That says that there is less pub-going recently. And I do see some articles saying that many pubs aren’t using up their allotted time because traffic has fallen off. So that may be an effect in addition to this.

This one, though, describes the legal mandates as a much-longer-running phenomenon, legislation dating all the way back to World War I:

https://londonlhr.online/why-do-london-pubs-close-early/

The World War I Defense of the Realm Act (DORA) of 1916 is where the practice of early shutting originated.

The goal of the ordinance was to prevent excessive drinking and maintain sobriety among those employed in weapons plants and other wartime industries.

Despite DORA’s long-standing repeal, its effects on pub closing times have persisted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_of_the_Realm_Act_1914

Alcoholic drinks were watered down and pub opening times were restricted to 12 noon–3pm and 6:30pm–9:30pm. (The requirement for an afternoon gap in permitted hours lasted in England until the Licensing Act 1988.)

An article from 1987 talking about the Licensing Act 1988:

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-06-25-mn-10623-story.html

The current law that affects about 50,000 pubs dates back to 1915. In that year, the Defense of the Realm Act was introduced to restrict the nation’s 18-hour drinking day so that production of munitions would not be impaired. The government promised that normal service would be resumed at the end of the war, but the promise was never kept.

Hurd said that under the new bill, public houses will be allowed to stay open from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. six days a week. He did not specify what the Sunday hours will be.

Licensing laws have already been liberalized in Scotland. But elsewhere in Britain, pubs can open only nine hours a day (9 1/2 hours in London) Monday through Saturday and only five hours on Sunday. Basically, pubs can open only at lunchtime and in the evening until 11 p.m.

The government will allow pubs in England and Wales to close at 1am on 9 May to allow drinkers to continue celebrating into the early hours.

Wait…pubs over all of England and Wales can’t stay open until 1 normally?

kagis

Hmmm.

Apparently, pubs in the UK typically stop serving alcohol earlier than in the US. TIL.

Apparently the standard deadline is 11 PM, but licenses can be granted that run longer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_licensing_laws_of_the_United_Kingdom

Until the 2003 Act came into force on 24 November 2005,[27] permitted hours were a standard legal constraint: for example, serving alcohol after 23:00 meant that a licensing extension had to exist—either permanent (as for nightclubs, for example), or by special application from the licensee concerned for a particular occasion. There was also a customary general derogation permitting a modest extension on particular dates, such as New Year’s Eve and some other Public Holidays. Licensees did not need to apply for these and could take advantage of them if they wished without any formality. Now, permitted hours are theoretically continuous: it is possible for a premises licence to be held which allows 24-hour opening, and indeed some do exist.

Most licensed premises do not go this far, but many applied for licences in 2005 that allowed them longer opening hours than before. However, as in the past, there is no obligation for licensees to use all the time permitted to them. Premises that still close (for commercial reasons) at 23:00 during most of the week may well have licences permitting them to remain open longer, perhaps for several hours. Staying open after 23:00 on the spur of the moment is therefore legal at such premises if the licensee decides to do so. The service of alcohol must still cease when the licence closing time arrives. Only the holder of the comparatively rare true “24-hour” licence has complete freedom in this respect.

https://pos.toasttab.com/blog/on-the-line/last-call-for-alcohol-by-state

According to this, the earliest average last call time in the US is in Georgia, at 11:45 PM.

Most states are 1 AM or 2 AM.

Alaska runs until 5 AM.

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The EV maker on Jan. 2 reported its first decline in annual deliveries last year, and analysts expect sales to fall again this year for several reasons, including damage to the brand reputation by Chief Executive Elon Musk’s close work with U.S. President Donald Trump and support of far-right European politicians.

https://electrek.co/2025/03/28/most-americans-would-not-consider-buying-tesla-new-poll/

A new poll shows that 67% of Americans would not consider buying or leasing a Tesla vehicle – with most of them citing Elon Musk as the reason why.

The results from this survey clearly point toward Tesla having an Elon Musk problem.

If he were removed from the equation, Tesla would have much better chances in the US market.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-delay-us-launch-affordable-ev-lower-cost-model-y-sources-say-2025-04-18/

Link to article rather than lemmy.ml post.

https://archive.ph/bFbVi

I’d love to have and collect DRM free titles that last even after a platform is gone,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC

M-DISC (Millennial Disc) is a write-once optical disc technology introduced in 2009 by Millenniata, Inc.[1] and available as DVD and Blu-ray discs.[2]

M-DISC’s design is intended to provide archival media longevity.[3][4] M-Disc claims that properly stored M-DISC DVD recordings will last up to 1000 years.[5] The M-DISC DVD looks like a standard disc, except it is almost transparent with later DVD and BD-R M-Disks having standard and inkjet printable labels.

