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- Comment on The UK’s Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship – and the rest of the world is following suit 6 hours ago:
England isn’t the problem, it’s London that’s the problem.
London needs to become its own independent city state and then they can do what the hell they want with it and then we’ll be governed by someone from Leeds or Manchester or someplace like that, by someone who actually has a grip
- Comment on The UK’s Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship – and the rest of the world is following suit 6 hours ago:
There has been a petition. And it has received the aforementioned “lol no” response. The thing is though after the French set the capital on fire the age of retirement still went up, nothing changed.
Anyway, all we have to do is use a VPN to get around it and wait for the inevitable data leak, then the whole thing will collapse under the weight of its own stupidity.
- Comment on Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed? 7 hours ago:
Yes but then it’s all German. Those guys seriously I’m a meme problem
- Comment on Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed? 7 hours ago:
Oh by the way did I tell you I’m vegan.
- Comment on Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed? 7 hours ago:
It’s from Austin powers. It’s like one of the most quoted lines from Austin powers.
- Comment on Final Fantasy X programmer doesn’t get why devs want to replicate low-poly PS1 era games. “We worked so hard to avoid warping, but now they say it’s charming” - AUTOMATON WEST 19 hours ago:
I’m kind of hoping that the 28 years later movie is filmed in 1080p or something.
- Comment on Player Spends $32,000 on NBA 2K25 in Just Five Months 19 hours ago:
It’s not even a good game. It’s not significantly improved from previous titles why people paying microtransactions for this let alone buying the game at all
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 19 hours ago:
Web developers work this out years ago. If you want to put content behind a paywall don’t do it client side because it will get bypassed.
This was me working out of a tiny office. Yet apparently I was more advanced than AAA game developers.
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 19 hours ago:
I remember when FPGAs were prohibitively expensive.
- Comment on Blamed for Steam games ban, Mastercard encourages censorship during Riot Games VCT livestreams 1 day ago:
Seriously? You think the UK banking sector is competitive?
You must be smoking some powerful stuff.
- Comment on Blamed for Steam games ban, Mastercard encourages censorship during Riot Games VCT livestreams 1 day ago:
Clearly you haven’t been paying attention over the last couple of weeks because that’s exactly what they’re doing.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 1 day ago:
Bixby was not llm based
I’m not really sure how that really makes any difference though. I’m not defending their decision I’m just saying that it’s been around for a while now.
I’ve just pressed my power button five times and it does call, what I’m assuming is, emergency number. It’s the wrong one for my country (genius Samsung) so God knows what that would actually do, but it doesn’t auto call I have to actually press the call button. Maybe they received some user feedback?
Seems a bit pointless given the fact that I have to press the button five times to call the emergency services but their phone number is only three digits long.
- Comment on Battlefield 6's beta has only been running for a day, but it's already suffering from a FPS curse with cheaters breaking out the wallhacks 2 days ago:
It will result in cheaters getting instantly identified and banned so then it’ll be less fun for them, and they’re less likely to do it.
- Comment on Battlefield 6's beta has only been running for a day, but it's already suffering from a FPS curse with cheaters breaking out the wallhacks 2 days ago:
There’s lots they could do to minimise cheaters that they’re not doing. The main one being not sending the cheaters information in the first place.
The wall hack cheat works because for some bizarre reason the server sends players information about the position of other players they can’t possibly see, players on the other side of the map for example, there’s no reason for the client to have that information. The cheaters cannot access information that isn’t given to them.
- Comment on No, the UK’s Online Safety Act Doesn’t Make Children Safer Online 2 days ago:
At the very least I wish these people would announce the wording of the petition in advance of filing the petition, so that it could be worked on. There are lawyers out there who are interested in this course I’m sure they could help, but unfortunately once the petition is filed that’s the wording you have to go with even if it’s inaccurate and loose in its definition.
- Comment on The UK needs a new electoral system – should it copy Scandinavia? 2 days ago:
It is accurate to say that it’s not as good as proportional representation because it isn’t as good as proportional representation hence the plaster over analogy.
