Starmer said yesterday that the UK is pivoting away from the US to concentrate more on EU relations.

How do you listen to this? Is it just stuff on NASA’s YouTube?

I was getting all wound up but then I noticed the article is from yesterday.

If companies want to use this stuff they should have to clearly label it, like how restaurants have to clearly show their hygiene ratings. You shouldn’t have to google everything

Why are they requiring an additional two months? If their website is broken send them an email, block the payment, screenshot the broken website. They could try to enforce that but the likely wouldn’t stand a chance. EU law says it can’t be more difficult to cancel a subscription than it was to begin one.

I think the point around them wanting a couple more months is a key point though. Why are they expecting that?

I honestly think this is an April Fools. I recall the Russians have a sort of darkly twisted take on it.

There were a lot of absolutely awful ones when I was kid, so many I just forget them all. Back then we had a ZX Spectrum and the games cost like £2.99 each so you can imagine how much effort was put into them. I understand why the studios keep cranking out crappy movie tie-ins and why they keep selling well, because when I was a kid if there was a movie I loved I’d jump at the chance to buy the video game for it. Back then there was no internet to instantly check reviews so you just bought whatever had good box art.

I remember the Jaws game being particularly depressing. It was one of those classic games where it just drops you in an environment with no instructions on how to complete the game or anything. It was just a maze with loads of moving things that instantly killed you. I generally just moved around until I ran out of lives then tried again.

Self-hosted services are only serving their purpose, they’re not serving ads, crunching user data, training unwanted AI algorithms…

I don’t use them myself but Debian or Ubuntu are probably what you’re looking for.

Actually blocking VPNs is pretty tough. Almost all internet traffic is encrypted now and any of that can be a tunnel.

He only eats fast food on the road, when he’s at the White House or one of his own places he probably eats pretty well.

My two main issues are that I don’t want to keep seeing the same post repeated again and again as I scroll, and I want to be able to find a topic and not have to wrestle with all the different communities around the same thing. I just search for a simple topic and often there’s 20 with the same name and I have to find the one that everyone’s using.

I’m not in my 60s or 70s but people that age probably remember practising what to do if a nuke lands. This went on for decades.

I’m gonna try this but my issue is context switching during a meeting or conversation.

Getting that way, I think it’s more of a culture than the state though. The main reason there’s so much CCTV is that nobody wants to be the one person or shop on the street that doesn’t have it, it makes them the soft target.

As for the online safety thing, most people seem to be in favour of it. Most parents say they’ll do anything for their kids and they think that giving up some privacy is a small price to pay when there are so many problems with kids and mental health these days. Personally I think the legal stuff is doing far more damage, things like influencers pressuring them to always look like models, adverts convincing them they need the latest iPhone, etc. How often do you hear about issues from watching porn? The long term solution is education

Also, age verification could be done in a more privacy respecting way than constantly requiring someone to scan their personal details; some kind of certificate and RSA type time based code. I picture it something like the government confirms your ID and gives you a certificate, you use that to authenticate to some kind of time based ticket service, which you then give to a company to prove you’re over 18. They know you’re old enough but have no link back to your ID.

Lemmy’s pretty left leaning, extremely left sometimes. There was a conservative community for a while but it turned until a place to ridicule conservatives.

Maybe just start a new community, I think there are people here but a lot on here refuse to even tolerate the right.

Refusing to even talk to people on the opposite end of the political spectrum just makes you another perpetuator of the massive political divide. Do you actually think anyone’s had their vote swayed by someone who refused to even talk to them. You’re not going to bring anyone to the left by demonising the right.

This sounds like ADHD and/or anxiety.

There’s actually also a few notes of huge denominations like £100,000,000, they’re kept in banks and never enter circulation. I recall it’s something to do with issuing Scottish and Northern Ireland notes, those ones that are still pounds but are issued by places other than the Bank of England.

I don’t know how you feel about your parents making that decision for you but it’s the right thing to do. Getting a job will give you experience, resilience, confidence, and if you’re lucky, a little money.