I think it’s fair to point out that tech companies in allied countries already use these mechanisms against British consumers, that the government hasn’t taken action on it, and that making this out to be a problem unique to the Chinese technology industry is a misdiagnosis.

Tech companies have been using software updates to brick devices for ages now, amazing that MPs become frothing-at-the-mouth Stallmanists only when a Chinese company has this ability. The actual fix is to regulate the kind of software companies can install on devices and mandate that consumers can install alternative software (similar to the FSFE’s router freedom campaign), not finding a digital autocrat that Whitehall finds acceptable.

The energy sector is not just about kilowatts and carbon. It’s about sovereignty, security and resilience.

Thank god the grid isn’t owned by a bunch of shareholders that don’t care about security and resilience, right?

Polanski is doing one as well, but at the same time as the King’s Speech. This is apparently just a feature of British politics now.

https://youtu.be/lopMMkz0law

Link to the article as it doesn’t show up on Lemmy: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/firefox-dev-clarifies-there-will-be-an-ai-kill-switch/

Chris is probably just following the comm rule against editorialising titles.

And that relates to a book shop selling LLM-written books how? Digital artists still draw what’s attributed to them, an AI author hasn’t written what’s attributed to them.

What’s your point?

lol, was this really the first image you had to hand? I can’t even begin to parse it.

Got a report about this. Gen AI stuff in local comms is against the instance rules and it does scream AI to me (just look at those headphones (?) next to the pillow at the back). I’ll give the benefit of the doubt here, but I’d change it as you’ll get downvoted into oblivion.

That’s not worse than Prime Minister Farage, which could be the case come 2029, so I don’t see your point.

This is an impressive amount of trolling, even for you Flax.

Feddit.UK’s intended audience is His Majesty’s subjects within the United Kingdom

No. The monarch doesn’t own me and I refuse to owe it anything. Hopefully one day the British state will get rid of the embarrassment of being headed by a family of nepo babies.

Chav isn’t really a slur, it’s derogatory sure but not a slur. Also, plenty of British people throw around racial slurs, it just sounds like you know mostly nice people.

I can’t count the number of times I’ve tapped the tiny button with three vertical lines right next to the tiny button with three horizontal lines, which can be a problem, because one of them pauses your game and and opens in-game menus, while the other kicks you out to your game library to launch a new game without pausing your game at all. If you press the library button a second time, it doesn’t take you back to your game, so you probably have to long-press the Xbox button to get back to your game, but not the Library button or the Control Center button because those will summon AI assistants instead, and if you understood everything I just wrote and found it reasonable then boy do I have the operating system for you.

Lol, Lmao. Peak Microsoft.

They’re a low effort content mill, they’ll post whatever drives traffic to their website.

They won 84.6% of the vote

I know? I literally voted for the man and reported on him being elected here.

it’s important to examine the characters of influential Individuals

I’m sorry, what? I don’t understand what that has to do with what’s being talked about.

It’s still interesting to discuss since they’re going to be leader for years

Only one year, unless he’s re-elected. The GPEW hold leadership elections every 2 years, but it was postponed last year so as to not coincide with the general election.

Those 2 constituent countries fly under the Union Jack.

It’s still inaccurate to call them ‘the UK’s Green Party’ as both Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own Green parties which are separate from the GPEW.

Why report on this now? The article even acknowledges that this happened last month. Also, there is no ‘UK Green Party’, Polanski was elected leader of the Green Party of England and Wales.

Paedophiles.

Locking as this is a duplicate, but I’m not removing as there’s comments.

The main difference is the Linham has a history that means it’s probably not a hypothetical. He’s already appearing in court on the fourth for harassing a trans woman and breaking her phone.