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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan fined $26K for refusing to assess risks under UK Online Safety Act⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  You have to obey the law of whatever country you are currently occupying, even if the rule is bad shit crazy, actually especially if the rule is bat shit crazy. There are plenty of people who have done nothing wrong who would be arrested if they step foot in China, but that doesn’t really bother anyone because they don’t step foot in China.

  Also it would be interesting to see what they would even be charged with, since offcom don’t really have authority to issue arrest warrants. Ofcom barely have the authority to enforce UK law in the UK. Otherwise the likes of GB news wouldn’t exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan fined $26K for refusing to assess risks under UK Online Safety Act⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  GDPR can only be enforced if the business wants to continue to do business in Europe. There are lots of non-European businesses that do not enforce GDPR rules but they can’t sell products or services in Europe.

  But of course 4chan doesn’t sell any products or services anywhere, it’s not a business, so it’s a bit hard to see exactly how this could be enforced.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan fined $26K for refusing to assess risks under UK Online Safety Act⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Because these people have never even heard of it. The whole party is a bunch of absolute technophobes. You should see that online advertising it’s pathetic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan fined $26K for refusing to assess risks under UK Online Safety Act⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah it’s a stupid law and they were told it wouldn’t work by industry experts. But the politicians that were in power when all this was first been decided were Conservatives and therefore arrogant and of the opinion that if they don’t like something, it’s realities responsibility to reconfigure itself.

  Then Labour got in and for some reason implemented the stupid law anyway despite having heard none of the consultations, and of course now it turns out that the consultations told them not to do it. Now I’m sure the industry experts would have been ignored anyway but Labour look really daft now.

  They have basically accepted that this law is on workable and is basically going to be ignored by everyone but they still have to go through all of the pantomime of trying to enforce it. I’m sure eventually they’ll quietly kill it because the whole thing has been such an embarrassment for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla's Full Self-Driving software under investigation after railroad incidents⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I think an analogue version would be a taxi. Buses drive set routes I would hope that the self-driving car can go on all roads not just pre-selected ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian Government gets a taste of what everyday people have to deal with in terms of data breaches as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's mobile phone number released online⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  If I want to contact a business though I know I need to dial 555-123-4568, and I know that because there was a little jingle at the end of the advert. But if they just flash up a QR code then do I just have to wait until the ad is on TV again? There’s a reason they don’t really put QR codes on TV but they do on YouTube where you can pause it, and queue up the video whenever you wanted.

  It’s not an awful idea but it needs a bit of refinement. That needs to be some kind of way to associate a human readable identifier to the contact.

  We use QR codes all of the time for websites but eventually that still boils down to a URL in plain text.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian Government gets a taste of what everyday people have to deal with in terms of data breaches as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's mobile phone number released online⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  But then you just get spammed with requests for connection. Just like spam email, the call coming through wouldn’t be the point anymore it would be the connection request.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  At least in Europe supermarket seem to have stopped selling games entirely. I think they think everyone’s going digital but I would actually like it physical copy.

  So now the only place you can buy physical games is to go into JJB sports (scumbag company, do not buy from them) and go to the small Game section.

  So it’s become a self-fulfilling prophecy, no one buys physical anymore because it’s such a pain to buy physical so supermarkets are no longer stocking the games because it isn’t profitable but it isn’t profitable because they’re not stocking them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  All I get is the cookie pop-up. But jokes on them because I’m on the duck duck go browser so they don’t get any tracking info.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  At least on Android you can configure whether or not apps use their inbuilt webview or just redirect to the proper browser. That feature probably doesn’t exist on iOS because Apple have opinions about customizability, and it’s that you shouldn’t have any.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Well I’m angry that I didn’t hear the misinformation. No one bothered to tell me.

  So now the surprise has been ruined, I already know it’s not true.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla's Full Self-Driving software under investigation after railroad incidents⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s like saying that they’re going to cut the engine out of a car because it makes the car more expensive. Yeah but it also makes the car work.

