dbzero0 breaks rule 7.

Hopefully within 2026 we can start to refer to phones as ‘Android/Google Phones’, ‘iPhones’ and ‘FOSS Phones’ - No longer referring to them as ‘DeGoogled’.

But I am 100% understanding why we use the term now, it came from a Reddit sub. I think (and hope) if we start using the alternative term - FOSS Phones or Open Source or Sailfish/Jolla or whatever else they are… that people will start looking at that option quicker.

DeGoogled sounds to many like it is a bit of work to get rid of google (Buying a google phone and having to remove it). At one stage that was true, custom roms etc.

But I am hoping at this stage anyone buying any of these phones will already know why they are choosing them over other brands.

I do thank platforms should take a stance against disinformation.

Definitely. That should be enforced more. Companies should be fined every time they allow their platform to be used to spread disinformation. €1 for every person believed to have read/listened/viewed something. If 500,000 people viewed it and it spread to millions, then obviously the larger effect should have a deeper reach into their pockets.

Would we call Apple an Irish company because they evade taxes in Ireland?

You’ve lost me there. I won’t disagree with your points, but I am curious…

Spotify was created and built in Sweden by Swedish people. I know nothing about what you are referring to regarding the far right and Joe Rogan etc. - I have heard of him, but I do not know anything about him, what he looks like or what he has actually said about anything. I do know that (I think) he is very far right in his opinion.

But… Can the far left or whoever are the opposite of these extreme politics not just pay for advertisements or produce popular content etc. on the same platform, would spotify take their money, allow their content for profit?

Or

Are spotify exclusively working and promoting the far right?

I don’t agree with shutting down somebody or something because you don’t agree with them or it. I believe it could be far more effective and better for everyone if you explain why you think somebody is wrong in what they are saying, and what way you think it would be better to do something that they are talking about.

The Irish government allowing Apple, Google, Amazon and other big tech to not pay any taxes whilst not really helping the country as a whole is a good reason for the Irish to dislike them, but they (the government) believe that the employment - and more importantly the money that they bring to them is more important than their countries future. It will not be 20 years before they have all pulled out and left Ireland like one of the barren states in the U.S., devoid of employment, with both Dublin and Cork falling into Urban decay.

It is possible to agree with a little bit of one and little bit of the other, and a lot of neither. No point in silencing one to make your voice louder. Just make your points better.

Christ, Badenoch doesn’t do too badly on that. It must pay to be stupid.

This guy is a dim witted product of circumstance. He is not the sharpest knife in the drawer, and wait until you get a load of his ‘right hand’ woman. Helen McEntee. Both of them can only read from pre written cards.

When questioned on the fly, without any schooling they are both deer in headlights.

Oh wow. I read that way wrong. I read it as though he was paying $190m to avoid a lengthier and more costly court case with a possibly larger fine. Fuck… How did he get away with only paying that? That’s insane.

Anyway, it’s only shareholders that were suing him. For some reason that story hasn’t been very big over here, and with Christmas etc. Has got buried. Are any governments taking any action?

Thanks. Cold hard light of day now… Sober and very cold.

I thought I could use my existing Lemmy login to login to piefed, the same way I can subscribe to different Lemmy communities from all over. Admittedly I hadn’t looked too much into it.

I do plan on creating a piefed community, or would like to. I have read that guide, was just wondering if there were other guides where people may have done things slightly differently etc.

I can’t figure out how to use my lemmy account on piefed.

I don’t know what is going on with lemmy.ml and them already being censored or whatever is happening, but I am not sure i agree with censoring any group whether or not they agree with the majority opinion.

The only guide that I can find about setting up a Piefed instance is the same persons blog with yunohost. It is a good guide, but are there any others? She seems to be the only one that has put any effort into creating and sharing one.

Just wondering if anyone can help a bottle of wine - deep person who starts back in work on Wednesday 🫠 😔

Would love it if a list of those targeted, or whose accounts were mostly affected by it was released. Hopefully that would seriously fuck him and meta up. But I doubt it.

In fact, they could use some or all of the $8bn to help get those accounts names releases and inform the holders.

The way things are going, the $8bn isn’t going be used for extra protection on our privacy online, or mental health affected by it.

I find it incredible how it seems that Keir Starmer’s government seem to have the same collusion’s and ideas as Trumps government, just having a more low-key way of going about it. Starmers slow(er) graduation into a form of authoritarianism and backing of Israeli companies or Israeli backed companies is all too much to be a coincidence.

BTW and FWIW - This is probably a good time to mention that Peter Thiel is a massive investor in Brave browser. If you have it, lose it.

A few decent sized ones and some are very small, but that’s a better reason to join imho. (There are many others but so many small ones, I couldn’t include them all)

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Red light district. Never turns ‘off’.

It comes from “Red” and “Off” because they wanted to stop anyone from having any fun at Christmas, (they never let poor Rudolf join in any reindeer games). So pubs were closed, all businesses shut but the redlight districts were illegitimate businesses. They stayed open with their lights on.

The people in power wanted them closed and the red lights off.

The song was a subtle hint, but it didn’t work. So they made prostitution illegal in many countries for not taking a break at Christmas when families should be together.

It also means other things (search the etymology of Rudolf/Rudolph)

But I think the version that I just made up is better.

I think that they block detected VPN’s. Been happening for a while for me using Proton every now and then, but recently started happening a little more often than before.

That is fucking insane.

In Ireland in 2002 they tried to bring in electronic voting. It cause uproar, they had already paid for the machines so for almost a decade the machines stayed in storage in ‘accomplices’ - storage facilities among other friends locations.

The machines cost €55m (to buy and store)

Storing the machines cost as much as €700,000 one year

Dropping slightly a few years later

Election Officials to get €400,000 from state for storing them

The €51m machines were eventually sold for scrap for €70,000

Ireland could still be paying some costs until 2029 regardless that the machines have been scrapped

Sounds good, but with the big tech lobbying in Europe and many politicians having their ears bent for the right price there will be a pushback that will delay it until it’s too late.

Too many saying our privacy is not a priority. Identify those and get rid of them (don’t elect them) and block it at every possible point.

Buy a metal hull one anyway. The fear of micro plastics and the issues they cause in the world and in your body are probably not worth it. Holy crap. I just saw the price of Smeg kettles. 😱

I don’t know. It is impossible to tell how effective anything could be against Billion and Trillion-aire companies that are intent on lobbying for our data.

I think join or create any counter-movement.

If you create one - maybe merge it with a larger counter-movement or vice versa.

Privacy might be a decent place to start - https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=privacy

And unfortunately the platforms that create this and are lobbying might be most effective.

-Reddit Facebook Instagram TikTok Google

And so on

Checkout https://european-alternatives.eu/

https://www.opensourcealternative.to/

And these types of movements.

I didn’t find anything in the UK, but I found in Ireland cardnado.ie I don’t know if UK cards work in Ireland or vice versa.

We need counter movements and fast. Lobbying is happening way too quick (Please think of the children).