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Ok maybe, I've read the opposite. But it certainly isn't as dramatic as what was presented by the OP.

In any-event, fuck this site because people will flag you/downvote for just disagreeing with someone if it is a politically sensitive topic.

I appreciate it isn't brilliant. I use it as a fallback.

> You say it isn't true, but then say "many", so it is true, just not in all cases? Just because others are being deported alongside you doesn't change that you are being sent to a foreign prison for speech, and with no due process anyone can be targeted. Y

You need to look into the cases. Because what you are repeating is a lie that I know has been told by left wing rage bait media like The Young Turks and similar outlets.

> What are you talking about? I lived in the city—I rented a house with friends from my second year as most do rather than staying in halls (which are in Oadby), I went out all the time all over the place, as did everyone else. I didn't spend three years locked inside the University.

Lucky for you. Not everywhere is like where you happened to live. I gave the example of where I lived to demonstrate there are problems, very serious problems.

Just because someone in the US exaggerated the situation in Leicester, doesn't mean there aren't similar problems elsewhere.

> Given you are willing to claim it's rage bait media to point out people being extrajudicially imprisoned abroad for speech the admin in the US doesn't like, I'm not going to trust your judgement of how good freedom of expression is.

It not my fault that you are misinformed about the deportations. I don't live in the US and won't pretend the understand the legalities to the fullest extent. However the way you are framing the situation is not accurate.

That law has so many caveats to it that it is essentially worthless.

> I explicitly said that the UK wasn't free of issues: my pointing out the US was worse wasn't defending our own, simply making the point that some Americans tend to massively exaggerate the UK's issues while pretending the US doesn't have any.

What you are doing is called "whataboutism".

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

I and others are perfectly aware that the US is no paradise. However the UK is much worse than the US.

> Average people from the UK are going to assume that any pushback on speech controls is nutters if the message comes with absurd exaggerations and outright lies. There are legitimate cases of overreach from our legal system, but too often the focus is on someone actively calling for violence, and those are not the same.

The average person in the UK probably isn't even aware there are speech controls and probably would support them. Free speech is something that the British public don't value.

The British Government BTW has a long history of suppressing speech, lying to its own citizens, locking up people that they didn't like. They can always find a reason to do it as there are any number of laws you are in violation in without you even being aware of it.

Yes the American media overblow some of the issues for clicks. However you can be arrested for speech and it isn't just threats to violence.

> In the US, you have people being literally grabbed off the street and sent to foreign prisons because of their speech with no due process.

This isn't true. Many of these people were arrested because they had entered the country illegally and then sent to foreign prisons. You are falling for the same rage bait media (except it is left leaning).

> This isn't new, of course, I remember some time back I was being told how white people couldn't go into Leicester... while I, a white man, attended University in Leicester.

It depends which area of the city. The University will typically safer than other areas of a city. Most of the people there are students and there is campus security.

There are areas of Manchester (where I used to live) and where I am the only English guy (not white, there were Irish people there) on the street. There was significant racial tensions and fights as a result. The guy that bombed the Arianne Grande concert lived a 5 minute walk away. I moved out of Manchester because I didn't feel safe.

Again not a "no-go zone area", but there are problems with racial tensions. I've heard it is worse in some places in London.

> The UK definitely has issues, even ones related to expression, but generally it's a very free place that does pretty well with respect to it.

As someone that lived outside the UK for long periods of time and knew what the country was like before the 2000s. This isn't true.

There would be more enforcement of this if it was the EU / UK.

Generally anything that looks or smells like hacking or copyright infringement isn't a good idea to put on your YouTube channel. I upload Linux videos and I will not mention youtube-dl (or equivalents), anything torrent related even torrenting legal things like Linux install media.

You can use piped.

https://github.com/TeamPiped/documentation/blob/main/content...

I am burned out by frameworks in my day job which is basically working in full stack web land and I want to get away from that. So using anything other than libraries is out of the question as far I am concerned. I could have use Unity / Unreal and been further along, but it isn't going to be enjoyable.

I understand there are situations where more performance is desirable and that vulkan fills that niche. However if you are building simpler games, are you really going to need it? If I am building say a puzzle game, do I really need maximum 3D graphics fidelity and performance? I would argue probably not.

I am using OpenGL in my projects for now and if I feel the need to learn Vulkan I will. Almost all the materials online for OpenGL 3.3 are still relevant and unlike web world (where things are depreciated every 6 months) the code still works fine. The C++ linter / analysis tools I am using with CLion throw up warnings but these are normally fairly easily to fix.

I understand that. As someone that is doing this stuff for fun and wants something cross platform (Windows/Linux/BSD, I don't care about macs) with native code (C/C++) it just raises the bar a bit too high. I am sure I could figure it out, but it easily doubles the time needed to get going.

I am a fairly novice 3D programmer (but experience programmer) and Vulkan is much more complicated compared to OpenGL to even get the basic triangle working.