Oh the options are endless…Liz Kendall in an SS uniform machine-gunning a load of disabled people, Yvette Cooper in a Suffragette tee laughing as a load of anti-genocide supporters get arrested for holding signs, Keir Starmer taking a shit on the UK whilst Farage stands off to one side loosening his belt ready to go next.

It’s Blair actually. His gvmt put through the changes to the Terrorism act in (I think) 2001 that has allowed this sort of thing to happen.

One of the ironies of this whole situation is that Yvette Cooper has expressed admiration for the Suffragette movement numerous times, including in the Commons. A movement that self-described as terrorists

If only Keith found it as easy to understand what the people of the country he’s currently in charge of care about.

Just in case it wasn’t obvious, the head of Kent Council is a Reform member.

Yes, I’m sure you and your large team of script writers, when putting together a piece designed to make you look hardline on immigration had no idea at all that a famous immigration hardliner/fascist often used a very, very similar phrase. And you definitely had no hopes it would be seen as a coded yet deniable dog-whistle. None at all.

This wasn’t an error of ignorance, this was an error of judgement and everyone knows that.

When Reform win the next GE it will be your fault Keith.

Matrix is E2EE as long as the room is. XMPP server/clients can enable OMEMO (as long as the server supports it).

‘Matrix’ is not going Freemium. Matrix.org’s server access is going freemium. You don’t have to use matrix.orgs servers to join or use the service.

An interesting alternative to both might be Delta Chat.

The government refused the amendment. It says it is already carrying out a separate consultation around copyright and it wants to wait for the outcome of that.

If the bill has already passed they’ve not waited for anything. Be interesting to see how artists - smaller artists - respond. One possible outcome might be them removing all electronic music from bandcamp, streaming etc and just selling vinyl etc.

I doubt a lot of Lemmy users have got those apps on their phones. Although I am curious about how it would affect people who, say, used Island or similar (leverage the Work profile) to install them as I have seen that suggested in privacy communities before. Would Meta only be able to access other apps installed to that profile - if you had a browser installed in it too for example?

I think he’s confused the US with the UK. Over here, companies (not individual employees) can be legally forced to introduce backdoors and legally prevented from ever mentioning it.

Apple recently got around this by ‘accidentally leaking’ the fact the UK gvmt were ordering them to break encryption.

Jesus christ.

It’s never felt great to be citizen of a country that looks back on the empire through rose-tinted glasses and has a functional monarchy which we’re all expected to pay for and revere but now its getting openly embarrassing as our elected officials fall over themselves for the honour of kissing a fascists boots, giving billionaires free reign, criminalising trans people and driving disabled people into poverty.

Irrelevancy, thy name is Truss.

Thanks?

" I asked a simple question…"

Without knowing what community it was and what the exact question was, I’m not sure what you’re expecting me to say about that.

There’s a reason they’re called ‘communities’ on Lemmy. What you see as a bubble, other see as a place of refuge where they’re not going to be attacked by people ‘just asking questions’.

Which is why I said I was aware the use case is different. I’m also not sure Element is trying to be a paragon of security. As I understand it, their focus is on privacy.

Could be argued that Lemmy does too. I realise the use case is different but the risk feels similar. You can sign up with a anonymous username, your phone number isn’t exposed and some Matrix instances don’t even require an email (and if they do you can use an anonymising service). Its not great, I agree, but its also not that bad either.

My issue with Element X (and the reason I’m still using Element) is that X doesn’t (yet) support Spaces. Again, not a huge issue, but annoying enough to stop me switching.

But its impossible to not notice! Or find aggravating!

Redundant question when the government have just announced they’re taking money from disabled people but are considering not taxing huge tech orgs.

They’re using Nextcloud, which is fine, but be aware this means that the drive wont be e2ee. You might want to use it together with Cryptomator which is made by a German company.