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Reminder that there is a petition for UK residents, now with 500 000 signatures: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903
Reminder that they already responded
The Government has no plans to repeal the Online Safety Act, and is working closely with Ofcom to implement the Act as quickly and effectively as possible
Doesn’t stop us from continuing to push. Since they responded we got 300 000 more signatures.
Wouldn’t it be sick if y’all just responded on voting day?
Here’s the pitch: Do you want to prevent horrible nonsense shit from happening? Do you like money? Are you okay with people in general? Fucking vote.
You do realise that Labour were voted in as the progressive alternative on a bunch of pretty progressive campaign pledges right? The Online Safety Act and treating peaceful protesters as terrorists certainly weren’t what people voted for.
I do not realize that, I’m not from there nor do I pay attention to their politics. This was more so a call to everyone everywhere to show up at whatever booth it may be and prevent shitty policies from being considered, let alone passed.
That said, I do appreciate the info, and moreso appreciate that you archived it and linked a paywall free version. That was thoughtful.
To translate it to American, it’s a similar two party system as yours, and the UK Dems are the ones doing this.
Yeah unfortunately one vote every 4 or 5 years is not enough granularity to weigh in on specific issues. Also, politicians lie about what they will do all the time.
Showing that a large amount of people are against an action, whether by petition or protest, is one of the tools we do have.
This particular piece of legislation has been in the works for two administrations of two different parties. We’re kind of sick of both of them so I think many people will likely vote for a 3rd party the next time around. Possibly the more progressive splinter group of our 'left" party.
I hope you’re right. But in my experience, every country ends up voting for 1 of the 2 largest parties because “that other party will not get even 5%” and the whole population ends up disregarding them. And this is by design.
Honestly, I pray that you’re right and the UK people actually tells the main parties to fuck right off.
Very true. I hope you guys do.
Guess you should be on the street protesting and banging down the doors of politicians then.
Point is, this law was not created in service of the public. It’s just another surveillance measure. Much like Chat Control, which they’ve pushed over and over again, despite getting pushback from literally everyone around the world every time. You could have everyone in the EU sign that petition and it wouldn’t matter because it’s not for you.
doesnt matter. they only understand money or force.
A huge petition that undermines the government’s democratic mandate is never a bad thing, even if they responded.
Ok but they should still attempt every avenue no?
Do you have a few minutes to talk about our Lord and Saviour, Linus Torvalds?
You’d have the same issue with this on Linux, no? It isn’t OS-specific.
EDIT: I meant in general. Software on Linux is also subject to the UKs temper tantrum laws, same as on Windows. The Nvidia driver is just an example, you can also just download the driver on Windows without needing their companion app.
The official proprietary Nvidia drivers are just a regular Linux package I’m 99% sure, I have it installed on my laptop and it doesn’t involve a gui app at all.
There is the Nvidia X Server Settings app but it’s pretty barebones
Not really it is full featured under X under Wayland some of the features are replaced by your desktops features exclusively
In Linux you can use the open source nvidia drivers if you want
You don’t want to, though. They’re horrible. There’s an insane amount of effort that would be required to reverse-engineer drivers since Nvidia is at best negligent. AMD and Intel are much better about OSS.
been plug and play for me using Nvidia + Linux for years now. Just upgraded to a 5070ti, literally was take out old, put in the new.
I’m not fully a penguin, but getting there. Saw the memes, experienced it first hand in one case and was plug and play in another. It’s luck of the draw.
It’s not luck it’s pretty well defined what works
I know. The best you can do in Linux is not use nvidia.
That is no longer the case. The Nvidia drivers for Linux are pretty decent, these days. They’re still closed source, so if that’s a deal breaker for you, you’ll need to buy an AMD GPU.
I’m not sure if the closed-source drivers have social media garbage on them at the moment, but I’m very sure that I don’t trust Nvidia not to add it.
This is quite frankly nonsense
The problem is not that they are bad, is that if someone makes a project that depends on the specific drivers then it will work much worse if the drivers are closed source. Wayland was unusable with nvidia drivers until recently.
they are at a point where it’s not even really limited by reverse engineering, but that only the nvidia-signed drivers can increase the gpu’s frequencies to anything near performant.
NVK is very slowly getting there, from what I’ve read. if I remember correctly, it’s still gives horrible performance (about 50%-ish of the closed source ones, I think?), but it’s still miles better than “you’re really better off using your integrated GPU” that noveau offered for ages.
Fair enough. I wish them well in the effort. It would be nice if Nvidia threw them a bone, though, what with all the AI money and their GPUs being used in so many Linux supercomputers and servers.
