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Keir Starmer brands donor flat claims 'farcical'
  • Well fair point there, and rightly so. There is certainly a need for this. Whether that justifies keeping permanent a temporary policy or it needs to be thought out so benefits/pip etc. meet the needs of vulnerable individuals at all times of the year is another question.

  • Court Orders Google to “Uninstall” Pirate IPTV App Sideloaded on Android Devices
  • If everyone you look at is trash, either they are, or you are. You'd need some self-awareness and comprehension of the history of Lemmy (including the fact that Lemmy.ml was the main instance before the influx, and after, Lemmy.world had major reliability issues for a while). Many people ended up on ml and don't really suffer the red scares.

    The amount of "I got banned off ml for saying x. Didn't realise it was as bad as Reddit which I also got banned off multiple times". I mean if folks are getting banned of a right wing cess pool and a left wing instance, is the issue the instances, or them.

  • Keir Starmer brands donor flat claims 'farcical'
  • No one else receives winter payment coverage. Pensions are already covered by Triple Lock, so over time they always go up quicker than inflation (which includes heating costs). Triple Lock was always a bribe because older people vote and in numbers and successive governments pandered to them. Winter fuel payment had a need and they probably should have tempered it off, but support for older less well off individuals people should be via state pension if it doesn't meet their needs.

    Regular top up bribes just creates a messy, complex system that politicians dare not touch.

    Back on to Keir, he's coming out of this looking quite dodgy and many on the left have been making this point for years. However, using Tory attack lines doesn't help as they contributed to most people getting screwed when energy prices shot up (mothballing gas storage, hammering feed in tariffs etc.)

  • Labour adopts hated Tory bank surveillance and DWP search and seize powers
  • Technically it's fucked by hard right and soft right. Keir and his team stuck their fingers up at unions and took plenty of money from big business. We are starting to see that play out now. It was a takeover of the party by business interests and the media was happy to assist in the public relations for it.

  • Court Orders Google to “Uninstall” Pirate IPTV App Sideloaded on Android Devices
  • I get the bad mods argument but tarring a whole community based on this isn't cool.

    Don't get me wrong, .world has some really big ass hats and questionable moderation, but it doesn't mean all their users are bad.

  • Six water firms in England ‘overcharged customers by up to £1.5bn’
  • Agree on that point.

    Whether it happens or not is another question. Some on the right of the Labour Party (which does have a significant presence on the front benches) were receiving funding from the water industry. How strong and effective that lobbying was/is, we will have to find out.

  • Six water firms in England ‘overcharged customers by up to £1.5bn’
  • Nationalise, you mean?

    Definitely agree. Essential utilities should never be privatised.

    Idk why but this gives collusion vibes. They were all of their own accord acting in this manner independently of one another?

  • Mozilla exits the fediverse and will shutter its Mastodon server in December | TechCrunch
  • True, but it probably won't work. Unless the browser pulls them in as plugins and becomes modular. Most are trying to give a rich web experience out of the box and I'm not sure users will accept different programs for different things.

    I really like Gemini as an idea and hope it finds it's groove for many, but lots of mainstream users may not like it and the ad industry that people are using to fund there sites certainly won't.

  • No One Is Buying AMD Zen 5 CPUs, So What's Going On?
  • For many years AMD was uncompetitive compared to Intel / Nvidia. Intel had 80% of the market at one point. It probably would have died off if it wasn't for folk that wanted Linux compatibility. Many run FOSS because of privacy. Linux is a key part of that.

  • Mozilla is shutting down their Mastodon instance.
  • But they are forks and they rely on Firefox development. Using them is fine, but with Mozilla funding and keeping up with browser development, they'd be poor

    Its a bit like Brave taking Chromium, changing a few lines and saying "we built a browser".

  • Mozilla is shutting down their Mastodon instance.
  • I'm assuming because they don't have those AI engineers. I don't agree with this or AI, but diversification isn't something that can be ignored.

    They need to focus on browser and bet on things that could succeed in the future. Winding down those bets that failed (like 3d visual worlds) is sensible.

    Of the 60 they are laying off, how many of those work on Firefox?

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