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The #OnlineSafetyBill is still in play in the UK, and still contains deeply concerning aspects despite much revision, notably requiring age verification (which could amount to a need for ID cards to access the Internet) and a requirement for platforms to inspect content (which could ban effective encryption).

This is a decent summary: https://www.gp-digital.org/the-return-of-the-uks-online-safety-bill-whats-changed-and-whats-next/

@openrightsgroup are on the case too, although their singular focus on encryption may backfire. https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaign/save-encryption/

#policy

> The PSP's web browser is - charitably - pathetic. It is slow, frequently runs out of memory, and can only open 3 tabs at a time... But the GOV.UK pages are written in simple HTML. They are designed to be lightweight and will work even on rubbish browsers. They have to. This is for everyone...
> Are you developing public services? Or a system that people might access when they're in desperate need of help? Plain HTML works. A small bit of simple CSS will make look decent. JavaScript is probably unnecessary - but can be used to progressively enhance stuff. Add alt text to images so people paying per MB can understand what the images are for (and, you know, accessibility).
> Go sit in an uncomfortable chair, in an uncomfortable location, and stare at an uncomfortably small screen with an uncomfortably outdated web browser. How easy is it to use the websites you've created?

The Unreasonable Effectiveness Of Simple HTML

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-simple-html/
CC: @kelbot @alcinnz

You have a problem. You use regular expressions. You now have solved your problem with a tool used by thousands and thousands of engineers for decades.

Dear twenty-something app developers with perfect eye-sight: Stop putting tiny light grey on dark grey text. Someday you will understand.

https://m.jpost.com/international/article-725351

Oh and by the way, do you know what telegram azov supporters' reactions to this was? I'll paste it here:

"Guys, we clear some things up, we get some a lot of messages about why an organisation connected with Azov sent a delegation to Israel, I’ll try to explain this as best as possible.

Organisation “defenders of Avostal families” recently sent a delegation on a public relations trip to Turkey, America, Europe , Saudi Arabia and Israel to showcase a documentary about Azovstal and spread awareness about release of Mariupol defenders. Of course we don’t agree with this and have to strongly condemn this, especially Israel, being no friend of Ukraine and the white race, on the comments of the post is many disappointed militants and former volunteers, after all Israel doesn’t even recognise the holodomor as genocide and Jewish journalists have spent years trying to undermine the regiment.

Now Azov is not what it used to be, Azov started as small unit with 300 guys from Odessa and Kharkiv mainly with strong radical politics, since a lot has changed, Azov is one of the biggest military formations in Ukraine, Maybe around 10-15k soldiers, we never say Azov itself is an openly NS or fascist regiment, in fact now probably only 25% of soldiers and volunteers hold radical and fascist views, still, this is more then you’d find in a military formation anywhere else in the world.

The fact is - Azov is the only place an openly fascist or NS could go to learn military skills, you would not be allowed in your own counties military nor FFL or anything else. Military skills and discipline you learn in the army and Battle conditions will be much needed for the coming struggles of our race, much more then political discussion and arguments on telegram.

Since the war other military units like MD and Nord Storm have formed which is good to see.

We had many comrades, friends and some of our guys from Madrid who fought in the battalion over the years and risked their life’s, we are disappointed in this latest political stunt by some outsiders and spokespersons who have never stepped foot inside a trench or had to dodge incoming artillery attacks but our support for Azov and Ukraine will never change.

We hope it clears some things up, thanks 88

@ultrasnotreds2"

Oh. my. god.

Madison Square Garden used facial recognition to identify and stop a mom from attending a Christmas show with her kid because she's an attorney at a firm who is engaged in litigation with them.

This is why it's not enough to just ban government and law enforcement use of #facialrecognition. There are so many ways private companies and even individuals can abuse #biometric #surveillance tech.

#BanFacialRecognition entirely. Yesterday.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/msgs-facial-recognition-stops-mom-from-attending-christmas-show-with-child/4004471/

A lot of people in 1995 thought the web should remain non-commercial

Now we know that they were right

Just fyi. #openinformation

It’s never not going to be funny that after years of hype about crypto-metaverse-subscriptions disrupting web2 incumbents, the backstop to Twitter’s sudden implosion was volunteers recreating Usenet with RSS.

Interacting with artificial so called intelligence should only be done maliciously towards the ai

According to all known laws of society, there is no way a meme like John Mastodon should be able to federate. Its referent is too niche for the necessary momentum to get off the ground. #JohnMastodon, of course, federates anyway, because John Mastodon doesn’t care what humans think is impossible.