Blackmist

@Blackmist@feddit.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK government targets VPNs in new online safety consultation as Lords vote for ban⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of them do that too a degree anyway. Credit cards are only available to over 18s, so if you pay with one of those, that’s your ID. I guess this is mostly for free VPNs (although I’ve never found one that was any good) and people paying with debit cards or crypto.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't understand how Trump gets away with all his senial BS. How come everyone is telling him to piss off or use the constitution to shut him the hell up?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Because he surrounds himself with incompetent people that rely on him for their continued employment.

  When he has his last burger, support collapses by quite a bit (although not nearly enough). That’s why they’d quite like to not bother with elections in the future. Nobody is decorating their mobility scooters and mobile homes with Vance merch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digital Foundry: Nvidia G-Sync Pulsar is a Motion Clarity Revelation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So black frame insertion with VRR? Is that what it is? Struggling to tell and struggling even harder to care.

  Can’t help but think the motion would look even clearer without DLSS bullshitting entire frames out of nowhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wokeness ended, check mate leftists ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  MAGA hats are going to be fuming when they find out what they just retweeted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Government drops plans for mandatory digital ID to work in UK⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  All that drop in ratings, for nothing. Absolute incompetence.

  It wouldn’t have prevented the dreaded boat people from working, because it’s all under the table anyway. It would just have been annoying and intrusive.

  Yet at the same time, a free to access, zero knowledge proof ID system could be useful to have. It just can’t be mandatory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Government drops plans for mandatory digital ID to work in UK⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m working my way through that one now. One of the first episodes they try to cut civil service staff but end up hiring a 5000 extra so they know which ones to cut. Reform recently spent £5m in Derbyshire on consultants to “find savings”.

  The more things change, the more they stay the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tories would ban under-16s from social media⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t really matter since the remnants of their party have already fucked off to Reform.

  I think I’ve got more chance of being PM than Kemi.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If your main language is English you probably can’t. There’s just little need since everything is so English-centric that almost everyone else has to learn it as a necessity.

  Larger countries like France and Germany can often get on without it as there’s enough population to be worth dubbing and translating things to it, but go somewhere smaller like the Nordic countries, and you’re basically stuffed without it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s kind of just Europe plus Canada. But the whole point is nukes. Without the US we don’t really have that (the UK has a few but the US has the keys iirc, and France has a token amount), so Europe needs to get those weapons programs going again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨really makes you think⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But we’re 60% water so we taste it all the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with the second part.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They can’t carry it on forever, sadly. It’s the nature of a prequel show.

  Kirks and Spock’s actors are currently older than Nimoy and Shatner were when TOS ended.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humans are part of the ecosystem.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is my point. People. They’re protecting it from other people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hurry pls it's urgent⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All of which goes in the AI bullshit the rich actually care about.

  When China invade Taiwan, shit will go bananas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sad Ganymede noises⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t take Mercury for granted.

  This is how we lost Pluto to the “well ackchually” gang.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humans are part of the ecosystem.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Indigenous people protecting the environment from what?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's it going to take to truly stop the US?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Follow the money.

  See all those billionaire tech cunts propping him up? Sanction them. Ban their software. Block their psy-op social media websites.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mom with the real questions ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This type of shit is why we have a 1980s cot in the attic. We have no children. We have no plans of having children. We have stated multiple times that we don’t want children.

  Yet there it is anyway, covered in nicotine stains, until mother in law carks it, and the wife can finally be satisfied that she’s not going to visit for a random inspection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 2025 Steam Awards Winners⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re hasn’t really been that many VR games lately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet picture of a monkey⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And timeshares. And pyramid schemes.

  I remember my parents doing one of those weird chain letter things where you’d copy the letter to a few other people, send a few quid to the people on the list, and within weeks you’d be sent thousands of pounds, if only the scheme didn’t require more people than there were in the whole country.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tom's Hardware now hijacks the back button.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t do that for me in Chrome or Firefox on Windows either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Priorities⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ever seen a pile of discarded small silver canisters? That would be them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Their sort are always liars” he added.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, all the SEO nobheads poisoned search well before Google managed it.

  The internet has been inventing nonsense based seemingly on your search queries for a long-ass time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is with these videos where it's just someone reaction to shit someone else is doing? ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll do it but it’s just me sitting stony-faced before going “load of wank” and turning it off halfway through.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m going to guess at The Sunday Sport.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU lawmakers to study ban 'loot boxes' and other addictive features in video games⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And then I assume they’ll study a large packet of banknotes each and forget all about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trying to activate a new BT account⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I’ve been with Zen since broadband has been a thing. Never had an issue with them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Extremely rare East German game console from the late 1970s tested — only such device produced by communist GDR, bought for $1,000 at auction⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks similar to the old Radofin TV game unit I used to have. 10 games, and most of them were Pong variants.

  Makes sense. The Soviets cloned a few Western machines. They had a clone of the ZX Spectrum too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries to understand credit scores⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mine doesn’t go down when I call the government a bunch of cunts.

  And the Chinese one still goes down if you’re poor.