Simon Greenwood

@davidgerard@circumstances.run And don't forget to tick the box to get a transcript of the debate so you can see Liz Kendall say that glasses that let social media companies spy on you are fine but we're banning VPNs to stop under-16s accessing social media.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social It's always us-east-1.

@Maker_of_Things You're welcome. One thing I have done in the past is to replace Google apps with FOSS ones, particularly from the F-Droid repository, which is fairly simple to install. Also, the majority of apps will work with an OS such as IodeOS as it uses a replacement for Google services, or GrapheneOS which sandboxes Google services, but I agree, it's something that needs thinking about.

@Maker_of_Things It's a bit of work  - messages can be backed up using an app such as SMS Backup & Restore. Contacts are more complicated and I recommend using an app such as Fossify Contacts, which will import your contacts from Google and allow them to be synced to a webdav service such as Nextcloud. Apps are really just a case of remembering what you use. Many that have an online aspect will store your data anyway, and others will have backup options. The Galaxy A13 isn't supported by LineageOS or PostmarketOS so you wouldn't be able to reinstall that phone. Actually installing the OS is varibale and you have to choose your victim carefully, but I've picked up phones from eBay for cheap that are otherwise end of life but are being kept going by Lineage or Iode or Murena or PostmarketOS.

@madeindex Ireland's reputation as the Celtic Tiger was created by being willing to make concessions to businesses so they would set up there.

@madeindex https://www.thenational.scot/news/25780001.shabana-mahmood-proposes-ai-panopticon-system-state-surveillance/ The National is the pro-Scottish independence daily. Labour's thing in this government has been AI primarily because they're being fluffed by OpenAI and datacentre builders. I'm sure it's not just the UK government who allow big tech to embed themselves in government but we've been open to it for 30 years.

@madeindex For profit as well as control. The UK Home Secretary has even said the quiet bit out land, surveillance tech is selling governments a panopticon.

@mosgaard I'm doing the Macarena, is that expected? #bonkwave

@amiserabilist A friend has played one for years, largely in mediaeval groups. They make a great noise.

@gribbles@mastodonapp.uk I'm watching it now, it's lovely.

@Vibracobra23@mastodon.social Fast Product has a near perfect discography.

@novacustom@mastodon.online Always wired on a computer

@ambientspace I've been having look as well, there's some very good stuff there.

@ambientspace If that's the set I've got, lot of them are CD images in native formats, which need proprietary conversion software, which doesn't exist for Linux, annoyingly.

@rlafuente@post.lurk.org Good luck, I'm starting something similar in the UK, hope it goes well for you. @aiscarvalho@post.lurk.org

@katiefenn I grew up in Doncaster and my local was named after the Mallard. We went to the NRM last year and I had to go up her steps and give her a little pat.

@regendans@todon.eu I've used it since StarOffice days, and it was always usable enough for my purposes. Looking at the timelime, I think I've used most variations at different times since the late 90s.

@Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net I cancelled my Proton account because of the CEO's pro-Republican position. I switched to Vivaldi because of its European origin and hosting. Please make this entirely optional. Also, Mullvad exists.

@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party Can confirm.

@infobeautiful@vis.social Not enough kickbacks in a single payer system.

@edmond@vael.town The IP ranges used are regional so there are more than that, but they're at least (currently) using user agents that start with meta-.

@RobertaFidora He's always been a good chap.

@DesChips@mamot.fr Looks interesting, I'll give it go (Linux user as well).

@RikerGoogling@mas.to Not Data, Tom.

@inpc@go.mxtthxw.art Like the Residents but with the sleeve of No Jacket Required instead of an eyeball.

@WiteWulf I have a vague memory that there were games like that for the 5 but mostly native. Possibly the cost of the development kit or something.

@RobertaFidora WHY AM I ONLY FINDING OUT ABOUT THIS NOW?

@smallcircles Really odd party.

@WiteWulf Played Doom though (connected to a PC to serve the WAD).

@mosgaard Hehehe

@fesshole@mastodon.social Proof it worked though.

@glynmoody@mastodon.social Or in the case of our government 'no problem, we'll just keep giving millions of quid to Microsoft.'

@girlonthenet@mastodon.social The only drink I've ever had that tastes the same as its colour.

@edmond@vael.town I've plugged this into my home server as I noticed that crawler traffic was getting ridiculous: https://github.com/ai-robots-txt

@dhd6@jasette.facil.services The most pernicious thing about it is that Meta use the same gateways for their AI scrapers as their search crawlers, which makes rate limiting the only option if you need search, like my company's clients. That or Cloudflare, but that's adding another layer of big tech. @edmond@vael.town

@RobertaFidora My copy arrived today, and it is indeed a delight.

@gotosocial@gts.superseriousbusiness.org Done! Keep on being a source of distraction.

@tommorris@mastodon.social The Home Office has decided that their need is more important than such silly things as the rule of law or civil rights.

@skimbrel Add #fedihired to your post and give an idea of where you are. Good luck!

Has anyone been to an event at Co-op Live or the Etihad Campus in Manchester recently? I'm trying to work out if the walking route from the city centre is open for events as we went to try it yesterday on a day when there no events, and it was barricaded off, with no obvious way of entry around the building works around the stadium. TIA #manchester #etihad  #cooplive

@Veggies I should nip into town and try and persuade them onto the fediverse.

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social Jo(ey) looks like a stretched Andrew Eldritch. Wearing plastic tits.

@hackaday@hackaday.social Let me sing you the songs of my people. (I think that sequence is negotiating up to 56k - it had a very specific sound)

@fesshole@mastodon.social Can confirm both.

@TheBreadmonkey Same, octopuses, same.