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foldr commented on Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act bbc.com/news/articles/cjr... · Posted by u/phlummox

brigandish · 5 days ago

That's a sophist's argument. There's a reason it's qualified as the 1689 Bill of Rights, because it doesn't exist as a bill of rights any more. Parts of it were subsumed by other laws, parts of it repealed - where is your right to bear arms?

foldr · 18 hours ago

> That the Subjects which are Protestants may have Arms for their Defence suitable to their Conditions and as allowed by Law.

This part of it could hardly have been retained unaltered.

foldr commented on Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking? torrentfreak.com/uk-govt-... · Posted by u/gloxkiqcza

filoleg · 2 days ago

I mean, sure, I never disputed that (because I have zero idea how difficult it is to buy a knife in the UK, and I’ve never even said anything about knives).

My question was about the stricter limits on purchasing alcohol or lottery tickets in the US (which were brought up in the comment I originally replied to), because that was the first time I heard about that. I was curious what those alluded-to limits were, and I still have zero idea.

foldr · a day ago

Bars in the US routinely ID people who are obviously over the age of 21. And then they get weird about foreign passports because...well, because America, I guess. I've sometimes been refused entry despite being clearly over 21 and having my passport with me (or, absurdly, been asked to show another ID, as if a passport wasn't sufficient for buying a beer). Attitudes to IDing people for alcohol are much more pragmatic in the UK.

foldr commented on It is worth it to buy the fast CPU blog.howardjohn.info/post... · Posted by u/ingve

Aurornis · 2 days ago

> contracted working hours,

> legally required maximum working hours

Neither of these apply in the context of full-time salaried US investment banking jobs that the parent comment is referring to.

People work these jobs and hours because the compensation and career advancement can be extremely lucrative.

People who worry about things like limiting their work hours do not take these jobs.

foldr · 2 days ago

Sure, but in that case they are not working 'overtime', they are just working in the absence of any effective regulations governing reasonable working hours.

foldr commented on It is worth it to buy the fast CPU blog.howardjohn.info/post... · Posted by u/ingve

SoftTalker · 3 days ago

The overtime is assumed and included in their 6-figure salaries.

foldr · 2 days ago

Overtime can't be assumed by definition. If it's an expectation, it should be written into the contracted working hours, and then it's not overtime. (Or if there are no contracted working hours, then overtime could only be defined in relation to legally required maximum working hours, in which case it can't be an expectation for employees to exceed these without appropriate compensation.)

foldr commented on RFK Jr demanded a vaccine study be retracted – the journal said no nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/rntn

SilverElfin · 4 days ago

> The only right way to contest a scientific study is to provide a new scientific investigation that reaches different conclusions.

Why is this the “only way”? The issue is this study seems to have manipulated its procedure to arrive at a preset conclusion. There are a lot of seemingly valid problems pointed out with it. Shouldn’t that be enough to contest it without the burden or cost or time of an “opposing” study?

foldr · 4 days ago

It's easy for criticisms of a scientific study to look valid if you've only read the criticisms and not the study, and if you lack the expertise and context to evaluate them. One of the authors has posted a response briefly explaining why RFK is (as consistent with his track record) talking rubbish:

https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/data-vs.-doubt-danish-scient...

https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/landmark-danish-study-on-alu...

I'm sure that, as usual, the methodology of this particular study can be debated and people can disagree over exactly which conclusions can be drawn from it. That's not a reason to withdraw it from publication.

foldr commented on From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent ssp.sh/blog/macbook-to-ar... · Posted by u/articsputnik

WillAdams · 4 days ago

One quite nice display is the 2880 x 1800 16" OLED on the Samsung Galaxy Book series --- I kind of miss it when using my MacBook Pro.

foldr · 4 days ago

Sure, Apple doesn’t have a monopoly on nice displays, but they’ll sell you a laptop with a high DPI display for $1000. It’s hard to get a laptop with a comparable display for much less. And if you save any money you’ll pay for it in performance and build quality.

foldr commented on From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent ssp.sh/blog/macbook-to-ar... · Posted by u/articsputnik

zozbot234 · 4 days ago

"Visible pixels" are a total non-issue already on a 1080p screen, and a near-non issue on 768p. There's just no ambiguity about this, it's a matter of simple physics. Maybe you'll need to go up to a 1200p screen or thereabouts to cope with crappy rendering on the software side (allowing for a 0.7x factor or so in image spatial bandwidth/resolution due to lack of proper anti-aliasing), but anything above that is just plain overkill. Unless you like to look at tiny portions of your screen with a frickin' magnifying glass, of course.

foldr · 4 days ago

You can definitely see the resolution difference between a 1080p 13" display and a 13" 'retina' display. You may not care about it, but I think it's uncontroversial that it's a visible difference.

foldr commented on From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent ssp.sh/blog/macbook-to-ar... · Posted by u/articsputnik

ozgrakkurt · 4 days ago

https://www.microcenter.com/product/678489/lenovo-ideapad-sl...

This one is very similar. I bought mine from Thailand

foldr · 4 days ago

This has a WXUGA display, i.e. 1920x1200. It’s not comparable to the high DPI display on the MacBook Pro.

foldr commented on 4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/donpott

KETHERCORTEX · 5 days ago

> I would not be surprised to discover that there is more online harassment now than there was in 2010.

There is simply more people online now than in 2010.

foldr · 5 days ago

That's a good point! The growth in arrests shown in the article I linked starts in 2017, though. I think internet usage has gone up significantly by some measures since 2017, but whether or not that's sufficient to explain the increase in arrests, I am not sure.

foldr commented on 4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/donpott

bko · 5 days ago

I heard things about UK arresting people for social media posts but thought it was just a few cases cherry picked. But I recently looked up the scale of arrests and it's really insane.

Police are arresting over 12,000 people each year for social media posts and other online communications deemed “grossly offensive,” “indecent,” “obscene,” or “menacing.” This averages to around 33 arrests per day.

These arrests are primarily made under Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 and Section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act 1988, laws which criminalize causing “annoyance,” “inconvenience,” or “anxiety” to others through digital messages.

Utterly insane.

https://nypost.com/2025/08/19/world-news/uk-free-speech-stru...

foldr · 5 days ago

The flip side of this is that convictions under the Communications Act have gone down compared to 2010, so it's a mixed picture:

https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/select-communications-off...

It is hard to get good data on this, but it is probably a combination of overzealous policing (which is indeed bad) and an increase in arrests for behavior that arguably is a police matter, such as domestic abuse, harassment, etc. I would not be surprised to discover that there is more online harassment now than there was in 2010.