ctry21
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- Comment on The new man overseeing Britain’s arms exports is vice-chair of Labour Friends of Israel 6 days ago:
Kyle’s own record hardly reassures sceptics. In June 2025 he reportedly referred one of his constituents to the police after she sent him emails protesting against arms sales to Israel. Within days, four officers raided her home at four in the morning, arrested her, and confiscated her devices. Journalists who examined her emails found them to be angry but not abusive, passionate but not unlawful. For civil-liberties campaigners, the case smacked of an MP unwilling to tolerate dissent on an issue where he is deeply invested.
I feel a bit one-note complaining about this one guy all the time but he really truly is the worst part of this government.
- Comment on do you apologize, even if it's not your fault just to make the other person feel validated? 1 week ago:
I did it so much in a retail job that the supervisor told me to stop saying sorry all the time and of course I immediately replied “sorry.” Being autistic and socially anxious will do that unfortunately. It’s taken time and I’ve gotten a bit better at not apologising for things that aren’t my fault, but it’s still an annoying habit.
- Comment on The people developing vegan meat alternatives must have eaten a lot of meat beforehand so they can replicate the taste and texture. 2 weeks ago:
That’s a fair point. I suppose like any movement there’s a wide spectrum of people and one end of the spectrum would be those who are as strict as that. I don’t think it’s very productive to be that strict though, certainly where I live and with the health conditions I have it would be impossible to live life so strictly compared to someone in top health living in a major city.
- Comment on The people developing vegan meat alternatives must have eaten a lot of meat beforehand so they can replicate the taste and texture. 2 weeks ago:
There is a surprising amount of debate over that in vegan circles. Beyond Meat taste test their burgers against cow burgers to compare the flavour and some vegans will say you can’t consider those burgers vegan while others would say it’s a very small amount of animal consumption to allow for a vegan burger that might help convert more people and so the harm outweights the benefit massively. I’m vegan and I don’t really know what side to lean towards, but there’s debate over everything from honey to almonds, and debate on whether it’s acceptable to order vegan food from non-vegan restaurants, just as examples.
- Comment on Wafrn (tumblr alternative with fediverse and bluesky support) has started using an alternate relay; this means that they depend on none of bluesky's infrastructure to work. 2 weeks ago:
I saw it mentioned in this Cory Doctorow article a week or two back about some of his issues with bluesky, but he mentions here that the cost has came down from tens of millions a year down to tens of dollars a month
Hadn’t heard of wafrn until seeing it on f-droid this morning but I might give it a try, a tumblr-like platform would be nice since tumblr seems to have given up on using ActivityPub.
- Comment on UK police arrest Ken Loach screenwriter Paul Laverty for anti-genocide t-shirt 2 weeks ago:
It’s become a bit frightening how much freedom of speech has been restricted in the UK this year. Seems like anything with a word that even vaguely sounds like Palestine in the same sentence as the word action gets you sent to jail.
In Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK, a community group tried to organise a peaceful vigil in support of Palestine and were intimidated into hiding it by an actual terrorist organisation. And of course no arrests were made here and their local MP suggested they abide by the threats of the local paramilitaries and hold it indoors.
- Comment on What do you use for music library streaming? 2 weeks ago:
+1 for Navidrome. As simple as pasting the album into the directory and it sorts the rest. I use subtune on my phone to access it and it works great.
- Comment on Where to begin? 2 weeks ago:
I think portainer is probably the best tool for this since you can easily go in and pause/start services as required. Just make sure to go into the containers on portainer and check the restart policy is set to “unless stopped” so you don’t get unwanted restarts after a reboot or anything like that.
I don’t think portainer has any automation options but you could possibly write a short cron script to run
docker compose downin the directory of each compose file to shut them down once a month, and pair that with the uptime kuma container to get a notification when your containers are down so you can go into portainer and restart the ones you still need. Though I’ve never had any real issue with running lots of containers at once – there’s 20 on my raspberry pi right now and it’s still got just over a gigabyte of RAM left. - Comment on Your fav guide/method for securing Jellyfin? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve tried tailscale and cloudflare tunnels in the past and ended up just using PiVPN to set up a WireGuard VPN on my Pi5. Tailscale for some reason was very slow for me, and cloudflare tunnels have a 100mb limit iirc which isn’t ideal for streaming. PiVPN is quite straightforward, it sets everything up for you and all you have to do is forward a UDP port. That was the bit I was most worried about, but, unless I’ve misunderstood something, because a UDP port will just ignore invalid requests to the outside world it will appear closed so it’s not very risky. It then generates a key for each device which you can scan from a QR code onto your VPN client. I have my phone set to auto-connect to the tunnel when I disconnect from my home wifi network and the tunnel is fast enough that I’ve accidentally turned off my phone’s wifi connection before and streamed a TV show through the tunnel over mobile data and not noticed any difference in speed.
- Comment on My petty gripe: forced software updates just make everything worse 3 weeks ago:
That’s good to hear! I’ve ADBed almost all of the Google & Samsung stuff off my phone already so I’m well used to fighting with Aurora to download certain apps by now. Nearly all my apps are from F-droid as well so that will make the transition a lot easier, and I do a lot of self hosting so I’m not relying on any proprietary services that are going to demand play services be installed. Balatro on my steam deck already steals enough of my time, so honestly if my phone won’t let me install it that’s probably for the best.
- Comment on My petty gripe: forced software updates just make everything worse 3 weeks ago:
Going from One UI 6 to One UI 7 on a Samsung has made me very excited to go get a used pixel or fairphone and install a custom ROM instead. Absolutely abysmal update.
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- Comment on VPNs are not Kryptonite to age assurance. 4 weeks ago:
This is from the Age Verification Providers Association, who have a vested interest in forcing more and more people to use age verification. Most of these companies charge per check performed so they’re losing money every time we use a VPN to bypass it. I wouldn’t trust a thing they say, but it is worrying that they’re pushing to go further because they were successful lobbying for the age verification checks in the first place, and our tech secretary is an idiot. If they do convince the government to pass a law forcing companies to try and detect VPN usage, that will be devastating for online privacy even outside of the UK. That they now want websites to ask for a users location is quite scary.
- Comment on Iceland offering £1 reward scheme for customers who report a shoplifter 4 weeks ago:
The frozen food specialist said that anyone who spots a suspected shoplifter in its stores should inform the nearest Iceland employee who will verify the incident before adding the reward to the individual’s loyalty card for immediate use.
Posted this because it sounds like one of the boring dystopian things ever. Plus the perverse incentive to snitch on people for a pound off your groceries is quite horrible.
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- Comment on UK arrests 365 backing banned pro-Palestine group 5 weeks ago:
They should copy the blank paper protests that happened in China. I wouldn’t put it past this government to claim that holding up a blank piece of paper outside parliament is somehow terrorism at this stage and it would show how ridiculous this is.