A lot of those further on the right, Liz Truss, those who opposed lockdowns, masks and mandatory vaccination as well as those who advocate for Brexit lost their seats last night and the Tories left are predominately Tories in name only. There is no way the remaining Tories will have anything to do with Farage and Reform, no matter what outsiders demand of them.
We saw the vast majority of the public willingly embrace lockdown as opposed to question that strategy and ask legitimate questions as to why we did not adopt what Sweden was doing. One of the doses of reality someone has to come to terms with is that we are a hierarchical society and the vast majority of people prefer to be dictated to by a leader and to have their lives controlled by a higher power. We libertarians are a minority and sadly to say, always will be.
Most people also prefer a two party system and will choose between the two main parties. The First Past The Post political system we have is very well suited to keeping us in that situation. Again, there is no appetite beside from a small minority to bring in Proportional Representation for national Government. People want the status quo and do not want to change.
If you have been paying attention to the news on polling day, the media was pushing the Holly Willoughby kidnapping plot hard and really focusing on the man who planned it - as a loner, a hermit, single, male and unattractive and how those characteristics in men make them a threat to women and girls. Something that will be at the heart of a new Labour Government.
The Lotus Eaters were making the point on their livestream very correctly that there were politicians whining about how Ofcom needed to regulate podcasters and how they should fall under Ofcom rules. So even the Lotus Eaters now are considering, okay, how do we get around jurisdictions.
That gets enforced next year, regardless of whether the Tories or Labour won. I honestly would not be surprised if Labour and the Tories just decide that the Internet is too unregulatable and they decide to go full national Intranet for the populous while making the Internet the exclusive realm of the state and business.
Not FreeBSD:
https://www.freebsd.org/internal/code-of-conduct/
And lest we forget Randi Harper, one of the former developers for FreeBSD and a prominent voice in anti-GG?
OpenBSD has one for its mailing list but it's pretty benign:
https://www.openbsd.org/mail.html
And does have one thing lacking from other CoC's:
Respect differences in opinion and philosophy.
Has a Code of Conduct (who doesn't nowadays?) but isn't as egregious as others.
His name gets the same treatment in the tech world that Trump and Truss do in the political world.
I see the other Linux and FOSS commentators bend the knee and plead that they're good, progressive people who support Codes of Conduct and won't offend anyone so they can be spared from being cancelled. Lunduke doesn't do that and I respect him for not doing like the rest.
Eventually they will come for the users and not just the contributors.
Linux today then BSD and every other FOSS and proprietary software and OS they can perform a coup over. Their goal is conquest of all technology.
Someone mentioned in a reply that OBS had attempted to put in their code a method to prevent "Sargon of Akkad" using their software.
I watched a canvasser and a candidate who were leafleting for Reform and getting an idea of whether people are going to vote. Half of the people they asked were put off voting because of Channel 4's recent expose into an actor who was canvassing in Clacton. The people, including Reform voters, are listening to the media despite what we're being told by Reform supporting commentators online.
The media's focus on Reform is only going to intensify in the next day or two as the media are attempting to portray Reform as a paid up UK arm of the Kremlin and attempt to get candidates to denounce the party and throw their support behind the Tories alongside the usual -ists and -phobics they are already portraying the candidates as. Bear in mind that Reform is the only political party that has gone on record to denounce and call for the abolition of the BBC, its licence fee and Channel 4 and I suspect that the mainstream parties and the mainstream media want Reform to be seen as toxic in the run-up to the election.
I appeared to have rustled the jimmies of a moderator on another community who didn't take kindly to me asking for clarification of their clarification. Amazed I escaped the banhammer.
Nothing else though. At least here, unlike on YouTube (under a different name) I don't get repeatedly deleted and shadowbanned for existing.
For those who don't have an effective way to adblock, they now serve five unskippable advertisements instead of two maybe skippable ones every few minutes.
I am convinced that they're making the free experience so annoying you'll beg to pay. Eventually they give up the pretense and paywall all of it with advertising.
It gets worse.
Recently, YouTube started tests which now mandates signing in to view videos. Verifiable phone numbers are required for accounts.
https://github.com/imputnet/cobalt/issues/551
While the YouTube video downloaders are finding ways round it, it is a game of whack-a-mole. I wonder if another round of nudging people toward Premium (with ads) is about to begin?
The only way that's ever happened in history is to turn a free-to-view service funded by advertising into a subscription one with advertising as a supplementary funding mechanism. It's what satellite and cable television did and I suspect YouTube is slowing moving toward by making the free service so frustrating that their viewers will beg to pay.
There was a documentary about a call centre and for data protection reasons, banned outside phones on site. Your phone had to either be left in the car or at home. No exceptions and no mercy if you broke that rule. And that documentary was filmed before the proliferation of smartphones.
Unlikely. There'll just be a UK version of Twitter.
If anything, there would be celebration of Twitter exiting the UK. Worse still, they'd prefer to have an internal network which can be crafted and regulated by Government "for your own safety" and "for the safety of the children". It just isn't practical at the moment without destroying your economy or facing a massive backlash - that takes time unlike in regimes like North Korea, Cuba or Iran. But I suspect a national Intranet outside of Government and business is coming and will happen eventually.