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- Comment on UK ‘one of world’s least work-oriented countries’ claims BrewDog founder - as he slams obsession with 'work-life balance' 6 days ago:
How dare people want to balance his quality of life with their own!
- Comment on UK ‘one of world’s least work-oriented countries’ claims BrewDog founder - as he slams obsession with 'work-life balance' 6 days ago:
Don’t buy BrewDog beer. Got it.
- Submitted 1 week ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 9 comments
- Comment on Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About Missing 14-Year-Old 2 weeks ago:
According to the article, that was not done in this case, hence the article.
- Comment on Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About Missing 14-Year-Old 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About Missing 14-Year-Old 2 weeks ago:
Especially Musk’s far-right propaganda platform. Public and media organizations need to stop using it.
- Comment on Proton 2024 Lifetime account fundraiser for online freedom | Ends on January 5th 2 weeks ago:
Right now we need organisations fighting for software and media freedom more than ever. The unholy alliance of big corporations and far-right politics is just getting going, and if we don’t have alternatives to communications run by unethical corporations we’ll be driven into silence while they control all messaging. So this seems like a worthwhile donation.
- Comment on Apple CEO Tim Cook Donating $1 Million to Trump's Inaugural Fund 2 weeks ago:
It certainly has a FECAl smell about it.
- Comment on FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules Struck Down by Federal Appeals Court 2 weeks ago:
That’s because they’re not even trying to help people, except people who can pay.
- Comment on Ford’s X account calls Israel a ‘terrorist state’ in apparent hack incident 3 weeks ago:
And while Henry Ford is gone, the USA’s richest and most powerful industrialists are still Nazis.
- Opt Green: Coordinating a Windows 10-to-Linux upcycling campaign across Free Software communities worldwide (Talk from 38C3)media.ccc.de ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on Encyclopedia Britannica Is Now an AI Company 4 weeks ago:
Encyclopaedia Britannica—now known as just Britannica— is all in on artificial intelligence, and may soon go public at a valuation of nearly $1 billion
All in on enshittification, like everyone else.
- Comment on With right-wing backing, New England offshore wind opponents gain strength 4 weeks ago:
The right wing systematically opposes everything that can do good for this world. It’s amazing so many people don’t see it.
- Comment on Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK 5 weeks ago:
Let’s hope that allows many kids access to the care they need. If there’s a real concern about the safety of puberty blockers, then clinical trials are exactly what’s needed to find out. I’m not entirely convinced this is really due to medical concern though. It smells like Labour trying to out-bigot the Conservatives, just to prove they’re not lefties any more.
- Comment on Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK 5 weeks ago:
I think allowing a child to make a decision that may impact them for the rest of their lives is a grey area to say the least.
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It’s not a child making the decision. It’s typically adults making the decision for the sake of the child, and based on the child’s needs.
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Deciding to go ahead with puberty is also a decision that impacts a child for the rest of their life. In cases of gender dysmorphia this can cause psychological trauma that won’t just clear up, and prolong the agony by forcing the person to live into adulthood with a body that feels deeply wrong. At this point, transitioning can be more difficult because the body may already have taken on pronounced characteristics associated with the wrong gender.
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- Comment on Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds 1 month ago:
Self-hosting makes more sense every day.
- Comment on US phone companies could face fines for weak security under a proposed new rule 1 month ago:
Weak security like implementing the backdoors the government required you to implement?
- Comment on Wubuntu: The lovechild of Windows and Linux nobody asked for 1 month ago:
People have been theming Linux to look like Windows for decades. The problem is, theming it doesn’t overcome the main sticking point, which is that Linux doesn’t run the software many people use for work. I use Linux for my main OS, but then I use Ableton Live, Capture One, the Affinity suite, Adobe Acrobat, Fusion 360, and many people depend on other Adobe software and other professional software. So I end up running both Linux and Windows. Theming just isn’t the main issue here.
- Comment on USB-C cable CT scan reveals sinister active electronics — O.MG cable contains a hidden antenna and another die embedded in the microcontroller 1 month ago:
Yes, if someone used one of these against you, you could be in trouble. The company that makes it also makes a detector that can spot it:
- Comment on USB-C cable CT scan reveals sinister active electronics — O.MG cable contains a hidden antenna and another die embedded in the microcontroller 1 month ago:
Industrial CT scanner manufacturer Lumafield imaged an O.MG USB-C cable revealing sophisticated electronic components secreted within the connector.
The headline is clickbait I think. The whole point of the O.MG cable is to hide electronics in the connector. The analysis of what can be seen in there may be interesting, but it’s not like this is secret knowledge.
- Comment on The upside-down capacitor in mid-‘90s Macs, proven and documented by hobbyists 1 month ago:
I dug my LC III out of storage the other day and replaced the battery that had been in there for 31 years. Good to know about these capacitors. I’m going to leave a note for myself inside the case.
- Comment on Reddit overtakes X in popularity of social media platforms in UK 1 month ago:
Maybe next time they’ll really stick it to the man by moving to Facebook.
- Comment on CCTV shows pupils abused and locked in padded room 1 month ago:
Apparently it’s OK to beat kids if they’re autistic.
- Submitted 1 month ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 5 comments
- Comment on Kate Nash and Lily Allen on OnlyFans should be a wake-up call for the music industry 1 month ago:
Remember when Spotify’s CEO, Daniel Ek, said that it essentially cost nothing to produce “content”? Then he tried to walk it back when people pointed out what it said about his attitude to musicians who dedicate their whole lives to making music at great cost to themselves.
This word “content” needs to die. It conflates art with crap, because execs see both in terms of dollars and are too ignorant and incurious to tell the difference.
- Comment on AND THEY DIDN'T STOP EATING 1 month ago:
Are you asking for a friend, old worm?
- Comment on Apple Removes Ability to Run Unsigned Apps in macOS 15.1 2 months ago:
Apple’s processors may be impressive these days, but that doesn’t make up for the fact that their computers are getting ever less useful.
- Scientists Reveal Rare 450-Million-Year-Old Arthropod Fossil Preserved in Glittering Fool’s Goldwww.smithsonianmag.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to science@mander.xyz | 4 comments
- Comment on I wish I could have a tractor car. 2 months ago:
The temperature is also tens of thousands of degrees and the atmospheric pressure is 2000 times that on Earth. He’s doing well, considering.
- Comment on I wish I could have a tractor car. 2 months ago:
Spookily accurate. I like the way he’s just chillin’ in his office clothes (and long boots?) under the crushingly intense gravity.