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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Truman Show before Truman turned 18 is literally CSAM⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  Just remove the "S" and it'd be nearer the mark.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discussion: Long-term need for automation tools for moderation⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Automatic removal for repeat URL posting

  That seems like the best of these ideas. But it would be better for the originating instance to warn the poster that their url has already been seen and stop them posting it unless they really really want to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here's what would happen if the UK abolished landlords overnight⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s assume being a landlord is made illegal overnight. Tenants won’t be made to leave their homes, however, until the landlord has been able to sell up.

  I mean obviously we're not going to abolish landlords overnight unless we abolish a whole lot of other things along with them in some kind of incredibly successful revolution, but thinking that we'd keep them around long enough to profit from the sale of their real estate assets is just a failure of imagination. Let's assume that all mortgage debt is cancelled and ownership of every dwelling is granted to whoever's been living in it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  That would result in massive protests.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tories set a low bar after misspelling Britain on conference chocolate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Good call there over at the Grauniad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brits in disbelief as new refillable drinks ban implemented across UK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes... that is the topic of discussion. I'm just saying it's manifestly unfair if they apply that tax to refills of your cup at Nando's, but don't charge extra for each lump of sugar in a cup of tea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brits in disbelief as new refillable drinks ban implemented across UK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In order to be consistent they'll need to start charging tax per lump of sugar as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I would prefer to move my data from the cloud to my personal computer. With fully automated cloud-based end-to-end encrypted backups, of course. Even web apps have good access to local storage now. If I want to share my personal data with someone, I can send it to them.

  I'm sure there are a few applications where something more complicated is required. Neither lemmy comments nor biometric data from a "smartwatch" are among them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keir Starmer says digital ID cards an ‘enormous opportunity’ for the UK⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  "You will not be able to work in the United Kingdom if you do not have digital ID. It's as simple as that."

  Ah, I get it. The idea is to give a massive boost to the underground economy, forcing everyone without a digital ID to work completely off the books.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: YouTube views went down since mid-August because they no longer count views of not logged in users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I did some youtubing last week and saw three people claiming that three different theories were already proven.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keir Starmer expected to announce plans for digital ID cards⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Making Britain less attractive to illegal migrants, at the cost of also making it less attractive to everyone else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(Controversial) Political parties are like bundled sales.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  More like cable TV packages. Full of stuff you don't want, mostly made for and by fools, very expensive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(Controversial) Political parties are like bundled sales.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  More like cable TV packages.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastodon has a new plan to make money: Hosting and support services for the open social web⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember when I wanted Mozilla to do that, since they had the organizational might, the money, and it fit perfectly with their mission when they created mozilla.social. On the one hand, it seems slightly less ideal to have the same organization that develops mastodon also providing hosting for it. On the other hand, they probably have a better chance of doing it well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most oxygen is basically algae farts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you know that there was no oxygen in earth's atmosphere until a couple billion years ago, when some mischievous bacteria started pumping it out all over the place? It was called the oxygen catastrophe, and all that poisonous oxygen gas in the air is thought to have led to the evolution of many new things such as nuclear envelopes and sex. I like to remember it once in a while.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The line between what is ai and what is programming will be very blurred in the future⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  "After all, it was one of the first sectors to deploy A.I. programming in the 1980s, with the four ghosts who chase Pac-Man each responding differently to the player's real-time movements."

  All the lines look blurry when you're squinting at things from a position of complete ignorance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[fluff post] If lemmy users are Lemmites, what would we like to call piefed users?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pikers

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