Those will outlive you.

You can get an M-DISC-capable burner on Amazon for $35, and M-DISC media for about $3/pop, each of which will store 100GB.

GOG is probably more-suited than Steam for this, since it’s aimed around letting you download the installers, and they make a game being DRM-free a selling point and clearly indicate it in their store.

But you can just install a DRM-free Steam game — there are some games that don’t have any form of DRM on Steam, and don’t tie themselves to Steam running or anything, if you’re worried about Steam dying — and then archive and save the directory off somewhere. Might need a bit more effort if you’re on Linux and trying to save copies of Proton-using games, since there’s also a WINEPREFIX directory that needs to be saved. And then you can stuff that on whatever archival media you want.

I’ve copied Caves of Qud to my laptop, which doesn’t have Steam installed, for example. Just requires copying the directory.

Now, that’s not going to work if a game makes use of some kind of DRM, but you specified that you were looking for DRM-free titles, so should be okay on that front.

Fair enough. All that’s contingent on whether you’re up for multiple runs through a game.

So do I go back to end of now or never and change the answer? Do I go back further and leave novigrad when it was in chaos? Even further before the questline began?

If you think that you’d like to play The Witcher 3 more than once, one suggestion:

• The first pass through a game is the only time that you can play the game without foreknowledge. You can never experience that again. If you’re going to play without guidance from a wiki or anything like that, really sit in the main character’s shoes, I’d do it that time. Just don’t worry that much about getting your ideal outcome, because you can do another run. Maybe it’ll give some interesting variety, have you experience something you wouldn’t normally have done, with foreknowledge of the consequences of decisions.

• Then in subsequent runs, you’ve already experienced a number of “spoilers” from your prior runs, and you can try to use that knowledge (as well as knowledge from wikis or forums or whatever) to guide the plot to your desired outcome.

And an adult sized (please, dear Eothas, let it be adult sized…) android is not something you can hide in a sock drawer.

Not a sock connoisseur, I see.

I think that you can have as many as you want, though if you’re in Texas, it’d be technically illegal to have six or more:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_obscenity_statute

In 1973, the Texas Legislature passed Section 43.21 of the Texas Penal Code, which, in part, prohibited the sale or promotion of “obscene devices.” The statute defines “obscene device” as “a device including a dildo or artificial vagina, designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs.” The legislation was last updated in 2003, and Section 43.23 currently states, “A person commits an offense if, knowing its content and character, he wholesale promotes or possesses with intent to wholesale promote any obscene material or obscene device.”[1] Section (f) of the law also criminalizes the possession of six or more devices (or “multiple identical or similar” devices) as “presumed to possess them with intent to promote.”[1]

https://sffa.community/c/sffgaming?dataType=Post&page=0

Sffagaming is for sci-fi games, but I haven’t seen a post in there in a while.

I can’t DNS-resolve sffa.community, either on IPv4 or IPv6. Google’s DNS root can’t see it either:

$ host -t a sffa.community 8.8.8.8
Using domain server:
Name: 8.8.8.8
Address: 8.8.8.8#53
Aliases: 

Host sffa.community not found: 2(SERVFAIL)

$ host -t aaaa sffa.community 8.8.8.8
Using domain server:
Name: 8.8.8.8
Address: 8.8.8.8#53
Aliases: 

Host sffa.community not found: 2(SERVFAIL)

$

It clearly existed at one point, because lemmy.world has local copies of some stuff from a year back:

https://lemmy.world/c/sffgaming@sffa.community?dataType=Post&sort=New

But I think that the instance is gone now.

EDIT: The last time archive.org’s Wayback Machine was able to successfully index it was September 16, 2024:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240916061246/https://sffa.community/

I haven’t been looking recently, but I assume that most image hosting services have been stripping EXIF metadata, or at least some of it, for years. Imgur strips it; it was used for image hosting for Reddit for a long time.

On lemmy, pict-rs strips EXIF metadata. It’s a real annoyance on !imageai@sh.itjust.works, because the AI image generators I’ve seen attach metadata to indicate that:

• The image was generated via AI

• Prompt keywords used to generate the image, if using something like Automatic1111.

• In the case of ComfyUI, the entire workflow, so that someone can go produce the entire workflow that led to the image.

I’d kind of prefer that there be some software that try to identify personally-identifiable data and have pict-rs run that and only remove that. Or, alternately, let the user opt in to not stripping EXIF metadata.

Fine if it gets annexed by Russia

If you’re in the EU, you probably retain an obligation to keep Russia from annexing Hungary even if Hungary were to hypothetically leave the EU, since there are also obligations to Hungary via NATO.

