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- Comment on Jobless, isolated, fed misogynistic porn… where is the love for Britain’s lost boys? 4 hours ago:
What evidence is there that proves God’s existence?
- Jobless, isolated, fed misogynistic porn… where is the love for Britain’s lost boys?www.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 9 hours ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 15 comments
- Comment on Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row 1 week ago:
Fair enough. I will try to read more stuff about encryption.
- Comment on The US Is Considering a TP-Link Router Ban—Should You Worry? 1 week ago:
I listened to more of their stuff on YouTube, it’s pretty cool, I can respect the guy’s anger and pissed off attitude.
- Comment on Starmer says he wants to increase UK defence spending to 3% - and announces foreign aid cut 1 week ago:
I think the 3% target is intended for the next parliament though. The target he wants to hit in this parliament is 2.5% from 2027 onwards.
I guess raising defence spending makes sense so that the UK can better protect itself from threats like Russia.
- Comment on Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row 1 week ago:
Fair points. That open letter is interesting. I didn’t mean to be annoying with my responses, I was just giving my view.
I do think the oligarchy in the US is pretty worrying. As for encryption, I should probably learn more about it. I guess my understanding at the moment is only pretty basic.
- Comment on When You Block the Internet on Your Phone, Something Astonishing Happens Mentally 1 week ago:
Interesting idea. I suppose you could start a Lemmy community for meet ups for people in your country. I don’t know how easy it would be to find willing people who are relatively local to you though.
- Comment on When You Block the Internet on Your Phone, Something Astonishing Happens Mentally 1 week ago:
Yeah there’s some truth to that. Working at home can be lonely in my experience. But on the other hand you save all the hassle with commuting.
- Comment on Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row 1 week ago:
The stasi would blush at the surveillance foreign corporations and the British government now engage in as a matter of course
My understanding is that the Stasi were very repressive - “using torture, intimidation and a vast network of informants to crush dissent”. I’m not aware of the UK government using torture to crush dissent.
But spying on all of the public all of the time comes at a cost to society I would rather not pay. It quells dissent in the short and maybe mid term, but that extreme intrusion, ultimately drives otherwise moderate people into the hands of extremists
I don’t think the public should be spied on all the time. But if there is some way that illegal communications (like planning murder) could be intercepted, without spying on others, that would be good.
The terrorists win when we sacrifice liberty for temporary security (or whatever that quote was)
There’s a quote by Benjamin Franklin which apparently is: “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety”. I always thought that quote was a bit weird though, because humans do give up some form of liberty in return for safety. E.g. we give up the freedom to murder other people without legal consequences, because in return we get some safety: protection from being murdered by others.
- Comment on When You Block the Internet on Your Phone, Something Astonishing Happens Mentally 1 week ago:
True. On Lemmy I can still be bombarded by stuff about the two billionaires running the USA, if I look at the active threads on all instances. But I can avoid that by just looking at threads from the instance I’m on, or by visiting particular communities individually.
- Comment on When You Block the Internet on Your Phone, Something Astonishing Happens Mentally 1 week ago:
I’ve been thinking how socialising on the internet with strangers is so hugely different to socialising with people in real life.
In real life you can see someone face to face, you can get a sense of their personality, and you learn to trust them. Those things are harder on the internet. You can’t see a person’s face, or hear their accent. Someone on the internet could be lying when they tell you about themselves, and it’s harder to tell if they’re lying.
Also of course on the internet people are much more willing to be rude and offensive because there are few penalties. If you meet someone in a pub, they probably won’t be rude to you, most of the time. If you disagree about something, you might say “okay, agree to disagree” and move onto another topic. But on the internet people will just be disrespectful cunts because they can get away with it, without negative social consequences for themselves.
In conclusion, internet socialising should be better than it is.
- Comment on Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row 1 week ago:
Maybe I should read more about encryption. I was thinking maybe a company like Apple could just keep the encryption keys stored somewhere. So if needed they could decrypt particular messages. There could be big punishments, prison time, for anybody within Apple who decrypts messages without a court warrant.
- Comment on Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row 1 week ago:
I would probably argue that China is a little different to the UK, given that China is a one-party state.
Yeah maybe the UK government shouldn’t be able to spy on Apple messages sent anywhere in the world. But maybe UK agencies like GCHQ should be able to get the messages of specific individuals who threaten the UK, with a court warrant, like how law enforcement has been able to bug the phones of criminals with a court warrant.
I dunno. Maybe I should educate myself more on encryption and how it all works.
- Comment on Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row 1 week ago:
I guess I think of it like bugging a phone. The technology for bugging phones has been around for a long time, but that doesn’t mean the authorities are bugging everybody’s phones all the time. Even if they can theoretically listen to everyone’s conversations, that doesn’t mean they are always listening. There would be too many conversations to listen to.
