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- Comment on Pornhub, YouPorn, and Redtube and other content sharing platforms will block New users in the UK starting next week(February 2) 13 hours ago:
This will lead to, sexual blackmail of children, suicide and financial fraud.
You should thank the UK for sacrificing so many of its citizens to show the world what peak government stupidity looks like. We thought the point was made with Brexit, but the UK says “hold my beer” one more time.
- Comment on Pornhub, YouPorn, and Redtube and other content sharing platforms will block New users in the UK starting next week(February 2) 14 hours ago:
Well it kinda is the point, people will either use VPNs or go to riskier sources. I found a new site with loads of porn and all you have to do is install their browser plug-in, and video player!
- Comment on Pornhub, YouPorn, and Redtube and other content sharing platforms will block New users in the UK starting next week(February 2) 14 hours ago:
Someone has been reading 1984… I’m not disagreeing with you, just saying ‘hi fellow doom reader’.
- Comment on Hey Microsoft, How's it going? 5 days ago:
They make half a billion dollars profit a day… I’m sure they are doing ok. The only thing that would make a difference is if we all stop using Windows, Office, Edge, Hotmail etc.
- Comment on Is there a "buy nothing" community on Lemmy? Or an anti-consumerism comm? 4 weeks ago:
There is a frugal community, which is close. If you build a Buy nothing community I’ll join in.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I’ve stopped watching YouTube shorts because of this, and the removal of the downvote count makes it harder to tell.
- Comment on ideas for deadspace behind fridge 1 month ago:
I’d start with a search for “unistrut” tracks as these are pretty standard across multiple industries and applications, which makes them cheap, then add “wheel trolly”.
One track down each side 4 trolleys per board and make each board two and a bit feet long and you can have 3 down there. Attach them together with some webbing and a couple of snap fasteners, so you can pull each board out and remove it or just let it dangle down the wall.
- Comment on ideas for deadspace behind fridge 1 month ago:
So it’s ~3ft high, 4ft deep, and runs along the wall we are looking at behind the cupboard around 7ft?
I’m assuming the frame on the left is a doorway, as you walk through that door is there a wall on your right that you can make an opening in for this space?
Having a direct shot along the 7ft length you could make some simple trolly platforms or just store boxes along the length with straps attached so you can pull them out from the back.
I have a similar space in my garage over my porch, where I have a pressurised air cylinder, that’s probably more use in a garage than a kitchen… but you could dry your plates really really fast.
- Comment on Arguing for the car as a good method of transportation is like arguing that having personal diesel generator to power you home is a good idea 2 months ago:
I’m going to sound like a carnivore on a Vegan sub now, but genuinely I’m disabled and not easily able to use the bike/transport options.
Apparently 36 minutes walk away from my nearest train station if I walk on a grass verge on a 60mph road with no pavement, there is a bus but that is 28 minutes to the train station with a change of bus and 9 minute walk.
I could probably manage the 2nd option, but not a lot else for the rest of the morning.
- Comment on Arguing for the car as a good method of transportation is like arguing that having personal diesel generator to power you home is a good idea 2 months ago:
What if my home is powered by solar and a home battery, and my car is an EV? I basically have a personal generator and it’s fantastic, it’s just not Diesel, same for the car.
- Comment on Why does a Local AI Voice Agent Running on a Super-Cheap Soc Matter? 3 months ago:
This was exactly my point, when it’s for home use the chance of my depriving anyone of revenue is negligible.
If I’m running a home assistant anyway not having that assistant constantly connected to the web relaying my audio, processing and sending it back will use less power.
Finally thanks to the solar panels on my roof I can guarantee my searches are powered on 100% sunshine.
- Comment on Why does a Local AI Voice Agent Running on a Super-Cheap Soc Matter? 3 months ago:
We’re talking about home use AI searches… you said it was unethical so maybe you should define exactly why you think this?
Today I wanted to know what the tyre pressures should be for my 2002 Corolla and AI gave me the answer, I would not have bought a book or gone anywhere past the first page of google for that information.
The possible ethical dilemma is depriving someone of compensation because I used their research and deprived them of potential revenue, in reality I would never have bought a book on tyre pressures or car maintenance, and it’s unlikely I would ever have visited a site where adverts would have paid the contributors.
Another dilemma is of power consumption, the model is already made then it’s already used the power, and my tiny LLM query is going to use far less power locally than a web based search.
As a company who might make money, or achieve cost savings from using AI trained on data some only intended for use by a human, I can see how this is not always ethical.
- Comment on Why does a Local AI Voice Agent Running on a Super-Cheap Soc Matter? 3 months ago:
- Whose data is it trained on? Seems like an ethical dilemma to me.
Using a standalone LLM for personal use doesn’t seem like an ethical dilemma to me, it’s already been trained on the data and if the data was accessible on the web or via a library then I don’t see the harm.
Getting small amounts of medium-trust information on a subject, is a good way to get someone I interested enough to read a book, watcha a YouTube video or find a website for more information and validate the AI response.
- Comment on The UK’s Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship – and the rest of the world is following suit 5 months ago:
Not easy when 7 of the top 8 newspapers are just propaganda for the Tories. You can only convert so many people when entire fear and belief systems have been cultivated over decades.
- Comment on The UK’s Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship – and the rest of the world is following suit 5 months ago:
- Comment on The UK’s Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship – and the rest of the world is following suit 5 months ago:
- This can of worms Carnegie UK and the lobbyists have opened.
- Comment on The UK’s Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship – and the rest of the world is following suit 5 months ago:
I think you may be generalising based on what our politicians say and comments on social media that are written by Russian bot farms or not mass reported by them.
All poles confirm the UK public know they were lied to and would never make the same mistake again.
- Comment on The UK’s Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship – and the rest of the world is following suit 5 months ago:
We don’t want this dystopian nightmare either, and just like Brexit we weren’t told what it was before it was too late. Hopefully you will welcome us back when all the liars are voted out and ignored.
- Comment on Tesla applies to supply electricity to households in Great Britain 5 months ago:
In case anyone else wants a template:
I would like to object to Tesla becoming a UK electricity supplier. I do not believe the person who cut USAID and is projected to lead to the deaths of 14 million people (double the member of Jews killed in the holocaust) should be put in charge of anyone’s electricity supply in the UK.
That kind of psychopathic behaviour should not be anywhere near a vital and live saving service.
- Comment on Tesla applies to supply electricity to households in Great Britain 5 months ago:
Make sure to write to OFGEM and let them know how you feel about Tesla having a license.
- Comment on NHS bosses and the British Medical Association are accusing each other of endangering patients 5 months ago:
Possible unpopular opinion, I think striking a year after the government agreed a very generous pay rise including a good step towards pay restoration, is bad faith, and especially tone deaf when the economic forecasts are not exactly encouraging.
I’d like our resident doctors to be well paid, but your timing and strategy sucks.
- Comment on What a fantastic deal 5 months ago:
Why do I always get the knob seat?
- 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? 6 months ago:
The investments I was referring to was gilts, which is how the government borrows money from foreign countries and private investors.
We do absolutely need foreign investment as our national debt is currently £2.7 trillion (about £40k per person)
If governments start selling that debt, then higher interest rates will be demanded for new gilts by those willing to still buy them.
- 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? 6 months ago:
You know what you’re right “collapse” of the pensions is overstated, but it will hit “low risk” pensions by a couple of percentage points. Low risk pensions options are mostly owned by people in their 60s who are keeping a close eye on their retirement income, and who also vote in large numbers, not the people you want to make clear you are going to take away a few hundred a month for the rest of their lives.
Just today government borrowing went up just because the growth forecast was a little worse then expected. If the government is suddenly on the hook for tens of billions in water infrastructure investment at the same time they are seen as anti-business and willing to rug-pull private investment, you bet foreign governments will sell their investments in the UK.
- 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? 6 months ago:
There is another way… the new government regulator can force terms on the water companies that limit bill hikes, pay, dividends and bonuses until the upgrades they were supposed to do over the last 40 years are completed and their debts are repaid.
The pensions take a bit of a hit without wiping them out and the government is just ensuring the vital infrastructure is upgraded and sewage is treated as promised when they privatised.
- 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? 6 months ago:
In that case I know a political party you’ll love… until the “find out” period comes for you.
Just ignore what is happening elsewhere, I’m sure it will be different here.
- 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? 6 months ago:
I’d love this to be a 4 step plan however…
Step 5, Watch the collapse of virtually all private pensions in the UK as their value drops due to heavy investment in various water companies.
Step 6, Watch the gilt markets collapse as the UK government is seen as reckless and anti business as it removes assets from private investors.
Step 7, government borrowing goes up just as debt to GDP goes flying past 100%.
Step 8, government collapses and Nigel Farage comes swinging to the “rescue” by stuffing as many of the remaining £50 notes passing through the government into his pockets, and the pockets of his friends, while selling off the NHS and making the UK the first nation in the world to revert back into a 3rd world country.
- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 6 months ago:
Let’s not forget all that lovely metadata they can harvest by accessing the camera module, including the exact GPS co-ordinates the picture was taken.
- Comment on What quintessentially British images should go on the new banknotes? Our panel has some ideas 6 months ago:
JK Rowling hate-tweeting
- Comment on What quintessentially British images should go on the new banknotes? Our panel has some ideas 6 months ago:
A turd floating down a river?