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- Comment on You could get anything you wanted and it was FREE 14 hours ago:
Soulseek is basically the same thing too, and still works.
- Comment on Visa and Mastercard unveil AI-powered shopping 1 week ago:
This, surely, is the revolutionary technology the world needs today.
- Comment on Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail 1 week ago:
Unless this is being used as a pretext to block a service they wanted to block anyway for other reasons.
- Comment on Consumers make their voices heard as Microsoft's huge venture flatlines in popularity 1 week ago:
Ssshhh! Don’t let the Americans know we can do this.
- Comment on Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen 1 week ago:
I’d imagine the $20K price is for a model so basic many people won’t want it. it will be interesting to see what the price is for a model most people would consider an acceptable basic car.
- Right-wing media generating hysteria over trans women running non-competitively in London Marathonwww.thepinknews.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 7 comments
- Comment on Trans women should use toilets based on biological sex, Phillipson says 2 weeks ago:
Good question.
- Comment on Trans women should use toilets based on biological sex, Phillipson says 2 weeks ago:
I was just pointing out that whether you use women’s bathrooms or men’s, the same point applies: this concern about the genitals of the person in the next stall is a weird non-problem cooked up by bigots, yet the politicians scramble to appease them.
- Comment on Trans women should use toilets based on biological sex, Phillipson says 2 weeks ago:
Yep, and we get this headline too today:
- Comment on Trans women should use toilets based on biological sex, Phillipson says 2 weeks ago:
Then when was the last time you looked down a man’s pants in a public toilet, to check they had the approved genitals?
- Comment on Keir Starmer does not believe trans women are women, No 10 says 2 weeks ago:
Pandering to the most awful bigots in the country is an awful thing to do. This is a spineless government with no principles other than “don’t offend the right wing”.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 22 comments
- Comment on Losing International Students Could Devastate Many Colleges 2 weeks ago:
Might it not just result in them increasing domestic students’ fees to make up the difference?
- Comment on Losing International Students Could Devastate Many Colleges 2 weeks ago:
For Republicans, destroying universities and colleges is a feature, not a bug.
- Comment on Labour MPs urge Starmer to ‘get out there’ with Trump-style media strategy 2 weeks ago:
One minister said: “Trump and [the vice-president] JD Vance have shown the advantage of getting out there and not worrying about making mistakes.
Yeah, they have a whole cult behind them that will interpret their every idiotic blunder as an inspired move. Starmer, not so much.
- Comment on X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research 4 weeks ago:
Yes, apparently their protocol sends everything to every node, so it would overwhelm anything but a very powerful and expensive server. The Fediverse’s ActivityPub protocol is more efficient and only sends traffic where it is needed.
- Comment on Tax cut for Musk, Bezos and other tech billionaires on the table, Starmer confirms 4 weeks ago:
From an international perspective, it just makes the British government look scared and weak.
- Comment on LinkedIn’s cofounder Reid Hoffman says seeking work-life balance is a red flag that you’re ‘not committed to winning’ 4 weeks ago:
“Winning” presumably means doing something as worthwhile as inflicting LinkedIn on the world. I’m good thanks.
- Comment on LinkedIn’s cofounder Reid Hoffman says seeking work-life balance is a red flag that you’re ‘not committed to winning’ 4 weeks ago:
To be fair, he’s talking to the founders of startups, not employees. But still, he sounds like an ass.
- Comment on Groups Are Told That Federal Humanities Grants Are Canceled 4 weeks ago:
The USA no longer invests in science or humanities. Only business is allowed! But also tariffs to make business worse.
- Comment on Europe proposes backdoors in encrypted platforms under new security strategy 4 weeks ago:
a new strategy to enhance internal security across the entire European Union.
By making encryption weak. What a duplicitous use of language.
- Raid on Quaker Meeting House, mass arrests by London Metropolitan Police of Youth Demand memberswww.wsws.org ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 7 comments
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- Comment on ICE Returns All Migrants From Guantánamo to Stateside Facilities 1 month ago:
So they wasted no time getting down to abusing the prisoners without due process. Business as usual for Guantanano I guess.
- Comment on Google researchers uncover critical security flaw in all AMD Zen processors 1 month ago:
Just like all the BIOSes that have turned out to be using example keys called things like TEST ONLY - NOT FOR PRODUCTION, rendering Secure Boot not.
- Submitted 1 month ago to cybersecurity@infosec.pub | 3 comments
- Comment on Tesla for Sale: Buyer’s Remorse Sinks In for Elon Musk’s E.V.-Owning Critics 2 months ago:
There should be a word for that particular unsurprised flatness you feel when reading the NYT once again trying to find the most tangential angle at which to tiptoe around an obvious issue without touching on a blazingly obvious truth. Often you can tell from the mealy-mouthed headlines that it’s the NYT. They always try to paint their cowardice as some kind of superior intellectual take on the issue too, but everyone can see full well what they’re doing.
- Submitted 2 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 4 comments
- Comment on On May 5, Microsoft’s Skype will shut down for good 2 months ago:
I don’t think you can call landlines from it though.
- Comment on On May 5, Microsoft’s Skype will shut down for good 2 months ago:
I only used Skype for one thing: cheap calls from Canada to international landlines with no time limit and without having to pay a monthly subscription. Can anyone recommend a good alternative?