Aside from possibly Ireland and Austria, which have declared neutrality — and there are some disparate interpretations as to how this impacts EU mutual aid clause obligations — EU members are obliged to defend each other:

https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/article-427-teu-eus-mutual-assistance-clause_en

Article 42(7) TEU: If a Member State is the victim of armed aggression on its territory, the other Member States shall have towards it an obligation of aid and assistance by all the means in their power, in accordance with Article 51 of the United Nations Charter. This shall not prejudice the specific character of the security and defense policy of certain Member States.

Commitments and cooperation in this area shall be consistent with commitments under the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, which, for those States which are members of it, remains the foundation of their collective defence and the forum for its implementation.

NATO members are as well:

https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/official_texts_17120.htm

Article 5

The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defence recognised by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.

Any such armed attack and all measures taken as a result thereof shall immediately be reported to the Security Council. Such measures shall be terminated when the Security Council has taken the measures necessary to restore and maintain international peace and security .

Article 6

For the purpose of Article 5, an armed attack on one or more of the Parties is deemed to include an armed attack:

• on the territory of any of the Parties in Europe or North America, on the Algerian Departments of France 2, on the territory of Turkey or on the Islands under the jurisdiction of any of the Parties in the North Atlantic area north of the Tropic of Cancer;
• on the forces, vessels, or aircraft of any of the Parties, when in or over these territories or any other area in Europe in which occupation forces of any of the Parties were stationed on the date when the Treaty entered into force or the Mediterranean Sea or the North Atlantic area north of the Tropic of Cancer.

These are not precisely the same obligations. For example, NATO does not oblige other members to defend metropolitan France in the Pacific, whereas the EU mutual assistance clause does. The EU mutual assistance clause does not oblige other members to defend their vessels against attack in the Mediterranean or Atlantic, while NATO does. But there’s enough overlap that I’d expect Russia rolling into Hungary to trigger both.

EDIT: I’d also add that there is no mechanism to expel a member from NATO without them choosing to leave; probably the closest you could come would be to have all other members leave and then form NATO 2.0. There is also no mechanism to expel a member from the EU, but given the more-expansive scope of EU powers to impact member states, I imagine that the rest of the EU could probably de facto achieve the same thing by stripping a given members voting power (which is an option with otherwise-unanimous agreement) and then making their life sufficiently miserable using EU powers that they want to leave and choose to do so themselves.

My own view — and this is as an outsider, an American, so some of this doesn’t affect me, in fairness — is that it wouldn’t be a good move to try to eject Hungary. I remember some people on /r/Europe — well before Brexit — frustrated about the UK’s position on some matter complaining that they wanted the UK out of the EU. I think that the reality of a member leaving is probably less-pleasant than the hypothetical. I think that when someone is frustrated, it is easy to see the negative points of membership, and easy to miss positives. Among other things, Hungary leaving would create a deep geographic split in the EU, cutting off most access among other EU member states in the area, like Romania-Slovakia. Just in general, it would impact the EU’s scale. A Hungary outside the EU might prove to be more-problematic to remaining EU member states than a Hungary inside. Much of the upset seems to me to center around Viktor Orban; countries tend to outlive men and their time in power; and my belief is that the EU can probably afford to take a long-term view of things. I do not think that Hungary-under-Orban has represented any kind of existential threat to other EU member states; just an irritant on a number of matters.

I remember a while back, when the EU had the UK undergoing the Brexit procedure. Hungary and Poland were under separate Article 9 attempts to strip their voting powers. And then Macron, in some Franco-Italian dispute, called Italy a “rogue EU member”. There were too many people trying to drive divisions and create fights then, I think. I don’t think that moving back to that kind of situation would make the EU a better place.

In this case, because you’re an EP legislator and Hungary is part of the EU.

One lawmaker on the trip confirmed to POLITICO that the Parliament officials joining the delegation were offered Faraday bags — special metal-lined pouches that block electromagnetic signals — by the Parliament’s services and were also advised to be cautious about using public Wi-Fi networks or charging facilities.

If you legitimately have concerns, why wouldn’t you just leave your phone at home? It does no good to have it with you if it can’t come out of a bag. If you must have a phone there, just get a burner one.

I mean, a camera is an easy thing to block, as long as you’re aware of it, understand the implications, and have the desire to block it. Just obstruct the lens. Roll of black electrical tape, put a strip over it, done. Now, most people out there may not actually do so…

Only becomes an issue if other services that you actually want are tied to the camera, or if the TV refuses to operate without a usable picture of the viewer or something.

There’s a sequel Subnautica: Below Zero, and apparently Subnautica 2 is in the works and headed for Early Access.

I mean, you aren’t the one breaking the law unless you’re running a social media platform. The obligation is on the operators, not on the users.

it would require “social media platforms to provide a mechanism to decrypt end-to-end encryption when law enforcement obtains a subpoena.”

