> UK arrests thousands every year for what essentially amounts to mean tweets. Somebody is peddling lies in your direction. These claims don’t hold up to any sort of cursory examination.
I'm with the "This whole article is a non-sequitur" crowd. The old pervert using his camera shouldn't be doing that. His behaviour was not OK. Nobody is talking about keeping kids off social media because their…
And this is why we need to continue to shame "glassholes" whenever we encounter them.
There are various limits on this, likely country dependent. And being free from legal sanction doesn't mean being free from public condemnation and shaming. So, legal limits - if your behaviour constitutes harassment…
> What would be the drawback or problem with showing a header or pop-up on mobile browsers, offering to install them as (web)app? In this world, every single site now pops up asking to be installed. No thanks.
At least part of the story is a cautionary tale about electing the LNP. The NBN was originally going to be as you describe, but then Tony Abbot came along, under instruction from his pal Rupert Murdoch, and threw a…
Even less reason to read it then, well known as an unreliable source.
No, better to make him look like a corrupt loser running up against a guy in a bin costume. And it works!
An opinion piece in an American right-wing tabloid? That's surely the end of the argument then!
> How do international high energy costs single out the UK and make our energy costs the highest? Because of the marginal energy pricing scheme in use, which pays for all generation as if it were the most expensive.…
Net Zero is not the cause of high energy costs in the UK. The cause is international al energy costs, a way of setting the benchmark price per unit against the most expensive power, and tax. Clean, renewable power is a…
This election was designed to distract from investigations into Nigel Farage’s funding. The reason Binface is getting a lot of attention is because none of the major parties are standing, as a ‘fuck you’ to Farage, to…
As much as Brexit was a footgun, this has always seemed to me a very valid criticism of the EU that the remain side of that debate never really tackled. There is a huge democratic deficit in the organisation. The…
> Also, being constantly warned that I was speeding in rural areas where the car missed a speed limit sign caused me to start ignoring the speeding alarm within a few hours of driving the car. I rented a car in the UK…
If you read the link, that’s not necessarily how things have to work. You can make limited-use ZK schemes, plus you fall into the usual trap of binary thinking, that if something isn’t 100% effective it is necessarily…
Just outside Perth, WA. I pay for 400Mbps 'fixed wireless', which became available last year (prior to that it was capped at 250). On a good day I get 200/14. Starlink was approximately the same at a similar pricepoint…
That's not the argument here, the argument is that the free market delivers value, but only when it's well set up. According to the article, US has effectively enshrined local fiefdoms for ISPs, so free market…
> In parts of America, you can drive for 24 hours in the same direction without even crossing into a different state Which US states can you do this in? You can drive across Texas from El Paso to Port Arthur in 12…
I don't really believe this is true, there are schemes which allow limited use tokens but which don't compromise the ZK nature of things - https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/03/02/anonymou...
There are a variety of schemes possible that do not have these flaws. There's an interesting post here which goes into some of this - https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/03/02/anonymou... So - > Yep! Actually…
I don't know how well it translates to the EU countries, but there seems to be this idea in the UK that air conditioning is a decadent frivolity, and really only for the weak. And yes it does seem to get singled out as…
> Unless you're using the "Two or more people get together to plan something" definition of the word "conspiracy" -which happens to neatly cover planning to go to lunch-, I don't consider this to be a conspiracy. Yes…
Everyone is free to make up their mind and vote for what they believe. And if I disagree strongly enough then I am free to take my business elsewhere. Especially if the money I hand over might go to support speech and…
> I suppose you missed the part where I said The part that I quoted? That would be quite a feat. Either way I think it's definitely a choice to entirely ignore what a country is doing in this area due to historical…
> "You must honor the signals you get from Beefed-Up Parental Controls and we fine or jail you if you do not" > If anything, I'd expect a client-side implementation to be far more robust... You're not really describing…
> UK arrests thousands every year for what essentially amounts to mean tweets. Somebody is peddling lies in your direction. These claims don’t hold up to any sort of cursory examination.
I'm with the "This whole article is a non-sequitur" crowd. The old pervert using his camera shouldn't be doing that. His behaviour was not OK. Nobody is talking about keeping kids off social media because their…
And this is why we need to continue to shame "glassholes" whenever we encounter them.
There are various limits on this, likely country dependent. And being free from legal sanction doesn't mean being free from public condemnation and shaming. So, legal limits - if your behaviour constitutes harassment…
> What would be the drawback or problem with showing a header or pop-up on mobile browsers, offering to install them as (web)app? In this world, every single site now pops up asking to be installed. No thanks.
At least part of the story is a cautionary tale about electing the LNP. The NBN was originally going to be as you describe, but then Tony Abbot came along, under instruction from his pal Rupert Murdoch, and threw a…
Even less reason to read it then, well known as an unreliable source.
No, better to make him look like a corrupt loser running up against a guy in a bin costume. And it works!
An opinion piece in an American right-wing tabloid? That's surely the end of the argument then!
> How do international high energy costs single out the UK and make our energy costs the highest? Because of the marginal energy pricing scheme in use, which pays for all generation as if it were the most expensive.…
Net Zero is not the cause of high energy costs in the UK. The cause is international al energy costs, a way of setting the benchmark price per unit against the most expensive power, and tax. Clean, renewable power is a…
This election was designed to distract from investigations into Nigel Farage’s funding. The reason Binface is getting a lot of attention is because none of the major parties are standing, as a ‘fuck you’ to Farage, to…
As much as Brexit was a footgun, this has always seemed to me a very valid criticism of the EU that the remain side of that debate never really tackled. There is a huge democratic deficit in the organisation. The…
> Also, being constantly warned that I was speeding in rural areas where the car missed a speed limit sign caused me to start ignoring the speeding alarm within a few hours of driving the car. I rented a car in the UK…
If you read the link, that’s not necessarily how things have to work. You can make limited-use ZK schemes, plus you fall into the usual trap of binary thinking, that if something isn’t 100% effective it is necessarily…
Just outside Perth, WA. I pay for 400Mbps 'fixed wireless', which became available last year (prior to that it was capped at 250). On a good day I get 200/14. Starlink was approximately the same at a similar pricepoint…
That's not the argument here, the argument is that the free market delivers value, but only when it's well set up. According to the article, US has effectively enshrined local fiefdoms for ISPs, so free market…
> In parts of America, you can drive for 24 hours in the same direction without even crossing into a different state Which US states can you do this in? You can drive across Texas from El Paso to Port Arthur in 12…
I don't really believe this is true, there are schemes which allow limited use tokens but which don't compromise the ZK nature of things - https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/03/02/anonymou...
There are a variety of schemes possible that do not have these flaws. There's an interesting post here which goes into some of this - https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/03/02/anonymou... So - > Yep! Actually…
I don't know how well it translates to the EU countries, but there seems to be this idea in the UK that air conditioning is a decadent frivolity, and really only for the weak. And yes it does seem to get singled out as…
> Unless you're using the "Two or more people get together to plan something" definition of the word "conspiracy" -which happens to neatly cover planning to go to lunch-, I don't consider this to be a conspiracy. Yes…
Everyone is free to make up their mind and vote for what they believe. And if I disagree strongly enough then I am free to take my business elsewhere. Especially if the money I hand over might go to support speech and…
> I suppose you missed the part where I said The part that I quoted? That would be quite a feat. Either way I think it's definitely a choice to entirely ignore what a country is doing in this area due to historical…
> "You must honor the signals you get from Beefed-Up Parental Controls and we fine or jail you if you do not" > If anything, I'd expect a client-side implementation to be far more robust... You're not really describing…