mobyduck648
@mobyduck648@lemmy.world
Sailor, software engineer, musician, terminally online.
I miss the pre-adtech internet.
- Comment on Game designed to save dying Aboriginal language wins global awards 1 day ago:
Isn’t the ‘dead’ part more that nobody speaks it as a mother tongue any more, so it doesn’t really evolve like a living language would even though it’s still spoken in specific contexts? I think it contrasts with an extinct language which nobody speaks for any reason.
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 1 day ago:
Amusingly, as part of similar laws in the UK the regulator decided to make a public shame list of non-compliant websites.
Essentially if you don’t want to follow the government’s writ that you must send your ID to a shady offshore ID firm, they’ve kindly provided a list of websites that won’t ask for it!
With this on top of trying to claim extraterritorial powers against 4chan in the US (fucking lol), I’m starting to think a key check on tyranny in the UK is the incompetence of its public institutions.