Well, I’m not an expert in this stuff, but here’s a couple of starting points

• This bill amendment that was submitted, but thankfully didn’t pass
• The Cass Report, a review of the science of trans studies the government bases many of its decisions on has been widely criticised by the international community. It was also found they tried to deliberately ban any subject experts from weighing in on the report during its construction.
• The EHRC and other government bodies frequently consult trans hate groups while preventing any trans person from weighing in on decisions about them
• Last year, the UK government banned the use of puberty blockers for adolescents, saying there is an unacceptable health risk to them, when in fact the risk is minor at best and witholding them is much more damaging to trans people (high suicide rate, for example).

Generally, rather than listening to experts, the government cherry picks bad research (similar to weirdos saying vaccines cause autism) and listens to and emboldens hate groups.

It’s a words Vs actions sort of thing. They say they support trans people, while doing everything they can to make their lives worse.

That’s the narrative, but trans rights have been taken away. Ask anyone who is being forced to out themselves by going to their “sex assigned at birth” bathroom, or being forced to use the accessible toilets.

That’s in no small part due to the EHRC’s “interim guidance” that in no way follows the law.

Not to speak of the increased trans-spotting, and the fact women can now be searched by male police officers (trans or cis) for being suspected of being trans.

And every effort is being made to pass more laws to make things worse, such as making registries of trans people, outing them to their employers and potential employers.

I’m glad they are really putting the screws to unfortunate, harmless people instead of dealing with rampant corruption and hate crimes.

Gets “AI”

looks inside

Badly paid employees

That’s incredibly stupid. Genuinely one of the worst comparisons by a large company in the last few years, and we just had the Nvidia fake frames scandal.

Is this claim local, or do they do this across markets?

Would be helpful to have a link.

The livestream in question:

https://www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5RVh7U

Yep, been using it for years now.

Moved over from RealVNC due to licensing limitations and problems with speed and I’ve never looked back.

I think recent events are giving a lot of motivation for these kinds of initiatives that weren’t a huge concern in the past.

There’s likely going to be a bit of a scramble as we realise we can’t rely on America and their companies anymore.

Yeah, the EU has been building out alternatives to American cloud companies like Microsoft for a while now, and it’s coming in handy for some of them. I think France in particular are working on this and launched their own alternatives to Google Docs etc.

https://www.techspot.com/news/107225-france-germany-unveil-docs-collaborative-tool-rival-us.html

TL;DR:

This bill’s proposed amendment NC21 would out trans people. It was rejected by the MPs, but the House of Lords have effectively appealed this.

However, the article claims that even if this amendment isn’t in there, the bill itself is dangerous, allowing the government to reintroduce these effects even without the amendments, by allowing itself to define how and what data needs to be shared by verification providers.

It would do so at its own discretion, without further legislative scrutiny.

Yeah, but that’s because I choose the second highest plan available to me. Entry cost is lower, and I’d expect most poor families would go for that or the next tier above.

$30 discount on broadband bills

It’s wild that it costs much above $30 at all for you guys. In the UK 100Mbps starts at £22/m (~$30) and I’m comfortably at 500mbps at around £35/m ($45) and we’ve got pretty bad deals compared to other European countries!

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Isn’t the whole point of Signal that it’s end-to-end encrypted?

How can it (or rather it’s fork) getting hacked result in messages being exposed?

Well, that’s not necessarily true.

Some apps, alongside providing their core functionality, such as messaging, also collect a lot of information from all the permissions they are granted on your device.

Think for example constant location tracking or collecting your contacts, as I believe Facebook Messenger does.

It could be possible to provide a front-end that blocks certain requests or spoofs information.

Of course, that doesn’t stop them from collecting information you directly provide to them by using the service, such as profile information, direct messages, interactions etc.

I suppose you could use these services as a skulker which doesn’t have an account (or a semi-anonymous one) whilst denying all permissions and providing as little information as possible. It’s not wholy black and white.

That said, I do recommend not using these platforms at all if you can. Use alternative platforms that provide similar services. Lemmy vs Reddit is a good example.

It’s just not always practical advice for everyone, given that some people have jobs that require social media, or have no other means of contacting some relatives and friends.

I disagree. Most of the people Trump has pardoned, helped or gotten along with are libertarians.

They’re millionaires / billionaires who hate taxation and regulations because it gets in the way of their ruthless means of making money.

Trump is more than happy to help them to do that. He runs the government like a quid-pro-quo crime syndicate where you can buy yourself favours, including getting out of jail.

His authoritarianism only targets the poor; whatever scapegoat-du-jour the far-right hate today (trans, LGBT, minorities, immigrants); and anyone that tries to protect them.

He needs votes to stay in power, and since he can’t appeal to the left because everything he does is diametrically opposed with them (regulation, social spending, taxation of the rich) he has to pander to the far-right to keep a majority. Even if he is likely more right than far-right himself.

The requirements to get pardoned under the current administration are:

• Be white
• Be rich or high profile
• Be generally aligned with the right
• Claim your incarceration was politically motivated (it almost never is)

Your crime does not matter. Trump will accuse foreign refugees of being drug dealers and violent criminals, then pardon drug dealers and violent criminals if they were white and high profile enough (Google Ross Ulbricht as an example).

So, all things considered, SBF seems to qualify!