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At scale, it's a felony, I promise!

I've read what seems like 30+ articles and explainers about the UK law the last few days - this has some lousy (official) defintions. I think the most recent episode of Power User with Taylor Lorenz might cover some of this enough to get the overall sense.

The topics under scrutiny of the "user-to-user" site is extremely vague beyond obvious porn, but it amounts to if it allows the sharing of links of basic news of any topic, it counts. Because in terms of categorizing "harmful content" for minors, seeing fucking protests happening anywhere, at all is "controversial adult content." But if the links are limited to a very specific topic, say Honda Ridgeline owners, privacy and cyber nerd shit no one cares about) etc., cooking, and other innocuous things, it's a grey zone that doesn't demand compliance. YMMV, but even for a fascist wannabe set of policies can't justify "harmful" material for kids with a Linux forum or a forum for owners of the Honda Ridgeline (WTF?)

Some of us are aware and outside the US and basically expect to become stateless prisoners in El Salvador the next time we try and enter the country.

Oh, are we confessing to ~~minor~~ thefts? Let's see, what's beyond 7 years old...

A Hogwarts robe clip from a Halloween costume

$12 in expired powerbars

About $200 in assorted mediocre liquor from some wedding

4 posters from bus stops for the Scooby-Doo movie

A 1999 Ford Explorer

7 Playboys and a bag of old coins

97 million kisses from my missus

(Edit: the largest thefts are the kisses)

At this point even the music discovery is being enshitified with AI bands taking up more and more space as low-cost filler.

The last 10 years of the internet are committing seppuku in front of us. Gird your musical loins, friend. We'll need jams in MP3 format in the dystopian hellscape that's rushing to meet us.

JHFC

Well sheeeeeeeeeeeit, why not outlaw HTTPS while you're at it?

Seriously. Even my more paranoid, conspiracy-prone family have such mediocre tech literacy that getting them on Signal requires an in-person visit, and something like being off Windows 11 and trying Linux, even Mint, is beyond the pale.

FB has the Boomers locked in for the rest of their lives. But until age verification blows a hole in the walled gardens, it's the singular mass of users that keeps those platforms as anchors.

IMO, train the kids. Help them before they F their lives up. It's too late to help some people.

Ugh... Can we just figure out a way to send data that is an SQL injection that deletes their db records on me?

Like, of we all pool together like $20 each, we can hire some kids to pooch their data.

There's a very very narrow case for this with helping lots of uninspired out of work dipshits vibecode apps with poor security and 3D games where squares shoot squares at squares.

Source: am dipshit

Indigenous People: "Hello? Why hey, strangers, who are-"

Capt. Cook or some shit: "Hey there, you fellas good at working? Like, lots of manual labor?"

Indigenous People: "uhh... Wut?"

Capt Cook: "F it. Take the women, take their food, burn the rest."

Indigenous People: "Bro, hold up, we got this bug that looks like a sti-"

Capt Cook: "BURN IT ALL. NOW!"

Indigenous People: He'll never know about that really big F'in stick bug!

Not hide it, but couch and qualify why I hate it while still using it. As if I have to explain every time the context of "I hate it because I see it sucking in these ways all the time."

Except for people who are also trying to be heavy users and are simply unimpressed.