However, Chris Weston, its chief executive, told MPs that the company needed an exemption from the £1.4 billion in fines he expects the regulators, Ofwat and the Environment Agency, to impose for future breaches of environmental and performance rules.

Won’t somebody think of the poor company facing the consequences of its own actions.

Labour really went from repealing Section 28 to introducing a whole new one. How we’ve let this childish and anti-science notion that ‘biological sex’ is static become so pervasive is seriously depressing. Claiming someone’s ‘biological sex’ is only ever the same as the one they had at birth is like insisting an adult only weighs 4 KG.

The Guardian in typical fashion quoted two trans hate groups who of course prefers the Tories even more anti-trans guidance.

Then there’s this part, from section 68:

Schools should ensure that they cover all the facts about sexual health, including STIs, in a way that is relevant for all pupils, including those who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or gender questioning.

So a kid can’t be trans, only gender questioning. Thanks Labour, really committing to your manifesto pledge to 'protecting the freedom for people to explore their sexual orientation and gender identity".

Yeah, this an us thing, not a PieFed bug. We use this nginx bot blocker to help stop AI scrapers from ruining the server, and we have the following IP ranges blocked:

# IP ranges
47.82.0.0/17 1;
47.79.0.0/17 1;
47.251.94.6 1;
2a03:4000::/31 1;
2a0a:4cc0:2000::/48 1;
2a0a:4cc0::/43 1;
2a0a:4cc0:80::/43 1;

# AT&T
99.0.0.0/13 1;
99.64.0.0/13 1;
99.74.0.0/16 1;
99.32.0.0/12 1;
99.96.0.0/13 1;

There’s also a whitelist-ips that lets us override the above, and I even had your instance in it with 2a03:4000:2a:305:24dd:dff:fe98:8ce6 1; # https://palaver.p3x.de/, but that 1 needs to be a zero. I’ve changed it so it should work now, sorry about that.

lemmy-meter.info

Inaccurate, it should be return 1 and return 0 for the true 20 years at Blizzard quality.

We’re hosted in Germany, but that doesn’t actually matter as the admins are physically in the UK so Ofcom fines are actually a worry. I need to do another review (yay), but I’m pretty sure we don’t have to do any age verification. We do have to assume all our users are children though, as we can only say we don’t if we do ‘highly effective age verification’* of our users, and we do host content that is ‘likely to appeal to children’, but I don’t believe we host anything that would need to be gatekept from children. We actively block NSFW content and as far as I’m aware there isn’t a suicide encouragement or terrorist recruitment community on Lemmy. There are maybe some things that I may need to be changed/patch in Lemmy (e.g. letting users lock their own posts), or making some safety tools (one I want to work on is doing perceptual hashing of images embedded in markdown as current tools only work on post links), but I don’t think complying is necessary an issue for us. I’m not a lawyer though and that’s just my understanding, we could be fucked.

* This entire ‘force every website to keep a separate database of users adult status’ is so stupid and I swear it only works like this because of lobbying from companies like Yoti. PornHub is right that it should be device based, but these laws are only using children as a crutch. It’s implemented like this because certain parts of the British establishment find porn icky and are hoping by making it more invasive to access that you’ll stop watching it. Of course, all this is going to do is push people to sites that don’t follow the law so host more extreme content.

Could you change the title to match the actual article title, not all clients show the original and editorialised titles are against the rules.

Yep, trans men are men: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/TERF_glossary#TWAW_.2F_TMAM

Poorly. I’m currently praying for an army of tigers.

No paywall

The event was a success; there will be more like it in Ilford and around the country. Britain has become a multi-party system and there is an appetite for a party (or perhaps just candidates) that talks about peace, Palestine and poverty. The launch of Sultana’s new party has been messy and the left beyond Labour is fragmented, with some elements filtering into the Greens and some likely preferring the more decentralised independent model.

This seems unfair to Sultana, her party announcement focused a lot on inequality (two child cap, winter fuel payment, PIP). I get the left spends a lot of time talking about Gaza (justifiably, because genocide), but I don’t think that necessarily means a left election campaign will focus this much on foreign policy.

Zack Polanski’s Green party leadership bid is probably close to what a left campaign would (or at least should) look like.

‘Censorship is when I’m not allowed to use the R-word.’

Just open a text file if you want to write whatever you want without dispute, the right to say what you want isn’t the same as the right to be heard.

snac2 erasure.

Beehaw is defed from world, but not vice versa, so when a DB0 community announces a beehaw comment it sends it to world who accepts the comment. The Beehaw user won’t be able to see the reply though.

TBF, they do criticise Russia for its LGBT policies: https://feddit.uk/post/9516220

This seems pretty conclusive, I’m going to go ahead and defed. Thanks for all your input.

I imagine the low engagement is because everyone who uses it knows it’s a bot and treats it as read-only

I don’t think this is the case, others like !Mirror@50501.chat and @free@rss.ponder.cat get engagement, and the latter doesn’t even post memes which most lemmings engage with with little regard to community or user.

Is it actually causing any problems?

See my other comment, but nothing technical.

It’s pretty trivial to ignore/block it if you don’t want to see it. If it’s actually increasing our server bill or anything like that then it’s not worth keeping, but if it’s not causing any harm then why bother defederating?

It is easy to block, but new lemmings aren’t going to know all the platform features.

I’m not adamant about defeding though, if people are using it I’ll keep it around. There are other solutions to the issue of new users going to All, seeing a bunch of Reddit reports with no engagement and thinking the platform is dead. Like having new accounts block the bot by default.

Not much, other than the size of the post table in the DB, but that’s not the biggest tables so no need to worry. The only instance that I’d imagine to have a noticeable performance impact is lemmy.world, most of the server load is from users not federation.

Also, RWBY now available to steam on Hulu for US + Canada, and available to ‘buy’ on Apple TV in a scattering of other places, which seams quite random.

Edit: It’s annoying that this comm is misconfigured and doesn’t allow posts to be tagged English, only undefined.

Turns out they lied, one book targeted at adults got moved from the welcome area to further back in the library. Truly an impressively incompetent bunch these Reform councilors.

It’s amazing that to gage if Corbyn supports Sultana’s party we have to read between the lines of an interview with ITV from a few days ago instead of Corbyn just stating he’s with the initiative.

Either the reports are true, or this is a major comms failure on the yet-to-be-named party’s part. Having the initial talk of your new party being if the supposed co-founder is involved isn’t a good look. Corbyn has a lot to be rightfully mad at the media for, but this is one is on him.