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- Comment on How chaotic gang of British 'geeks' launched one of most lucrative gaming franchises of all time [Grand Theft Auto] 4 days ago:
That would be great. “Get tae fuck ya wee bawbag” (I think that’s the kind of thing Scots say)
Unfortunately I think they’ll stick with the USA
- How chaotic gang of British 'geeks' launched one of most lucrative gaming franchises of all time [Grand Theft Auto]news.sky.com ↗Submitted 4 days ago to games@lemmy.world | 8 comments
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- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 1 week ago:
In both cases you have a person doing something that many people would consider bad. Then this person gets mad when others find out about their behaviour. If you don’t want people to find out you did something, maybe just don’t do it in the first place.
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 1 week ago:
I think it’s pretty comparable. The guys in the OP are getting mad at Derek but they’re the ones who said bad things in the first place. Their actions caused this. All Derek did was let people know the truth, and maybe it’s good when people know the truth.
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 1 week ago:
If you find out that someone cheated on their wife, do you have to keep it private to protect the cheater’s “privacy”?
Maybe it’s better if that person’s wife knows the truth.
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 1 week ago:
Good guy Derek
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 2 weeks ago:
Maybe Lemmy is a 2020s version of phpBB (the forum software, which is open source like Lemmy is). Lemmy and phpBB can both be hosted by anyone, but of course the interesting thing about Lemmy is that Lemmy servers can share their content with each other.
- Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domainsfortune.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 148 comments
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- Comment on Jobless, isolated, fed misogynistic porn… where is the love for Britain’s lost boys? 4 weeks ago:
Fair enough. I don’t think I’m convinced of God’s existence myself. But I think freedom of belief is important - we should be free to believe or not believe in God, because I don’t think anybody knows the answer for certain.
- Comment on Jobless, isolated, fed misogynistic porn… where is the love for Britain’s lost boys? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 29 comments
- Comment on Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row 1 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
I think Romesh is alright. I liked the travel shows he did for the BBC.