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4Chan has blocked the entire UK IP range. They do not host any infrastructure there.

They are bound by UK law exactly as much as they are bound by Venutian or Mars law.

4chan's lawyer, who has been engaging with this well since the beginning, has clearly advised his clients, who have no intent of ever going to the UK, to not go there. In addition, Ofcom does not have the ability to collect them through the EU itself. They must go to the UK.

It already sounds like Ofcom is likely to lose lawsuits about this, as they do not have jurisdiction in the U.S., where 4chan is hosted.

I live next to a sprawling apartment complex after rezoning allowed it to go in.

Now we have a large homeless encampment partially on the apartment complex lot - that the complex can't deal with because their lawyers told them off.

Now we have a significant uptick in petty but quality of life impacting crime.

The roads around the apartment complex are now swamped because the entrances were placed stupidly.

And the people who live in that apartment complex are also upset about all of this.

None of this is about "my investment". It is about not letting commercial outfits hurt my quality of life to subsidize their profit margin. It's not the fault of the tenants, nor me.

Now we get to sue the stupid property management company until they fix their issues.

What is your main use case?

Conference calls? Get soundcores.

Actual music? Buy proper open backs and a DAC.

Follow the money.

There's no money to be made arresting criminals. Sure you get a few police contracts, and you need to show enough results to keep them.. but your moat is mostly how hard it is to even submit bids.

There's a lot more money to be made knowing that Accountant Mary's Lexis is looking kind of banged up and she could be sold on a new one.

You want to fly a multi-hundred dollar device loaded with radios that constantly broadcasts out a unique ID and possibly your FAA ID and use it for crime?

Or even better yet, get arrested halfway to trying to dip your drone into paint on a sidewalk?

Just throw a rock at the stupid thing.

Can you name the groups? (Assuming they are sufficiently public, corporate/political entities)

No, you don't need "superhuman levels of willpower to avoid social media entrapment". Just block the damn sites. Delete your account before you do. No you don't need to keep up with Timmy from the 8th grade and his third marriage and worsening benzo addiction.

People smoked for the same reason people doomscroll - anxiety.

You can expose your kid to technology and also explain the role of moderation the same way you do with candy and sweets. You will need to model the behavior you want in your kid - that means putting your phone down. Buy a timed lockbox if that is what you need.

There are millions of people who are obese - not just fat - primarily from fruits. Those people have a history of obesity preceeding modern processed foods, and it's because they have very dense fruits (and starches) available to them in plenty.

My mentioning plantains wasn't random.

And this is the issue with these "healthy"/"processed" discussions.

If you live off bananas and rice, you are not going to be healthy. You can get just as fat off plantains as you can doritos.

Peanut butter (which is at least partially processed) can be a healthy part of your diet. It can also absolutely wreck it.

Is there anyone who can't do this today? Adult websites self label, and both your router and ISP offer removing adult websites as an option.

If your kid is going to get around that by clever vpn use, age gates don't help.

Can age assurance be done privately and anonymously? Absolutely.

But the entire point of age laws is to stifle free speech and ruin privacy. Thus why every age law requires uploading an ID.

If it was just age, just require a credit charge of a $1 through an intermediary. Good for a year or whatever.

To the extent that you are able to send messages back, I would relay that the correct strategy is to set up a terminal, run it for a max of an hour or two, then tear it down and move again. And the terminal needs to never be plugged in and active in the same place where it is stored when it is not in use.

As of two days ago, multiple Iranian hospitals said >2000 dead was their estimate.

OpenCode has some more advanced features and plays nicely in more advanced setups. ClaudeCode isn't bad at all, but OpenCode has some tricks up it's sleeve.

RF or EMF detection, magnetic field detection and an IR light plus filtered lens for visually checking for camera lenses.

Ye old k18 is still the $50 go to for foiling airbnb perverts.

Israel would much rather the people of Iran look like the UK or Germany - employed, safe, happy, free - than the reign of terror of both Iranians and non-Iranians being attacked directly and by proxy.

If your antisemitism runs so deep you are willing to sacrifice the Iranian people to hurt the Jews, you are not a friend of the Iranian people.

Iran cracked down on personal satellite internet ownership because it had been used to bypass censorship attempts.

So right now there is almost no starlink hardware in the country.

Literally once in a lifetime chances for human rights in a regime that has hung several women for not covering their faces this year is a bit different then the latest CNN headline.

One of my uncles was asked to stop bringing his rifle to highschool because him and one of the teachers kept talking about hunting in the parking lot and getting to class late. The principle felt they were likely to at least make it in the building on time if they weren't chatting in the parking lot about their rifles/hunts/etc.

