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Move to smaller instances. There was a huge problem with everybody being on like four big instances and the whole point of federation is you don’t have to be like that.

Move to instances hosted on a laptop in someone’s basement in Peru with like 106 users or something. Make the fascists work for it, if you all conglomerate on one big host then they’ve got an easy target and you’ve got a massive single point of failure.

Under fascism anything they don’t like is retrospectively illegal. I’m surprised you don’t know that.

I would love journalists to rake discord over the coals for this and have them explain exactly how they think that this mentality is acceptable in the current political climate. Of course they won’t because journalism is dead these days.

Well it’ll be nice if they admitted wrongdoing

They didn’t do lazy research. They didn’t do any research, the lazy bums. They put a pump into an AI copy and pasted the output into a blog post and hit post. The only way they could have done less work is if they’d integrated the AI into the website to save them have to do the copy and paste.

What do they have to investigate? Did one of them accidentally get an AI to write the article and then accidentally post the article, like they just fell on the keyboard and accidentally typed in a prompt? Come on.

Maybe in the US. Internally that’s not going to work for them.

So is the paid version just because I like them and want to give them some money or they’re actual feature benefits of the paid version over the free version.

I don’t mind paying in theory but they’re trying to replace a free product so the “pro” version would have to have significant benefits.

It wasn’t just the smear campaign against Corbyn though. He did quite a lot of shooting himself in the foot as well, which really didn’t help matters.

But really none of that should matter to Labour, the media are for the most part in the pockets of the right anyway so who cares what they say. Most Labour voters won’t read those papers anyway.

What’s pissing off a lot of traditional Labour voters is all this fence sitting he is trying to do. People elected a liberal government, so obviously they are going to be expecting some liberal policies, that was what they voted for, that’s what they wanted. If they wanted someone to sit on the fence and ruminate about every possible decision the Liberal Democrats are right there. The reason that the Greens didn’t get a lot of votes this time around was because people didn’t want to split the vote, but if Labour are just going to be Tory Lite (although frankly not that lite) then who cares, we might as well risk it because otherwise we’ll end up with a right-wing government either way. It baffles me that no one in Labour HQ can see that.

I honestly think that if labour just fall on lent into it, they would probably get way more votes than they currently do.

I’ve seen cars with self-closing doors though. Also I’m not sure where the safety consideration would come in since we have self closing building doors right now and no one seems to get cut in half by those.

Why are people leaving the doors open in the first place that’s just wild. The super excited to get to work or something I don’t get it.

Wouldn’t the simplest solution be to just ban people who leave the doors open, it’s not that hard to close them.

Well that was obvious from the start. By all means arrest people who commit crimes but calling those crimes terrorism was insanely stupid.

It wasn’t even done any particularly sinister reason, it was just them being dumb. Terrorism charges obviously carries longer prison sentences, but that in no way benefited the government, so there was no reason for them to do that. They just came off looking bad at a time when they really needed their public image to improve. I’ve said this before but it bears repeating because every time a story like this comes out it makes labour look like the US republicans but they’re not. They’re just really really really really stupid.

Starmer used to be a human rights lawyer, so I don’t understand how he’s so bad at his job.

Personally are you like the idea of having security cameras on my house because they increase security in the same way that a prominent burglar alarm deters theft.

I can even see why these things been internet connected is appealing, it means the cameras can be accessed remotely when you’re out and about and people can’t just break in and then take the recording device.

Didn’t everyone start off with a year in that movie?

That was the most unrealistic part, they’d absolutely make you pay upfront or you would just die instantly the moment you hit 21 or whatever the age limit was.

What you mean there clear and comprehensive announcement? Yeah that didn’t happen, this is on them.

They still haven’t really provided any information. They say most users won’t have to verify, how many is “most”.

Nope I don’t trust them to use a US-based service. Also I don’t think they’re even allowed to as under EU law as all data held on users must be held on EU servers, so that solution wouldn’t be a one size fits all.

Does Discord even have an community relations department, because they suck. Seriously what a stupid decision to just announce age verification and then provide no additional details or context.

This clarification pathetic attempt at backpedalling, isn’t much better either, they’ve still provided essentially no information on exactly what the process is going to be, and exactly how it is going to work. I also do not like the fact that they’re basically just giving up on any attempts to implement this themselves, and are going with third party solutions. We all know that “third party solutions” means the lowest bidder, so this will be implemented poorly with no operational security, and absolutely will result in a data breach.

I created my account at least 15 years ago so if they require age verification from me they’re idiots.

But Notepad doesn’t, so it shouldn’t render .md files, it should just show the markdown code.

They keep adding stuff to notepad that no one was asking for. Like tabs and saving on exit, which breaks the workflow of having notepad be a throwaway scratch pad.

I fully expect Google to give in anyway. The rule of law doesn’t count for much anymore.

Also Microsoft, Apple, Meta all for collection complying with the regime. It’ll be funny if it’s what brings MySpace back.