This may be a boon in disguise.

My Facebook regularly gets inundated with "follow me" posts that are nothing but clickbait scam, so much so that I only visit once a month these days. If the cost of running this clickbait becomes too great, we'll see less of it. I may actually go back to using Facebook.

Lets be honest, not being able to do a convincing deep fake has never been a hindrance to parody, in fact with parody you want it to be obvious that you are indeed, taking the mick. This is why political satire tends to use caricatures (I.E. exaggerated features), making it indistinguishable it counter productive to parody and satire.

Most uses of deepfakes are intentionally to deceive. So it makes sense for a publisher to assume that all deepfakes are intents to deceive as parody and satire will clearly want to be identified as such by the audience.

Answer: install Linux.

Linux has become good enough that the average /.er should have no problems running a dual boot config on their gaming boxen without issues and most games will now run under Linux as well as they do under Windows. You can still dual boot for those few games that won't run under Linux (usually due to anti-cheat tools).

Just to be a pedant, terrorism is the use of threats, violence or intimidation to effect a political change. Which doesn't change the intent of your statement one iota.

That's the big difference a street brawl and terrorism, terrorism has a political goal where as street violence, even organised often has no goal, political or otherwise. Not that we should be lenient on violent thugs mind you, torching some cars and throwing bricks through some windows just because your sports team lost is still not on.

That video is 24 minutes long which would be difficult for people with an attention span that a goldfish would be ashamed of.

It is an interesting video though, for those who are interested. A good explanation of laws in the UK and US.

A quick explanation is that it's arrest for anything do do with the communications act, so that's any form of communication (post, telephone, television) and a small amount are via the internet... Beyond this only 12% lead to a conviction... of total charges, it's less than 10% for anything online.

I know a defence lawyer who deals with similar cases and you're not ever arrested for "making a tweet", you're arrested for things that would get arrested for doing things that would get you arrested if you did them face to face. Threatening, harassment, inciting violence does not magically become legal (and these are not legal in the US either) just because you did it online. "with a computer" is not a magic get out of jail free, if I were to beat someone to death with an IBM Model M keyboard it would still be considered murder (or at least manslaughter), just because I did it with a computer it inconsequential.

Now for the vast majority of cases she advises her client to apologise, that gets you out of a lot of trouble simply because it transfers the onus to prove your intent onto the CPS (Crown Prosecution Service) so unless you've got a strong history of harassment, threats, et al. and I mean a strong history, a very strong history.

If anything the US is currently proving that we (the UK) need to take more actions against people threaten, harass, intimidate and abuse others regardless of the method they use.

This is another anachronism that doesn't exist in most countries.

I can count the number of cheques I've dealt with in the last 10 years on one hand and half of those were refunds for VED (Vehicle Excise Duty) from the DVLA when I sold a car.

Cheques are not that common, so uncommon in fact that most people just post them to the bank. You can also deposit cheques at any post office in the UK if you need the funds to clear quickly, no need for a crappy app or for the bank to dictate what you can and can't do.

Sounds like your country needs to fix it's banking system rather than this being a fact of life everyone needs to accept.

Erm... I already have 3. Banks where I can just use the website instead of being forced into a shitty app. It's standard operating procedure for banks in most countries as banks are responsible for security and can't legally transfer that responsibility to third parties. So a website controlled by the bank is the easiest way to do that.

It's extremely normal for banks to have requirements like these. Mine has informed me that my Android version is too old so I will lose access next year or so. They've been trusting this device, but it's now becoming a pumpkin.

Sit, beg, roll over... good consumer.

It is not extremerly normal for banks to dictate what I can and cant run on my own devices... It's extremely abnormal and would pretty much be illegal in the UK along with being terrible business sense because the minute banks threatened to cut off my access is the minute I switch banks, given that I can transfer the funds out of my account into another in seconds... they wouldn't even try.

"I don't even use cash" is just the latest "I don't even own a TV". Nothing but attention whoring.

Only a fool rejects a form of payment simply because they don't like it... only the heir to the throne of the kingdom of fools limits themselves to just one.

This is not true. The "cashback" comes from merchant service fees, meaning the merchant pays an additional fee for accepting the card, from which the bank gives you a small percentage of what they take. They've effectively got you paying for the bank to give you back some of your own money. Of course the merchant has to hide that 5-10% of the price is paying for accepting cards, it's enforced in contracts and Visa/MC have tried hard in some countries to get it enforced by law by limiting card surcharges and cash discounts.

The "sucker" is the person putting everything on the card to get back a small amount of what they've paid.

This is also the reason that if you've done a good job at negotiating a price, they won't accept cards or if you're buying 10s of thousands of dollar/pounds/euros of stock, again, no cards please.

There's a reason that most European cards don't offer "cashback" or at least not any meaningful amount, it's because the European governments have capped the merchant service fees as they knew they'd get abused. Australia and the US haven't and look what's happening there. I get more from the interest on my savings and that's only 2% from my regular savings account, however it comes with zero catches.

To be fair, he's got a point about governments taking a goose step to the far right. Even Labour is not remotely left wing any more (realistically hasn't been since before Blair but I digress), hence the Greens and Lib Dems are having a lot of success lately, though you wouldn't know about the Lib Dems if you didn't look, but they have nearly 8 times the seats of Reform in Westminster and 7 times as many local councils. People are sick of both parties moving ever further to the right.

Reforms recent performance seems to indicate that people have seen through them and are rejecting the far right. Hopefully Labour takes note.

However most artists make F-all off their tours and their tours are pretty much the only way to make money as the royalties for CD/MP3 sales are 3/5 of fuck all... Streaming is fuck all of fuck all.

And they don't even see the majority of what you pay for the ticket, it isn't the venue getting greedy either (empty seats are not good for them either). Ticketmaster needs to be taken down a peg (or 20)

This is why most bands don't give a fat rat's arse if you pirate, you're not robbing them of anything. If you've got a spare $20 and want to support a band, buy their merch. A T-Shirt is going to support them a lot further (as well as a bit of free advertising if you wear it).

This is what happens when you let commerce control the government.

FTS:

Sounds like all they're doing is giving the scalpers direct (and possibly privileged) access.

And if the scalpers get too successful, they'll just buy them up too.

Nothing here about stopping the ripping off of fans or the artists, nor strong-arming the venues if they dare book anything directly with an artist (I.E. so they don't get their cut).

I really don't see a difference, in fact they're probably looking at this as a way to outsource the pesky and costly customer service part.

I would have told them to get fucked and immediately started looking for a new bank.

Seems a very odd situation where you'd lose access to your own money simply because the bank doesn't like your OS. Pretty sure that kind of thing would be well and truly illegal in most developed nations.

Because the gravy train is still on the tracks.

They're still funnelling money from public sources into their own accounts (offshore, to evade tax of course).

And the two clocks that don't change automatically (the microwave and my old sports car) are just a simple matter of adding an hour on in summer (in retrospect, I probably should set the cars clock to summer time as that's when it gets used... I'm sure I'll get round to doing it eventually).

What's good is that the sun doesn't rise at 3AM in summer nor is it dark until 9AM in winter (and it will still be dark by 5 PM). Without DST, you'd have one or the other.

The moment DST is abolished you can bet your arse the same people will be bitching that the sun is up too early or about it being dark before they even get to work.