- Comment on The UK needs a new electoral system – should it copy Scandinavia? 2 days ago:
Single transferable vote doesn’t really solve any of the underlying problems. It’s plastering over them more than actually fixing them given that we’re changing the electro system I’d rather we actually fix the problem.
- Comment on No, the UK’s Online Safety Act Doesn’t Make Children Safer Online 2 days ago:
Every time one of these petitions comes up it’s always badly worded. I still think that the stop killing games petition was badly worded and gave them an easy out.
- Comment on The World Will Enter a 15-Year AI Dystopia in 2027, Former Google Exec Says 2 days ago:
I’d love to know what random event in history could have been changed in order to prevent this sequence of events because as far as I can tell this timeline is the result of fairly logical consequences.
- Comment on The World Will Enter a 15-Year AI Dystopia in 2027, Former Google Exec Says 2 days ago:
Every business that fires their employees and tries to replace them with AI ends up hilariously screwed over by it. It’s not going to get to take over the world levels in 2 years.
Anyway I’m safe, the company I work for still use a software written in 1995 so I reckon I have until at least 2045 before they introduce any AI.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 2 days ago:
It’s not a new updated it’s been that way for years.
- Comment on Jeremy Corbyn attacks Angela Rayner for selling off allotments 2 days ago:
Your reading comprehension leads some improvement because I never said I disagreed with it I just said it’s hardly the most pressing of issues and it isn’t.
As I am sure you know our primary source of food is not random allotments.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 2 days ago:
People are shitting on Firefox while ignoring what they are up against.
People are complaining about unnecessary bloat. That has nothing to do with them being the underdog.
- Comment on Jeremy Corbyn attacks Angela Rayner for selling off allotments 3 days ago:
I see he’s tackling the biggest issues first.
As with most of the things Corbin says I don’t inherently disagree with him I just think he goes at it like a bull in a china shop. There was a time and place to go full nuclear option and an arguement over allotments (assuming there is an arguement, because this is the first time I’ve heard about this) isn’t the place to do it.
Also name your goddamn party, it makes it so difficult to talk about it when it doesn’t have a name. Spend 10 minutes and come up with a name for frig sake, even reform managed it.
- Comment on US envoy to Israel taunts Keir Starmer and likens Gaza assault to Dresden bombing 3 days ago:
Of course trump would have been on the side of the South. So the union would have probably won the war even more easily if they were going up against him as chief decision maker.
- Comment on US envoy to Israel taunts Keir Starmer and likens Gaza assault to Dresden bombing 3 days ago:
I don’t like Starmer very much, but that’s a utterly stupid and incredibly ignorant thing to say. Especially from the US ambassador.
The UK was under attack by a hostile force who were literally bombing the country. A military response was inevitable, the current prime minister would have had very little effect on that. One way or the other there was going to be a war, victory for that war was largely down to experience military commanders and not the prime minister. I’m fairly sure that if we reran history and kept everything else the same except had Starmer as prime minister we would have still won the war.
In reality we might have done slightly better because Churchill was incredibly uncompromising and inflexible. A better relationship with Eisenhower might have actually helped slightly. Although it probably would have not made a huge difference.
- Comment on Sony says it’s not done making Xperia phones just yet 3 days ago:
A good chunk of the target market didn’t yet know what their own fingers were for 20 years ago, if they were alive at all. I don’t think that scandal has anything to do with their current market position.
- Comment on Sony says it’s not done making Xperia phones just yet 3 days ago:
Headphones have always had stupid names because no one ever knows what they’re called anyway. Meanwhile Xperia Z VI, well overly obese is exactly in line with all other phones.
iPhone 16 Pro.
Galaxy 18 Pro - Comment on Car Park Capital - Official Announcement Trailer 3 days ago:
There’s already a value recent theme park game, and of course you’ve got things like planet coaster.
- Comment on Dubious UK local news websites with Russian links are receiving cash for coverage 3 days ago:
That would be a case for censorship if they reported the actual news but they don’t. They’re like fox news in the United States, they literally make things up.