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Cake day: October 3rd, 2025
  • SaraTonin@lemmy.worldtoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•The “Nude” Ultimatum: Privacy is Dead
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    3 months ago

    Oh yeah, the article is written by someone short on facts and large on mouth-foam

    The biggest thing for me with this story (in general, not the article linked above) is that it shows how woefully out of touch the UK government is -issuing an ultimatum to phone manufacturers to implement measures which were implemented years ago

    No wonder they’re gearing up to give s defence contract to Musk and our health data to Thiel

  • SaraTonin@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.ml•The Final, Most Essential Command of the Party
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    10 months ago

    Okay, so firstly, they start talking about “Western media”, and then only talk about US media.

    It’s characterisation of the media as state media is simplistic and misses the headline - the outside influence the media has on the state. Rupert Murdoch explicitly said that he got involved with the media in the US and UK in order to influence politics. There are any number of examples of something being featured on Fox News and Trump talking about it the next day.

    Here in the UK the Labour government just announced their new immigration policy. Its biggest aim is to stop people crossing the channel in small boats. The biggest opposition party, Reform’s entire platform is based around stopping small boats. The previous government’s immigration policy for more than a decade was based around stopping small boats.

    Illegal immigration is a tiny fraction of immigration. People entering the country in small boats is a tiny fraction of illegal immigration. And illegal immigration itself is overcounted because there are currently no legal routes into the country for asylum seekers, making all asylum seekers illegal immigrants by definition.

    So, why have politicians been forming their policy around this one inconsequential issue rather than trying to form more meaningful and effective policy? Because the front pages of the daily newspapers have had small boat stories for years. It’s deliberately been turned into an issue by the press, which has forced politicians to look like they are “doing something”.

    The traffic between media and politics isn’t just one way, of course, but it’s a lot more reciprocal and complex than this empty ideological rant would have you believe. And it’s probably fair to say that the press has more influence over the state than the state has over the press, at least in the UK.

    Tony Blair, for example, purposefully spent time wooing Murdoch because he knew he couldn’t get elected as Prime Minister without The Sun on side.

    It’s ironic that this piece about the lies of the media is itself rather devoid of accurate reporting and is instead knowingly or unknowingly full of falsehoods in order to ideologically persuade its readers.

  • SaraTonin@lemmy.worldOPtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Yet another "which distro should I choose?" Post
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    10 months ago

    Cachy is what I’mgoing to try first. I’m semi-resolved to dual-booting for the video/photo stuff.

    I’ve also got a vague plan at some point in the future to buy a desktop mac and one of those boxes where you can just switch monitors/input device routing at the press of a button. Maybe put the video/photo stuff on that. Although, that said, I’ve got a colleage who is a graphic designer on the side and the only reason he’s got a Windows machine is that even the biggest mac he owns can’t handle the graphics. He’s an Apple evangelist yet even he says that Apple does not do graphics well.

    The stuff I do is nothing like the stuff he does and I don’t need anything as powerful as him, but I am still aware that “get a mac to do video stuff” isn’t necessarily the best plan. But I’m likely getting one anyway for other reasons, so it can’t hurt to try.