People used to have an insane amount of freedom and things generally went better.

The issue is that the kid wants to play a game with his friends.

So that is "online" in the sense that it uses the internet.. but it isn't the same as a web browser, or an open store of every online app.

I run game servers for my nephew. I know he only adds his friends and I can keep a loose eye on them. I don't care if his friends talk about boobs or make penis jokes (they're 14), I only care that there aren't any predators.

This is a clear and meaningful distinction and it doesn't sound supported.

> Countless surgeons from The West have testified that Israeli drones have shot the hell out of people of all ages

How do the surgeons know it was a drone?

> seeing kids shot at intentionally from drones

Anytime somebody makes a claim about a drone operating a firearm, you should be extremely skeptical. There's a reason everyone uses explosive drones, not "drone with a machine gun". Small flying machines trying to fire off rounds doesn't work out.

> submarine launched drones throwing incendiary munitions at a flotilla

Per the Greek coastguard, someone left a lit joint by a fuel canister. Maybe the Greeks are in on the deep conspiracy.. or potheads are just forgetful.

> As part of its ongoing genocide, which started on 7 October 2023

Well that was quickly debunked as a viable source. Israeli's didn't retaliate for Oct 7th until a few days later.

> When some of the residents went out to investigate and tried to help, they were shot at by Israeli quadcopter drones.

And another easy debunk - Israel uses explosive drones. Mounting a firearm to "shoot at" things from a drone is basically a fools errand.

Provide video. That should be trivial.

Texas has robust laws against facial recognition (and biometrics in general), including winning a major lawsuit against Facebook. Texas also has pretty good privacy laws in general. Right now, flock cameras are still permitted - but there's been talk about cracking down on them. There are also a first set of restrictions on ALPRs - not as restrictive as I would like, but generally data can only be retained for people suspected of committing a crime.

If you are a Texas resident, you also have a right to request data deletion (or correction) from brokers or other sellers of data, and permanently opt out of personal data profiling for a wide swath of industries including insurance and finance purposes.

Texas is one of the best states for privacy laws, even though we can obviously do better. I'd still like to see a general prohibition on things like flock and more restrictions on ALPRs, but much better than most states.

It seems odd to me that the US supposedly isn't a major power, yet still finances both NATO and the UN primarily and if it lowers it's support it's "leading the destruction of those things".

Likewise if it backs off it's foreign support, hundreds of millions will die.

Are we singularly carrying the worlds on our backs - which sounds hegemonic - are is the US free to stop spending our money on everyone elses problems?

Perhaps the UK or Germany can fund everything for a few decades and be the next major world power for a bit.

In software architecture, we often see people rebuild systems from scratch, reproduce the exact same flaws, and end up with the same broken system they sought to replace.

The problem is always that they do not understand the problem. The problem was not the framework, the language, the compute model. It was the problem model.

Having spent a lot of time around that "high driven successful ceo" type, there's a lot of ego involved. There is ego in being needed in meetings. There is ego in working late. There is ego in being the only one who can deliver the thing.

Spoiler, most managers are aware of the ego trap and know how to press that button to get more work from you.

You can't solve the deathbed regret problem by just reading deathbed regrets and swearing to travel or spend time with family. You have to address the root cause of the problematic behavior - ego, dislike of your kids, not actually valuing travel, etc.

Then the ongoing work of prioritizing can happen.

I think this is an infinitely more useful way of saying what the blogger was attempting to.

There is a flawed prioritization happening that we are seeing have it's natural conclusion on the deathbed - delaying things that feel forever available (spending time with the kids) for things that feel urgent (that critical meeting).

As you said, it takes discipline to avoid this trap. There will always be another urgent meeting, but your children will grow up and go have their own lives.

"Fake urgency" is a terrible poisonous thing that often seeps into the work world. It is the cause of many ills and most deathbed regrets.

My 3 year old has a handheld retro console. He plays a lot of excitebike and sometimes spyro.

Never had an issue with it. He's nice to it, recharges it as needed and the sd card has held up.

It's very clear there is a large contingent of people who are here illegally. That isn't exclusively Central/South Americans, but they make up a very large portion.

You can't say "Well enforcing the rules doesn't impact everyone equally so you can't enforce them!"

If you entered illegally, you need to be sent home. End of logic. Any other variation allows the system to be gamed trivially.

Most of the people who have entered illegally did so because they are prohibited - due to criminal record - for entering legally. They also harm the legal immigrants in their community too.

You can not allow asylum cases and also permit the criminals who created those conditions those legal immigrants fled. You are damning everyone when you do.