Staffordshire Police also said it would ban the use of face coverings at a protest in Tamworth on Saturday, where Britain First is planning a so-called March for Remigration.

So you can match through town calling for ethnic cleansing and that’s peaceful protest, but a nan holding a sign is terrorism?

Here’s a Bluesky thread by another trans Green party memeber that I think is worth considering.

This is straight up misinformation, btw. There is no evidence that the Jewish Greens were involved with stalling the vote on this motion, David Miller (an actual antisemite) doesn’t provide any evidence. Their actual position on the motion is mixed.

You don’t have to be subscribed to see activities in a community (including downvotes) but someone on you instance does for the community know to send the activities to that instance.

Disabling downvotes doesn’t actually prevent items being downvoted, it just hides them from those that don’t want to see it.

Disabling donvotes in the instance setting does prevent them being recorded on that instance. You can see the code here.

track downvotes from outside instances

No, Lemmy just forwards the downvote to the community’s subscribers, so other instances receive them. The downvote is not written to the db on instances with it disabled.

Provenance has never been something you can guarantee with code in an open contribution model (which is not the only way of governing an open source project). For all you know the code could be copy and pasted from a proprietary codebase, or be the product of third party who’s work is being plagiarised by the submitter. A software project is ultimately a community and is build on trust and faith that people are acting in good faith. The kind of person who would deliberately (and gleefully as I’ve seen in some social media posts) go into a community and violate its stated values and standards, no matter how arbitrary and illegitimate they feel those are, has bigger character flaws to worry about than their reliance on stochastic parrots to write code.

‘No AI’ rules are ultimately about fostering certain community values and norms than guaranteeing no LLM code makes it in.

This is just the year of by-elections. This will be what, the fourth Parliamentary by-election, with potentially another Farage one on the way.

AI code bans may be impossible to enforce in the first place

I hate this attitude that if a rule or standard can’t be enforced perfectly, we shouldn’t strive for it. We can’t (reasonably) run an OS free of proprietary software, does that mean the free software movement should just give up?

A new and notable feature is the automated fact-checking tool, a Gemini-based “veracity engine for real-time analysis” (“Vera” for short), which runs on every tweet.

Lol, they added ‘Grok is this true’ to the entire platform, just dead on arrival.

Of course you run NetBSD 🙄.

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They’re really leaning into the email similarities here, not a fan of moving the sidebar to the other side but I’ll get over it. My biggest wish on the UI front though is for them to add a threaded view for replies like what Bluesky has, navigating long threads on Mastodon can be really taxing just trying to follow reply chains.

Why not just use something like Wordpress? Plenty of web fiction is already published on it and it federates.

Damn, I skimmed over the name. This is !nominativedeterminism@feddit.uk material

The BBC’s coverage on certain issues (asylum seekers, trans, disability, etc) has been inexcusably bad and has been for a while. I think it’s perfectly fair to hold the public broadcaster to a high standard. The Tories were able to stuff the BBC with their people and the quality of their journalism has plummeted since, the whole thing needs serious reform and Labour don’t seem interested in doing it.

I’m not a cynic, and as mentioned don’t have much of an imagination, so such thoughts don’t even cross my mind.

You wrote them out, so the thoughts clearly did cross your mind? I don’t even know why you’re trying to deflect this, it’s not unreasonable to think foreign intelligence would try to undermine trust in the BBC, they’d be dumb not to.

But again, those doing the most to undermine trust in the BBC are the people the Tories put in charge of it.

A moral panic Novara were all too happy to play a part in.

The energy secretary is also said to be considering dropping strict net zero rules under the guise of dropping household energy bills, and Andy Burnham has apparently directed ministers to find ways to allow new drilling in the North Sea without impacting the Labour party’s manifesto pledge to put a halt to any new efforts.

Burn 'em Burnham looked at the recent wildfires and thought ‘Yes, more of those please’.

This is such a weird use of this system. Months of wildfires and Labours first action is to send a phone alert that amounts to ‘only you can stop wildfires.’

Emacs, of course.

I mostly use Foliate, but I actually do most of my ebook reading on my phone.

What a wimp.

Every Harry Potter fan I’ve met already prerequisites any talk of the franchise with ‘I don’t agree with Rowling, but…’, they already know, they’d just rather support the eradication of trans people than give up their children’s toys.