TheGrandNagus
@TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
- Comment on Is this the end of Bootloader Unlocking in the EU? 1 day ago:
Android is far less open than it has ever been.
- Comment on Samsung’s One UI 8 might shut down bootloader unlocking on Galaxy phones 4 days ago:
Sony got a lot of shit for making their phones skinnier and 21:9 but I honestly think it was great
The screen being less wide meant typing one handed was easier, and I frequently have my apps split one on top and one below
If only their phones weren’t so bloody expensive upon release. It’s always the same with them. Good phones that cost way too much, they get panned in reviews for it, then 3-5 months later they drop the prices because people aren’t buying at the full price… but by that point the reviews are already out there! So stupid!
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 5 days ago:
It isn’t. And the only source in the article is that a far-right conspiracy theory site said they’re considering it.
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 5 days ago:
after reports in Guido Fawkes suggested it was possible.
That’s the only source? A far-right conspiracy website?
- Comment on Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update 6 days ago:
It’s all well and good being oh so principled like you’re making yourself out to be, but phones are expensive, and the above user is being completely rational for wanting a Pixel 9 for $250.
- Comment on ‘Climateflation’ could push up UK food prices by more than a third by 2050, report says 1 week ago:
Yes but remember climate is the only factor in food inflation. This estimated 1.1% would be on top of other factors.
- Comment on Australian anti-porn group claims responsibility for Steam's new censorship rules in victory against 'porn sick brain rotted pedo gamer fetishists', and things only get weirder from there 1 week ago:
Live and let live is pretty much the antithesis of organised religion
- Comment on On Tuesday afternoon, ChatGPT encouraged me to cut my wrists 1 week ago:
I’m a very vocal critic of LLMs, I think they’re so overhyped and overused it’s hard to believe.
But I’m also getting really tired of people purposely putting extreme effort into tricking the LLM into saying something harmful if someone were to follow it blindly, just so they can make a clickbait headline out of it.
And what the hell is up with the major “ChatGPT is Satanist [if you instruct it to be]” angle? Are we really doing the Satanist moral panic again?
ffs, criticise OpenAI for being closed af, being wasteful, being strong political lobbyists, for stealing work, etc. You don’t need to push disingenuous stuff like this.
- Comment on Switzerland plans surveillance worse than US 1 week ago:
Oh look, one of Lemmy’s many resident tankies.
- Comment on Switzerland plans surveillance worse than US 1 week ago:
Nazi gold didn’t disappear after the Nazis fell. They still pocketed it all, despite knowing where all that wealth came from, and did fuck all to help rebuild Europe.
Other things like their appeasing attitude towards Russia, reluctance to allow weapons exports to Ukraine, and willingness to export weapons to awful regimes are all unambiguously current.
- Comment on Switzerland plans surveillance worse than US 1 week ago:
You’ve not heard of shady banking, Nazi gold, reluctance to stop dealing with Russia, women not being able to vote until the 70s, and Nestle?
Switzerland gets aggressively simped for online, and there’s certainly some nice things about them, but there’s also some pretty awful things.
- Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC 1 week ago:
An unrepentant homophobe who accused people who dislike him for his homophobic views/actions as being closed-minded and bigoted for disliking him over it.
You can’t make this shit up
- Comment on Labour MP claims it'd cost "Upwards of £100bn to Nationalise Water". He is an extremely smart man. Why does he lie like this? 1 week ago:
All well and good, but then we’d have a truss-like markets meltdown that drives up the cost of all borrowing and destroys investment.
There’s a reason the government mass seizing industry is only done by banana republics.
We’re better off letting them go bankrupt and letting the government step in as operator of last resort, as the law already lays out.
- Comment on Woman, 74, tells of pain and fear after arrest at Liverpool pro-Palestine rally 1 week ago:
It’s not a wrongful arrest though, she was supporting a proscribed terrorist group, rather than any other legitimate group.
- Comment on Woman, 74, tells of pain and fear after arrest at Liverpool pro-Palestine rally 1 week ago:
I’m sorry that you’re a terrorist-supporting idiot.
Literally kill yourself.
- Comment on Woman, 74, tells of pain and fear after arrest at Liverpool pro-Palestine rally 1 week ago:
No they aren’t. Palestine Action is illegal. Because they’re terrorists. The rest are fine.
- Comment on Ofwat to be abolished as ministers look to create new water regulator 1 week ago:
Probably a good thing that will benefit us.
The problem is, like with most things this government seems to be doing, we won’t feel the benefit for a long time. People are impatient and they want results now.
Whether that’s reasonable or not doesn’t matter. It’s the reality, it affects polling, and will affect the next general election.
Things like this, the planning reforms, the infrastructure spending they’re doing, SureStart 2.0, NHS improvements, green subsidies, etc won’t start to bear fruit until Reform are in, and they’ll benefit from it, only to then tear it all down so the next government inherits the same poisoned chalice this government did last year.
