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- Comment on Apple rolls out mandatory UK age verification with iOS 26.4, requiring users to provide a credit card or ID, a first in Europe, after UK government pressure 1 week ago:
You’re giving them too much credit. Their intentions are not benign and they are the authoritarian state
- Comment on This is Android's new 'advanced flow' for sideloading apps without verification, includes one-day waiting period 2 weeks ago:
Thanks, I think I probably will end up on Artix eventually. I’m going to try Gentoo first just because it interests me though!
- Comment on This is Android's new 'advanced flow' for sideloading apps without verification, includes one-day waiting period 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I think I will. This change alone isn’t actually that bad but it shows an eagerness to comply which I can’t accept. I’m not sure which distro to choose though, it’s probably between Gentoo, Artix and Void
- Comment on This is Android's new 'advanced flow' for sideloading apps without verification, includes one-day waiting period 2 weeks ago:
So its time to move to a distro without systemd?
- Comment on Luck is not a Disaster Recovery Plan 2 weeks ago:
Ah I see, I didn’t realise you’d got rid of the old backups. Glad you managed to get most of it back!
And at least you have an off site backup, I still haven’t found a decent way to do it that isn’t prohibitively expensive
- Comment on Luck is not a Disaster Recovery Plan 2 weeks ago:
If you hadn’t got lucky with the backup array would your existing off site backups have been any help or were they too out of date?
- Comment on Samsung's latest update is a serious gut punch to Galaxy power users 3 weeks ago:
Republicans are absolute scum but they only exist in the US and are nothing charge of every state. This is a bipartisan push around the globe.
- Comment on Met Police chief gives phone firms deadline over thefts 3 weeks ago:
The force wants to make resetting phones more difficult, with requirements for multi-factor authentication and time delays; moves to stop parts being sold without device matching serial numbers, and the ability to block devices globally in real time.
London Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan said there is “no reason” why in a year’s time there should not be fully accessible serial numbers for officials and “kill switches” for stolen phones
And there it is, just another excuse to track everyone and further erode right to repair. But don’t worry, this time it’s for your own personal safety and definitely won’t be abused.
Nevermind the fact that iPhones already do all of this despite being explicitly called out in the article
- Comment on Samsung's latest update is a serious gut punch to Galaxy power users 3 weeks ago:
Best I can do is a bunch of age verification laws to take even more control away from you
- Comment on Are the Greens and Reform Replacing Labour and the Conservatives? 4 weeks ago:
There are a lot more than 4 parties, and they’re all shit
- Comment on Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features 5 weeks ago:
Let’s see if it gets released before GrapheneOS and unlockable bootloader get outlawed
- Comment on Worldwide Smartphone Market to Decline 13% in 2026, Marking the Largest Drop Ever Due to the Memory Shortage Crisis, according to IDC 5 weeks ago:
It doesn’t have to be a new model though
- Comment on We conduct affairs of state in a building that’s riddled with asbestos and mice. Can’t Britain do any better? 1 month ago:
MPs deserve far worse than that
- Comment on NHS hip and knee operations threatened by bone cement supply shortage 1 month ago:
Its not it was just a joke because of all the recent shortages actually caused by datacenters
- Comment on NHS hip and knee operations threatened by bone cement supply shortage 1 month ago:
Why would AI datacenters need bone cement?
- Comment on Western Digital Has No More HDD Capacity Left, as CEO Reveals Massive AI Deals; Brace Yourself For Price Surges Ahead! 1 month ago:
Even if everything you say comes true I still don’t see the prices coming back down. They never did after covid
- Comment on For Spain’s Sánchez, the fight against tech billionaires is personal 1 month ago:
Get hacked and leak it for starters, as has already happened with Discord. And social media is a loose definition that can be expanded to include whatever you want. Currently Lemmy and Mastodon are not included but it could be. And Lemmy currently has none of my personal information so uploading my ID would be infinitely worse than what we have now. And before you say it’s not feasible to force all instances to comply or be blocked that won’t stop them trying.
- Comment on For Spain’s Sánchez, the fight against tech billionaires is personal 1 month ago:
That really doesn’t ease my concern that it’s just more government surveillance
- Comment on For Spain’s Sánchez, the fight against tech billionaires is personal 1 month ago:
Its not just about social media, the scope keeps changing and these laws are being used as a framework for mass censorship and surveillance of the entire internet. First it was just porn, now it’s social media and next will probably be VPNs. And social media is a loose definition that can be expanded to include whatever you want, I’m sure at one point Australia were going to include github in their age verification law although I don’t know if they followed through with that.
And sure for now we can escape to platforms like Lemmy which are free from both age verification and the general shittiness of the big platforms, but guarantee it won’t stay that way for long.
- Comment on For Spain’s Sánchez, the fight against tech billionaires is personal 1 month ago:
And the solution to that is to give the billionaires your government ID?
- Comment on For Spain’s Sánchez, the fight against tech billionaires is personal 1 month ago:
Fight against billionaires Look inside Surveillance and censorship of everyone else
- Comment on 2 months ago:
They’ve thought of that as well, soon nobody will be able to afford consumer grade hardware
- Comment on Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot 2 months ago:
Its so slow as well. It regularly takes a few seconds to appear when I try and use it
- Comment on Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot 2 months ago:
I love having a search box on my taskbar. I want it to search my PC for installed apps and files and nothing else. I certainly don’t want to do a fucking Bing search for “Settings”
- Comment on UK government targets VPNs in new online safety consultation as Lords vote for ban 2 months ago:
Isn’t this part of the same amendment that will make government spyware mandatory on all devices? So does that mean that part passed as well?
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 2 months ago:
I already had enough reasons not to bother using it, he didn’t need to give me another one!
- Comment on More than 60 Labour MPs urge Starmer to back under-16s social media ban 2 months ago:
No the big change will be forced age verification which is their new favorite thing
- Comment on Labour MP ‘baffled’ government still uses X after minister calls Grok’s sexualised images ‘weapons of abuse’ 2 months ago:
They’ll probably force some bullshit age verification on it
- Comment on Labour MP ‘baffled’ government still uses X after minister calls Grok’s sexualised images ‘weapons of abuse’ 2 months ago:
Its probably best for everyone if the UK government remains ignorant of the existence of Mastodon
- Comment on Rockstar vs. Union: What Really Happened at Court? | People Make Games 2 months ago:
Tl:dw for anyone who isn’t in a position to watch the video, the evidence provided by Rockstar is a complete joke as expected, but apparently that wasn’t enough to convince the judge to grant interim relief. I highly recommend watching the whole video if you get the chance though, PMG have been doing a very good job of covering this topic so far.