mannycalavera
@mannycalavera@feddit.uk
- Comment on What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading 10 hours ago:
I’m not sure why Google just doesn’t track who opts out of Play Store protections to side load and then refuse to support anything further. Power users will be happy, they’re power users. Grannies have been warned. Where’s the problem?
Block by default, opt out of blocking explicitly. Give users that choice. If I want to riddle my phone with viruses and bitcoin miners that’s my problem.
- Comment on Sex offender who sparked UK asylum hotel protests released by mistake 4 days ago:
Yes you’re absolutely right.
- Comment on Sex offender who sparked UK asylum hotel protests released by mistake 5 days ago:
Why do we pretend the government is in anyway competent?
- Comment on Starmer lays out vision for much-criticised digital ID scheme 5 days ago:
I’m not sure this government listens to petitions. You need to form an alliance of digital id lovers and then throw paint on a tank or something whilst dressed as a giant id card. Before you know it the Home Secretary will proscribe your group as terrorists and arrest anyone carrying a digital id card or showing support for it. The government will eat itself so to speak.
Check mate Blair. Your move.
- Comment on William Hill owner says it could shut shops if Reeves raises gambling taxes 5 days ago:
I wouldn’t bet on it…
- Comment on Palestine rights group seeks prosecution of UK citizens who fought for Israel 5 days ago:
No no you don’t understand. Fight for a foreign army and be brown… illegal terrorist under the foreign enlistment act. Fight for a foreign country and be white… meh. Have you not Europed before?
- Comment on 2,100 arrested for carrying Palestine Action signs 5 days ago:
OMG we’ve never actually seen Keir Starmer and Mr Blobby in the same room at the same time together. Coincidence? I think not.
- Comment on Five grooming gang survivors tell PM they will stay on panel only if Jess Phillips remains in post 6 days ago:
Four for leave. Five for remain.
It’s getting towards that cursed ratio again. 😆
- Comment on Family seek £180k-a-year tutor from 'socially appropriate background' to prepare one-year-old son for ‘Eton or Harrow’ 1 week ago:
I think you should appy for the job and then do a reverse Eliza Doolittle after the kid gets into Eton.
Oi gotcha mi’lud! Oim really a propa workin’ class scallywag I am! Fooled ya good n’ propa, innit?! Have a banana 🍌.
Or whatever you northerners sound like…
- Comment on Ed Miliband says it is ‘possible’ that UK government should leave X 1 week ago:
How will they appeal to bigots and racists to win votes? They’ll actually have to visit their homes.
- Comment on Japanese Government Calls on Sora 2 Maker OpenAI to Refrain From Copyright Infringement, Says Characters From Manga and Anime Are 'Irreplaceable Treasures' That Japan Boasts to the World 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think these companies give a shit 😥. If it means US companies fall behind the White House is going to aide with these companies and allow it. Or hostilely take over your company like they’re doing with Tiktok.
- Comment on Digital IDs to buy alcohol by the end of the year – here’s how it could work 2 weeks ago:
Cue comments about the government monitoring your drinking habits.
Oi m8, u got a license for that drink?
- Comment on ‘Sex for rent’ is illegal in the UK. Why are thousands of people still affected? 2 weeks ago:
The police are too busy arresting Disabled Grannies Against Genocide to enforce any laws.
- Comment on NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers 2 weeks ago:
Mich easier to just write a cheque of money money to Elon. I hear he likes taking public money 💰💰💰.
- Comment on British citizens serving in the IDF can now be tried for war crimes in the UK 2 weeks ago:
Let’s be honest, this is never going to happen. You have to understand the real politique rules that exist here: if you’re brown and join a fighting force overseas - terrorist. If you’re white - woah woah woah let’s not get carried away here maybe they’re just doing medical or logistics roles.
British citizens will still head over to Israel and fight for the IDF and then happily return freely to the UK afterwards. And not a damned thing will change 😥🙃.
