More proof that the current “Labour” government is in the pockets of rich companies and not on the side of consumers.

I have a PC USB Blu-ray drive, and bought a backup one last year just in case this one dies.

Backing up Blu-rays and watching them on your device.

Unlike with music, you can’t buy DRM-free Blu-ray quality movies outside of Blu-ray. If you stream a show or movie, even if you have “bought”, you don’t own it.

Receiving a cease and desist email from your ISP on behalf of rights holders for something you have torrented is almost a right of passage for a young person imo.

Makes you learn to always use a VPN, especially on popular torrents (all it takes is one snooper in the seeds).

That’s fair enough.

I think there is some rule that you just provide contact details somewhere on your website, though some companies try super hard to hide it.

The problem is sometimes the contact method is 12 layers of FAQ pages and web forms. Trying to reduce load is one thing, actively avoiding resolving issues is another.

This really is a fucking clown show.

I assume what’s happening here is that they have a bot that will reply a few canned response vaguely related to what you’ve said in the one message.

I don’t suppose there is a way to actually reach a human? This shit should really be illegal.

Thanks for sharing. I should push back on your statement a little.

The investigation relates to how MediaLab’s Imgur social media platform uses children’s information and its approach to age assurance.

And in the Children’s code strategy progress update mentioned.

One platform has committed to introduce age assurance methods, to help ensure that children have an age-appropriate online experience.

To comply with child data protection rules, you necessarily have to either:

• Know that they are a child by checking their age
• Not collect information on anyone

It does look like the focus is mostly on data collection, not content moderation, so I will concede on that point. I should have read a bit more into this before commenting.

The title is a little bit misleading, it’s mostly about Imgur not adding the age checking that the UK’s infamously disliked new law requires on possibly mature content.

Age verification is a notoriously difficult problem to solve in a privacy-respecting way, and Imgur is literally about unobtrusive image embeds so I doubt they could even make this work.

The perfect way to kill a platform

They should stay the fuck out of my country. Bloody parasites.

I recently ran a session and wrote an internal blog post about why useEffect was a dangerous crutch that should be avoided wherever possible. This was due to recently experienced over-complicated logic and unexpected interaction bugs.

This is a little different but I still feel vindicated.

Neo launcher hasn’t had a release for 3 years, sadly.

Lawnchair is alright but it is missing a bunch of features compared to Nova.

I think Lawnchair is the closest visual / UX replacement to Nova that I’ve found, but it is missing many features compared to Nova 🙁.

Also, I’m starting to learn Private Space is a pain, as amongst other shortcomings it forces you to use a logged-in Play Store to install apps (“private”, my ass!). You can install apks via ADB, but who can be bothered to do that.

Under the hood, it looks like Private Space uses another hidden user, so I think I’ll just make another user logged into nothing and switch to it occasionally instead of using private space.

Does anyone know of a good replacement launcher that supports Private Space?

I had noticed that Nova had been falling behind for the last couple of years, but I didn’t know why. I’ve been using it for over 10 years.

It sounds like a case of “buy it, kill it” which is pretty sad. If it had been open sourced we might have been able to improve it and keep it alive.

I wonder if the burst in activity is from all the companies and government entities in Europe wanting to distance themselves from Microsoft and the US, switching to LibreOffice and improving its funding.

Don’t forget transphobia. They seem to have suddenly decided that’s a good idea in the last 3 years.

You can tell they are really improving competition and efficiency by raising the C - suite salaries.

Well, I know what studio they are closing next.

I’m paying £20/m for a lossless family plan from Deezer… That’s how they get you 😭. Now I’d have to apologize to my family members if I took away their subscription. Used to be around £17 when I started a few years back.

I do not recommend getting a family plan.