You dont even need an nvidia card to open the nvidia settings on linux
The key thing is Linux is free and open source, free as In eat shit and fucking die government fucking pigs.
aka: the only kind of freedom that matters. lol
No you would not because you don’t need to go to the website to download software to use Nvidia on Linux. Also the Nvidia driver on Linux is literally just a driver and settings package it has no online features
I’m not aware that the Nvidia drivers for Linux require an app registration. If that were the case, I’d definitely have heard about the uproar.
You don’t need Linux, you just need to get the driver from Nvidia’s website.
If they can’t figure this out, they really don’t belong on Linux.
Nuh uh uh!
You again???! 😡😤👊🖕🖕🖕
The internet’s inability to fact check anything before re-sharing it? Yes, I agree.
sorry to break this to you, but zoomers are all adults now
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The youngest millenials are almost 30, dude’s gotta get a new hobby or something, rants about Millenials haven’t been the in thing for like 10 years now.
Relevant XKCD
*They’re
nope, their kids. the MTV kid’s kids
“They’re” is a contraction of “they are”
“Their” is possessive
“There” is a directed place
“The problem with the MTV generation is they are kids” wouldn’t make any sense
Nearly positive that the youngest are still minors, but most of them are adults for sure.
From Alpha to Beta in No Time Flat: Consequences of the Online Safety Act
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Those are probably only on mobile so their knowledge of navigating a PC is probably worse than a boomer and don’t even understand the concept of folders and files.
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There’s always going to be exceptions among those with a more natural tech based interest, but it used to be that everyone was exposed to using a desktop and not something that someone had to individually go out of their way to learn.
This article all day way from back in 2021 showed professors having to rethink how to teach the basics, since now skills that were expected to be known were starting to not be common knowledge.
Gradually, Garland came to the same realization that many of her fellow educators have reached in the past four years: the concept of file folders and directories, essential to previous generations’ understanding of computers, is gibberish to many modern students.
https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z
So yeah people who are more interested in PC gaming, streaming, and even pirating are more likely to find resources to be self taught. But, the regular people who are increasingly growing up only using phones as their computing device aren’t doing the same until forced to.
Yep. I feel like a failure of a father. I was talking to my 12 year old about some website and she was all “what app is that?”
It’s not an app, it’s a website.
But there’s no website app.
You use a web browser? Like Firefox?
What’s a a web bowser? Is Firefox a new furry?
I’d probably be the same if it wasn’t for video games. Wanting to build my own PC was what educated me the most about computers and how they work and learning basic desktop usage. Especially getting into Skyrim and Minecraft mods. There whether someone wants to or not they will have to know basic folder structure and where things are saved and located.
But, without a self driven reason to dive further beyond mobile devices it doesn’t seem like schools are teaching people computer basics anymore. So not something learned by everyone by just every day life.
Is this a joke?
The UK? Yes
UKKK.
This timeline? Yes
You mean the censorship law was woefully ill-conceived and won’t do anything they claim it is supposed to do? Leay it’s definitely a joke, just not the type you’re asking about.
Yes. It’s not clear if this was photoshopped or a bug that has been around for years, I believe related to GeForce NOW streaming. The two clients share some code, and GeForce NOW does have an age requirement.
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/game-ready-drivers/13/572753/nvidia-app-accessibility/
19 year-old reporting: YES, this has been true FOREVER.
Do you see anyone laughing? Well? Do you?? 🧐
🥺
I’m laughing constantly because I’m losing my mind! Haha!
Tried to use gpt5 via the api the other day and they wanted me to scan my passport. 🫠
You can on Linux just saying
gen z is pushing 30 btw
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For the curious 1997-2012 28-13
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Makes sense, because with the nvidia graphics card you could generate AI porn.
a pen can generate porn
Question: how good do you have to be at drawing to have a successful wank to your own art?
You can do that with a CPU, it’s just slower.
Intel! You know what to do!
Zoomers need to learn they don’t need to use Nvidia’s app for this. Just download the driver directly.
It’s in the name… can’t access graphic content without ID, can we? /s
On a more serious note, what about AMD graphics cards?
Boomers will also get locked out of a lot of content because verifying their age is too complicated. I feel no sympathy.
They did the thing they were supposed to do. They voted for the Ultra-Far Left Woke Labour Party.
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Labour hasn’t been anywhere near the left since Tory Blair became leader
Well, there was that brief bright moment with Corbyn. But then he got the Julius Caeser treatment for siding with the Radical Islamist Extremism of the anti-genocide movement.
now they are hostile to the working class and the poor
Okay, but have you considered all the new AI they are helping create.
I cannot tell if you are serious
Labour are far left are they. I feel your political compass is somewhat misconfigured.
Dumb take, here take my downvote.
Shh
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