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interloxiaon UK Fines US Platform Imgur £247,590 for Lack of Age Verification

https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/media-centre/news-and-blogs...

>Our investigation found that between September 2021 and September 2025, MediaLab processed the personal information of children using Imgur in ways that breached the UK GDPR.

-Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine (express.co.uk) 717 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45424888

Age appropriate design: a code of practice for online services

>The code took effect on 2 September 2020, so you must conform with the code from 2 September 2021.

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-re...

interloxiaon Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code

One should AI wash it first.

interloxiaon GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks

For me, various forms of Gemini respond with "Unless you are planning on carrying the car there" which I find to be just sassy enough to be amusing.

interloxiaon Show HN: I taught GPT-OSS-120B to see using Google Lens and OpenCV

105 comments from a few months ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46329109

interloxiaon Art of Roads in Games

In my next game, Canalpunk, I'm planning to keep with bezier splines. The self intersection of the paths will make the disaster system more interesting.

interloxiaon Heritability of intrinsic human life span is about 50%

Hopefully by then VR versions of The Longest Journey or sanctioned or unsanctioned AI generated/slop adaptations of trek/wars/who etc.

interloxiaon Disrupting the largest residential proxy network

Probably not hard but my poor little innocent VPS at Hetzer that I have had for years is denied and that makes me sad.

interloxiaon Maine’s ‘Lobster Lady’ who fished for nearly a century dies aged 105

The comparison is between active VR participation (not simply watching TV in VR) and passive activities like crosswords during the recovery period of reduced mobility.

interloxiaon Maine’s ‘Lobster Lady’ who fished for nearly a century dies aged 105

I sometimes wonder if VR is ever successful, perhaps in the 2050s, some of the idleness will be less of an issue.

The lack of movement rather than rich stimulation might remain the issuem I look forward to a study if there hasn't been one yet.

interloxiaon Davos Stops Pretending

wrong url.

Davos Stops Pretending https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/world/davos-trump-greenla...

interloxiaon Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes"

I only remember watching Flight of the Navigator year after year.

interloxiaon An Elizabethan mansion's secrets for staying warm

>a major "trick" being to put them in the middle of the house rather than in the exterior wall

I vised Löwenburg in Kassel which has bedrooms with similar curtains around the bed. Much later (1891) and with other heating technology of note. I was intrigued by the fireplace design in the room immediately behind the bed. The open fire is backed by a huge granite block built into the wall. The room had a close connection to servant stairways directly down to the exterior.

The guide describe the otherwise plain room as a dressing room. It looked like a convenient place to store a lot of firewood to stoke the fireplace attached to the bed behind it to me.

interloxiaon Earth is warming faster. Scientists are closing in on why (2024)

related: I like to scare myself with the nice graphics of daily global sea surface temperature from the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine.

https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/?dm_id=world2

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/optimum-interpolation-sst

interloxiaon Ask HN: What are your best purchases under $100?

We bicycle a lot. I went with a Bosch USB c handheld compressor. Recommended although non replaceable batteries is a worry in the medium/long term. No trouble for the first two years.

interloxiaon Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone

I tried this a while back with. NET and Blazor. With split screen I was able to add some code and preview live in the browser and build and 'install' a simple pwa.

Presumably with an external monitor and the desktop mode it would be better.

Code from tiny llms such as Gemma are a waste of time but it "worked". It was neat to generate a working app completely offline.

The main problem was that the VM crashed on my pixel fairly frequently. Might be better by now.

interloxiaon Strange.website

English speakers in Liberia and the Burmese will also have to stick with tyranny units according to the detection code. The rest of us should be fine.

interloxiaon VW is bringing physical buttons back to the dashboard with the ID. Polo EV

From 38c3

https://reynardsec.com/en/volkswagens-bad-streak-we-know-whe...

"The data, which includes detailed location information and even vehicle owner details, was left exposed and unprotected on the internet for an extended period of time."

Wir wissen wo dein Auto steht Volksdaten von Volkswagen

https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-wir-wissen-wo-dein-auto-steht-vo...

interloxiaon List of domains censored by German ISPs

>Citizenship has to be irreversible, or very close to it,

Australia at least states that expulsion is compatible with human rights.

  "The Bill is compatible with human rights because, to the extent that it may limit some human rights, those limitations are reasonable, necessary and proportionate in achieving the legitimate objective of protecting the Australian community."

Australian Citizenship Amendment (Citizenship Repudiation) Bill 2023

Attachment A Statement of Compatibility with Human Rights

interloxiaon I doubt that anything resembling genuine AGI is within reach of current AI tools

Mostly from dryers. I assumed mostly from failure to clean the lint but the following link suggested that that was the cause only 27% of the time.

https://www.nfpa.org/education-and-research/research/nfpa-re...

In the table from the Pdf link failure to clean was the only category that resulted in deaths.

interloxiaon Inca Stone Masonry

Mike Haduck has a short series (and a bunch of others too)

MACHU PICCHU "A stone masons commentary" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=njCStq0Hn58

interloxiaon After ruining a treasured water resource, Iran is drying up

It was pretty dire.

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

interloxiaon Do dyslexia fonts work? (2022)

It was quoted correctly. I wasn't quick enough to fix it before the reply.

interloxiaon Do dyslexia fonts work? (2022)

“Contrary to popular belief, the core problem in dyslexia is not reversing letters (although it can be an indicator),”

I always assumed the visual processing limitations were part of the issue with the reversal/transcription problem. A sort of neurological sequencing disorder swapping out the correct visual sense with a mistake. Xerox style. One that the dyslexic font wouldn't help with.

If that's apparently not dyslexia, or part of their spectrum, what is it if it is a processing disorder that remains into adulthood?

They come across rather dismissively when their own links, as far as I clicked at least, were less firm. I do appreciate that visual aids hawked to parents are not going to help for this issue either. I would like a name for the thing which is so importantly not Dislexia.

interloxiaon Google confirms Android attacks; no fix for most Samsung users

CVE-2025-54957 critical rce in Dolby audio processing is a worry.

https://source.android.com/docs/security/bulletin/pixel/2025...

interloxiaon Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched

"Wait, user compliance scan identified location traces associated with participitation in community groups prohibited by EasyLife Health™ policy update 2025-12-06b. Recommend to annul contract."

interloxiaon RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung

Note that some tinkering may be required for modern cards on old systems.

- A UEFI DXE driver to enable Resizable BAR on systems which don't support it officially. This provides performance benefits and is even required for Intel Arc GPUs to function optimally.

List of working motherboards

https://github.com/xCuri0/ReBarUEFI/issues/11

interloxiaon Roblox is a problem but it's a symptom of something worse

They could sell custom ubikeys/whatever. Kids love Tonies. A custom USB stick/NFC/air tag would be "easy" and profitable.

interloxiaon Eating stinging nettles

Apparently some of the nettle family have edible berries.

Jared Rydelek's channel is about eating exotic fruits. It's a bit long winded but pretty neat to see the unusual fruits from around the world.

A recent video has him eating a berry from the Gympie gympie/stinging tree/Dendrocnide moroides from the nettle family.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aEio_yDEc8

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

interloxiaon Google Pixel's most dangerous bug: failing to call 911

They could add it to the WiFi calling warning notification that emergency calls are unavailable. It even has a do not show again button that fails to dismiss or prevent the notification.