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Brendon Boshell

Founder at Recoreo - Operator of online brands. Acquiring small media and tools websites and scaling them up. https://recoreo.com/

Founder at Gym Geek - Health and fitness website. Providing free workout routines, exercise guides and weight management calculators. https://gymgeek.com/

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beejiu··on IP blocking the UK is not enough to comply with the Online Safety Act
Yes, and this already happens, every day.
beejiu··on IP blocking the UK is not enough to comply with the Online Safety Act
> No one can be expected to know or abide laws of another country.

If this is your view, do not travel or do business in other countries. It's simple.

beejiu··on IP blocking the UK is not enough to comply with the Online Safety Act
I'm not sure, but it wouldn't apply in the case we are discussing or I assume most businesses operating globally.
beejiu··on IP blocking the UK is not enough to comply with the Online Safety Act
Seems reasonable. If I committed what is considered a crime on American soil, I wouldn't expect to be able to enter the US without arrest.
beejiu··on IP blocking the UK is not enough to comply with the Online Safety Act
Your First Amendment rights only apply within the United States, this should be obvious. Nonetheless, extradition treaties generally require that a crime be considered a crime within both jurisdictions.
beejiu··on IP blocking the UK is not enough to comply with the Online Safety Act
I don't really understand the concern. The UK objects to suicide forums and American operators of suicide forums are protected by the First Amendment of extradition to the UK. So if you want to operate a suicide forum from America, just don't travel to the UK and you're okay.
beejiu··on Avoid 2:00 and 3:00 am cron jobs (2013)
A server doesn't need to "know" where in the world it is (unless it needs to know the position in the sun in the sky for some reason).
beejiu··on Asbestosis
Oh yes, please don't think I was blaming Imgur!
beejiu··on Asbestosis
It's unfortunate this article is about the UK and Imgur has blocked the UK because of the Online Safety Act :(
beejiu··on Britain's most tattooed man says UK's age check told him to "remove his face"
The face mask was his face.
beejiu··on Chess.com regional pricing: A case study
Isn't it the case that US prices are without sales tax, whereas all EU/UK prices are inclusive of tax by law?
beejiu··on Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP
Doesn't Google Workspace start at $7 per month? I can't see a business user going to those lengths to save $1 or $2 per month.
beejiu··on NASA rover finds potential sign of ancient life in Martian rocks
Press conference is being broadcast live now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-StZggK4hhA
beejiu··on Paracetamol disrupts early embryogenesis by cell cycle inhibition
> At a standard dose, paracetamol slightly reduces fever,[13][17][18] though it is inferior to ibuprofen in that respect[19]

It's good you can take both at the same time then! (For adults.)

beejiu··on Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act
Worth noting that was before the High Court's further judgments today, and the article has been updated. The full judgment is here: https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Wikimedi...
beejiu··on Navy demonstrates multi-day solar UAS flight
Supposedly it can carry up to 800 pounds (https://www.skydweller.aero/), although not clear what was tested.
beejiu··on Don't animate height
GIFs scale quadratically with their resolution and they don't even support an alpha channel, which makes them inflexible.
beejiu··on Don't animate height
An engineer could build that much faster than it would take to build an animated GIF in an editor. (For a start, it's a much more complex animation than 6 frames.)
beejiu··on 12ft.io Taken Down
That's surprising because Googlebot publishes IP ranges for its crawlers and it's fairly simple to block fake crawlers these days (super easy through Cloudflare, for example).
beejiu··on Tough news for our UK users
Yes, but if you fill out the rest of the questionnaire I suspect it says you are not in scope.
beejiu··on Tough news for our UK users
They're in scope because they provide a pornographic service, I don't see that is arguable. If you don't have the competence in house to follow the guidelines and need to hire expensive lawyers, then yes it's an "extreme cost", but that's not true of all businesses.
beejiu··on Tough news for our UK users
I have no idea what this service is, but clicking around on their site they mention it's 18+, that they don't allow "Child pornography, Sexualized depictions of minors, Heavy gore, Bestiality, Sexual violence".

I don't agree with everything in the Online Safety Act, but if anything needed a risk assessment, it's surely this?

beejiu··on Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online
So you have no counter evidence?
beejiu··on Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online
I somewhat agree, but exposure to global online content is hardly natural in terms of brain development.
beejiu··on Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online
The recent UK Cass Review concluded "It has been suggested that hormone treatment reduces the elevated risk of death by suicide in this population, but the evidence found did not support this conclusion."

Do you have any counter-evidence?

beejiu··on Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online
Yes, it should apply to all medical treatments targeted at children, since children don't have developed critical thinking skills.

Do you think it's appropriate for random people to tell a 10 year old how to take their insulin? I don't.

beejiu··on Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online
It's not about the kids of their parents, it's about other parties that are promoting or encouraging HRT to other people's kids.
beejiu··on Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online
Because youths don't have developed critical thinking skills and HRT is an invasive medical treatment!?
beejiu··on Cloudflare: We Will Get Google to Provide a Way to Block AI Overviews
Google does not use a separate crawler, but they do use the robots.txt semantics to control what's allowed in the AI "index" separately from the search index. From the docs:

> Google-Extended doesn't have a separate HTTP request user agent string. Crawling is done with existing Google user agent strings; the robots.txt user-agent token is used in a control capacity.

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/...

beejiu··on Price of rice in Japan falls below ¥4k per 5kg
Japan's the fourth largest economy in the world and, given how cheap rice is, it being 1x, 5x or even 10x average I'm sure is insignificant to 95%+ of people.

For perspective, it's about 2x what you'd pay in a UK supermarket. What's the big deal?

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