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by kolektiv 19d ago
Also wild that they're willing to just put "Anti-Fascist" in there as the enemy - if you're anti-anti-fascist, that's kind of hiding in plain sight, as if they weren't already. Simply staggering to think that i
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by kolektiv 2mo ago
It's a common (and somewhat right-wing) trope, but it's not really true. Thousands of people aren't arrested for "mean comments" or similar. That isn't to say the UK has no problem with the balance of freedom o
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by kolektiv 4mo ago
It's not even just music anymore. I love motor racing, but at the last meeting I went to, sat in the stands at an iconic first corner, tense with anticipation as the race started... Everyone around me sat there holding their phones up,
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by kolektiv 5mo ago
Yeah, that's fair enough, and it is annoying that there is rarely a specific time set in regulation (or even case law which is broadly applicable). Most regulatory bodies will tend to say things like "as short as required/pos
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by kolektiv 5mo ago
> For that I get chastizement on HN, figures. I really wasn't trying to chastize, honestly it was intended as a friendly dollop of advice as someone who's dealt with this kind of thing. But since you have replied, I would say:
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by kolektiv 5mo ago
> over the last decade Be aware that under various regulations, you're potentially already at risk of accusation in terms of unwarranted data retention. If you haven't got a good reason to have kept those email addresses, somet
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by kolektiv 5mo ago
I'm not entirely sure I can agree, although the premise is seductive in certain ways. We do lie to ourselves, but we also have meta-cognition - we can recognise our own processes of thought. Imperfect as it may be, we have feedback loo
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by kolektiv 7mo ago
Very clearly put, and I'd only emphasise that without the final "enforcement" point of that, the other points become entirely irrelevant. While European regulators have imposed some significant sounding fines on prominent e
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by kolektiv 7mo ago
I think what leads to poor mental health is varied - poverty is definitely one cause, presumably one which is lessened in this case. I completely agree with you that there are more than two alternatives, but society seems unwilling/una
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by kolektiv 7mo ago
Yup, there's a huge number of entirely physical/analogue ways that "many hands" could make the world a significantly nicer and more sustainable place. Public works, environmental works, having the capacity to do more tha
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by kolektiv 7mo ago
Are those people cutting the grass/operating the elevators happier/unhappier than they would be otherwise? (I don't know, but perhaps you do). You seem to be strongly implying that this is in some way "wrong" rather
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by kolektiv 7mo ago
The end state is economic collapse/feudalism - quite desired by various current oligarchs.
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by kolektiv 7mo ago
No I'm with you. There's an honest and an intent to it which I've always loved - plus an intent to do more with less in terms of form. No finicky detail to hide tricky areas, no taking of advantage of material to distract the
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by kolektiv 8mo ago
There's absolutely mismanagement, and politicians could do an awful lot to change this. Ironically, in the UK at least, most of the reasons why they don't are due to historic regulations designed to protect either the fossil fuel
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by kolektiv 8mo ago
Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, died earlier today.
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by kolektiv 8mo ago
I'm not sure they've been shown to be violent (unless you consider damage to property as violence- I know some do, but personally my "things are just things" stance limits violence to actions which impact people, who mat
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by kolektiv 8mo ago
As I'm from - and in - the UK, let's have a look at this shall we? Both the tweet and the one to which it's responding... > There are always technical bugs during the early phases of new technology, especially AI, and thos
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by kolektiv 8mo ago
In all seriousness, why is that a problem? Surely for embedded, the size and hardware usage of the resultant binary is what matters, not the size/number of tools used to build it? I get that a lot of people worry about supply chain att
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by kolektiv 9mo ago
I've built an event-sourcing/stream framework on top of Fjall v3, and it's been a fantastic fit. It's a great building block for many systems where a more high-level storage system is either overkill or a poor match for
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by kolektiv 9mo ago
First of all, this is not, in any meaningful sense "the government" - the UK has an independent judiciary interpreting laws defined by parliament, but this was not at the behest of government in any reasonable sense. Secondly, thi
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by kolektiv 9mo ago
Precisely this - it's the being there that was forbidden, not the act of praying - I'm not aware of any modern case where such a thing has been proscribed (at a guess, I would have said the last time was probably around the era of
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by kolektiv 9mo ago
> How is standing by the road side saying and doing nothing harassing someone? If you're standing by an abortion clinic, and you're a prominent anti-abortion campaigner, who has been known to harass people in the past, it was c
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by kolektiv 9mo ago
In the scenario which you've outlined, where you say "hello" to me, having never spoken to me before? No, I don't think that's an offence, but more to the point, whether I did or not, the police are unlikely to. We
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by kolektiv 9mo ago
Ok, there's some context missing from those summaries though, no? In the first case it's not just "arrested for praying" it's "arrested for being in an exclusion zone specifically designated to try and stop you
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by kolektiv 9mo ago
Probably the most high-profile case was the Lucy Connolly one, where she posted: > "Mass deportation now, set fire to all the fucking hotels full of the bastards for all I care, while you’re at it take the treacherous government and
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by kolektiv 9mo ago
That would require the police to believe that an offence is likely to have been committed. While I am more than ready to criticise the police for many, many things, I'm not sure they're likely to just take that at face value... (A
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by kolektiv 9mo ago
True, although even those crimes (take common law assault) will still be heard in front of a magistrate - there's a process, there are processes for appealing, and it's not just some random police officer with the ability to jail
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by kolektiv 9mo ago
> a democratically-elected official can wield the power of the state against you and harm your interests just as much as a dictator can Really? Can they? Because in a functioning democracy you generally have recourse to courts, tertiary
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by kolektiv 9mo ago
Well, no, more accurately, when it comes to it, it's in the eyes of a judge (or a jury in some cases). You can have all kinds of arguments about validity of arrests, of prosecutions, etc., but it's still fundamentally a system whe
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by kolektiv 9mo ago
This might be a British humoUr thing - as a local it read very much as a self-deprecating jab at our own English-centric travelling. Taken literally obviously it would be offensive, but it's not meant that way. I note that the author l

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