Does it have a mattress

Or Instagram reels

Why would they have been fined over a simple bug?

Somebody could. Mbin is probably the closest thing you have rn

In reality, no, in practice, yes.

It is possible for someone to make a service which has an interface for each type of activitypub interaction. Mbin has microblogging and lemmy stuff on one account which is nice.

But in practice, different services do different things. Again, though, nothing stopping someone from making an all-in-one

To be fair it’s not for off in the UK,

Northern Ireland is in the UK. I just specified this as the courts might work differently here. I know England has bailiffs and such. And for all we know, unless you’ve lived in or are familiar with Wales and Scotland, it could be the same situation there, too.

England ≠ The UK

the software Fujitsu developed was still shit.

All software is like that. Whenever your software is going to go from development into suddenly being rolled out nationally to being installed in well over 10,000 post offices nationally, you’re going to have glitches and people using it in unintended ways. This happens with almost every game release. It is released from the studio and suddenly bugs specific to different hardware which the developers couldn’t really have foresaw.

I know someone who worked for a company who’s software suddenly had charged someone 3x the amount that they should have been because they did something hacky with the product. (Thankfully by “charged”, it was just a generated invoice, so nobody needed to actually go about refunding).

What happened in this situation is what should have happened with the post office. The customer contacts the software company’s client, who contacted the company, who diagnosed and fixed the issue. Instead the post office hailed the software as some form of infallible deity instead of it being a simple glitch and decided to prosecute the subpostmasters.

Maybe there’s some nuance I’m missing here, I have seen the Channel 4 drama and listened to some Radio 4 podcasts on it, so there is a chance that Fujitsu encouraged them to hail their software as something which wasn’t prone to glitches or whatever. But in my opinion from what I know, the problem wasn’t necessarily the software or Fujitsu, it was the Post Office for prosecuting subpostmasters instead of reporting a glitch to Fujitsu, which if they did the latter it might have made a minor news headline before being consigned to history.

The best thing is that in Northern Ireland, their fines aren’t legally enforceable. All they can do is send you angry letters.

Wasn’t it moreso the post office lying about the software instead of Fujitsu itself?

Then develop it yourself.

Same, I am very opposed to their views, but they make this platform, so I respect them as FOSS developers

They are literally developing the platform we are on. Sure, I don’t agree with their opinion at all, but it doesn’t mean I can’t respect their work.

Nutomic and Dessalines may be tankies, but they’re our tankies

You forgot about the solitary confinement livestream

We have that as well provided from our ISP

Can’t we extradite him here over fuelling riots

Nah, so you can follow them

Does it work with lemmy? Would be nice if the cities were shown as lemmy communities

And if someone responds to you on bluesky, it doesn’t bridge over to the activitypub fediverse

Do not fill out that form. My mother did it and they ended up harassing her further for a year because she handed over some personal information and in doing so gave them evidence or something