- Comment on The US Is Considering a TP-Link Router Ban—Should You Worry? 1 week ago:
I guess it’s not the kind of thing I normally listen to, but I came across Jobseeker on YouTube and thought it was good. That feeling of authority figures being patronising and belittling and you just want them to piss off.
- Comment on Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row 1 week ago:
Maybe people just use what’s popular. Telegram is pretty popular in some countries even though I don’t think they have end-to-end encryption by default.
Anyway I guess I don’t know what the answer is. Personally I would probably still use iMessage and WhatsApp even if I knew the companies behind them could potentially read my messages by decrypting them. If there’s a proper system in place so that messages are only read when there’s a court warrant, it’s probably unlikely my boring messages to friends and family would be spied on by anybody.
Maybe I need to send more interesting messages and then I would care about the privacy of them a bit more.
- Comment on Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row 2 weeks ago:
Fair points. Also I guess practically big companies like Apple would never allow a situation where their encryption is compromised while encryption on smaller platforms like Signal isn’t. Apple etc would spend billions lobbying so such a situation never happens.
- Comment on Who will be the next James Bond? Amazon's tough 007 decision 2 weeks ago:
I like the deadpan style. Yeah he’s had quite a few TV shows. If people keep offering you work and you find the work pretty straightforward and you get paid, why not take it, I guess.
- Comment on Who will be the next James Bond? Amazon's tough 007 decision 2 weeks ago:
I think Romesh is alright. I liked the travel shows he did for the BBC.
- Comment on Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row 2 weeks ago:
Maybe only the biggest companies should be required to be able to decrypt certain messages if a court warrant is produced. Privacy fans could use services exempt from this requirement, like Signal. But there are laypeople who just use iMessage because it’s the default, and you could catch criminals sending bad stuff over iMessage.
I think there are valid concerns on both sides of the argument… but I am just imagining if you have a group of violent people planning an attack over iMessage, I want law enforcement to be able to read those messages.
- Comment on Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row 2 weeks ago:
I don’t want end-to-end encryption entirely outlawed. But for the biggest platforms from massive corporations, maybe those corporations could keep their encryption keys stored with high security somewhere, so they can decrypt particular messages if a court warrant is issued.
People who are uneasy about that could go to a more privacy-focused platform like Signal. Some criminals would do that too, but at least something would be done to catch criminals on the popular platforms.
- Comment on Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row 2 weeks ago:
I’m not comparing privacy fans to paedophiles and terrorists, that’s not what I mean. What I mean is that I want serious criminals to be caught.
I think properly private technology is good to protect yourself from an authoritarian government for example. You could use something like Signal for messaging (I’ve not used it, but apparently it’s good).
But the big popular platforms like WhatsApp and iMessage, which many laypeople use just because they’re popular - on those platforms I think it makes sense for law enforcement to be able to access messages, but only in certain circumstances. So maybe Apple could keep the encryption key and they could decrypt someone’s messages if a court warrant is issued.
I’m not saying end-to-end encryption should be entirely outlawed. Hopefully services like Signal would still exist. Sure, some criminals might jump to those platforms, but you could still catch some at least, who use big services like iMessage.
- Comment on Who will be the next James Bond? Amazon's tough 007 decision 2 weeks ago:
Maybe they’re smart enough to choose someone who is either British or who has a flawless British accent.
But I do bet they’ll start doing spin off TV shows on Amazon Prime, like Disney has done with Star Wars. If it helps them milk the franchise for more money then surely they’d do it.
- Comment on Who will be the next James Bond? Amazon's tough 007 decision 2 weeks ago:
Fair enough. I guess I could possibly forgive an American actor as long as they can do an extremely good British accent. If the accent sounds at all American I will be annoyed.
I thought Pierce Brosnan was good as Bond and his accent was fine (he’s Irish of course - I don’t think he has British citizenship).
- Comment on Who will be the next James Bond? Amazon's tough 007 decision 2 weeks ago:
The outrage from certain sections of the public would be pretty huge. According to them, Bond must always be white and male.
- Comment on The US Is Considering a TP-Link Router Ban—Should You Worry? 2 weeks ago:
I wasn’t meaning to criticise any particular country, I just meant that goals aren’t inherently a good thing.
Regarding China and the US, I think both countries have a lot to offer, and there will be decent people from each country, but I don’t think I’m a fan of the current government of either country.
- Comment on The US Is Considering a TP-Link Router Ban—Should You Worry? 2 weeks ago:
No I haven’t, in fact I think I only know one song by them… good song though (Jobseeker). I should probably check out more of their stuff.
I just chose this username because I was trying to think of something randomly and it popped into my head.
- Comment on Who will be the next James Bond? Amazon's tough 007 decision 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know if you’re joking or not, but as a Brit, if the next Bond actor is American, I will be very disappointed.
- Comment on The US Is Considering a TP-Link Router Ban—Should You Worry? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think goals are inherently good… Hitler had goals…
- Comment on Robot with 1,000 muscles twitches like human while dangling from ceiling 2 weeks ago:
