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i love the chinese models because sometimes they'll say a random word or two in mandarin. very handy if you want to learn the language

bollocks i, a parent, should be responsible for the content that my kids are exposed to the market should be responsible for pressuring companies to improve parental controls youtube won't provide effective controls for shorts? ok youtube gets blocked on all devices roblox doesn't do enough to keep pedos off their game? gets the same fate teach parents who don't know any better how to do that, when and why and if they still don't give a shit, the kid has much, much bigger problems - which is exactly what social services are for but it's not really about the kids, is it?

It's important to remind everyone that ID verification and social media bans are not to protect children, but another device in the government's arsenal to slowly control the population and move towards authoritarianism. Unless people actually start protesting against this, nothing will change. For a politician, the primary goal is to stay in power and make money. Tracking people online is a great help in achieving that. Crying "it's for the kids" will not help when every device nowadays comes with parental control tools which are better and better every day. Plus, parents are the ones that should decide how their kid should be raised, not the government. From the Computer Science point - it's simply impossible for an ID verification system to have all three at once: - anonymity: Site doesn't know who you are, government can't trace back your account to your name. - non-linkability: Your visit on Site A cannot be linked to your visit on Site B - non-shareability: You can't post some "token" everyone can copy and use to pretend to be an adult A working system for anonymous age verification is simply impossible, mathematically. The solution? The damn parental control tools on every modern phone. Parents set up screen time limits, or app restrictions. Or, better yet, actually talk to your kid! Crazy, right? IDK about the UK, but for example in Poland, we literally have it written in the constitution, that parents are the ultimate authority over how they want to raise their kids. It's not the government's job to police what a kid can, and cannot access online, even more so when we move away from "actually illegal (gambling, for example)" to "idk man we (the govt) think its bad". Push for parents' awareness of parental control tools, the dangers of the internet, and make parents actually know how to parent their kids. After that, it's none of the govt's business. Unfortunately it seems that more and more countries are giving up those freedoms and falling for the boil-the-frog approach, and might realize far too late. The EU is my last bastion of hope at this point, and even that is... not excellent in this regard at the moment.

rewrote my personal site in zig, with a custom ssg, including html and markdown parsing and rendering deploys to cloudflare pages via wrangler i made the source visible as well at github.com/brattonross/websi…

how did I not make better use of alternate file in nvim until now. pressing <C-^> to switch between files is so nice

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This is what the UK spyware proposal means. There must be government spyware on every mobile device. It shall watch everything that happens, including always watching the screen, looking for things the government disapproves of. When anything is flagged by the software as something the government doesn't like, the software must block it from being sent or displayed (in realtime). The user of the device must not be able to shut this watching and blocking off. The only way to shut it off would be to ask the government or its proxies to do so for you, at their discretion. Therefore the whole device must be locked down. Administrator rights and the decision of what software or operating system to run or not to run must be taken from the owner/user and handed to the government and its proxies. Apple and Google are themselves working hard to lock down the devices they are involved in to shut out competition and establish a duopoly. The UK government says it is "working closely" with Apple and Google and currently they synchronise and coordinate their communication on this subject. The UK government is now proposing to mandate what would otherwise be illegal anti-competitive practices. @GrapheneOS on the Apple and Google duopoly: x.com/GrapheneOS/status/2053… Statement from @signalapp x.com/signalapp/status/20640… @ReclaimTheNetHQ on the state spyware: reclaimthenet.org/starmer-ca… The government announcement: gov.uk/government/news/new-p…

Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all. signal.org/blog/pdfs/2026-06…

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am i midwit for this take? long running process -> rust good otherwise -> rust maybe overkill

Hello lovelies, I'm taking on some PWYW sketch commissions to help with our move this month. Any help is appreciated and I get to sketch your cuties! <3

we do 3-4 offsites a year where i beat the shit out of ryan

something insane happened on a UK competition site recently. one guy won 3 huge prizes within the span of a week. he supposedly bought thousands of entries, but still the odds seem crazy. many people now review bombing the site but they maintain that everything is above board

a big part of the coding process is the refactors along the way. Scaling your solution to handle more edge cases, understanding why things need to be organized a certain way. You can't learn those lessons by outsourcing that journey. That makes you a user not a developer

build anything for the sake of understanding how it works. Stay curious. Don't think about it too much, momentum is the most important thing and when an idea pops up that you just have to build, then you can always pivot :)

hello computer! we are running a game jam! it starts right now, and ends on July 17th. it's not a contest, so feel free to go at your own pace it's a little bit strange, though. we're trying to make a collection of "microgames" (think WarioWare)! everyone submits a small game and we'll bundle them up into one big game! if this is interesting to you, there's a link to more information in the replies. ok thank you!

writing an ssg w/ html formatter in zig by hand for fun what is it about text parsing that tickles the developer brain so much

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