Tech firms will suggest any invasive nonsense that will make them money.

Those present included representatives of Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Palantir, which works closely with the US military

A completely unsurprising list of companies lol

There is no backdoor. We do not have the export variant of the F35 with US-controlled software. The software on our F35s (and Trident missiles) is British. This came as the result of concerns New Labour had about the very thing you mention - US backdoors.

And I agree that the US cannot be trusted. Thankfully our sixth gen fighters have no US ties, and most of our other recent military developments aren’t either. For the time being, though, we can’t really abruptly scrap trident or F35s, despite maintenance not being 100% done here (particularly for Trident). Our missiles only need maintenance every 10 years - I’d hope we have facilities to do that domestically by then.

Ok so you think that the old 4" screen phones should actually have been sub 2". That seems excessively small to me.

There’s a disproportionately high amount of old people in that area - a demographic probably less likely to care about a gaming preservation petition.

First I’ve even heard of it, damn, I’d have totally signed.

MP pay is such a red herring.

Yes, their pay is a lot compared to, say, minimum wage, but a low MP pay even further encourages only wealthy people to become MPs.

I’d much rather see MP salary significantly increased, but expenses capped and put under a much greater level of scrutiny.

Easy thing to say when you’re not the one donating your time for free.

I love what Valve is doing for Linux, but longer term, the onus is on them to solve the 32-bit compatibility layer issue (a-la Proton for win-to-linux, as well as their upcoming x86-to-ARM layer).

Expecting all distros (who again, are staffed mostly by volunteers) to do this work separately (i.e. duplicating all that work), for all time, is a big ask.

They’re also comparing total appointment numbers from a time period where there was a lot of Nurse/doctor strike action against a time period where strikes had stopped and NHS staff were working through a backlog.

It seems insane to measure air pollution by this metric rather than, you know, actually looking at air pollution levels.

"There is no such thing as safe strangulation; women cannot consent to the long-term harm it can cause

What? Of course women can consent. Women aren’t bumbling morons who don’t understand anything, ffs

There is of course the risk of injury when you engage in BDSM. It’s not for everyone, and if people do it they need to be cautious, they need to consent, and they need to be aware of the risks.

But this idea that women specifically are unable to consent is bullshit. Women also drink alcohol, smoke, take drugs, drive cars, give birth, engage in sports, etc – all of which also present danger, should these also be ruled as things women don’t have the mental capacity to consent to?

I absolutely hate that “women are too stupid/infantile to know what they’re doing, they’re delicate flowers that need constant protection” is presented as a feminist position now.

Women being treated like they’re children is the exact kind of thing the Suffragette movement rallied against, and now it’s people who call themselves feminists advocating for this nonsense.

That’s not even the full extent of his homophobia. He also made donations to a politician who said that AIDS is a great thing and will purge the world of gay people.

He also gave an interview about the whole being pressured to leave Mozilla thing, and said he was disappointed in how intolerant of his beliefs Mozilla staff were once they became public knowledge.

Yes, you read that right, a man who wanted to strip gay people of their rights cried about fucking intolerance towards him. Clown.

Arguably. Or it’s just what the dev team was used to. Or a bunch of other explanations.

I just don’t find “a historic Germanic group of settlers that immigrated to medieval Britain are purposely neglecting unicode support as a means to suppress people that aren’t part of their group.”

Going through their post history, they seem obsessed with the “Anglo Saxons”.

Just a bizarre conspiracy theory from a one day old account that’s also advocating for genociding everyone in the middle east lol

To be fair, the term “AI” has always been used in an extremely vague way.

NPCs in video games, chess computers, or other such tech are not sentient and do not have general intelligence, yet we’ve been referring to those as “AI” for decades without anybody taking an issue with it.

Anglo-Saxon? Lmao what a bizarre way to talk. Not that it even makes sense considering Anglo-Saxon settlers in the US weren’t even close to being the majority.

It’s down to unicode support. Not a plot from “Anglo-Saxons” to keep others in their place lol

There are already travel warnings issued for the US.

And unfortunately, the UK cannot go about starting international spats and trade wars with the US. That’s a one way ticket to heavy recession and mass poverty.

The most we can realistically do is travel warnings and publishing stories like this.

EU now mandates minimum of 5 years after the device is no longer on sale, so most likely 7 years total. This was a law that came into place just 1 week ago.

If you’re outside the EU it’s possible you won’t get that, but since the work is already done, you can likely count on it coming to other markets too.

I don’t think that’s true in the slightest. A phone 2.1" smaller in diagonal length than my current one would be smaller than a Nokia 3310.

That’s exactly my point.

Presumably you’re paid for the work you do, and you shouldn’t have to do it for free, yes?

I imagine you wouldn’t be saying this if it was your work being used.

If you went through the painstaking effort or writing a book or something, I imagine you’d be pretty unhappy if nobody wanted to reimburse you, and you were called a cunt for wanting to be paid for your labour.

Having heard about some of the difficulty in budgeting for a charity my friend works at that is also reliant on donations, this isn’t surprising.

She said things would be managed more effectively if there were predictable payments coming in, even if they were taking in less money in total.

It appears Gnome, and probably others, are the same.

Trouble is, I too am a “I like donating to things in lump sums so my bank account is less cluttered” kinda guy.

Why is Polution per GDP a better measure?

They wanted a measure that makes China look better.