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- Comment on Ofcom investigating Elon Musk’s X after outcry over sexualised AI images 1 day 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... 5 days 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.
- Comment on Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes 6 days ago:
LMAO, a and o are on opposite end of the keyboard, how do you even do this?
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- Comment on Music is music 1 week ago:
This, but unironically.
(Shout out to Dysmorphia by Body Prison)
- Comment on Among 2025 games with over 10K reviews, Deltarune is the most highly rated 1 week ago:
Chapter one also released in 2018 (
78 years ago), so the game doesn’t really feel like it’s from this year. - Comment on Does he think he is The King? 2 weeks ago:
Polanski is doing one as well, but at the same time as the King’s Speech. This is apparently just a feature of British politics now.
- Comment on Firefox dev clarifies that AI features will be 'opt-in' and there will be a 'killswitch' to disable them 3 weeks ago:
Link to the article as it doesn’t show up on Lemmy: gamingonlinux.com/…/firefox-dev-clarifies-there-w…
- Comment on Waterstones would sell books written by AI, says chain's boss 5 weeks ago:
Chris is probably just following the comm rule against editorialising titles.
- Comment on Waterstones would sell books written by AI, says chain's boss 5 weeks ago:
And that relates to a book shop selling LLM-written books how? Digital artists still draw what’s attributed to them, an AI author hasn’t written what’s attributed to them.
- Comment on Waterstones would sell books written by AI, says chain's boss 5 weeks ago:
What’s your point?
- Britain becomes world’s largest economy to end new oil and gas exploration - Greenpeace UKwww.greenpeace.org.uk ↗Submitted 1 month ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 1 comment
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- Comment on Today is the birthday of His Majesty the King 1 month ago:
That’s not worse the Prime Minister Farage, which could be the case come 2029, so I don’t see your point.
- Comment on Today is the birthday of His Majesty the King 1 month ago:
This is an impressive amount of trolling, even for you Flax.
Feddit.UK’s intended audience is His Majesty’s subjects within the United Kingdom
No. The monarch doesn’t own me and I refuse to owe it anything. Hopefully one day the British state will get rid of the embarrassment of being headed by a family of nepo babies.
- Comment on itsfoss promotes hyprland on instagram!? 2 months ago:
They’re a low effort content mill, they’ll post whatever drives traffic to their website.
- Comment on Vegan Politician Zack Polanski Elected New Green Party Leader In Landslide Victory 3 months ago:
They won 84.6% of the vote
I know? I literally voted for the man and reported on him being elected here.
it’s important to examine the characters of influential Individuals
I’m sorry, what? I don’t understand what that has to do with what’s being talked about.
- Comment on Vegan Politician Zack Polanski Elected New Green Party Leader In Landslide Victory 3 months ago:
It’s still interesting to discuss since they’re going to be leader for years
Only one year, unless he’s re-elected. The GPEW hold leadership elections every 2 years, but it was postponed last year so as to not coincide with the general election.
Those 2 constituent countries fly under the Union Jack.
It’s still inaccurate to call them ‘the UK’s Green Party’ as both Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own Green parties which are separate from the GPEW.
- Comment on Vegan Politician Zack Polanski Elected New Green Party Leader In Landslide Victory 3 months ago:
Why report on this now? The article even acknowledges that this happened last month. Also, there is no ‘UK Green Party’, Polanski was elected leader of the Green Party of England and Wales.
- Parents outraged as Meta [Facebook] uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting manwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 3 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 5 comments
- Comment on sinful 4 months ago:
- Comment on Reddit lost it 4 months ago:
- Comment on Calling boss a dickhead was not a sackable offence, tribunal rules 4 months ago:
Locking as this is a duplicate, but I’m not removing as there’s comments.
- Comment on JK Rowling slams Graham Linehan’s arrest at Heathrow 4 months ago:
The main difference is the Linham has a history that means it’s probably not a hypothetical. He’s already appearing in court on the fourth for harassing a trans woman and breaking her phone.
- Comment on He really said this, look it up! 4 months ago:
I haven’t actually played it, it’s on my wishlist.
- Comment on He really said this, look it up! 4 months ago:
Glad to know that playing Super Lesbian Animal RPG is praxis.
- Comment on Tourists dismantle cross and use stones to create Star of David 4 months ago:
Please make the primary link an archive link so we’re not driving traffic to the Daily Heil. I’m honestly not sure we should allowing stories from there at all.
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 4 months ago:
Dame Rachel told BBC Newsnight: “Of course, we need age verification on VPNs - it’s absolutely a loophole that needs closing and that’s one of my major recommendations.”
She wants ministers to explore requiring VPNs “to implement highly effective age assurances to stop underage users from accessing pornography.”
Stop trying to enforce this at the service level, for God’s sake. What are you going to do when people switch to stuff like Tor?* ‘Online safety regulation pushes kids to that dark web’ will be a fire headline in a couple of months/years.
* I remember seeing someone link to something here they described as ‘Tor for apps’ that I can’t find, does anyone have that at hand?
The report also found more children are stumbling across pornography accidentally, with some of the 16 to 21-year-olds surveyed saying they had viewed it “aged six or younger”.
I’m sorry, but this is genuinely a failure of parents. Like, I’m not normally one to trot out the ‘parents should helicopter their children’ defence against regulation of social media, but giving a bloody six year old not-monitored-enough access to the internet is on the parent.
Also, I’d take this all a lot more seriously if parent actually used the tools already available to them:
We actually already have measures to deal with this: 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. Again, sing it with me: lol.
Back to the BBC article.
More than half of respondents to the survey had viewed strangulation as children, prompting Dame Rachel to also ask the government to ban depictions of it.
This is an implicit admission that age verification is ineffective. If it was, then children wouldn’t see it and then we wouldn’t need to ban it.
- Comment on Prince Harry denies giving Prince Andrew bloody nose at family gathering 5 months ago:
What a shame, would’ve made me like him more if he did.
- Comment on UK pornography taskforce to propose banning ‘barely legal’ content after Channel 4 documentary airs 5 months ago:
- Good luck enforcing that;
- No, let’s not just ban everything that some people find objectionable.
