luke727

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by luke727 1y ago
It's disturbing to me that so much of this type of legislation originates with the "Conservatives", and the only viable alternative in Labour thinks this type of legislation doesn't go far enough. I guess at least things
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by luke727 1y ago
You should give a shit because Europe is on its way to implementing its own horrible legislation [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_to_Prevent_and_Comb...
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by luke727 1y ago
I'm speaking like someone who has to live with the consequences of horrible legislation like this because I live here.
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by luke727 1y ago
My comment provoked you enough to create an account just to make a throwaway insult reply to it. I think perhaps it hit closer to home than you would care to acknolwedge.
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by luke727 1y ago
I am not nor will I ever be a Brit, let alone an average one. But I live here and I have seen and heard things from seemingly average Brits. Would they describe themselves using my exact words? Doubtful. But what other conclusion can one dr
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by luke727 1y ago
Tumultuous in what way? There's so little distance between Conservative and Labour today that it really doesn't matter who's in power.
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by luke727 1y ago
That's just par for the course in UK culture. During American criminal trials, the jury is told not to watch the news. During British criminal trials, the entire British press is legally forbidden from reporting on the trial.
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by luke727 1y ago
Ok, but the online petitions will just be ignored anyway.
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by luke727 1y ago
The thing you have to understand is that the average Brit wants and possibly needs the government to tell them how to live their lives. It's a completely foreign paradigm to the average American, though alarming "progress" ha
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by luke727 1y ago
Think your position through and try to determine if there is any possibility of unintended consequences.
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by luke727 1y ago
> Keep in mind that it does not actually prevent child exploitation and grooming. While true, I'd avoid making that argument since it implies these restrictions might be worth implementing if they actually did prevent child harm. Th
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by luke727 1y ago
Unfortunately many more people than you might think are in full support of this type of thing. The UK in particular is a very nanny state and this is sold as protecting children. You're not against protecting children, are you?
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by luke727 1y ago
This was part of a larger security policy change that also dropped support for my phone manufacturer so I couldn't say.
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by luke727 1y ago
> But it’s literally the dumbest feature ever. My company recently configured Slack for mobile to disallow copying text.
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by luke727 2y ago
Obligatory https://vgamuseum.ru/wp-content/gallery/bitching-fast/bitchi...
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by luke727 3y ago
>Protections he apparently didn’t need for nearly a decade, but did once Russia was executing its genocidal war. Your “he’s merely scared of America” narrative doesn’t hold water. Protections he couldn't get for nearly a decade, but
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by luke727 3y ago
> Says who. Just a few tabloid rags like The Washington Post [1], The Guardian [2], and The Atlantic [3]. > That doesn’t mean he has to pledge allegiance during that period. Regardless it’s not what an American patriot does. That narr
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by luke727 3y ago
PDF? I exported my Netflix data a couple months ago and I'm pretty sure it was either CSV, XML, or JSON.
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by luke727 3y ago
You can export all your data from Netflix.
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by luke727 4y ago
> Blue check marks has always been a verification that the account isn't an imposter. It might have started out that way, but over the years Twitter also added behavioral requirements primarily aimed at undesirables. Most prominent
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by luke727 4y ago
"prevent injection of a driver that can divert all my shit at the kernel level" is exactly what you want secure boot protecting you from. The only thing Secure Boot is doing here is preventing you from loading a driver not bless