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This is the world most of us want to live in I would think.

He is not the one to deliver it. He doesn’t really want that. If he did, he wouldn’t want $1t let alone fight to get it. Let alone all the other vile shit he has done, and will do.

It’s a real shame because Readarr did work and they really just needed to fix their own metadata servers. No? Or were there other problems I’m not aware of?

Yeah, no prices. I move on. Same with job ads, no salary no application. If I get an intrusive ad, I’m not buying that product, I’ll deliberately seek out another brand in fact.

Is that a weird attitude to have? I thought it just made sense. We shouldn’t be rewarding this BS.

I’m wondering what combination of features would use 25w on a phone. On flagship models the battery would last less than an hour at that consumption (and might even melt :P).

Your point still stands by the way, sensors take next to nothing in terms of power. I guess the point of the article is perhaps the processing of the signals is more efficient with this hybrid chip? Again though in real terms it’s a nothing-burger in terms of power consumption.

Well, legally there’s no reason to comply. At the same time I personally have no skin in the game and deleting the account locally won’t do much (unless you purge their content too).

So, here’s what I would do. I would comply (you should be able to delete the local instance of that account). But I’d also reply pointing out that it’s a mirror of the real account hosted at lea.pet and their real beef is with them, and should that user interact with or generate content pushed to you, the local copy would be re-created.

Keep a copy of the email you send (because it’s highly likely a human doesn’t monitor that mailbox) and then move on with your life. If a real person then wants to complain you can just forward the email you sent and tell them the same still applies.

It’s automated and the email indicates as such.

Yes. But one less thing it can do.

I’m sure I’ve said all this before. But still. LLMS are very useful tools I don’t doubt that. The problem that no organisation that is “embracing” AI is really considering is how they work.

They essentially rewrite code or art or content they have seen before. If they replace developers, artists and authors/article writers wholesale the only source of new content will be, other AI.

It’s been known from the start that AI feeding on AI very quickly degenerates today garbage in garbage out.

They are also (currently) unable to innovate. So use of AI is going to stifle innovation or even completely kill it.

These are the medium to longer term problems that might only be really realised when the developers, artists and authors have moved onto other work and a lot might just not want to come back.

That’s my main problem with the wholesale use of AI. Used as a tool to complement people doing their job, makes sense and is possible to maintain going forward.

I’m going to argue that it’s a little of both. While I doubt Ofcom have much chance being able to actually recover money through legal channels because of US constitutional amendments, they must have thought about this and the next step is likely to be an even more draconian “great firewall of britain” moment. Which of course will likely be equally as trivial to bypass as the age verification so…

Won’t protect you from a steam game, that runs in XWayland, which allows global hotkeys (and effectively I guess key monitoring). But yes, overall it’s a nice security feature.

They’re out there and not so hidden. If you look, you’ll find them. There’s definitely an iptv community out there.

This story seems a bit weird to me. A lot of iptv operators don’t sell directly to people, rather wholesale to dealers.

So I bet they got a dealer here is all.

In a lot of places, fast Internet is ubiquitous and cheap.

Yeah there’s going to be a few places that will be problematic. But most can get access to fast Internet now I think.

Also for non gaming the data requirement isn’t so much.

I’m not talking about short term. It’s a medium to longer term thing. But it will start to become commonplace soon I reckon.

I’m also convinced that we’ll be herded ever more toward cloud computing. That is, we’ll all have our “desktop” on the cloud and thin clients to access it.

Don’t get me started on the dystopia I see coming from that.

In terms of the radio rules. The radio has always had its own firmware on android phones. The rules could be implemented using hardware fuses and restrictions on signed firmware updates for those specific systems.

That is they make the “single model for the world” as is generally economically the best option in many cases. And before shipping to distributors it’s stamped with the region and the fuses for that region are blown. Now it doesn’t mean it cannot be used elsewhere. But it means that it will follow all rules for the certification stamped on the device.

That would mean that any firmware for the main operating system cannot command it to do anything outside of the limits defined by those rules. So it’s not really a technical reason not to allow custom bootloaders.

But of course, probably the manufacturers generally don’t want you to be able to remove their firmware that is often filled with sponsored required app installs. So this is a convenient way to pretend their hands are tied.

