Flax_vert
@Flax_vert@feddit.uk
Fediverse Advocate
- Comment on E-Mail with own domain 1 day ago:
I have hosted my own email before. It can get a bit annoying and it’s not the most reliable.
I definitely recommend at least starting with your own domain. That way you can move emails easily. It’s relatively straightforward, although if you have it on a gmail account you need to disable 2fa for some reason…
- Comment on UK government targets VPNs in new online safety consultation as Lords vote for ban 2 days ago:
China manages to figure it out using deep packet inspection.
Funnily enough, they don’t fully ban them. Just randomly cut them off to inconvenience the user.
- Comment on At this point, what should we do about the ICE Agents and Trump and such? 2 days ago:
I think he is referring to his knob
- Comment on UK: Chinese embassy opponents to seek judicial review 2 days ago:
Why is it that this is an issue but America’s fortress isn’t?
- Comment on The UK’s new dual citizenship passport rules for 2026 explained – including the date that the changes will come into effect 3 days ago:
I assume for most dual nationals, they’ll have two passports.
- Comment on The UK’s new dual citizenship passport rules for 2026 explained – including the date that the changes will come into effect 3 days ago:
The certificate of entitlement is only really for countries which don’t officially acknowledge dual citizenship, kind of a way to hide your British passport from them. I know the advice for a dual British/Chinese citizen is to get this certificate in your British passport. The chinese would see the certificate in it and count it as a visa and let you depart.
- Comment on The UK’s new dual citizenship passport rules for 2026 explained – including the date that the changes will come into effect 3 days ago:
I actually thought this was already the case? Just thought it was common sense that if you had a non british/irish passport in addition to your british/irish passport, you would present your british passport upon entering and leaving the UK and whatever passport suits the destination country
- Comment on Anon plays GTA VI 5 days ago:
a greentext. this is a place where people post screenshots from 4chan where at least one line of text is green
- Comment on What Is 'Pathways' And Who Is 'Amelia?' The Controversial Memes About The Viral U.K. Anti-Immigration Goth Girl Explained 5 days ago:
- Comment on What Is 'Pathways' And Who Is 'Amelia?' The Controversial Memes About The Viral U.K. Anti-Immigration Goth Girl Explained 5 days ago:
The optimistic view is that this was an intern project… But the fact it was funded by two councils?
- Comment on What Is 'Pathways' And Who Is 'Amelia?' The Controversial Memes About The Viral U.K. Anti-Immigration Goth Girl Explained 5 days ago:
I didn’t like it honestly. A main issue is, for example, the first prompt, if you download a video, it assumes you will share it. Or if you “explore the topic further” you go on a racist rant. I would have rathered the character explores further and finds out it’s BS or something of that nature. The tiktok scene is stupid, where if you “do your research” you get radicalised, 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???).
Then at the end you nearly get arrested if you attend a protest. Not a good message to send.
Another issue is at some point it mentions an “encrypted” messaging app using the term “encrypted” like it’s a spooky ghost and automatically bad.
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?
A de-radicalisation programme would have been very good, but I think this one actually in fact backfires. Part of me suspects it was even made by someone on that side of politics as a sabotage tactic, it’s that bad.
- Comment on What Is 'Pathways' And Who Is 'Amelia?' The Controversial Memes About The Viral U.K. Anti-Immigration Goth Girl Explained 5 days ago:
Goth is when choker
- Comment on What Is 'Pathways' And Who Is 'Amelia?' The Controversial Memes About The Viral U.K. Anti-Immigration Goth Girl Explained 5 days ago:
I presume it’s just AI
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- Comment on Anon creates the rarest pepe 5 days ago:
He had 12 witnesses who saw the plates
- Comment on Ian's Is Still The Best Site For Tying Your Shoelaces 1 week ago:
I always have used the Ian knot
- Comment on Anon creates a religion 1 week ago:
Depends how Roman catholic you are
- Comment on Anon creates a religion 1 week ago:
The deus thing - isn’t that a product of etymology?
As for the flood - possibly it’s featured in many religions because it was a real event
- Comment on Anon creates a religion 1 week ago:
Islam on the night of the Zutt be like:
- Comment on Apple Creator Studio is launching 1 week ago:
Kinda glad that someone big is challenging Adobe tbh
- Comment on Keir Starmer abandons plans for compulsory digital ID 1 week ago:
Quietly rolls back policy after the news cycle has moved on… Interesting
- Comment on Uncovered: Secret room beneath Chinese embassy that poses threat to City 1 week ago:
To be fair, the Great Firewall of China is contained almost entirely within China
- Comment on Uncovered: Secret room beneath Chinese embassy that poses threat to City 1 week ago:
Hadrian’s Firewall
Doggerblock (Like doggerbank, from doggerland)
NetworkRules Britannia
Checkpoint Channel
eWhitehouse
- Comment on Uncovered: Secret room beneath Chinese embassy that poses threat to City 1 week ago:
Why can’t the chinabros be our ally? Surely we have a lot in common, arresting people over internet posts and all that
- Comment on Uncovered: Secret room beneath Chinese embassy that poses threat to City 1 week ago:
The drawings show that a single concealed chamber will sit directly alongside fibre-optic cables transmitting financial data to the City of London, as well as email and messaging traffic for millions of internet users.
Chamber, as in room, right?
The disclosures will reignite fears that Beijing could be seeking to spy on the information carried through the network, potentially gaining access to state and financial secrets.
Wouldn’t it be encrypted?
- Comment on Uncovered: Secret room beneath Chinese embassy that poses threat to City 1 week ago:
USA has a literal fortress with a moat yet nobody bats an eye
- Comment on If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop? 1 week ago:
They need to do a PHD before getting internet access in my family
- Comment on If the protests in Iran win/topple the government what will it look like immediately afterwards? Also what would be the good or bad about installing a monarchy again? 1 week ago:
The next president they elect can just take over and abolish elections
- Comment on If the protests in Iran win/topple the government what will it look like immediately afterwards? Also what would be the good or bad about installing a monarchy again? 1 week ago:
I think they should install the monarchy again, then hold free and fair elections to elect a prime minister. Essentially just have a constitutional monarchy.
- Comment on Two-thirds of UK voters wrongly think immigration is rising, poll finds 2 weeks ago:
Why are we using a picture of illegal immigrants on small boats as a picture to represent a general story on immigration? This is extremely dishonest
