Keelhaul
@Keelhaul@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on The Ofcom Tea Party: 4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence, British regulator claims “sovereign immunity” to defend itself – and sovereign powers to regulate foreign companies 6 days ago:
They can’t force 4chan to implement age verification, or to implement geoblocks. They can issue fines if they feel like it, but they’re uncollectible.
The UK has every right to restrict their own residents access to things that are illegal internally. Just like how they have customs controls at their physical borders to prevent illegal physical items from being imported, they should have just blocked 4chan off the rip instead of trying to fine them.
Yeah, reading this I think we are indeed on the same page.
- Comment on The Ofcom Tea Party: 4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence, British regulator claims “sovereign immunity” to defend itself – and sovereign powers to regulate foreign companies 6 days ago:
I feel like I am missing something reading your comments, but it seems pretty clear to me that they do do business in the UK. They have users in the UK, to which they are providing a service (the 4chan message boards) in exchange for eyes on adverts placed on the page (from which 4chan makes money).
Just because this law is really stupid, and that 4chan does not have servers in the UK doesn’t really matter. UK laws can still be enforced for individuals in the UK (which is expressly what is stated in the message from ofcom). Ofcom is not demanding that age verification is implemented for all users world wide, but for UK users. 4Chan can decide to not comply (which I think is good), but then it is not surprising that if you keep doing business in the UK (not blocking UK users/IPs) that fines (which 4chan will just ignore as they are not UK based) and possible bans on your service in the UK follow.
- Comment on On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not. 1 week ago:
I expect VPN + Aurora (or any other non Play store) will be enough to get around it
- Comment on Germany's Schleswig-Holstein Completes Massive Migration to Open Source Email Systems 2 weeks ago:
Amazing to see that they successfully migrated. This is a great example for the rest of Europe and the teams that worked on this will (hopefully) have plenty of work ahead of them in helping other European entities migrate away from US big tech!
- Comment on A lot of people make the mistake of thinking they have real life plot armour 4 weeks ago:
Yes, of course it is. That is why I commented it on a crackpot shower though with a related subject.
- Comment on A lot of people make the mistake of thinking they have real life plot armour 5 weeks ago:
Who says you are not?
- Comment on I'm "use NFS forfilesharing old." what's the current optimal solution for shared drives if I have like 3 linux machines in the house? 1 month ago:
I would just create a point to point VPN connection and run it over that (for axample an IPsec tunnel using strongswan)
- Comment on Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict 2 months ago:
Woo, both parties are terrible, irresponsible, and should be held accountable
- Comment on From Docker with Ansible to k3s: I don't get it... 3 months ago:
I disagree, it is great to use. Yes, some things are more difficult but as OP mentioned he wants to learn more, and running your own cluster for your services is an amazing way to learn k8s.
- Comment on Best way to get IPv4 connectivity to my self-hosted services 4 months ago:
Yup, sorry to be the bearer of bad news🥲
- Comment on Best way to get IPv4 connectivity to my self-hosted services 4 months ago:
Plenty of IPv4 only networks still exist from which you would not be able to access the services. I am in a similar situation as OP with my offsite address being IPv6 + CGNAT IPv4 and my own address being IPv4 only.
- Comment on Some local LLMs tested on an average gaming PC 6 months ago:
So it is not running llms on an average gaming pc