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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
You haven’t been able to do that since 2017, the European Court of Justice said so.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨58 UK public libraries have parenting books with advice to encourage children to detransition⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
The right doesn’t need the left to do something to do it, they just do it. Reform is already tried to do a ban against books with ‘transgender themes’ (this was later revised to adult transgender books after backlash). If we’re going to not exercise power, it should be for something more than a fear the right will also do it, because the right doesn’t care and will do it anyway.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

On Wednesday the supreme court unanimously ruled that Oatly can no longer trademark, or use, the slogan “Post Milk Generation”.

This is even dumber when you realise Oatly is explicitly prompting themselves as not-milk.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Couldn't have said it better⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
!aneurysmposting@sopuli.xyz
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WebIntents - Universal Follow Button for the Fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

gets bored once he ships the MVP

He doesn’t even need to do that, just look at that Whatsapp clone he named after himself.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Veganuary⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Sure, but the supermarkets I go to don’t stock them. Besides, multivitamins are easier, cheaper and supplement other things (like the vitamin D).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Veganuary⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Vitamin B12 is the main one that’s hard to get. It’s not really natural to any foods apart from animal products.

Iodine is also a tough one. Though you’re probably deficient in this anyway depending on how much sea food and dairy milk you eat. Technically iodine isn’t natural to milk, but we feed iodine supplements to dairy cattle.

You can get enough of both of these by drinking enough fortified plant milks, but it’s like half a litre a day and idk I find that’s just a lot.

I’m personally just lazy and take supplements, the Vegan Society here in the UK do ones that are affordable and have everything you need in them. If you live far enough north or south you should be taking vitamin D supplements anyway, at least during the winter.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alton Towers bans people with anxiety from using disability pass⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

I’m not anti asylum seeker. I’m anti people taking advantage of the system for legitimate asylum seekers.

Unless you’re from Ukraine or Hong Kong, there’s no way to claim asylum in the UK that doesn’t first involve entering the country illegally.

I can’t remember the statistic, but the majority of asylum seekers don’t even come over in small boats.

About half of asylum applications come across in boats.

I’m talking about the widely condemned human trafficking industry that takes advantage of our system to make a business of bringing people across the channel.

I also want to stop the boats and the exploitative gangs doing this, but any approach that isn’t opening up safe and legal routes for applications to be made is just advocating for everyone else to bear the burden of global instability the UK played a disproportionate role in creating.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alton Towers bans people with anxiety from using disability pass⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

This is why people come over in small boats from France, because they see our empathy as something to be taken advantage of. And it works for them.

I don’t know how you can see abysmal living conditions, hate crime and being subjected to attempted pogroms as ‘works for them’. I’ve linked you stuff in the past telling about how bad conditions are for asylum seekers, I’m honestly getting sick of pushing back on your vibes based, callous anti-asylum seeker rhetoric for it to constantly fall on deaf ears.
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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fun fact: you can't upload this image on piefed.social⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

I was curious to see how they handle this on the fedi side, because they obviously can’t stop you from uploading images to other instances, so decided to do some digging myself.

The fedi code for this is here and looks like this:

# Alert regarding fascist meme content
if site.enable_chan_image_filter and toxic_community and img_width < 2000:  # images > 2000px tend to be real photos instead of 4chan screenshots.
    if os.environ.get('ALLOW_4CHAN', None) is None:
        try:
            image_text = pytesseract.image_to_string(
                Image.open(BytesIO(source_image)).convert('L'), timeout=30)
        except Exception:
            image_text = ''
        if 'Anonymous' in image_text and (
                'No.' in image_text or ' N0' in image_text):  # chan posts usually contain the text 'Anonymous' and ' No.12345'
            post = session.query(Post).filter_by(image_id=file.id).first()
            targets_data = {'gen': '0',
                            'post_id': post.id,
                            'orig_post_title': post.title,
                            'orig_post_body': post.body
                            }
            notification = Notification(title='Review this',
                                        user_id=1,
                                        author_id=post.user_id,
                                        url=post.slug,
                                        notif_type=NOTIF_REPORT,
                                        subtype='post_with_suspicious_image',
                                        targets=targets_data)
            session.add(notification)
            session.commit()

The curious thing here, apart from there being both an environmental variable and site setting for this, is the toxic_community variable. This seems to be a renaming of the low_quality field Piefed applies to communities, which are just communities with either memes or shitpost in their name.

