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luke727on Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine

I think it's rather that OSA actually visibly affects people in their day-to-day lives whereas other laws don't. I constantly hit age verification pages on Reddit and Twitter and I don't use either for porn. I'm fundamentally against giving Reddit or Twitter or a 3rd party processor my ID just to view content someone somewhere deemed potentially harmful to minors. At least Twitter is done on a post-by-post basis; on Reddit entire subreddits are gated behind age verification.

luke727on Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine

That's a fair point, but you have to take into consideration the relevant laws and countries. You also need to take into consideration what it means to "operate" in a country.

luke727on UK Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards

Signing an online petition isn't better than doing nothing and is arguably worse.

luke727on Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?

I don't think pathologizing an entire nation is a statement of objective fact. Regardless, upon reflection I feel my initial comment was unduly harsh. I think it would be more accurate to say that British society as a whole is very much in favor of the nanny state.

luke727on Beginning 1 September, we will need to geoblock Mississippi IPs

The makeup of a court is temporary. Maybe your court is "safe" today; that won't necessarily still be the case tomorrow.

luke727on Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?

Well, I offered my observations and a few people agreed with me to varying degrees. You asserted I'm wrong, ignorant, and stupid. Perhaps that is true; it is not, however, an argument.

luke727on Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?

It's disturbing to me that so much of this type of legislation originates with the "Conservatives", and the only viable alternative in Labour thinks this type of legislation doesn't go far enough. I guess at least things will be interesting with Farage in Number 10.

luke727on Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?

You should give a shit because Europe is on its way to implementing its own horrible legislation [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_to_Prevent_and_Comb...

luke727on Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?

I'm speaking like someone who has to live with the consequences of horrible legislation like this because I live here.

luke727on Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?

My comment provoked you enough to create an account just to make a throwaway insult reply to it. I think perhaps it hit closer to home than you would care to acknolwedge.

luke727on Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?

I am not nor will I ever be a Brit, let alone an average one. But I live here and I have seen and heard things from seemingly average Brits. Would they describe themselves using my exact words? Doubtful. But what other conclusion can one draw from their observed behavior? The Online Safety Act in particular enjoys extraordinarily high support among the general public.

luke727on Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?

Tumultuous in what way? There's so little distance between Conservative and Labour today that it really doesn't matter who's in power.

luke727on Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?

That's just par for the course in UK culture. During American criminal trials, the jury is told not to watch the news. During British criminal trials, the entire British press is legally forbidden from reporting on the trial.

luke727on Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?

Ok, but the online petitions will just be ignored anyway.

luke727on Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?

The thing you have to understand is that the average Brit wants and possibly needs the government to tell them how to live their lives. It's a completely foreign paradigm to the average American, though alarming "progress" has been made on the American front as of late.

luke727on Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act

Think your position through and try to determine if there is any possibility of unintended consequences.

luke727on EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google

> Keep in mind that it does not actually prevent child exploitation and grooming.

While true, I'd avoid making that argument since it implies these restrictions might be worth implementing if they actually did prevent child harm. There is no scenario in which it is acceptable for the government to mandate encryption backdoors, for example.

luke727on EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google

Unfortunately many more people than you might think are in full support of this type of thing. The UK in particular is a very nanny state and this is sold as protecting children. You're not against protecting children, are you?

luke727on Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

This was part of a larger security policy change that also dropped support for my phone manufacturer so I couldn't say.

luke727on Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

> But it’s literally the dumbest feature ever.

My company recently configured Slack for mobile to disallow copying text.

luke727on 3dfx, So powerful, it's kind of ridiculous (2023)

Obligatory https://vgamuseum.ru/wp-content/gallery/bitching-fast/bitchi...

luke727on Reflections on Ten Years Past the Snowden Revelations

>Protections he apparently didn’t need for nearly a decade, but did once Russia was executing its genocidal war. Your “he’s merely scared of America” narrative doesn’t hold water.

Protections he couldn't get for nearly a decade, but did once the law was changed and he was able to do so [1].

>No one made him travel and his passport was revoked before flying to Moscow, evidence elsewhere on the thread. He trapped himself!

He could have (and in hindsight probably should have) stayed in Hong Kong. Regardless, it's unclear when he knew his passport had been revoked. Even if he had known beforehand, he thought he had documents for safe passage to Ecuador.

>Russia is systematically raping and murdering Ukrainians while Snowden is giving his oath to Russia and you call that “awkward optics?”

Please reserve this emotional tripe for Reddit, where it belongs.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/23/edward-snowd...

luke727on Reflections on Ten Years Past the Snowden Revelations

> Says who.

Just a few tabloid rags like The Washington Post [1], The Guardian [2], and The Atlantic [3].

> That doesn’t mean he has to pledge allegiance during that period. Regardless it’s not what an American patriot does. That narrative is untenable now.

Pledging allegiance is required to obtain Russian citizenship, which grants him additional protections from the United States. It is also required to obtain a Russian passport, which is required because the United States revoked his American passport, made him stateless, trapped him in an adversarial foreign country, and would do everything in their considerable power to intercept him should he try to seek asylum elsewhere.

Sure, the timing makes for awkward optics, but I'm going to cut the guy some slack not only for what he's been through, but for having his reputation falsely tarnished as well.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/07/02...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/aug/29/julian-assange...

[3] https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/06/wh...

luke727on Netflix will end its DVD service after 25 years

PDF? I exported my Netflix data a couple months ago and I'm pretty sure it was either CSV, XML, or JSON.

luke727on Netflix will end its DVD service after 25 years

You can export all your data from Netflix.

luke727on Ask HN: What social media site could replace Twitter?

> Blue check marks has always been a verification that the account isn't an imposter.

It might have started out that way, but over the years Twitter also added behavioral requirements primarily aimed at undesirables. Most prominent case I can recall is Richard Spencer.

luke727on GoodbyeDPI: Deep Packet Inspection circumvention utility

"prevent injection of a driver that can divert all my shit at the kernel level" is exactly what you want secure boot protecting you from.

The only thing Secure Boot is doing here is preventing you from loading a driver not blessed by Microsoft. They would happily bless "a driver that can divert all my shit at the kernel level", but it costs too much for the maintainer of WinDivert.