loving the Web", the Chrome team will choose Google's ad business over everything else, web standards, user agency, security, privacy, safety, interoperability, literally anything and everything else every single time.

What anyone on that team says they love or care about or want does not change anything they're going to do.

Get Firefox.

Yes, they're thrashing. Yes, the AI stuff is bullshit nobody wants.

Get Firefox, add uBlock Origin.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2595287/ublock-origin-is-officially-dead-for-chrome-but-ad-blockers-live-on.html

uBlock Origin is officially dead for Chrome, but ad blockers live on

Changes to Chrome nukes one of the best ad-blockers—but its replacement is still alive and kicking butt, as are other excellent alternatives.

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