Because it shows that a sizable amount of people are at least anti-nazi enough to move platform.

Yes, it would be nicer if they moved to mastodon, but nobody even knows what that is, nobody is there (classic chicken and egg problem), and people get confused by the whole “choose an instance/server” thing.

Is it not ok to have a small celebration of people moving to a better, more positive platform, even if it is far from perfect?

I wish that were the case. Unfortunately, human rights are up for political debate, since a lot of people are vehemently against them.

In the books they pretty much confirm it takes more than just heat to destroy the One Ring.

Good forges burn hotter than lava, and dragonfire even hotter still, yet Gandalf said that the biggest, baddest dragon who ever lived Ancalagon the Black (who makes Smaug look like a whimpy little butterfly in comparison) wouldn’t be able to harm the One Ring.

It’s the magical tie to Orodruin/Mount Doom that allows for its destruction.

No shit? It’s run by ex-Twitter people, and Musk has brought a flamethrower to TwitterX.

Ok that’s actually pretty funny

I’m usually a defender of opt-out telemetry in Linux, what with it usually being trivial to untick in the installer, the telemetry not being invasive, the telemetry being private and not being able to identify people, it being used to actually benefit Linux rather than make money, and because opt-in telemetry is useless (as repeatedly stated by multiple Linux projects that I trust, such as KDE and Gnome)…

That said, holy shit this telemetry collects stuff it really should not be collecting. This is not what Linux telemetry should be. Doubly so from a distro with a troubled past in terms of management and security. This is a red flag.

Yes it is what you said.

The police in all countries exist specifically to do violence against citizens of that country. That is literally their reason for existing.

You said they’re there to carry out violence on citizens. That’s not what the police are or should be for.

If you have services available other than the police, it is in your interest to prefer those.

No. You’re again thinking police are violent thugs everywhere.

it is in our interest to offload non-violent services from the police onto social workers and other non-violent labour.

That doesn’t make much sense to me.

My wife gets sexually harassed at work… is she just not supposed to call the police? My car gets stolen… am I not supposed to call the police? I see a policeman in the street and I am lost, is it wrong to ask for directions?

I appreciate that the police may be far more militaristic where you live, I acknowledge that I’m lucky in that regard, but you should at least acknowledge that that stuff varies place to place. I don’t think the belief that police should be/are only “violent labour” is a correct one.

Police having monopoly on (legal) violence does not mean the point of them existing is explicitly to terrorise people to the extent people are afraid to call them for assistance.

Only in places where they are allowed to become thugs is that the case.

Certainly can make things a lot worse. Thankfully my experiences have still been good despite being a brown immigrant.

Living in a country where you’re afraid to call the police sounds so crazy to me.

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Surely a yard (3ft, ~90cm) is the most equivelant to a metre, not a foot

Having to regularly plug your phone into a PC to back up 100GB+ of photos and videos over a USB 2 connection is not even remotely the same as automatic backups to iCloud that you can then access instantly, at any time, anywhere.

There are arguments for and against assisted suicide for terminally ill patients.

Cost – regardless of whether it’s a bit cheaper or a bit more expensive – should not be one of them, Wes.

What the hell is this headline?

The claim has always been that the planned green energy investments and state-owned company ‘Great British Energy’ will save ‘up to’ £300 (compared to 2023 prices) by 2030.

This BBC article from May 2024, before Labour were even in government, confirms this.

There’s nothing to “admit” – nothing is being pushed back or watered down. The timeframe has always been 2030.

The £300 estimate actually comes from a non-Labour-affiliated right wing think tank that uses less ambitious modeling than what labour actually wants to put in place. So assuming that goes well, it could be better than £300, or the £300 could be achieved even sooner than 2030, but Labour haven’t made any promises about that.

Honestly, sometimes it feels like the supposedly left-wing outlets such as The Morning Star would prefer to have the Tories or Reform in charge than have a Labour government that’s not headed by Corbyn.

There should be the mandatory inclusion of a set of open APIs that pass info like:

• display and audio signal (duh)

• microphone audio (to pass voice commands)

• whether the headlights are on (to offer auto dark mode switching on the display)

• whether the handbrake is engaged (so things like video playback can be a parked-only feature)

• crash sensor activation (so that a phone could, if the user desires, automatically alert emergency services)

• For EVs, battery SoC (so that navigation software can include charging stops seamlessly)

• whether the car is left-hand-drive or right-hand-drive (so on-screen buttons can always be close to the driver, not on the wrong side)

From there on, there can be actual competition in the space. You’re not just limited to Android Auto or Apple CarPlay. Any app would be able to use this API data.

Oh look, a tankie.

Sorry, I don’t subscribe to your misguided arsekissing of China – a genocidal dictatorship that openly wants to invade Taiwan.

Same goes for Russia who you also seem to be fond of.

Whoa settle down there, Charles Benedict Davenport

Yup. I’m living in a new build right now and broadly enjoy it, but in some ways I’m shocked it’s not more forward-thinking.

No solar panels, gas boiler, radiators on the walls, no heat pump. I keep thinking why the hell was a house built in 2019 not built with this stuff in mind.

Homebuilders need to be told, they won’t do it by themselves unless it’s cheaper.