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on *Permanently Deleted* · c/technology · 6 pts · 1y

I concur. I have been using various OVH services for over 15 years, and, in spite of some amateurism that sometimes betrays its family business roots, there service is top notch, because they show dedication to solving your problems.

A sure sign of their self delusion is that this sub admits "satire" posts, in what is supposed to be for discussing conservative topics.

Because leftists are not as inconsiderate as them, they have to make up imaginary stories to expel their rancor.

on *Permanently Deleted* · c/fediverse · 1 pts · 1y

Now I understand why I didn't care closing my Facebook account years ago: it was for cross posting this sort of information.

Even if my Facebook feed is a sad desert, I hope I can be censored by the guy who rejects fact checkers

I don't have a mobile phone. How is that supposed to work? Will owning a specific object and attached subscription to a private entity be mandated by law?

on Front Page of the Internet · c/reddit · 20 pts · 1y

The french revolution was bloody. Today the whole world celebrates July 14th, the day a cheering crowd walked the head of the governor of Bastille on a pike.

Go figure.

At my modest scale, I was banned from reddit/worldnews for pointing out that the title of the stickied thread "Iran attacks Israel" was not suited anymore to the events in gaza, and that this thread's very low upvote count was a show that its content was not so consensual.

There are lots of efforts by Likud extremists to reshape the narrative and suppress dissent.

But I'm optimistic that their efforts won't work: the students protests are strong enough, alternative communities like r/internationalnews are developing, so that a more balanced perspective emerges, that doesn't downplay Israeli crimes against humanity.

Rising costs of energy starting Feb 22 is the cause of the last huge dip. As a matter of fact, rising the price of energy and the ensuing economic slowdown is still the most effective way to to reduce GHG. Being frugal is the only way to reach 0 emissions in spite of whatever rosy paint one wants to put on green energy, housing renovation and other half-effective measures.

Usually, an impact study is made before such type of laws are made:

  • if this law is enacted, how much will it cost to the manufacturers to update their factory settings?
  • how will this be impacted on the device cost in the UK compared to other markets?
  • how many users will get stuck when losing the unique ID of the device, what are the recovery procedures, how costly is it to end users?
  • how many users will be protected by the measure and what cost for society does it represent?
  • how many users will set a dumb password anyhow and what is the cost for society?

I’d be curious to see the impact study, as many of those are actually botched.

My recent permaban from r/worldnews for stating the obvious (is "Iran attacks Israel" still the right title for a stickied thread on the events in Gaza?) has had the positive effect of making me renew with Lemmy.

r/worldnews is a cesspool of hasbara fanboys, but their unilateral view on the conflict starts to draw away people from their toxic propaganda.

Indeed, and the legality has been challenged by the ACLU. Although they could not pursue to issue a condemnation.

The present case would be an excellent opportunity to resolve the question of whether or not a President is entitled to kill a US citizen and setup better checks and balances (because, in the case of Obama, there were definitely some, but those were disputable).