FriendlyBeagleDog

@FriendlyBeagleDog@lemmy.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People with depression or anxiety could lose sickness benefits, says UK minister⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They know that suppressing disability benefits will cause excess death, they just don’t care.

  It doesn’t matter to them if their decisions drive vulnerable people to destitution or even suicide, so long as they can feed a few extra bodies into the gears to pump their numbers.

  People with mental health conditions and other disabilities need support that the health and social care services can’t provide because the government have spent over a decade cutting them.

  Instead we get thinly veiled eugenics, a cynical revival of social Darwinism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefish Mastodon alternative⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not configurable through the UI, but if you’re the admin of an instance you can change the character limit with some fairly simple source code tweaksm

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Internet is not forever after all: CNET deletes old articles to game Google⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s fairly silly that this course of action is the consequence of a desire to manipulate search engine results, but at least they’re archiving the articles before taking them down.

  To address the headline, though, I don’t think anybody ever seriously claimed that the internet was forever in a literal sense - we’ve been dealing with ephemerality and issues like link rot from the beginning.

  Only in the modern era dominated by corporations offering a platform in perpetuity have we been afforded even the illusion of dependable permanence, and honestly I’m much more comfortable with the notion of less widely distributed content being able to entropy out of existence than a permanent record for everything ever made public.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vodafone Finds Brits Keep Mobile Phones for 4 Years Instead of 2⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I could understand upgrading so frequently at the advent of mainstream smartphones, where two years of progress actually did represent a significant user experience improvement - but the intergenerational improvements for most people’s day-to-day use have been marginal for quite some time now.