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- Comment on Please defederate from threads.net 11 months ago:
I'm not sure that most Lemmy users have much to fear from Threads because it's a microblogging thing which Lemmy isn't. I
I'm on Kbin where there's slightly more of a concern in theory because Kbin has microblogging capabilities baked in but I don't think it's used very much (I have a separate Mastodon account anyway and that's where the real discussions about all this are happening understandably).
In practice I don't know, I have a strong feeling Meta aren't really interested in this corner of the fediverse right now, they want to be a Twitter-killer after all not a Reddit competitor. Which is why if you're interested in the subject most of the actual debate is going on Mastodon or equivalents.
None of this is going against your main point necessarily, Meta are obviously very shady. But also innocent until proven guilty, you know? Most instances have a pretty solid code of law.
Mods are going to be in for a bumpy ride though...
- Comment on After Radio Silence, Kbin App Artemis Shuts Down 11 months ago:
Yeah it's a real shame because from what I saw of the Artemis app it looked good as well. I hope the dev is ok.
Kbin definitely needs a decent app. The web app does the job but it can be a bit irritating as you say
- Comment on If there was an afterlife, how would it work? 11 months ago:
What if this is the afterlife of a religion we don't know about from our previous existence?
I don't think you can have a rational reply to your question - it's all head canon
- Comment on Firefox lost users during “failed” Yahoo search deal, says Mozilla CEO 1 year ago:
It's not really that surprising that the average user wants the most popular search engine instead of yahoo (of all things) baked in, whatever your views on Google.
- Comment on Private Eye magazine 1 year ago:
Easily my favourite section is the bit about journalism itself. Very eye opening (no pun intended)
There was a clip from Ian Hislop and 2 others from the Eye attending a select committee or something advising politicians about how they could handle disclosing gifts better, and there's a funny/excruciating bit where one of the Eye journalists responds to an argument saying "they're beneficial to the constituancy" by reading out to the politician what 'gifts' he has claimed: "football tickets... Opera... Stay in a hotel..." until the chairman or whatever intervenes. Private Eye don't fuck about.
- Comment on JK Rowling prefers two years in jail over using correct pronouns 1 year ago:
Was my exact reaction when I read this this morning before moving on.
She's just jealous Glinner's got a book out and she thinks she needs to raise her TERF game.
- Comment on Guardian sacks cartoonist Bell in antisemitism row - BBC News 1 year ago:
I mean I always found his cartoons annoyingly unfunny but I don't think there's anti-Semitism in this one. The general state of newspaper political cartoons actually being funny is pretty pathetic, they're still about as good as The Day Today's physical cartoonist Brandt.
But back on topic I it certainly looks like there's no grounds for anti-Semitism for this one.
- Comment on The Israel-Hamas War Is Drowning X in Disinformation 1 year ago:
This is about misinformation on social media plays a part in war and journalism
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- Comment on Doctor Who: Here's Why David Tennant is The Face of The Modern Era 1 year ago:
See I got the impression when watching it was kind of like she was told to 'just play it like you're a female 10th doctor, yeah, that'll do'. Which was really a shame because she could have owned her own character you know?
I actually thought her best episode was the one with the Daleks and the time loop in the warehouse (Eve of the Daleks I think). Her run got overshadowed by the whole timeless child thing which was more fanwank than anyone needed or asked for. Not that Moffat or Davies had individual episodes which were just as bad for continuity stuff but it felt like a lot of the 13th Doctor stories were arc obsessed. Maybe Flux didn't help.
- Comment on AI-Generated 'Subliminal Messages' Are Going Viral. Here's What's Really Going On 1 year ago:
Funnily enough gay sex was fine in ancient Rome (as long as you were the dominant one) but having sex in the light (whether natural or candle light) was seen as a massive taboo.
(Amongst the upper and middle classes anyway, I doubt the majority of people cared)
- Comment on Europe wants easy default browser selection screens. Mozilla is already sounding the alarm on dirty tricks 1 year ago:
Obviously - I guess I'm more surprised at The Register in that case. They're a very savvy industry magazine. Presumably they get a hefty wad.