You don’t get social credits docked for this.

⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornhub to restrict access for UK users from February⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Sorry I misspoke, when I said it wouldn’t work I was thinking of the negative knock-on effects that make this approach unworkable, not that it was entirely ineffective. What I’m trying to get at is that there were more effective options that the government for achieving it’s stated goals, only allowing legal adults to access pornography, that didn’t require you to send a picture of your ID or face to every website that happens to have nudes on it. But other, more privacy-friendly approaches wouldn’t make adults hesitant to access porn websites and I think this quality of the current approach was a desirable effect.

Obviously it’s not the case that everything popular with the public is popular with politicians for the same reason, but if something is popular with the public you need quite a good reason to believe that politicians are in favour of it for some other motivation, and with all of that, we just don’t have that good reason.

I think politicians hating the concept of porn and liking the idea of having your real identity linked to your social media accounts are actually pretty good explanations for the government knowingly going with an inferior approach to all this.

Again, I think we’re at an impasse, you’re giving the former government a level charitably I can’t. That’s not to say prospective is unreasonable, I think it’s perfectly reasonable, I just don’t believe it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornhub to restrict access for UK users from February⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
This is just getting into pure speculation now, neither of us knows for sure. It just lines up too perfectly with the Tories history of anti-porn stances for me to believe that it wasn’t a motivating factor in choosing this approach to others that were pitched to the government (the lobbying from the age verification industry probably helped as well).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fun fact: you can't upload this image on piefed.social⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
So wait, they pull in Tesseract and don’t use it to make search better? Talk about missed opportunity.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornhub to restrict access for UK users from February⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The government absolutely has access to people with the knowledge to tell them that this approach wouldn’t work, Aylo (the company who owns Pornhub) has been advocating for device based age verification for years (Yes, Aylo are a shitty company, but they’re right about this and have been vocal about it). But sure, a piece of Tory legislation, the same Tories who banned porn with bondage and even women ejaculating in 2014, didn’t choose this approach because it’d discourage adults accessing porn.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornhub to restrict access for UK users from February⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It’s honestly maddening that we’re being subjected to this mass surveillance in the name of preventing children seeing porn when we’ve had much more effective tools for decades now. An OS or ISP level DNS filter takes more work to get around than just finding a more shady website. Microsoft, to its credit, have pretty good parental controls built into their OSs (Windows + Xbox).

But it’s like I’ve said before, this isn’t about preventing kids seeing porn; it’s about preventing adults seeing porn because the political class finds it icky.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornhub to restrict access for UK users from February⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Most parents apparently don’t agree with you, or are too lazy to do anything:

back in 2011 the government worked with ISPs (internet service providers) to come up with a Code of Practice on implementing ‘parental controls’ for all new customers. In 2013 this was adopted by all the major players. So when you (an adult – because you have to be over 18 to do this) register for an internet connection, you are offered adult content filtering by default. You can tweak this, if you like, for example you can decide you’re happy for your family to access social media sites but not pornography. Or if you don’t anticipate any children using your connection, you can opt out of adult filters altogether. Research conducted in 2022, however, found that although 61% of parents were aware of these filters, only 27% actually used them

From: girlonthenet.com/…/age-verification-whats-the-har…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨r/Silksong joins lemmy! (And a new lemmy instance)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I just guaranteed you on fediseer, so you should be good now.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says UK handing over Chagos Islands sovereignty is act of 'great stupidity'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