I actually stopped having problems with steam on Wayland quite some time ago. But, one of the first things I did was turn off scaling (I have 1080 and 1440 screens). There used to be random issues with the menus in steam, and that went away a few months ago.

My only problems (as an NVidia user) with KDE plasma on wayland right now is occasionally discord will just freeze and I need to minimize/maximise to bring it to life. And very very rarely (and actually it might have been fixed, I’ve not seen it in weeks), one screen will entirely freeze and I have to either switch to a console and back or logout/login to bring it back to life. Oh and not a bug, but the OBS issue with global hotkeys. Now I can run it in X mode, but then it will randomly cause an issue where it makes games shudder. Only in X capture mode. It’s most odd.

It brings enough positives compared to X that these really minor problems are worth it.

I think the problem is, to businesses it is very much comparable. Businesses only ever (and don’t listen to anything they say, that’s all a lie) think about short term revenue gains. If they actually ever planned ahead you’d not have the month end, quarter end and year end revenue panics that seemingly every medium to large organization has.

So, being able to make decent looking software fast, is actually way more useful to them than it being “good” long term.

My only hope at this point, is people doing software engineering for as many years as I have can now create “Artisan software” as an art piece or something and get rich from it. :P

No. I fully expect them to monitor the traffic from the UK. And search warrant your premises. People using VPNs are most likely going to have evidence (the keys for the VPN and ways to start it up) on the machines, in their house that they could seize. They don’t need to touch your VPS.

Like I say, it’ll be a rarity. It’s too much work to go after people wholesale for this and the manpower to get the hard evidence it prohibitive. But, they will make a few examples.

For court purposes (and they will be careful to keep these cases in magistrate courts unless there’s solid evidence of more crimes found), there will be enough evidence to show the changing traffic patterns and the proof of a working method of accessing sites from another jurisdiction present on the machines found in the user’s possession. More than enough for well trained magistrates to convict.

But look, this is IF they try to route of banning VPNs too. It’s just the ranting of one or two MPs right now.

But that’s true of any law. They need to prove you broke the law. I doubt they will ban VPS’. They might ban private use of VPN’s and they will occasionally convict someone of it, to keep the fear level up. Just like most hard-to-prove laws.

The thing is, if they’re able to monitor traffic, then they can easily isolate “likely” VPN traffic. HTTPS will almost always be on 443 and to a variety of sites. If suddenly you have a metric ton of encrypted traffic going to a single host and your traffic going to other hosts also drops accordingly. You’ve got a very likely use of VPN.

Now, yes to prove it they’d need to get search warrants and the like. Which is why I think enforcement will be one of those things they make a big noise about when they do. Just to keep normal people scared to do the thing.

Just like IPTV use, normal piracy, and this kind of thing.

I live in the UK and host my own instance (not hosted in the UK). I don’t really have any real active users other than myself and most signups end up being deleted as soon as they post some advertising spam.

So, to that end I ensured I don’t have any communities marked as NSFW on my instance at all. But, I’m one person and cannot moderate the entire fediverse content I carry. When it moves to enforcement time and I see a definite sign of targeting fediverse hosts, or (as I expect will be a first phase) warnings being issued to fediverse hosts. I’ll likely just close registration, go on an account purge and lock out content to logged in users only. Then scale down the operation to a server hosted in my own house and just for me.

If things start to turn into serious enforcement against fediverse hosts, I fully expect the number of instances that will allow UK users to drastically reduce. But, don’t forget this is coming to the EU and US if things keep moving as they are. So, there may be no real way to survive as an independent forum/gathering place. And maybe, maybe that’s been part of the plan all along? Hobbyists like me cannot provide the time or financial burden to perform age checks or moderate everything to ensure there’s nothing that will breach the extremely (and deliberately) vague rules.

We live in interesting times.

I mean, in terms of the age restriction rules, we might get it first. But the EU is setting up for a very similar set of rules, the USA is also working on their own version. France came before us. Australia are also running I think (now, soon? Not too sure). As to whether similar talk (and it’s just talk right now) around banning VPNs will happen elsewhere too. Well, if they pull it off here too without too much of a problem, yes it will likely be rolled out elsewhere.

It’s not isolated in any way and the fact it seems to be very suddenly a thing every country wants to do should make it even more concerning.