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[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 41 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Now you're just moving the goal posts. You claimed the article was AI generated and assumed it was talking about a separate entity also called Matrix, when neither of those things are true. I also didn't 'just quote something', I quoted the above article.

But fine:

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 9 points 1 day ago

Oh for sure, Fallout 3 Geoguesser would be hard. Idk, I just never had a problem navigating them, even if they were a bit samey.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 41 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (3 children)

The article shortens venture capital to VC. It also didn't confuse the Matrix Foundation with a VC firm of the same name, it's talking about Element (formerly Riot). Like, the article says this in pretty simple English, I'm genuinely confused how you could've missed it:

In roughly the beginning, there was two organizations that came out of the project: The Matrix Foundation and New Vector Ltd / Riot / Element. The idea was for New Vector Ltd to carry out the necessary work and bring in the necessary funding for the Matrix Foundation to thrive. Or well, so I've been told.

They had multiple funding rounds lead by the likes of status.im, Automattic, the AI and Web3 company protocol labs and others; You get the gist, lots of VC and similar funding also a questionable amount of “Web3” and ~~bullshit generation~~ AI. Element was then tasked with using that to build the software that would power Matrix.

 

Truth is, to get right to the point, the fact that Matrix was accompanied by a for-profit entity, funded by venture capital was the biggest mistake that Matrix as a project has ever made.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You'd really think people would look at the state of the world and try to wash their hands of responsibility, not take credit. Just how out of touch is Mr child exploitation.

It's a small comfort that even Twitter is giving this take the reception it deserves.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day ago

Comparing women to a chatbot is definitely derogatory to the chatbot from capital-G Gamers, so even the most exaggerated joke is running hard against Poe's law.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 63 points 1 day ago (16 children)

Fallout 3. The criticism is absolutely fair*, but it was the first RPG I ever played and I'm still very fond of it.

* I never got the 'metros are hard to navigate' criticism, I never had that issues. Most of them are pretty linear.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The Luddites weren't replaced either though? Factories still needed labour and much of what the Luddites were rallying against was the idea of being pressed into prison-like factory work. Much of how gen AI is being applied is to deskill workers so they can be exploited more in much the same way that machines like the power loom was used to deskill textile workers.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Damn, you're fast. The upgrade itself went fine, but Hetzner decided to throttle the speed to our backup to <3MB, so pushing the DB backup took an hour. We're currently doing the pictrs backup and that's going to take forever.

Also, the backend version number seems to have messed up? Not sure why that is, but should be an easy fix once I track it down.

Edit: version number seems to be derived from the git tag. Doesn't seem worth to bring it down again to fix it.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I upgraded https://sappho.social/ without issue, but now I've said that something is definitely going to go wrong. Sod's law and all that.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's happening at 10 PM BST, like in the title?

 

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Shabana Mahmood will write to constituents saying she has “significant concerns” that a change in the law could give women an incentive to have unsafe abortions at home.

Wes Streeting, the health secretary, is said to be weighing up whether to abstain or vote against amendments being tabled to the Crime and Policing Bill.

Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, the Conservative and Reform UK leaders, are expected to oppose the move.

Two amendments have been tabled by Labour MPs and the Speaker will decide which to select for a vote, likely on Wednesday. Under Tonia Antoniazzi’s amendment, already backed by 168 MPs, women would no longer be breaking the law if they terminated a pregnancy after 24 weeks or without approval from two doctors.
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The Times understands that Mahmood opposes both amendments, although she will be unable to vote against them as she is on ministerial business abroad next week. An ally said Mahmood had “significant concerns” around the growth in the number of women using online services to order abortion pills without a physical consultation.

“She believes that, from a women’s health and safety perspective, there’s such little oversight,” the ally said. “If you do take those pills later on, it can have a really terrible impact on you.”

Senior government figures expect Antoniazzi’s amendment to pass with a large majority. In a survey of more than 100 MPs, about 70 per cent agreed that women should not be liable for prison sentences if they have abortions outside the rules.

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Upgrading to 0.19.12, fairly small release so downtime shouldn't be long.

Join the Matrix room to stay up to date when when the instance is down.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The one I've heard the most buzz about is Rue Valley, but Travelling at Night does look interesting. Thanks telling me about it.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 14 points 4 days ago (5 children)

I just hope one of the 'spiritual successors' is able to live up to it. I don't want to imaging going my whole life and not experiencing something like DE again.

 

Two years on and we're still here, go us!

 

The BBC’s Director General Tim Davie and other senior bosses at the corporation have drawn up plans to win over voters of Reform UK, due to a belief that their news and drama output is creating “low trust issues” with supporters of Nigel Farage’s party.

Minutes of a meeting of the BBC’s Editorial Guidelines and Standards Committee in March, seen by Byline Times, show that BBC News CEO Deborah Turness gave a presentation in which she discussed plans to alter “story selection” and “other types of output, such as drama” in order to win the trust of Reform voters.

The committee also identified “the importance of local BBC teams” to their plan to win over supporters of Farage.

Members of the committee, which includes former GB News executive Robbie Gibb, discussed the presentation and agreed to give an “update on progress” towards their aim at a later date.

 

The UK's Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) recently published interim update to their code of practice that seeks to segregate trans people from wider society and is trying to press this through with an illegally short six week consultation period.

As part of this consultation, the EHRC have to take responses from the public about how these changes will affect them or people in their lives. The people at the Good Law Project have put together a form to make this easy, so if you live in the UK (trans or not) then I kindly ask you to go through and fill it in:

https://action.goodlawproject.org/ehrc

 

The Labour faction influencing Downing Street’s pitch to Reform UK voters has urged ministers to “root out DEI”.

An article from the Blue Labour campaign group, titled What is to be Done, calls for the government to legislate against diversity, equity and inclusion, echoing the rightwing backlash from Donald Trump and Nigel Farage.
[…]
Urging the party to renew its “covenant with the British people”, Blue Labour’s article said: “We are proud of our multiracial democracy and we utterly reject divisive identity politics, which undermines the bonds of solidarity between those of different sexes, races and nationalities.

“We should legislate to root out DEI in hiring practices, sentencing decisions and wherever else we find it in our public bodies.”
[…]
Blue Labour calls for lower migration in the same article in which it takes aim at DEI, saying: “Immigration is not a distraction or a culture war issue; it is the most fundamental of political questions, a cause of social fragmentation, and the basis of our broken political economy.

“We should drastically reduce immigration, reducing low-skill immigration by significantly raising salary thresholds; closing the corrupt student visa mill system; and ending the exploitation of the asylum system, if necessary prioritising domestic democratic politics over the rule of international lawyers.”

In May, it emerged that net migration almost halved in 2024.

 

A Reform UK election candidate standing in the postponed North Northants Council (NNC) election for Higham Ferrers could trigger an immediate by-election if he wins the seat after he moved to China.

Alan Beswick had been on the ballot paper as one of the two Reform UK candidates for the May 1 elections but, due to the death of Liberal Democrat John Ratcliffe just before polling day, the election in the two-seat Higham Ferrers ward was postponed until June 12.

Names of four nominated Reform candidates were submitted to NNC’s election team. A party spokesman says Mr Beswick’s circumstances changed but they were unable to remove his nomination.

 
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