- Comment on Europe wants easy default browser selection screens. Mozilla is already sounding the alarm on dirty tricks 1 year ago:
Thanks for this - this is something that has passed me by. So essentially plagarising another website's content for traffic plus the usual Google shenanigans? Nice
- Comment on Europe wants easy default browser selection screens. Mozilla is already sounding the alarm on dirty tricks 1 year ago:
Thanks for the info - was not aware of this before. Yet more wonderful business practices from the world of big tech...
- Comment on Europe wants easy default browser selection screens. Mozilla is already sounding the alarm on dirty tricks 1 year ago:
Sorry for that, but I don't actually understand what you mean...
- Comment on Rishi Sunak considers banning cigarettes for next generation 1 year ago:
This is veering wildly into Is It Cake territory....!
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- Comment on Rishi Sunak considers banning cigarettes for next generation 1 year ago:
This is why, as an adult vaper, I get slightly fed up of all the anti-vape news stories. Obviously I am heavily against kids using them, and I also think the disposable ones are environmentally unfriendly to say the least.
But they're a major asset in getting people off the cigs as well and it would be good to remember that once in a while. It's cheaper. It's healthier - a low bar but you can tell the difference in days after switching.
To my mind you can't have it both ways. It's no coincidence that smoking rates have fallen further at the same time that vape shops have popped up everywhere like a rash - they were falling anyway but it's sped things up a lot. (Incidentally my guess is it's not high street vape shops selling to kids but the same garages, newsagents etc that would have sold them fags in the past but that's just anecdotal evidence and conjecture).
I don't agree with bans. I also don't think putting little pictures of tumours on a fag packet ever stopped me lighting up once. What I do like it's seeing politicians finally mentioning 'oh yeah, by the way, smoking isn't very good for you either' after all this moral panic about vaping
(I am ranting a bit because I'm slightly drunk but I have been thinking this a lot this week)
- Comment on Rishi Sunak considers banning cigarettes for next generation 1 year ago:
I like how they focused on vapes first and then looked at smoking laws...
Have to say it though I'd agree with doing something pro-active anti-smoking, but he can say any old thing knowing he won't have to follow through on it now.
- Comment on What does Bluesky have that Mastodon doesn't? 1 year ago:
Someone I'm in a Discord group with wanted an invite to bluesky because it was more familiar to him than Mastodon.
He pretty much wanted a like-for-like replacement for Twitter, though to his credit he had already tried Mastodon before dismissing it out of hand.
It's not that he disliked it exactly, but he wasn't that interested by what he saw so didn't stick with it - to each their own
- Comment on George R.R. Martin and other authors sue OpenAI for copyright infringement 1 year ago:
I mean this isn't miles away from what the writer's strike is about. Certainly I think the technology is great but after the last round of tech companies turning out to be fuckwits (Facebook, Google etc) it's only natural that people are going to want to make sure this stuff is properly regulated and run fairly (not at the expense of human creatives).
- Comment on Rishi Sunak considering weakening key green policies 1 year ago:
I'm actually quite pleased with this because it seemed like Starmer was weakening on environmental issues, especially after the whole Ulez business. Hopefully if the PM is getting flak for diluting his policies on it Starmer will stick to his guns for once
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Still use Google search, but switched out Chrome for Firefox recently and it's working out well. I do still use their calendar, docs apps but I've never been a big one for YouTube. I do have some Google speakers though and use Maps all the time - so I guess out of big tech Google is the one I'm suckered into the most...
Stopped using Facebook around 2016 and deleted my Twitter account a few years before that, basically when the novelty had long gone and it all seemed to be more toxic.
In the UK around that time it was just everyone going on about Brexit on Facebook but even before then people weren't sharing stuff about themselves (with good reason) so it was just low effort memes). Use Facebook once in a blue moon to get in touch with really old friends
Didn't miss either, although I recently signed up to Mastodon more just to see how the fediverse worked over there.
