To add to your reminder, they almost certainly used Israeli hacking technology, licensed and approved by the Israeli government as an arms export. Specifically the NSO’s Pegasus toolkit. Jamal Khashoggi’s devices were never recovered, but his wife’s, his lawyer’s, and several of his friends’ devices were examined and found to have been infected.

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08803692

In 2022 they didn’t have their name anywhere on the building. It does look like there are 7 floors, at least.

It’s got little to do with feddit.uk and more to do with IP. You can’t even access lemmings.world directly with a UK IP. Even if you try to view this post on any other instance it will still be blocked.

It’s a really annoying block, too. Because the instance is hosted outside of the UK’s jurisdiction, and thus cannot be held to British law. It would only be an issue for the instance if they accept payments using payment processors, who are actually pushing all of this. It’s MasterCard and VISA looking to fuck with people and make more money - one of the easiest accepted ways of verifying age is via a card transaction, which they get a cut of. Just like how they encourage tipping culture on their payment machines, now that everyone uses cards instead of cash - their transaction percentage charge includes the tip.

But yeah, I don’t think the instance takes payments, so it’s bullshit to block UK IPs in this way. It’s a hollow social justice gesture that does harm instead of good.

They talk about woke like it’s a bad thing, but it just makes me want to scream “WHEN WILL YOU WAKE UP, YOU SHEEP?!”

Lol, actually rejected by the community.

Censored f–k or f*ck or whatever doesn’t really convey a different tone, other than trying to say something without saying it. Which is annoying and frustrating, it puts work onto the listener that should have been done by the communicator.

Fork does come out with a different tone, because it doesn’t sound as harsh. It’s like how saying shit is a bit less severe than saying fuck - fork would be less than both of these, maybe on par with crap.

BSG, frak yeah!!

You’re a part of the same brigade.

talking out your racist ass

I’m not going to engage with you. Grow the fuck up.

Yeah I agree that it needs to be made public, I just think that the infiltration of Chinese on the UK’s electrical network is another, separate issue on top of that. Rather than the two being directly related - or more specifically that some deal in the electrical sector is the reason why that memorandum hasn’t been made public. There’s probably some other reason the memorandum isn’t being released.

This article was clearly written by someone who has no idea how technology works, but knows how to spin up buzzwords.

This is also the man who wrote the law.

My south west tap water either smells like sewage or a swimming pool, nowhere in between, and if I try to use a Brita filter the filter goes off within a week.

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Yeah I mean, a lot of upcoming BESS sites use Chinese batteries with Chinese controllers, it’s a bit more difficult to prove a vulnerability is being exploited there when you’re literally relying on hardware and software directly from China. But that’s kind of separate to this deal, it’s not the government buying Chinese equipment for the grid but businesses. Kind of feels like the article is talking about two different problems.

It’s already happened on reddit, various Gaza subreddits are age gated. Anything NSFW is age gated, not just porn but things from Alcoholic Anonymous to chairs Not Fully Submerged in Water on r/chairsunderwater. XBox Live is age gated, because apparently this wasn’t about preventing kids from seeing porn like they originally said but it’s now about preventing children from talking to adults.

However I don’t think it’s to do with Palestine Action specifically. That’s a separate thing, where an organisation that posed a not-insignificant military threat was dealt with in a clunky way using terrorism laws (which cover threats to civilians). I don’t consider those in charge to be clever enough to set all that up in that way; rather, they’d already planned to use the Online Safety Act in this way and would have blocked anything they deemed controversial regardless.

Eh, that’s the position they have to take to win as many votes as they can. I’d be more interested in their position after an election - in particular what they do over what they say.

Lol I didn’t realise lemm.ee actually had communities of any notable size…

Edit: Lmao

The Nordic countries are falling over themselves to get people in to build datacentres. In Sweden, the government literally gave Microsoft the land to build their datacentres on. They’ve got something like 25x 5 COLO 4 Cell datacentres in various states of contrsuction, and I think another 25 more lined up.

Fucking about time!! There are kids today who’ve never seen a British sketch show.

Excuses, pathetic excuses. But nothing that shows Palestine Action to be anything other than a Russian asset. In fact, if anything, your hurried response tells tales.