he/him
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.
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
paywall
Elon Musk’s Tesla is gearing up to launch a household electricity supplier in Great Britain in the coming months.
The US electric car manufacturer run by the world’s richest man has formally applied to the energy regulator for Great Britain, Ofgem, for an electricity supply licence, according to a notice published on the watchdog’s website.
This would enable Tesla, which also runs an energy supply business in the US, to provide electricity to domestic and business premises in England, Scotland and Wales as soon as next year. It can take Ofgem up to nine months to assess an application.
The business is expected to be branded Tesla Electric and could focus on supplying electricity to consumers who own Tesla products such as cars or batteries.
However, it would not work for households on dual-fuel contracts because the company is only applying for an electricity licence.
Tesla Energy Ventures, the company’s Manchester-based energy subsidiary, made the application last month, and the move was first reported by the Sunday Telegraph. The application was signed by Andrew Payne, who has worked for Tesla since 2016 and runs the company’s energy business in Europe, with responsibility for a team of 60-plus.
The move comes at a time when Tesla’s electric car sales across Europe have been falling. Sales of Teslas in the UK more than halved last month, according to data from the main industry body. Only 987 new Teslas were registered in the UK in July – down almost 60% on the 2,462 registered in July 2024. This means Tesla’s UK market share shrank to 0.7% in July, from 1.67% a year ago.
For 2025 to date, Tesla sales in the UK were 7% lower. This is a period during which Musk has faced heavy criticism for his relationship with Donald Trump, which has now soured, and his interference in politics in Germany, France and the UK.
Tesla has sold many home storage batteries called Powerwalls that can be charged by solar power or from the grid at off-peak times to UK households. It also sells home chargers for electric cars.
The company effectively revealed its aim to sell electricity to homes two years ago when it posted a job listing looking for a head of operations. It took its first step into the British energy market in 2020 when it was granted a licence to be an electricity generator.
Tesla already has an electricity supplier in Texas, where it launched household supply deals in 2022. It allows Tesla owners to charge their cars cheaply and pays them for selling surplus solar power or electricity stored in its home batteries back to the grid.
the ad is usually placed on the page by the advertiser. So when you load myblog.com, the page instructs your browser to also load a little window from bigadcompany.com who send the ad which is displayed on the page. So bigadcompany can see how many ads they’ve sent out, and on which sites.
Unless the advertiser is going through a big company like google or meta, in which case yes you just kinda have to trust that when they say your ad has been viewed 10k times that number is accurate. It would be devestating for their business if they were found to be fudging numbers, so it’s really in their interest to make sure the numbers are accurate.
… that’s not a power, that’s a disease. A bodily dysfunction that will very quickly kill you. It’s more comparable to cancer than to a superpower.
Also I think the spirit of these questions is usually an established power, not one you just make up. If we’re making up the worst “power”/disease then it will quickly just devolve into the worst causes of either instant death, or keeping you barely alive but in tortured pain. The lava thing is neither instant death, nor really tortures you that much before killing you. use your imagination lol
Do I get to choose any superpower? Then I guess God powers like Bruce would be what I choose as best and most practical. The power of total control. sounds sweet.
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