They’re really leaning into the email similarities here, not a fan of moving the sidebar to the other side but I’ll get over it. My biggest wish on the UI front though is for them to add a threaded view for replies like what Bluesky has, navigating long threads on Mastodon can be really taxing just trying to follow reply chains.

Why not just use something like Wordpress? Plenty of web fiction is already published on it and it federates.

Damn, I skimmed over the name. This is !nominativedeterminism@feddit.uk material

The BBC’s coverage on certain issues (asylum seekers, trans, disability, etc) has been inexcusably bad and has been for a while. I think it’s perfectly fair to hold the public broadcaster to a high standard. The Tories were able to stuff the BBC with their people and the quality of their journalism has plummeted since, the whole thing needs serious reform and Labour don’t seem interested in doing it.

I’m not a cynic, and as mentioned don’t have much of an imagination, so such thoughts don’t even cross my mind.

You wrote them out, so the thoughts clearly did cross your mind? I don’t even know why you’re trying to deflect this, it’s not unreasonable to think foreign intelligence would try to undermine trust in the BBC, they’d be dumb not to.

But again, those doing the most to undermine trust in the BBC are the people the Tories put in charge of it.

A moral panic Novara were all too happy to play a part in.

Finished A Trade of Blood by Robert Jackson Bennett. Really enjoyed it, can’t wait for the next in there series.

The energy secretary is also said to be considering dropping strict net zero rules under the guise of dropping household energy bills, and Andy Burnham has apparently directed ministers to find ways to allow new drilling in the North Sea without impacting the Labour party’s manifesto pledge to put a halt to any new efforts.

Burn 'em Burnham looked at the recent wildfires and thought ‘Yes, more of those please’.

This is such a weird use of this system. Months of wildfires and Labours first action is to send a phone alert that amounts to ‘only you can stop wildfires.’

Emacs, of course.

I mostly use Foliate, but I actually do most of my ebook reading on my phone.

Every Harry Potter fan I’ve met already prerequisites any talk of the franchise with ‘I don’t agree with Rowling, but…’, they already know, they’d just rather support the eradication of trans people than give up their children’s toys.

I mean, this is a blog post not a news article, and it is at least a well sourced Reddit comment. Good video though, very convincing, thanks for the link.

Text version of the video, with links: https://www.patreon.com/rebecca/posts/dobby-grave-is-166521289

OP is an infamous ban evader, they just spam post a bunch of articles from (mostly, but not exclusively) the Guardian, so I doubt this is OP’s agenda. The more concerning thing is the media, the BBC news homepage had 2 stories about this (and there were 3 this morning).

who the people proposing these policies

Tories.

why they’re so opposed to fun, nightlife, and supporting long-standing traditions

Because they’re Tories.

The part that bothers me isn’t the specific ban on LLM projects, or the specific ban on cryptocurrency projects. It’s that a hub built around “free software” is now telling its users which kinds of software are deemed good and which are not, and that is closer to censorship than it might seem. Once a platform writes into its terms that an entire category “harms its reputation” and can be removed on that basis, the deciding factor stops being whether the code is legal, or functional, or useful, and becomes whether it aligns with a position the platform has taken. […] Every platform I can think of that took this approach became divisive the moment it started enforcing an ideology on its users, whatever that ideology happened to be, and however justified it looked at the time.

As acknowledged, Codeberg already doesn’t allow non-free software on it, that is itself pushing an ideology on its users. Extending this stance to other forms of software isn’t the big deal the author is making it out to be, software being free doesn’t absolve it of other moral implications.

We now even have people like Linus Torvalds making the fairly reasonable argument that an LLM is just a tool, and “clearly a useful one”

Appeal to authority. See this response.

>Irish hotel
>Posted in United Kingdom

Now that is commentary you probably didn’t intend.

It would be more out of character for Starmer to keep his word.

You were instance banned under lemmy.ml’s rule 4, not the privacy community’s rule 4. ml’s rule 4 is “No Ads / Spamming”. This seems to have been prompted by you reposting a removed post, which frankly seems fair despite what I think of ml’s moderation normally.

Rule 4 does seem to be a bad reason to remove the original post, though I think it should’ve been removed simply for how cringe ‘cuckloading’ is as a term. Stop trying to link sexual deviancy to moral deficiency.

One problem with the whole C2S thing is you can easily end up in the Matrix/XMPP situation where some clients and servers implement some smattering of standards and it just becomes confusing to navigate and use.

This is approximately the situation in the fediverse today, with Mastodon in the role of Gmail. The difference is that email has IMAP and SMTP, client protocols that are not only standardized but universally adopted. Every email server implements them and every email client expects them.

Tuta has entered the chat.

Even the Brexit campaign did it: https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/sites/default/files/pdf_file/195_17_Response.pdf#page=65

The YouTube video is a real Green Party campaign video, here’s the Bengali version of it. Obviously it’s just racist fear-mongering though, putting out political messaging in non-English languages like Urdu and Bengali is fairly normal.