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DrHungers··on UK House of Lords to propose mandatory CSAM detection software on smartphones
This will create more attack vectors, make phones more ineffeciant, make massive piles of people innocent of wrongdoing put prosecuted and jailed for sending pics of their kids to their family and doctors, and generally increase the power of the state to surveil its citizens to an extreme degree, on par with the worst totalitarian dictatorships.

Its funny, every time I talk to a brit they seem very intelligent and reasonable but then they've been happily electing people who make their country into an extreme surveillance state, labor & conservative both. I think their accent just makes them sound smarter than they are.

DrHungers··on We're working on a new RuneScape MMO
I never played RuneScape. It looks cool but what makes it special? I read its wikipedia entry but it didn't really reveal anything.
DrHungers··on A custom virtual machine for the Stars 4X game
Stars is a great game. Its a bit dated now, but still has a lot of charm, is fun and interesting and nobody's quite made a game like it (actually they probably have I just don't know about it).
DrHungers··on DHS is using obscure law to snoop on journalists, non-profits, unions
I hope it attracts attention. Everything bad that rational people predicted about the DHS when it was created has come true, but people seem to have become comfortable with their civil liberties taken away.
DrHungers··on California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law
Yeah, they're just digging a hole of bad laws.
DrHungers··on An implementation of Conway's Game of Life for Windows 3.1x and later
Has anyone ever seen a version of the game of life that's actually a playable "game" - that's fun and not just an interesting simulation? I would love to try it.
DrHungers··on Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
It looks to me like they fully addressed your comment. Did you read their entire response?