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Happy birthday, feddit.uk 🎉 in c/feddituk@feddit.uk
[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 8 points 1 month ago

I originally signed up for lemmy.org.uk, but that instance disappeared randomly a week after being created. I can't remember how I discovered here, I think I just went to the instances sections on join-lemmy.org and went to the UK instance listed.

Need help implementing ActivityPub - getting inconsistent results across platforms in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I'm not the most knowledgeable about Mastodon's APub implementation, but having a look at the Actor of that profile, it might be because it's invalid JSON-LD. Now, Mastodon doesn't actually do proper JSON-LD checks, you can follow PieFed profiles from Mastodon and they don't produce proper JSON-LD, but they do include "https://w3id.org/security/v1" in their @context, and doing a code search of Mastodon's source code does show some checks for if that's included.

Lemmy's I am familiar with and irrc it doesn't even check if @context is present.

Now even my personal instance is infested by these AI crawlers in c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 91 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

You can enable Private Instance in your admin settings, this will mean only logged in users can see content. This will prevent AI scrapers from slowing down your instance as all they'll see is an empty homepage, so no DB calls. As long as you're on 0.19.11, federation will still work.

Dutch is beautiful in c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
EHRC commissioner calls for trans people to accept reduced rights in c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 1 points 2 months ago

I was speaking rhetorically about people like Reindorf, I didn't mean to imply you thought trans people were undesirables.

Tankies seething about their lack of control over Lemmy, calls everyone nazis in c/meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works
[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 62 points 2 months ago (2 children)

"Lemmy is more right wing than Reddit" — someone that hasn't browsed a country subreddit in years.

EHRC commissioner calls for trans people to accept reduced rights in c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

True, but I do still think the unfairness to disabled people is important to highlight, even if it's just the principle of it as opposed to real world impacts. It's important we don't let them push 'undesirables' into disabled people's facilities as that carries negative implications for both groups.

Looking for additional mods in c/fedimemes@feddit.uk
[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 4 points 2 months ago

Thanks, I've sent you a link to the fedimemes mod Matrix room, feel free to join.

Looking for additional mods in c/fedimemes@feddit.uk
[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thanks, I've sent you a link to the fedimemes mod Matrix room, feel free to join.

EHRC commissioner calls for trans people to accept reduced rights in c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 7 points 2 months ago

When North Carolina and Mississippi passed anti-LGBT laws, that mandated trans people use the toilets of their assigned sex among other things, the Foreign Office issued travel advice warning LGBT tourist against travel there. Reindorf is now trying to introduce the same here and has the gall to tell trans people to stop overreacting to them becoming second class citizens by her hand.

EHRC commissioner calls for trans people to accept reduced rights in c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 6 points 2 months ago (6 children)

That's not really fair on disabled people, their facilities are already limited and having a bunch of non-disabled people add strain will only exasperate that. Also, forcing trans people to use a special trans toilet will also out them in public and potentially make them less safe.

This is also such a non-issues, trans people have been using the toilets of their gender identity for literal decades and it's only become an issue now, and only because of well funded activist groups, not any issues in the real world.

Lemm.ee communities migration megathread in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

!wales@lemm.ee is aware, https://lemm.ee/post/65857349

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UK pledges £2.26bn to Ukraine as Zelensky says it will be used for weapons - latest (www.bbc.co.uk)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by flamingos@feddit.uk to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk
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The UK and Ukraine have agreed a £2.26bn loan to support Ukraine's defence capabilities, Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko says.

Volodymyr Zelensky and Sir Keir Starmer, together with Chancellor Rachel Reeves, held a video call with Marchenko this evening.

Marchenko wrote on social media, external that the funds are "ensured by frozen Russian assets".

He added that he was "grateful" to the UK for "holding the aggressor accountable for the war".
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Posting on X in the last few moments, Zelensky wrote: "This loan will enhance Ukraine’s defence capabilities and will be repaid using revenues from frozen Russian assets.

"The funds will be directed toward weapons production in Ukraine. This is true justice - the one who started the war must be the one to pay.

"I thank the people and government of the United Kingdom for their tremendous support from the very beginning of this war.

"We are happy to have such strategic partners and to share the same vision of what a secure future should look like for all."

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Ban misogynistic online pornography, review to propose (www.bbc.co.uk)
 

Measures proposed in the review, commissioned by the previous government and led by Conservative peer Baroness Gabby Bertin, are understood to include making it illegal to possess or publish pornography showing women being choked during sex.

After her appointment by Rishi Sunak's government, Baroness Bertin made it clear she would not be approaching the topic from a prudish or disapproving position.

She will make 32 recommendations on what should be done about the "high-harm sector" of legal online pornography.

The review, due to be published later, is expected to argue that porn videos considered too harmful for any certificate in the offline world should be banned online.

Non-fatal strangulation is already an offence if someone does not consent but its depiction online is not illegal.

The review suggests pornography websites have normalised such behaviour in the real world, with violent and degrading material rife on mainstream platforms amid a "total absence of government scrutiny".

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David Lammy: Chagos deal will not go ahead if Donald Trump rejects it (www.bbc.co.uk)
 

The UK is in talks with Mauritius about handing over the territory but continuing to lease one of the islands, Diego Garcia, which contains a UK-US military airbase.

However, progress has been delayed to allow the new US administration to look at the details of the deal.

It comes as Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer heads to Washington for talks with Trump, where the focus is expected to be on the Ukraine war.

Asked if Trump had a veto on the Chagos deal, Lammy, who is also in the US for the visit, told ITV: "If President Trump doesn't like the deal, the deal will not go forward and the reason for that is because we have a shared military and intelligence interest with the United States and of course they've got to be happy with the deal or there is no deal."

The foreign secretary added that he still believed "it's the best deal".

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full alt-text as it overflows Lemmy's limitFirst a screenshot of a Jeff Bezos Tweet: "I shared this note with the Washington Post team this morning:

I'm writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages.

We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets. We'll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.

There was a time when a newspaper, especially one that was a local monopoly, might have seen it as a service to bring to the reader's doorstep every morning a broad-based opinion section that sought to cover all views. Today, the internet does that job.

I am of America and for America, and proud to be so. Our country did not get here by being typical. And a big part of America's success has been freedom in the economic realm and everywhere else. Freedom is ethical—it minimizes coercion - and practical — it drives creativity, invention, and prosperity."

@briantylercohen.bsky.social‬ on Bluesky then captions that with: "Bezos bends the knee. Pathetic."

@junlper.beer‬ then quote posts that with "i think everyone needs to stop framing whats going on as 'bending the knee' and what’s really happening which is 'they’re finally feel free to do what they’ve always wanted to do'".

@rat-carpet.yeen.wang‬ replies: "BILLIONAIRES: oh i'm uhhh being forced, to bend the knee, to my little pet".

@junlper.beer‬ replies to them: "billionaires continually saddened they are taking more control over the world. they never wanted that".

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Proton has stopped using their Mastodon account (feddit.uk)
 
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