- Comment on Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins dies in prison attack 2 weeks ago:
😆
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- Comment on UK: Foreign Secretary says China does pose a security threat to Britain, says she is ‘deeply frustrated’ at collapse of spy trial 2 weeks ago:
I’m surprised she hasn’t said, “If you knew what I know about China you wouldn’t object to the government proscribing them as terrorists”.
Seriously what’s the difference? Oh yes. She’s has zero principles and is an idiot.
- Comment on Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted dinner giving tech bosses access to UK minister 2 weeks ago:
I can’t think of two bigger sleaze bags. Cleggers can fuck right off back to Facebook.
- Comment on Britons travelling to EU to undergo new biometric checks at border from Sunday 2 weeks ago:
The messaging is clear here. If you travel to the EU and plan on committing crimes… then you best be an EU citizen so that you can get away with it.
- Comment on Defence ministry spends millions on private schools to avoid Welsh 3 weeks ago:
The answer is simple. Don’t have children. There. Problem solved.
- Comment on Landmark study shows 1.4m Britons have a gambling problem 3 weeks ago:
I can quit whenever I want.
- Comment on Vegan Politician Zack Polanski Elected New Green Party Leader In Landslide Victory 3 weeks ago:
Is the news stale and not current. Yes.
So what are you on about? Please address this point directly instead of deflection. Thank you for your cooperation.
- Comment on Vegan Politician Zack Polanski Elected New Green Party Leader In Landslide Victory 3 weeks ago:
LOL pretty stale “news” no? 🤣🤣😂
- Comment on Labour Party members just defected to Your Party en masse 3 weeks ago:
Bothsidesing is the worst thing you can do as a news site.
Bothsiding ? Oh we’re turning it into a verb now are we? OK. Cool.
I have to disagree with that. Not pretending to world is simple and presenting a balanced view of a story is a mature aged responsible thing to do as a news site. Obviously people will disagree but to hide information or distort it is not news. It’s dirty propaganda.
We need less of these kinds of site that amplify hate towards others and pretend the world is simpler than it is. No wonder we’re so fucked and divided as a country. The exact same thing Farage is doing to right wingers, sites like these are doing to left wingers.
I have easy answers for you. Oh and by the way everyone that disagrees with me is some form of evil.
FFS.
- Comment on Starmer claims that America under Donald Trump 'keeps us safe' 3 weeks ago:
You obviously don’t remember Tony Blair fawning over Bush. Rode with him into battle. Oh wait, no. Started an illegal war that we’re all still paying the price for.
- Comment on Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme crushes Apple M4, Intel, and AMD in new benchmarks 4 weeks ago:
Don’t you want to put on some of this thermal paste?
Where this is going, baby, you don’t need no thermal paste!
faints on floor
- Comment on Starmer used land tax dodge to avoid inheritance tax 4 weeks ago:
Guys… his mother was a nurse and his father was a tool maker. Doesn’t that count for anything anymore?
- Comment on Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards 4 weeks ago:
Hmm 🧐 seems I was suckered into the government propaganda machine. I can’t help but think Nandy’s comments this morning were calculated to cause confusion in the government’s favour.
- Comment on Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards 4 weeks ago:
I carry my driving licence too, but by choice.
Lisa Nandy was just on Sky news and explicitly said that it is optional to carry it. You’d apparently “have an ID” but you don’t have to carry it.
I’m not sure what that means for why they need it. Apparently to check work eligibility easily instead of one of several means that are, in her words, “more easily forged”.
You could quite easily develop a system like the driving licence check (for when you rent a car, for example, to check your driving status and points) to provide extra information anonymously like age range or work status or whatever you wanted. In fact if we were still in the EU we’d be able to participate in the beta that Spain is spearheading for age verification: ageverification.dev. It’s goals are explicitly privacy focused so I’d encourage people to read the details.
As a technology challenge I don’t think there’s a good argument not to have such a system rather than the patch work one we have now that was designed and built close to hundreds of years ago. However politically selling something like this to British people is always going to be the hard part.