If you want somewhere to pour money into something to see flashing lights, try this:

1. buy this smart plug
2. plug a lamp into it
3. every time you send me a tenner, I’ll roll a dice and if it’s a 6 I’ll flash your lamp a few times for you and send you your tenner back

should give you the high you’re looking for while also supporting your friendly neighbourhood lemmyer :)

How do I create my own community

try the “Create Community” button maybe?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0arvnAlV_C4

They presumably mean, “if you’re a leftie then fascist is an insult, and if you’re on the right then liberal is an insult”.

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where the local law doesn’t require age verification

I can’t speak for other countries’ laws, but the uk law doesn’t care where the server is, it only cares where the user is. That’s why various foreign servers, including Lemmy instances, have simply blocked uk users rather than try to comply with the uk law. The uk law expects companies worldwide to jump through hoops just for uk users. That said, it’s not really clear how the uk law will be enforced in other countries.

hmm, I wish there was some open source TV OS that I could put into my tv to kind of jailbreak it. Remove all the tracking and ads bs but still allow me to use Netflix and Plex and jellyfin. I don’t think such a thing exists though.

how edgy of you to make all your comments hard to read. Troll account, easy block

Nope. Sounds pretty reasonable to me. If he actually wants it and you’re not just dumping him away that is. As long as he’s safe, warm, close by, it could be nice for him. Make sure the rental allows him to give up in a month and come back home just in case… :)

oh is it this time again already

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bear in mind that the lawsuit was requesting $500m, but since they settled they will obviously have paid far less than that.

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well I think by definition of the quesiton, if it’s “billionaires vs non-billionaires” then their security team are probably non-billionaires and therefore have resigned to join the fight. So they’re just left with whatever non-human secutiry they already have - walls, guns, drones, cameras, etc, but not staff, and they can’t buy anything more bc no non-billionaires will sell anything to them. Actually, using that logic, we don’t really have to do anything and we can starve them out by simply ignoring them and refusing to sell them any food, lol. The idea of a “homeless” billionaire running around the streets begging passers-by for food is somehow quite amusing.

tbh the petition owner should be part of the parliament debate. at the very least to give a speech. I think that would be a very reasonable thing to accommodate, and would give a chance for the argument to be prepared and properly made. That would be very democratic.

Depressing as it is to think about, I honestly expect that the next step is going to be a ban on VPNs which tunnel out of the country. office vpns where you just connect to your corporate network wouldn’t be affected, but anyone trying to appear in a different country will be acting illegally. This will obviously cause other problems but it’s all in the name of PrOtEcTiNg tHe ChiLdReN so I’m sure that’s next on the chopping block.

This is what happens when we have non-technical morons trying to regulate a technical industry.

That was their initial response. When a petition reaches 10k signatures, it requires a written response from the gvt. When it hits 100k signatures, it requires a “debate” in parliament. The debates are often shams where the topic is tokenly brought up and then routinely dismissed. But it does at least require that they read the signed text.

In this case I think the argument is poorly made in the petition text. It does not even mention digital security, and the risk of a data leak for ID collectors.

If you’re in the uk, feel free to sign this so that your signature can be dismissed or ignored in parliament in a few weeks when this petition is shot down:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903 (Petition is for: “Repeal the Online Safety Act”)

ok, tracking cookie-wall then