Then Reddit - probably the social media I was most invested in just because it was so granular in it's There's A Sub For That ability to cater for virtually all interests. But the utter disdain they held for their own volunteers and the contempt they seem to hold virtually everyone in was a bit of a wake up call. I do go back and check on it but I'm finding that I check on it less. Fedi has less content so I am reading all those eBooks I should have been reading instead!
My son is 7, I'm interested in how things are looking in 5 year's time when he's an early teen. He's already got bored of watching YouTube videos, tiktok isn't really a thing with us or anyone we know yet... time will tell I suppose. The main thing will be constant reminders that porn isn't real and cyber security lectures
- Comment on Free streaming platform with live TV from BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 launches next year 1 year ago:
I mean it seems to me all is saying it's that instead of having a separate app for BBC, ITV, C4 it'll all be under one app for when you want to stream live programmes. But I honestly can't remember the last time I watched a live programme, so will still be using the separate apps to watch stuff on catch-up.
Britbox is actually pretty decent to find old things on, but the smart TV app interface is rubbish.
- Comment on What is "attention", really? 1 year ago:
What you stand to when I tell you to soldier, if you've quite finished asking questions!
- Comment on Totalitarianism. What are the good things about it? 1 year ago:
What if they realised they'd made a very stupid decision and if there'd been some more checks and balances that decision could have been avoided?
The Third Reich, I think we can all agree was totalitarian. Hitler wanted to plunge into a war on two fronts against the USSR drunk on victory against France and expecting to beat Britain. Most of his military advisors weren't keen. But being a Dictator he could just do it and hey presto war against Stalin. As time went on he got more erratic, made more random millitary decisions overruling his generals and made a pigs ear of things but whatever decision he made on a whim happened straight away anyway.
That's just a famous and obvious example of a totalitarian leader rushing into things and getting where he wanted to go faster which didn't end well for the leader.
- Comment on Ministers set to ban single-use vapes in UK over child addiction fears 1 year ago:
I think drop in coils are a reasonable compromise between convenience/waste - the waste isn't very much and the coils I use last me a good long while (I vape MTL though so a coil can sometimes last me 2 months)
- Comment on Ministers set to ban single-use vapes in UK over child addiction fears 1 year ago:
Kids who got hooked on smoking use vapes to quit.
I'm not so sure about this. I don't have any sources but anecdotally it seems like a lot of kids have leaped into vaping without having ever smoked and have got nicotine habits. It began whenever Juul started marketing themselves as wanting to be the 'ipod of vaping' long ago and specifically targeted young people in the advertising despite what they might have said
Before then it wasn't a thing - it was adults who had found a way to stop smoking and were being left to do it in peace. I'll be proper annoyed if all this leads to me not being able to vape anymore because nothing else worked stopping me smoking. It's the lesser of two evils by a very long shot.
Imo you should have responsible licensed vape shops that sell these things, and I'd be fine with plain packaging - most of the stuff I get is pretty much in plain packaging already from vpz.
But if they ban disposables there's going to be an opening for a black market for dodgy stuff full of even more rubbish. Frankly, they should have done something about this a long time ago
- Comment on Ministers set to ban single-use vapes in UK over child addiction fears 1 year ago:
I do hope this works to stop kids developing/continuing nic habits. Environmental reasons as well of course but really ever since juul came out teen vaping has been ignored instead of dealt with.
However, I can't help but think of the days at my school of us smoking and hope kids won't just take that up instead - luckily it costs a bomb these days so they probably can't afford it (no idea what disposables cost but guessing not as expensive as proper cigarettes!)
- Comment on Does anyone think the remaining "lost" episodes of "Heil Honey, I'm Home" will ever be released? 1 year ago:
Yeah I actually did some research and I stand corrected!
I don't know how far they would have been able to pull the joke of 'satire of lazy sitcoms by using incredibly poor taste' for a full 8 eps but I wouldn't hold your breath for an official release.
They backed out of giving Hardwicke House a full release in DVD (the episode with Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson) at the last minute and that was entirely non controversial.