  Self-driving without lidar is never going to work, and it’s likely to get them sued for releasing it like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PS6 and next Xbox console are both aiming for 2027 release, separate reports claim | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I’ve turned my PS5 on maybe 30 times since I got it. They just hasn’t been anything released for it that I’ve been interested in basically it’s not been anything released for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point I have no idea what you’re trying to say with any of your comments. All of the words individually make sense and even the sentences are valid, but the end result don’t form into a coherent thought.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jake Paul Invites Users to Fake Him on Sora, So They Immediately Use It to Make Him Gay and Obsessed With Makeup⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  True, but I also have no idea who he is. So it probably evens out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian Government gets a taste of what everyday people have to deal with in terms of data breaches as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's mobile phone number released online⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You still have to have some kind of unique identifier. What do you propose phone numbers are replaced with because I can’t think of anything that isn’t basically just the same but with a different flavour or actually is actively worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla's Full Self-Driving software under investigation after railroad incidents⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s mad is there are self-driving vehicles that do actually seem to work. There is even a few that have enough confidence to remove driving controls. But they use LiDAR, the one technology that musk refuse is to incorporate for some reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Billionaires are allowed to live in society, I think it is fair however that we take issue that their attempts to bring about a violent right-wing ultra-nationalist revolution. It sort of feels like they’re taking free will a bit too far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Can we not just bring back the death penalty for this tit. Maybe channel 4 could cover his execution, it seems like they’re sort of content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VPN Comparison 2.0⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The concerns seem to be that the guide isn’t particularly useful to novices which will be 99% of people getting a VPN.

  They’ll have questions like, “Do I need port forwarding to watch international Netflix” and “why shouldn’t I just get the cheapest one what are all these other services”.

  We’re going to tells you what VPNs offer what services but unless you already know what all the terms mean other than price it isn’t useful.

  I’m not saying it’s OPs job to make the guide intuitive but the fact that it isn’t intuitive does mean that it’s got a very limited audience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨King's coat of arms to feature on new UK passports⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah they should add that feature to the British passport.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨King's coat of arms to feature on new UK passports⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well I’m glad we’ve got that sorted. I was concerned the passports wouldn’t get redesigned, I can sleep soundly now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT safety systems can be bypassed to get weapons instructions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I literally type the anarchists cookbook into Google and the first result was to Amazon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨JP Morgan staff told they must share biometric data to access headquarters⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate it when people steal my eyes and I have to get new ones. My mother’s maiden name is so much more secure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨JP Morgan staff told they must share biometric data to access headquarters⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  How extensive is her database?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT safety systems can be bypassed to get weapons instructions⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s literally in Amazon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT safety systems can be bypassed to get weapons instructions⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Or literally just buy some fertiliser. We’ve all seen what happens when some ammonium nitrate catches fire, if you have enough of it in one place it’s practically a nuclear bomb level detonation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT safety systems can be bypassed to get weapons instructions⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol, yeah. The anarchists handbook has been in public domain longer than most people in this thread have been alive. Yeah it’s absolutely available on a search engine you could have got it on alta vista.

  How do you think people figure out how to make IEDs do you think it’s some secret knowledge pass down from father to son, no, they get it online or they just working out from basic principles of scientific understanding. Trying to contain knowledge never works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT safety systems can be bypassed to get weapons instructions⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh no, not information that’s already available online, whatever will we do.

  If you need AI to tell you how to build weapon system you’re not going to build the weapon system anybody who’s an actual threat already has this information. This is just nonsense pearl clutching to sell a story, there’s nothing actually here though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kurzgesagt – AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You are allowed to have an opinion but when it’s a stupid opinion expect to be ridiculed for it.

  Carbon capture is an actual technology it’s real and it works. There’s not a lot of it about yet but there’s also not a lot of fusion reactors yet but they’re also real technology.