mjr
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- Comment on Shabana Mahmood puts the signs up: Britain is full. No blacks, no dogs, no Irish 5 hours ago:
Sensible? They call it Danish-style, but the Danish Social Democrats reportedly just got their bottoms handed to them at the local elections ballot box, losing almost half their mayors and about a quarter of their councillors from the last local elections, with Copenhagen electing a non-Social-Democrat mayor for the first time since the post was created in 1938. Is that what Labour really wants to turn itself into?
- Comment on Shabana Mahmood puts the signs up: Britain is full. No blacks, no dogs, no Irish 5 hours ago:
Didn’t stop the signs as late as the 1980s.
- Comment on ‘He used to say things like “Hitler was right”’: Farage faces more allegations of racist behaviour at school 5 hours ago:
And now Farage has suspended a party councillor for letting the mask slip too far:
Tom Pickup, who was elected to Lancashire county council in May […] posted: “Everyone in Reform is a lot more hardline on immigration than is typically stated publicly, to get a majority government we have to be tactical.”
[…] Pickup, who was the council’s lead member for resources and finance, admitted he was a member of the group but said his messages had been “twisted out of context”. He said he was not aware of the more extreme posts, which included one person allegedly calling for a “mass Islam genocide” and encouraging others to stockpile weapons to attack “lefties” and “migrants”.
- Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 6 days ago:
safe or just safer?
- Comment on Who supports Reform and why? The charts that show who favours Farage’s party 6 days ago:
Could be good polling with poor explanation!
- Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 6 days ago:
Is any national dictator’s army yet doing the “two steps forward, one step back” march to appear less scary?
- Comment on Why do so many services require email configuration? 1 week ago:
That depends who’s hosting it. There’s few good reviews of email hosting out there at the moment.
- Comment on Why do so many services require email configuration? 1 week ago:
Even if you self-host, other people’s mailservers still interact with it, unless you only chat with other users you host. And some of the big webmails variously get really pernickity about your DNS, DKIM and more, or they deploy some pretty obnoxious countermeasures against your server with little explanation. So I’d say it’s more often both than not, no matter what you do. If you think it’s not being a pain, there’s probably an unpleasant surprise in your server logs or coming soon!
It’s still often worth self-hosting, but that’s more big webmail really sucks, even ISPs often don’t set their mailservers up well and it’s often an early casualty of ISP managers looking for costs to cut.
- Comment on Servo: A new, independent Web Browser Engine (the core of a web browser) written in Rust. 1 week ago:
Any browsers except the minimal servoshell yet?
Is it faster to start up? Is it less snoopy? Are these in some FAQ I missed?
- Comment on Paperwork blunder by UK bookmaker reveals possible illegal offshore operation 1 week ago:
It does say billions of pounds bet, so probably one of Entain, Evoke, Flutter or bet365, as not many others are that big.
- Comment on Surprise EU rollback of 'GDPR' digital-rights rules prompts alarm 1 week ago:
I suspect people disliked both of the approaches you suggested, or thought it was a false dilemma fallacy, but downvotes rarely come with explanations.
- Comment on Surprise EU rollback of 'GDPR' digital-rights rules prompts alarm 1 week ago:
Contact your local MEP. Ask your local MP or Deputy or whatever you call them to push the relevant minister to oppose it. It’s not great, but you do have a say.
- Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones 1 week ago:
Article rests on one expert. That assistant professor’s publication list doesn’t seem to contain evidence about it, plus the quotes in the article don’t directly say it happens.
Maybe it does, but that article only seems to be guessing based on (admittedly reasonable) theory.
- Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones 1 week ago:
Got proof? I’ve not cracked open a phone for a while to see if the component labelling matches the interface, let alone tested capacity of an extracted battery directly.
- Comment on On Prince Andrews Road, a Frustrating Effort to Get a New Address 1 week ago:
www.openstreetmap.org/way/57945563 is named after her. Look at the nearby street names. It’s in the next town north from the royal estate at Sandringham.
- Comment on How the Web Became Unreadable 1 week ago:
Why not serif body copy? (looks at most newspapers and books)
- Comment on Tallest skyscraper outside London approved in £1bn project 1 week ago:
Salford.
The 78-storey tower will the third tallest in the country, behind the Shard and 22 Bishopgate in London.
- Comment on The Internet is Dying. We Can Still Stop It 1 week ago:
Some good observations and some software suggestions, but I don’t think all of them are good. I hate Anubis when I’m using an assisted accessible browser (that it locks out, always saying a solution is coming but it never has, which I’m pretty sure is illegal discrimination in some situations) and they really ought not recommend Proton without mentioning its chief supporting Trump and helping French police track climate activists.
Other tips, including Lemmy, are better.
- Comment on ‘Digital ownership must be respected’: UK parliament debates Stop Killing Games campaign, but government doesn’t budge 2 weeks ago:
They’ve been owned!
- Comment on ‘Digital ownership must be respected’: UK parliament debates Stop Killing Games campaign, but government doesn’t budge 2 weeks ago:
Digital ownership? Games producers want to own players’ fingers now? I guess that’s slightly better than cutting their ears off.
- Comment on How Google Tracks and Scans Everything on Your Android Device 2 weeks ago:
De-googled phones exist, but they’re rooted or using a custom firmware. Usually, these phones spoof Google Play Services, replacing that layer with something called MicroG.
So root and flash your phone today!
- Comment on ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy? 2 weeks ago:
Did they in this case?
- Comment on ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy? 2 weeks ago:
You can create an access the inbox through Tor at protonmailrmez3lotccipshtkleegetolb73fuirgj7r4o4vfu7ozyd.onion
That’s just such an easy link to memorise, isn’t it? Just like the New Emergency Number
- Comment on ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy? 2 weeks ago:
infosec.pub appears to be in Hetzner Online GmbH’s Falkenstein hosting. They probably also own the hardware.
- Comment on ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy? 2 weeks ago:
I’m sceptical. Name me a server and I’ll show you a company involved.
- Comment on ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy? 2 weeks ago:
For sure, I know this, but privacy does not come first for any of them and it was wrong of Proton ever to say it did. To them, their survival comes before yours, so they will betray you to the Swiss courts if needed.
- Comment on ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy? 2 weeks ago:
Here you go: proton.me/mail
Just scroll down. Each selling point is marked with title case text, followed by their reasoning.
I don’t find your earlier quote on that page anywhere.
Can you find me a way back machine link to their website where they told you that they aren’t subject to or otherwise do not comply with Swiss law?
Why would I do that? My claim is not that they ever said that explicitly, but that their marketing claimed ‘your privacy came first’ without any similar-size mention how it would be limited by Swiss law. It was not in their interest to explain that the Swiss courts can order them to track and shop French climate activists.
- Comment on ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy? 2 weeks ago:
Run your own? Great, but you’ll almost certainly be getting a company to connect it up.
Publicly available from whom? Companies!
I may sometimes wish community-owned internet became the norm, but it didn’t, so companies are involved almost everywhere.
- Comment on New era of better buses: Landmark Bus Bill becomes law 2 weeks ago:
No, Cardiff Bus survived after the 1980s deregulation. All that was needed to survive was never to have elected a council that chose to sell it for a quick buck, like most did, in Wales as well as England, or have appointed managers that failed to compete with private operators like Stageroach and Worst.
If they’d sold it or gone bust, Cardiff Council wouldn’t have been allowed to start more bus services themselves again.
- Comment on ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy? 2 weeks ago:
How do you even get a non-company-hosted server now? Public bodies don’t host services for outsiders much any more and aren’t really safe places for privacy in this type of case anyway.