ErmahgherdDavid

@ErmahgherdDavid@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In the UK we already have a law where isps block porn by default (blacklisting) the person who took out the contract (who has to be 18 or older because they signed legal contract) can contact the isp and ask them to opt out of these blocks. That’s been a thing for about 10 years. You can own a Pay-as-you-go sim as a minor but you have to send government id to prove you are over 18 to get the adult content filtering turned off.

  That’s one of the things that made it clear to me that the new law is an authoritarian data mining operatiok and blatant power grab. Like… We already have these tools in place. If you don’t want your kid accessing porn, don’t opt out of the filters provided by your isp.

  You could argue that putting the onus on the platform is more effective at “protecting kids” than having the isps maintain blacklists but there will always be small sites that don’t comply and enterprising kids who find a way around any block. Just like the law requires you to be 18 to buy alcohol or tobacco here but there are always dodgy shops who sell tobacco to underage kids. There are brothers, uncles or heck just straight up parents willing to buy cigarettes and alcohol for underage teens.

  This was never about protecting the children. That was the Trojan horse used to justify these laws to the technically uninformed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI will not disclose GPT-5’s energy use. It could be higher than past models⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t imagine any sane person who lives their life guided by marketing hype instead of direct knowledge and experience.

  I mean fair enough but also… That makes the vast majority of managers, MBAs, salespeople and “normies” like your grandma and Uncle Bob insane.

  Actually questioning stuff that sales people tell you and using critical thinking is a pretty rare skill in this day and age.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a shocker!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, business is business. You use a gun, I use a fountain pen what’s the difference? Let’s put it in my terms: you’re in a hostile takeover, you snatch us up for some green mail, but you’re not expecting some poison pill to be running around the building, am I right? Hans, bubby, I’m your white knight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So glad I suck dick⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing OOP is sick of is people censoring mild swears like bitch in their screenshots. The content of the pic is unrelated

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How it feels using TOR as a Brit rn 🤘⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They have ruled out banning vpns for now but that’s not to say that they won’t just U-turn or that whoever gets in next won’t ban them.

  The UK’s Trump whose party is currently the most popular in the UK and may win the next election (I hate this) has pledged to repeal this law but he’s well known for making promises he has no intention of keeping and this law is very convenient as a means of censorship.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They know. The “think of the children” angle is just cover to enrage the tabloid readers and to be used as a straw man against anyone criticisng the law (“you’re a pedophile”). The real purpose is “let’s enumerate the IDs of everyone who uses the internet for anything we don’t like” and “let’s censor anything we don’t like starting with LGBTQ content”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, Kojima⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My entire lived experience as a software engineer for the last 15 years has been being ignored by the non-exprerts in charge. It goes like this:

  MBA: I want to solve this problem using this solution

  Me: that won’t solve the problem well, how about-

  MBA: I don’t care for the laws of reality. Do it my way [or find another job]!

  They say they want our expertise but really they want validation of their own terrible ideas and they think coercing experts with threats of unemployment is as valuable as actually listening to those experts.

  This applies as much to the public sector and the absolute clowns we vote in to govern us as it does to the private sector where the clowns hold the purse strings. Frankly it makes me want to give up the subject I have a PhD in and grow potatoes on a remote island somewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From banksy’s limited run “Cut it out” book apparently. Yours for only £310

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Big Tech, Stop Shoving AI Into Operating Systems⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They will just instruct everyone to throw their obsolete AI pc onto the landfill like they already have been doing with machines that won’t run windows 11