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Main is https://boing.world/@pre

Using this account more for forum-interaction, if I say anything I think is interesting here I'll likely boost it there.

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@Anamnesis The British People don't want it at all, but we are ruled by fuckheads who can only get their seat by accepting bribes from private health companies.

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@flamingos That's why the sudden rush-move. Calling the election before enough letters can arrive to have him kicked out.

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@AllNewTypeFace More like exposing him really. Let him talk to damn himself.

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@robin

Whatssapp is designed as a surveillance app, it's primary purpose is to collect data from your phone for Facebook to analyze, so they make it basically impossible to use unless it's installed on your phone.

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@beeng I wonder what proportion of the original code is still there. Not much I shouldn't think. The original app didn't ask for android permissions the way the modern one does, if only coz Android changed the way permissions work since then.

@robin

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The british public are pretty conservative, but the tory party are a fucking wrecking ball and no conservative should vote conservative if they want to conserve things.

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Seems unlikely they'll deleted it. If they're started deleting data that's quite a change. They might save from bandwidth costs of delivering it to people I suppose.

Maybe something to do with users filling the AIs from the google cache? Google wanting to ensure only they can train from the google-cache.

@kubica @Powderhorn @rho50

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If only there really was a party offering to undo every law the conservative and coalition governments have passed and return us to a time before they existed.

That party would be the best party.

Sadly that isn't on offer and even Labour intend to keep this mess of a country mostly without any reverting of changes at all.

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@Jackthelad Yeah, it'd just be easier to reset than to sort through good from bad. Can always re-assess any good ones. Chances are even they can be done better.

Resetting the Brexit and other foreign treaty stuff could be quite tricky in practice too.

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@Hossenfeffer 🤞

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@Norgur hehe.

A stylus holder too, an extra battery of course, too to handle the extra load.

No phone has been better than the n900. But a case that had the keys and extra power and maybe a secondary status screen on the back, and didn't look like a bananna themed children's toy. Could be nice.

@ayla @user224

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While it still says "twitter.com" in the SSL certificate, that's still it's name. It is still called Twitter.

Labour is going to be more radical than you think it is | Ian Dunt (iandunt.substack.com)

Petrified fucking terror. That’s the first thing you think when you look at Labour. A barely-concealed, buttoned-up, can’t-sleep-at-night anxiety, lurking just behind the eyes. They’re scared they’ll fluff it. They’re scared that in the white heat of the election campaign, the Tories will find some policy in their...

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There's literally no way to know what a Labour government will be like. All we know about Starmer is that he's prepared to lie and say whatever he thinks he needs to say to get power.

Was he lying to the left to get selected? Or is he lying to the right now to get elected?

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Even to whatever extent they have described any policies at all, they're probably just lies.

Still. The mystery prize will indeed be better than yet more crazed Tories. I suspect just not all that different.

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Ah, I really wish Oculus had sold themselves to almost any other company on the planet :(

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@XeryBlox The first thing I would pirate would be a hacked version of Firefox that had ad-blockers in it.

If I can't get that then I'd think about abandoning the web for Gemini.

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In the first term of a Labour government they will maybe be a bit less hostile towards the EU but they won't be re-joining or anything. They'll have no mandate to do so since they worry putting it in a manefesto would alienate their red-wall voters.

As it currently looks Labour won't do much of anything at all. Continue tory spending plans, refuse to raise any taxes, not rebuild any schools, not make any changes which may affect the social order or reform capitalism in any way.

Expect 4 years of calm with almost nothing happening. Which in itself will be quite a relief.

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@Oneeightnine The only horrific thing he has to do is look like he'll lose the election.

For what it's worth, I too have no confidence that Sunak will win the election, thank goodness.

Those submitting letters to the committee now probably never liked Sunak in the first place, some may have even submitted them on day one when they were just angry at him ousting BoJo.

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Of course they do, Labour will be the ones passing the laws in a couple of years and they've shown under their current leadership they are no threat to established interests and will do nothing to change the order of things and since the party has lost so many members it needs the money.

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Probably the "company" that they thought you were shilling for is Kbin or Lemmy? Which aren't companies of course, but an understandable mistake.

Presumably the people on Reddit will become more and more in favour of the admins, as everyone who isn't leaves.

Soon all that is left will be the Spez Fan Club.

"If you build it, they will come"

I think we all can agree that the main thing holding back the growth of kbin and lemmy throughout all of the reddit drama is a lack of accessibility. Kbin and lemmy both capture the spirit of reddit in their style and userbase, but really lack the ease of use that led to millions of people adopting reddit. Looking at the trends,...

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This wave will surely redouble when the apps actually get turned off next week.

Fedi has always had scalloped growth. Big Social tightens the thumb-screws, a wave of people leave, half of them go back because it turns out they can put up with the thumb-screws after all. Those that remain settle in and start servers. The waterline is then higher when the next wave comes.

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@BenGFHC
They only have one button. Their choice is to press it or not press it. So they press it when inflation is high. You could get a robot to do it. They know it won't work, might even make it worse, but they have no other buttons to press.

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Everything was good for a while, but the 500s are back here on Fedia, particularly on index page :(

@jerry

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Yeah, federation ain't working right in ways bigger than just kbin.social having a captcha. This whole instance feels almost isolated at times. Might be overloading issue. Jerry seemed to think the CPUs were all racing at max all the time and planned to upgrade to 4x the hardware. Not sure if that happened yet.

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@jasongreen

Dunno, but there is something weird about that group on the sopuli.xyz server.

If you look at the page
https://sopuli.xyz/c/fountainpens

You get a 404 even though the page
https://sopuli.xyz/c/memes

Works okay.

To see it on the sopuli site you have to look at
https://sopuli.xyz/c/fountainpens@sopuli.xyz

Like the group is remote to the server, even though the remote host it's on is indeed that server.

Notice that if you click the group-name from https://sopuli.xyz/c/fountainpens@sopuli.xyz it points to https://sopuli.xyz/c/fountainpens which is the 404.

Curious.

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Yep, look to me like it's more than just the DDOS protection from kbin.social, no federated posts in "new" for about 24 hours now.

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