Still better than the Cass Review.

In that case, is there any change? Companies could already do that if they wanted. Many of them already did.

It’s kind of unclear what “voluntary” means. Is it voluntary for countries to enforce? Is it voluntary for companies to scan chats?

In the UK the calculus is quite different, as it’s £0.25/kWh or over double the cost.

Also, an empty Synology 4-bay NAS can be gotten for like £200 second hand. Good enough if you only need file hosting. Mine draws about 10W compared to an old Optiplex that draws around 60W.

With that math using the NAS saves you 1.25 pence per hour. Therefore the NAS pays for itself in around about 2 years.

Given this, do we actually know that the French government is targeting GrapheneOS in a significant way, or is this just another dramatisation?

No, it’s fine if the state has access to that data, it’s not a privacy concern. It’s only if citizens can see it. /s

As an outsider looking in, possibly yes.

Just don’t come to the UK right now, it’s getting worse and worse at the moment for trans people.

The rest of western Europe is better for this, with many having self-id laws (I think you can change your gender legally without any procedure or having to wait for a doctor to approve you).

Whether you’ll get a visa is another question, but a good start is going to study for a degree to get your foot in the door.

Alternatively, for Americans I hear Canada is a good choice, at one point they accepted LGBTQ people on refugee status from America (what a time we live in). Not sure how easy / hard that is to get.

More proof that the current “Labour” government is in the pockets of rich companies and not on the side of consumers.

I have a PC USB Blu-ray drive, and bought a backup one last year just in case this one dies.

Backing up Blu-rays and watching them on your device.

Unlike with music, you can’t buy DRM-free Blu-ray quality movies outside of Blu-ray. If you stream a show or movie, even if you have “bought”, you don’t own it.

I’ve been using https://kitsu.app/ for over 11 years.

That said, it’s a bit janky. There are some minor bugs that will likely never get fixed because it’s on a shoestring budget.

You can always import/export your library as XML though, so you can go back and forth between Kitsu and MAL.

Receiving a cease and desist email from your ISP on behalf of rights holders for something you have torrented is almost a right of passage for a young person imo.

Makes you learn to always use a VPN, especially on popular torrents (all it takes is one snooper in the seeds).

Thanks for sharing. I should push back on your statement a little.

The investigation relates to how MediaLab’s Imgur social media platform uses children’s information and its approach to age assurance.

And in the Children’s code strategy progress update mentioned.

One platform has committed to introduce age assurance methods, to help ensure that children have an age-appropriate online experience.

To comply with child data protection rules, you necessarily have to either:

• Know that they are a child by checking their age
• Not collect information on anyone

It does look like the focus is mostly on data collection, not content moderation, so I will concede on that point. I should have read a bit more into this before commenting.

The title is a little bit misleading, it’s mostly about Imgur not adding the age checking that the UK’s infamously disliked new law requires on possibly mature content.

Age verification is a notoriously difficult problem to solve in a privacy-respecting way, and Imgur is literally about unobtrusive image embeds so I doubt they could even make this work.

The perfect way to kill a platform

Persona!

They should stay the fuck out of my country. Bloody parasites.

I recently ran a session and wrote an internal blog post about why useEffect was a dangerous crutch that should be avoided wherever possible. This was due to recently experienced over-complicated logic and unexpected interaction bugs.

This is a little different but I still feel vindicated.

I didn’t believe you until I read the article myself. Here’s another source (New York Times):

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/us/charlie-kirk-bullet-casings-engravings.html

Neo launcher hasn’t had a release for 3 years, sadly.

Lawnchair is alright but it is missing a bunch of features compared to Nova.