Russia have proven themselves to be true to their word

Ukraine literally gave up its nuclear arsenal because Russia promised not to invade them in 1994, what are you on about.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK should consider expelling US forces from British bases, says Zack Polanski⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
TBF, Polanski isn’t an isolationist. He says we should build an alternative alliance with our European allies, though why just making NATO less America-led or even America-less isn’t something he’s explained to my knowledge. I suppose saying ‘leave NATO’ is more attention grabby than the more nuanced ‘we need to become less dependent on America and instead rely on our European partners’.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK should consider expelling US forces from British bases, says Zack Polanski⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Polanski is just the leader of the Green party, he’s not even an MP. The leave NATO thing isn’t even Green party policy, it’s to reform it from within, he just started talking about leaving it during the leadership election and has defended it since.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Is 'Pathways' And Who Is 'Amelia?' The Controversial Memes About The Viral U.K. Anti-Immigration Goth Girl Explained⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I think for what it is, it’s all right. Not good per se, but it’s a 10 minute exercise in a larger lesson.

The tiktok scene is stupid, where if you “do your research” you get radicalised, so the correct option is to “just ignore it”

It is, like maybe it’s just me but who’s idea of doing research is going onto someone’s bio and going to their website? I get some people do this, but the good option should have been looking it up in a reputable news source.

so the correct option is to “just ignore it” and then you find out apparently a charity is doing something the government stopped doing (how is that a good thing???).

Peak neoliberalism.

Then at the end you nearly get arrested if you attend a protest. Not a good message to send.

It’s accurate at least, even if that is depressing.

Also quite sloppy how when you do choose the correct option you literally lose all of your friends. Couldn’t they have had you do research and debunk your friend’s claims?

I’ll defend them on this, they’re trying to say don’t let peer pressure radicalise you. Maybe not the best message that not becoming a racist will leave you lonely and friendless, but I see what they were going for.

I think the best way to actually make someone less racist in the youth is to create an environment where they can befriend immigrants

I completely agree, but that only works if there are actually immigrants around. Hull is 100% white, so this goes into the question of how do you deradicalise people when exposure isn’t an option.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Is 'Pathways' And Who Is 'Amelia?' The Controversial Memes About The Viral U.K. Anti-Immigration Goth Girl Explained⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
You can play the game here. Honestly, it’s not worse than some of the games about anti-social behaviour I was made to play in school. Some good advice, some bad advice and encourages an incourious trust in the system, fairly standard school stuff. Very funny that in the video at the end that the transition from potential terrorist to law-abiding citizen is a gamer going outside.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why responses from mastodon.social don't arrive to my Lemmy instance?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Assuming you have a standard deployment with docker compose, do to the directory with the docker-compose.yml file and run this:
```
docker compose logs lemmy | less
```
You might have to scroll for a bit, you can hit / then type mastodon.social then enter to find occurrences in the logs. Jump to next/previous by hitting n and N/shift-n respectively.

I was able to fetch the comment without issue (feddit.uk/post/42810312/22639417), so it could be something in your setting somewhere. You can try to resolve the comment (go to search in the web UI and past the URL for comment), then after you can run the command above and jump to the end (Alt->) and it should say something about why it failed to resolve.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FYI: Reddit trademarked some community names (Digg link)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
They seem to have blocked Nutomic, so won’t see this.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They removed the like button. What next, they gonna remove videos? It’s just gonna be ads???⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
You can hit share, more, Firefox and then hold the image to download the original image, btw.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky just verified ICE⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
They completely deindexed Link (spacelawshitpost.me) for not showing appropriate reverence for Charlie Kirk after he died by pointing to their TOS policy on promoting violence, but an organisation that only exists to exert violence on non-white people gets a pass.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Writing is okish, editing however is horrendous.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ofcom investigating Elon Musk’s X after outcry over sexualised AI images⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Maybe if we also started to promote eugenics and race science we’d also get the full backing of the American government.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Johnathan Ross right now...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Just an fyi, but this is a news comm. Something like this would probably be better suited for !memes@feddit.uk or !okmatewanker@feddit.uk. I’ll keep this up, but just bear it in mind for the future.