Moved over from Reddit after the API debacle. Most interested in news communities, while being in favor of popular self-determination and against the use and propagation of generative AI.
While I already didn’t like CGP Grey for multi-striking a reaction channel, monetizing the ability to comment on his videos, and exploiting the algorithm with clickbait title and thumbnail changes, locking old videos behind a paid membership is astounding.
Embrace-extend-extinguish is when a large company adopts an existing open standard (encouraging users to use its software due to that compatibility) and then extends that standard with proprietary features, rendering software using the open standard incompatible and extinguishing their ability to compete with the larger platform.
Tired of seeing so many “x for sleep”, “sleepy history”, “things your grandparents did”, and similar content generated by AI, inherently useless, falsified, and meaningless.
The Starmer government certainly has a talent for u-turns.
To the uninformed, not blocking VPNs makes the government’s policies for an unprecedented invasion of user privacy seem like a level-headed compromise.
33% across the UK; Clacton leans further right-wing than the national average, and is unfortunately likely to re-elect Farage.
Because capitalizing SECRET and IT’S WORSE, insinuating the existence of a conspiracy with “Than You Think”, and putting an eye-catching yellow “EXPO$ED” on the thumbnail are hallmarks of meaningful journalism rather than sensationalist tabloids?
Farage is corrupt, but I’m not inclined to watch channels that feel the need to use clickbait to draw viewers.
The third, on 20 April, said: “If a trans-identified male is in a female-only space, he is committing a violent, abusive act. Make a scene, call the cops and, if all else fails, punch him in the balls.”
Linehan insisted at the time that while he may have been guilty of making a “bad joke”, he had not been aiming to encourage violence.
Great, now people on TERF island are getting paid to tell their followers to physically assault transgender people.
The judge found that the writer had taken Brooks’s phone because he was “angry and fed up” and had damaged it by knocking it to the ground.
The conviction for damaging their mobile phone was also overturned on appeal.
And get to damage their property without repercussions.
Google is far less ethical than F-Droid, and yet the developer doesn’t mind leaving it up on there.
An article summarizing the ruling would probably have been sufficient for most people.
Ars asked Fractic if community forums would also be blocked. In response, he said that old school bulletin board systems are permitted, but Reddit is not.
If their strategy is blocking major app installations, along with the services themselves at the DNS level, at least the Fediverse is probably not big enough for them to have bothered to block it.
As we all know, the first duty of any government is to protect the nation.
The first duty of any government should be to represent its people and ensure their prosperity. “Protecting the nation” should never come at the expense of its people.
The excuse of funding shortfalls is disingenuous; funds are there but are being spent on lower priorities such as net zero and welfare.
The author’s priorities clearly do not lie with the welfare of the people or the environment that they live in.
Unfortunately in many cases there isn’t a viable alternative that bypasses paywalls, but just something to keep in mind. The best compromise is to use something like uBlock Origin that blocks the DDOS script.
Archive.is attempted to DDOS the blog of someone who was looking into the identity of its operator, while also modifying certain pages to include the username of the blog’s owner.
The problematic nature of archive.is aside, there’s not much value to be had in preserving articles propagating transphobia.
While fully autonomous “agentic AI” systems are not yet known to be widely used in the piracy ecosystem
Adding generative AI to a piracy site would needlessly increase hosting costs; they’re just using AI as a boogieman to get the order they want.
Nobody’s enforcing it so who gives a shit?
Because once people accept age-gating for any and all websites, enforcement (i.e. age verification) becomes a much easier sell to the average person who doesn’t care about their privacy.
The judge in that case called Linehan’s social media posts directed at her “deeply unpleasant, insulting and even unnecessary” but said they weren’t “oppressive or unacceptable”.
Perhaps the judge would find it more oppressive if she were the one being misgendered on a regular basis.
Someone has at least archived Grey’s video here, though Grey’s actions have put me off watching any of his content.