Silinde
@Silinde@lemmy.world
- Comment on UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B 2 days ago:
Because no system is perfectly secure. It only takes one foolish mistake by someone with global access to the data, and it’s leaked forever, and they have forever to keep trying.
- Comment on UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B 4 days ago:
If we had capable leadership, I’d absolutely agree with you. Evidence is telling me that’s just not happening, and not going to happen any time soon, though. Instead, it’s far more likely any data they do get will be “anonymised”, bundled up and sold off to a company the person making the decision has a large stake in, if not by this government than by the next.
No idea why would would be downvoted without a comment, though. It might be wishful thinking, but your commentary is legitimate.
- Comment on UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B 4 days ago:
They have no idea who I did or didn’t vote for when I complain about them, so it’s completely possible to both complain as well as not vote for anyone at all. A spoiled ballot indicates that you intend to vote, but that nobody running for election is suitable, which is exactly how I feel. Spoiled ballots need to be read by multiple people, generally including the candidates, in case they feel my paper indicates a vote for them. My spoiled ballots have been seen and sent a message to more people than an x in a random box ever will. So yes, I do think it’s a clever move to spoil a ballot as opposed to being a good little voter and putting my x in the box like the other ~99.7% of voters. If more people did the same, that would say more than voting for a specific person ever will.
- Comment on UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B 4 days ago:
You speak as if these shithead politicians actually care about us and what we have to say. Sorry, but that’s utterly delusional, and one look at what’s going on in this country makes that very clear. Voting clearly doesn’t do anything, otherwise things would actually be changing now that someone else was voted in. So you can chalk it up to me being some edgy little rebel with a chip on my shoulder if you like, but I will continue to spoil ballots and talk shit to pricks in power until we actually get some real change or I’m dead, and I know exactly what one of those will happen first.
- Comment on UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B 5 days ago:
When there’s nobody worth voting for, I refuse to play their game. I’m a proud ballot spoiler. Some will say I threw away my democratic right, but when my right is worth as much as pissing in an ocean of piss, it’s not worth having. I’m sure plenty of people here feel some sort of victory for placing Cameron-Hiding-Behind-A-Red-Rosette into number 10 because “at least it’s not the other one”, and I likewise have the same feeling about leaving a message of dissent that a couple people will be forced to read.
- Comment on UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B 5 days ago:
We’re constantly told that the country is broke, taxes will need to go up, old ladies will need to freeze, the disabled don’t deserve what few benefits they get… but we’ve got 1.8B to spend on a scheme that will eventually balloon to 4B+ so that hackers and fraudsters can get access to every piece of information about everyone all in one place, just so we can be spied on even more than we already are. Fuck Reeves. Fuck Starmer. Fuck Labour, and anyone that voted for those cunts.
- Comment on Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC 1 month ago:
I think it’s important to still give a critical eye towards the use of AI, but at this point I think it’s clear that not only is the use of AI going to stop (even once the bubble bursts), but also that the top-end models are just becoming more and more capable every month.
A couple years ago I was giving GPT-3 complex prompts and laughing at how bad and error-prone the output was, but last week I was using GPT-5 to give me information in a field I have little knowledge of, and it’s giving me perfect answers in seconds that takes me 20+ minutes to verify as correct, and that’s tens of times faster than actually learning the field myself. Even if I were to take a year to learn it all myself, I’d then need to not only retain all of that information, but also keep up-to-date on advancements in that field, which an AI will just do over time. This way I can concentrate on the fields of work I already know and follow, but can dabble in other fields without expensive retraining or bugging others in those fields with basic questions.
- Comment on 4chan refuses to pay UK Online Safety Act fines, asks Trump admin to intervene 3 months ago:
Let’s face it, Starmer’s tongue is shoved so far up Trump’s fettid arsehole, he can taste his mouthwash. Trump only has to tweet about it and that spineless twat will capitulate and make it the government’s most important mission to ensure “international cooperation”, or some BS.
- Comment on UK lawmaker for life urged urged ministers to crack down on Palestine Action at request of US company 3 months ago:
Feels like it’s been less Great Britain and more Little America for decades now, with no signs of slowing down.
- Comment on Peak 3 months ago:
It really is. I’ve been recommending it to anyone that can handle its heavy content. I didn’t realise the final episode’s promo was designed to join the two manga covers though. That really is peak.
Anime is Takopii’s Original Sin.
- Comment on Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie -Walpurgisnacht Rising- New Key Visual 4 months ago:
Wow, so this is still on the slate for 2025 I guess? I’d seen so little on it that I expected it to be pushed back.
- Comment on AI CEO – Replace Your Boss Before They Replace You 5 months ago:
Wow, I remember finding that story 20-odd years ago but could never remember the title or author. Pretty good short story IMO, and more relevant than ever.
- Comment on They ruined it 5 months ago:
Is this from a new trailer?
- Comment on Man who lost bitcoin fortune in Welsh tip explores purchase of entire landfill 9 months ago:
I can’t imagine the data would even be readable after all this time. Hard Drives ain’t built to survive being in a tip for a decade, so the odds that water, corrosive liquid and gas got in there is pretty high. That layer that actually holds the data on the platter is incredibly delicate of course, so I wouldn’t hold any hope that the platter could even be removed and read. Must be terrible to have to get up for work every day knowing what slipped through your fingers.
- Comment on New PANTY & STOCKING with GARTERBELT | Official Teaser 11 months ago:
Gainax may have ruined Christmas, but Trigger saved it.
- Comment on What are your favorite 1000+ hour games? 1 year ago:
After around 16,000 hours, I’ve found WoW to be a lot more fun playing with others than just restricting myself to open world and full-PUG content. The last expansion was decent (story was a bit meh, but gameplay was great) and the current expansion has been okay so far. I just hope they can get balancing right on events going forward, since it’s getting tiring seeing them create a massive artificial grind then walk back on it a week or two later.
- Comment on What are your favorite 1000+ hour games? 1 year ago:
After playing for 2000 hours, this one is an easy recommendation from me, too. The game was quite light on endgame content at release, but due to the design of the game, now the vast majority of the game occurs at ‘endgame’ and can be very fun. I love how I can come back after a couple of years, buy access to any content I missed in the meantime and have a character that doesn’t need to grind levels or gear, just jump straight into story mode and get caught up on the story. Even better when you don’t have to worry about making your playtime feel like it needs to be ‘worth it’, since you don’t need to pay monthly to play.