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  • Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws

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  • You can have nodes on a mesh network which act as gateways to the internet, but such nodes are going to have to go through an ISP. There's no other way to connect to the internet at large unfortunately.

  • Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws

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  • this is what the mesh networks are that people have mentioned elsewhere in this thread.

    It is theoretically possible to create a purely peer-to-peer network where each individual connects to people nearby, and then any individual can in theory communicate with any other, by passing data packets to nearby people on the network who then pass it on themselves until it reaches the other person.

    You can probably already grasp a few of the issues here - confidentiality is a big one, and reliability is another. But in theory it could work, and the more people who take part in such networks, the more reliable they become.

  • Labour to abolish most short prison sentences in England and Wales

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  • Community service is a classic punishment which I think makes good sense for nonviolent crime.

    It should be a good option, but it's more difficult to run effectively than it might appear. The ideal would be for it not to be purely punitive, but to offer in itself some level of rehabilitation. For instance, a bike thief might be sentenced to helping out in a community bike workshop, or someone who committed low-level fraud might be required to help poor people manage their finances.

    At the moment the reality is quite different I think, and people end up being sentenced to pointless busywork. I know someone who was given a community sentence for fighting and he described it as a bit of a joke. Every Saturday, they were supposed to clean up litter from grass verges, but the main issue was no one wanted to be there, not least the supervisor. So they'd generally just mess around for a bit and go home early.

  • Flight from Mumbai to Zurich Businessman (44) rapes girl (15) on Swiss plane - convicted

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  • Do you guys just have flawless experiences or what?

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  • A good tip is to search the Amazon reviews before you get a laptop for "Linux". Even if you don't buy it there, you'll often find one or two Linux users saying how well everything worked, or didn't.

  • Fight Chat Control: The EU (still) wants to scan your private messages and photos

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  • Ah got ya, it's a site to show each EU government's position on this. Only three EU governments are opposing right now! Gotta get them numbers up!

  • Irony

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  • You can choose any font you have locally available by setting the "reader.font_type" to the font name in about:config

    You can also set "reader.content_width" to values beyond the 9 allowed by the UI to have the text take up even more of your screen width. Setting it to 12 is just about perfect for me.

    These values will be lost if you update the font style or the width via the Reader "Text and Layout" menu though. For fonts, you might be able to avoid that by putting fonts you want to be able to select from in the "reader.font_type.values" list but I haven't tried that.

  • Irony

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  • Firefox reader mode is great. I started using it just to avoid having to tell sites to piss off with their cookies, and to dodge some paywalls, but now I use it on a lot of sites even when there aren't any dialogs to dodge.

    I actually prefer having articles take up my screen width rather than be all squashed into a skinny little column in the centre. It's also nice when trying to read someone's blog with questionable text colour.

  • an incomplete list of fediverse instances scraped by meta to train AI

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  • off-topic but wow, it's great to see so many lemmy instances up and running 🥰

    it really looks like we're well on the way to hitting critical mass

  • L’Oréal hires OnlyFans star to market makeup popular with teenagers

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  • You must thank the Lord every day that you weren't wiped up with a Kleenex and flushed down the toilet with your other brethren who didn't manage to make it inside! The Lord's grace is truly magnificent!

  • China fights mosquito-borne chikungunya virus with drones, fines and nets as thousands fall ill

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  • Reports also have emerged of attempts to stop the spread of chikungunya with even larger mosquitoes to eat the insects carrying the virus.

    And if those larger mosquitos get out of control, there's a simple and obvious fix...

  • Man carrying home his gardening tools arrested by armed police in Manchester

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  • Well. Some of those chaps were carrying knives - without a licence - so we had no choice really.

  • Man carrying home his gardening tools arrested by armed police in Manchester

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  • Is violent knife crime a thing over there?

    yes we've had spikes of knife attacks over recent years, a lot of it is gang related, with kids stabbing rival gang members in tit-for-tat spirals of violence.

    Knife crime in general is nowhere near as bad as it is in America (and of course as you point out you guys have gun violence on top of that), but the UK is historically a peaceful country and our tolerance of friends and family being murdered in the street is a lot lower than yours.