- Comment on Chippie owner given ‘devastating’ £40,000 fine by Home office for allegedly illegal hire 1 week ago:
I swear people just want to be unhappy.
We say we don’t want companies to illegally hire, yet when they do and face the consequences of it, we get stories like this.
We can’t have low fines, otherwise business just treat it as a cost of doing business… I’m sure we’ve all seen stories of big companies knowingly breaking the law and being fined pennies, and things like small companies fly tipping because occasionally being caught works out cheaper than proper waste management.
The onus is on the hiring company to check if the person has all the required paperwork and has a legal right to work.
- Comment on UK strikes deal with private investors to build £38bn Sizewell C nuclear power plant 1 week ago:
That is a staggering price, but unfortunately it’s needed. We can’t keep using gas as a base load forever, and batteries are not ready, we don’t have that kind of capacity.
Costs for nuclear have spiralled because we stopped investing in it a long time ago, and we lost expertise on how to build it. Thanks, Thatcher. Truly you are the gift that keeps on giving.
- Comment on UK government to ban public bodies from paying ransoms to hackers 1 week ago:
One of the many things I’ve seen Labour pass that’s made me think “wait this wasn’t a thing already?!”
- Comment on Labour MP claims it'd cost "Upwards of £100bn to Nationalise Water". He is an extremely smart man. Why does he lie like this? 1 week ago:
NOOO
Stop putting thought into things!
- Comment on Woman, 74, tells of pain and fear after arrest at Liverpool pro-Palestine rally 1 week ago:
Being an old, white, middle class woman shouldn’t make you above the law.
Supporting a proscribed group when there are dozens of legit pro Palestine groups is obviously a stupid thing to do.
Tankies feel free to downvote ❤️
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 2 weeks ago:
I used to maintain a website for a bicycling club in my county that was great for getting people into biking, getting people out the house, making friends, and staying fit.
We had a banner ad along the top of the site for a local bicycle/bicycle repair shop that aided the club a lot and was very reasonable.
He got something out of it (publicity and a seal of approval towards the value/quality of his work), and we got something out of it (money to run the site, and a bit left over for things like puncture repair kits and the occasional celebratory drink after an arduous ride).
Nobody bats an eyelid to those ads. They are reasonable.
What we have now isn’t that. What we have now is an insecure, malware-infested privacy nightmare that ruins webpages and stresses everybody out.
Use Firefox + uBlock origin for your own sanity. Don’t let big tech make you feel guilty for not going along with their game.
- Comment on State pension age could rise again after cost of triple lock soars 2 weeks ago:
We saw how politically unviable it was to take away WFA from those who had money while still preserving it for people who don’t.
Labour completely collapsed in the polls overnight, and have paid an extremely heavy price for it, with the biggest reason stated for the polling drop and sub-par local election results being the WFA changes.
Now imagine scrapping triple-lock.
It simply will not happen. Anybody who says they do it won’t be elected, and anybody who does it without it in their manifesto won’t be elected again.
Not that Labour could pass it even if the leadership wanted to weather that storm. There would be a backbencher revolt the likes of which we’ve never seen before. MPs wouldn’t back something they know will get them ousted.
Sadly it seems the only thing that will put an end to the insanity of triple lock is terms pending a bailout from the IMF.
- Comment on Pride rainbows taken off police cars after court ruling 2 weeks ago:
I’ve seen loads of police vans like this. It’s only part of the van and they’re just as recognisable as before IMO.
- Comment on Pride rainbows taken off police cars after court ruling 2 weeks ago:
Your post history says you aren’t. Interesting.
- Comment on Pride rainbows taken off police cars after court ruling 2 weeks ago:
You’re the psychotic, transphobic moron.
Nobody cares about you or your stupid cunty opinions.
- Comment on Pride rainbows taken off police cars after court ruling 2 weeks ago:
So link that, not the high court ruling, dummy.
- Comment on Pride rainbows taken off police cars after court ruling 2 weeks ago:
Your proof of the police being right wing is that they arrest people for supporting terrorist groups? Christ on a bike…
- Comment on Two UK pro-Palestine organisations have bank accounts frozen 2 weeks ago:
Possibly related to them having a donate to Palestine Action button on their website, although they say they removed that after proscription of PA.
Perhaps their account was automatically flagged because of the previous transaction, or something transactions went through after the proscription. I wouldn’t be surprised if the bank was afraid of legal repercussions on their end if they acted as a middle man in funding a proscribed terrorist group.
Regardless, the bank not giving a clear and concrete reason why the funds are frozen is frustrating, and IMO not right. How hard would it have been to say “This account has been flagged as financially supporting Palestine Action. Funds are temporarily frozen pending investigation.” I hate lack of transparency.