Oversteer Kier. I suspect he’s more right wing than Blair, but we’ll have to see. Definitely more of am autocrat.

Lol, Rosie usually flanking from the right. A transphobe and not a nice person. Love it when they trash take themselves out. One of the few Labour MPs worse than Kier

By that logic, you’re dragging down lemmy.ca. Though I don’t really take that line of logic, cause I ain’t a dick.

Well fair point there, and rightly so. There is certainly a need for this. Whether that justifies keeping permanent a temporary policy or it needs to be thought out so benefits/pip etc. meet the needs of vulnerable individuals at all times of the year is another question.

If everyone you look at is trash, either they are, or you are. You’d need some self-awareness and comprehension of the history of Lemmy (including the fact that Lemmy.ml was the main instance before the influx, and after, Lemmy.world had major reliability issues for a while). Many people ended up on ml and don’t really suffer the red scares.

The amount of “I got banned off ml for saying x. Didn’t realise it was as bad as Reddit which I also got banned off multiple times”. I mean if folks are getting banned of a right wing cess pool and a left wing instance, is the issue the instances, or them.

No one else receives winter payment coverage. Pensions are already covered by Triple Lock, so over time they always go up quicker than inflation (which includes heating costs). Triple Lock was always a bribe because older people vote and in numbers and successive governments pandered to them. Winter fuel payment had a need and they probably should have tempered it off, but support for older less well off individuals people should be via state pension if it doesn’t meet their needs.

Regular top up bribes just creates a messy, complex system that politicians dare not touch.

Back on to Keir, he’s coming out of this looking quite dodgy and many on the left have been making this point for years. However, using Tory attack lines doesn’t help as they contributed to most people getting screwed when energy prices shot up (mothballing gas storage, hammering feed in tariffs etc.)

Technically it’s fucked by hard right and soft right. Keir and his team stuck their fingers up at unions and took plenty of money from big business. We are starting to see that play out now. It was a takeover of the party by business interests and the media was happy to assist in the public relations for it.

I get the bad mods argument but tarring a whole community based on this isn’t cool.

Don’t get me wrong, .world has some really big ass hats and questionable moderation, but it doesn’t mean all their users are bad.

The other one is dead. Up to you.

Agree on that point.

Whether it happens or not is another question. Some on the right of the Labour Party (which does have a significant presence on the front benches) were receiving funding from the water industry. How strong and effective that lobbying was/is, we will have to find out.

Nationalise, you mean?

Definitely agree. Essential utilities should never be privatised.

Idk why but this gives collusion vibes. They were all of their own accord acting in this manner independently of one another?

Almost as much as your mom does.

Or !degoogle@lemmy.ml

Damn. Its like Boris reincarnated.

True, but it probably won’t work. Unless the browser pulls them in as plugins and becomes modular. Most are trying to give a rich web experience out of the box and I’m not sure users will accept different programs for different things.

I really like Gemini as an idea and hope it finds it’s groove for many, but lots of mainstream users may not like it and the ad industry that people are using to fund there sites certainly won’t.

For many years AMD was uncompetitive compared to Intel / Nvidia. Intel had 80% of the market at one point. It probably would have died off if it wasn’t for folk that wanted Linux compatibility. Many run FOSS because of privacy. Linux is a key part of that.

Oh gosh. Forgot all about that shit. No thanks.

Do AMD not realise that Linux/Privacy nerds stuck with them regardless for years. Would they have survived without that loyalty?

Selling jpegs as addons is good for gamers?

All they’re doing with DLC is milking existing code.

But they are forks and they rely on Firefox development. Using them is fine, but with Mozilla funding and keeping up with browser development, they’d be poor

Its a bit like Brave taking Chromium, changing a few lines and saying “we built a browser”.

I’m assuming because they don’t have those AI engineers. I don’t agree with this or AI, but diversification isn’t something that can be ignored.

They need to focus on browser and bet on things that could succeed in the future. Winding down those bets that failed (like 3d visual worlds) is sensible.

Of the 60 they are laying off, how many of those work on Firefox?