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.

I think Lawnchair is the closest visual / UX replacement to Nova that I’ve found, but it is missing many features compared to Nova 🙁.

Also, I’m starting to learn Private Space is a pain, as amongst other shortcomings it forces you to use a logged-in Play Store to install apps (“private”, my ass!). You can install apks via ADB, but who can be bothered to do that.

Under the hood, it looks like Private Space uses another hidden user, so I think I’ll just make another user logged into nothing and switch to it occasionally instead of using private space.

Does anyone know of a good replacement launcher that supports Private Space?

I had noticed that Nova had been falling behind for the last couple of years, but I didn’t know why. I’ve been using it for over 10 years.

It sounds like a case of “buy it, kill it” which is pretty sad. If it had been open sourced we might have been able to improve it and keep it alive.

I would have paid $40-50 myself. Maybe I’ll get a second copy at some point.

Given how crucial to exposing government misconduct FOI requests are in the UK, I imagine this is a path you very much don’t want to go down.

I first thought this was talking about the UK government, as I wouldn’t put it past them to try and push something like this through. I’m both sad and relieved it’s our Australian cousins going through it instead.