I actually remember thinking once or twice that I hadn't seen you in a while, glad to have you back <3
Welcome back, my guy.
Hey, those councils won't be skint when we, *checks notes*, hand over several billion £ to American big tech.
The PM didn't under-sell AI's potential
I love how the it isn't even considered that he over-sold AI's potential. Can't wait for roads to be closed for weeks because the AI mistook a puddle for a pothole.
I'm sorry, but I fail to see the relevance of this not-for-profit vs for-profit diatribe. If you mean that things like culture and structures matter more than the a project's legal status, then I agree, but unless you're going to point to particular issues you have with Mastodon's then, again, I fail to see the relevance. The things Mastodon (the company) is seeking to improve are highly technical and specialised, where people working on them need good cross-disciplinary knowledge and experience, and understandably demand a high wage.
Did you mean to link to this BBC article?
Science and Technology Secretary Peter Kyle told the BBC there was no reason why the UK could not create tech companies on the same scale as Google, Amazon, and Apple.
'It's a shame that the torment nexus isn't British.' We should be talking about breaking these companies up, not putting a Rule Britannia spin on cyberpunk.
Surprised to see you of all people question why a project needs money to pay for things.
What for?
They said what for in the previous section, improving Mastodon's "usability, discoverability, and trust & safety". They tried to fundraise for a head of trust and safety last month, but failed. My impression is this is them trying to raise general donations to the project to pay for things like this, instead of individual campaigns for individual things.
Is the infrastructure being provided by the companies counted as part of this budget?
I thinks so, given the previous paragraph links to their sponsor page and says as such.
I haven't seen anyone else mention this, but it's basically become impossible to trust YouTube music compilations anymore. Like YT recommended me this and I don't understand how music can make me feel less, but it does.
You'd think a gammon would appreciate people that don't eat meat.
Not OP, but the leadership has just shown themselves to be unable to run the platform how users want. They're refusing to ban serial harasser Jesse Singal. Its head of trust and safety banned a bot and its creator because the bot pointed out that they liked a porn post on their work account for 'harassment'. Bear in mind the entire point of Bluesky is for all this info to be public and easily accessible.
IFTAS has a list of resources, with a compliance template for fediverse software being worked on. https://onlinesafetyact.co.uk/ is run by Neil Brown, who's been following the OSA over the years. There's also this newsletter by Rachel Coldicutt.
Actually, the name property is explicitly plain text, it shouldn't contain any type of markup, whether that be markdown or HTML.