Mmmhmm. Apparently the Threadiverse is about to become illegal in Florida.

First, let’s generate a strong public-private GPG keypair for myself and some hypothetical other Threadiverse user, anotheruser@lemmy.today:

$ gpg --quick-generate-key tal@lemmy.today
$ gpg --quick-generate-key anotheruser@lemmy.today

And show the tal@lemmy.today public key:

$ gpg -a --export tal@lemmy.today
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

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eA==
=ommg
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

And then show an example of someone else importing it, pretending that they’re anotheruser@lemmy.today (though in my case, I’ve already got the tal@lemmy.today public key in my keyring):

$ gpg -a --import <<EOF
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

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eA==
=ommg
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
EOF

And now let’s pretend we’re anotheruser@lemmy.today and use end-to-end encryption that doesn’t have a back door, using sed to prefix each line with four spaces so that we get nice blockquoted Markdown that we can paste into a Threadiverse comment or direct message to tal@lemmy.today:

$ gpg -a -e -u anotheruser@lemmy.today -r tal@lemmy.today <<EOF |sed "s/^/    /"
Hello there, tal@lemmy.today!  This is anotheruser@lemmy.today.  I just wanted to send you a message.
* Florida Man cannot read this.
* Even instance admins cannot read this.
EOF
    -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
    
    hQGMAwk4edDpeyVkAQv+Mu6kJj1KkKs8i72YixAbAMuO+uNJDq0Vu9sz9mGUv3nG
    DibQTkFFz0h+IcK7/2xVrfBcf//6MDqYmlVnTlmpPcNOel4B1YbU4KpHus6ZELcy
    7t0WP2IX03FWTooIBdfX7jIdH9us7PPyG2s4edTX7yD69H7oRdVJiNN6qJUbtObU
    sHWfmq0oQlHoevw47FuWGjAaIbA9volFV3IotEAhmTQ8cCJs2SG8bQjiJmpGE5pO
    xBSNtqo9X49FhQ0xoouwWil/9c76nNw7MtF/4WjU2HlzzRdFIXKeReq0ZzJ8fdkU
    YENYV+7lcp3jmGm91nC+E7HYTCjwy6XmMx+6wrzpCtNnLOaOL9caC7Div6ZvBtBi
    RVTiT1Kewth+QQvLHh2ErN0XKDzFrfFqfrZq4tX3TTn3rQkM/v0UrlR+3rr+iePX
    iKPmtsQBxNa81GVNxx0IR/1r+by8ELenCCRjaq2OpzfUhckqHkn1M6ycBPrwX8yR
    uBuIf7E65Pi2QfSoDeOH0rsBR/yGwU/h8HeEp6ChYEEEs1v+INI2dQ+zxhqaimKz
    vg7gTlVNplI9rpb/VLhlk8tzjCMQ4+Dqe4KeYqtvCLLJtgPFNlujMrgOEmbDL46X
    kQ8xQTForYFqPvODnPDUo+dbmt2UlXJGw3dyztEhQRUEqoCvUan9ERcY1gJS4mT6
    WmAJKfVHfLos+UiibRZBhRzAsFCvyEPF1lOEJNVD0cz9tya2CfszNsqz+ITeHWfm
    HchPmmEq4pqHr1/a
    =PQN2
    -----END PGP MESSAGE-----

And let’s have tal@lemmy.today decrypt it:

$ gpg -a -d <<EOF
-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
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=PQN2
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----
EOF
gpg: encrypted with 3072-bit RSA key, ID 093879D0E97B2564, created 2025-04-12
      "tal@lemmy.today"
Hello there, tal@lemmy.today!  This is anotheruser@lemmy.today.  I just wanted to send you a message.
* Florida Man cannot read this.
* Even instance admins cannot read this.

I guess the only option will be to lock up instance admins for violating Florida law, as they’re operating a social media platform with end-to-end encrypted communications with no backdoor.

EDIT: It’d also probably be nice to have browser and client support to make this more-convenient, no copy-pasting. I haven’t used it, so I can’t vouch for its functionality, but for users using Firefox, this Firefox extension claims it can automatically detect and decrypt GPG content in a webpage; if it can pick up on encrypted, ASCII-armored blockquoted text in a Threadiverse comment, that would hopefully let one simply read encrypted messages in Lemmy or whatever without any additional copy-pasting effort (though sending an encrypted message would still require copy-pasting some text):

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/gnupg_decryptor/

7.1% of the total hours spent were on Counter-Strike: Global Offensive / Counter-Strike 2
6.4% were in League of Legends
6.2% were in Roblox
5.8% were in Dota 2
5.4% were in Fortnite

That is a lot of people playing free-to-play competitive multiplayer games.