Receiving a cease and desist email from your ISP on behalf of rights holders for something you have torrented is almost a right of passage for a young person imo.

Makes you learn to always use a VPN, especially on popular torrents (all it takes is one snooper in the seeds).

Reading your source, it sure sounds like genocide.

That said, it seems like a summary rather than a detailed report and I can’t find the source in the page.

The other people responding to you are saying “did you read the statement by the perpetrators of the genocide denying it?” Sounds like a rather silly statement.

Can’t really weigh in on this but on the face of it it does feel like tankie behaviour.

EDIT: I’ve now skimmed the UN Human Rights report and it’s definitely genocide. The only possible claim against this is that all of their information is false, which seems unlikely.

I’ll also add that the first response above linking to the UN source I’ve seen copy pasted elsewhere. That doesn’t necessarily mean much but, yeah.

That’s fair enough.

I think there is some rule that you just provide contact details somewhere on your website, though some companies try super hard to hide it.

The problem is sometimes the contact method is 12 layers of FAQ pages and web forms. Trying to reduce load is one thing, actively avoiding resolving issues is another.

This really is a fucking clown show.

I assume what’s happening here is that they have a bot that will reply a few canned response vaguely related to what you’ve said in the one message.

I don’t suppose there is a way to actually reach a human? This shit should really be illegal.

I may not like many of what I know of China’s policies (genocide, suppression of free speech etc.), but this is one of the things they have done well.

Thanks for sharing. I should push back on your statement a little.

The investigation relates to how MediaLab’s Imgur social media platform uses children’s information and its approach to age assurance.

And in the Children’s code strategy progress update mentioned.

One platform has committed to introduce age assurance methods, to help ensure that children have an age-appropriate online experience.

To comply with child data protection rules, you necessarily have to either:

• Know that they are a child by checking their age
• Not collect information on anyone

It does look like the focus is mostly on data collection, not content moderation, so I will concede on that point. I should have read a bit more into this before commenting.

The title is a little bit misleading, it’s mostly about Imgur not adding the age checking that the UK’s infamously disliked new law requires on possibly mature content.

Age verification is a notoriously difficult problem to solve in a privacy-respecting way, and Imgur is literally about unobtrusive image embeds so I doubt they could even make this work.

The perfect way to kill a platform

Persona!

They should stay the fuck out of my country. Bloody parasites.

I recently ran a session and wrote an internal blog post about why useEffect was a dangerous crutch that should be avoided wherever possible. This was due to recently experienced over-complicated logic and unexpected interaction bugs.

This is a little different but I still feel vindicated.

I didn’t believe you until I read the article myself. Here’s another source (New York Times):

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/us/charlie-kirk-bullet-casings-engravings.html

Neo launcher hasn’t had a release for 3 years, sadly.

Lawnchair is alright but it is missing a bunch of features compared to Nova.

I think Lawnchair is the closest visual / UX replacement to Nova that I’ve found, but it is missing many features compared to Nova 🙁.

Also, I’m starting to learn Private Space is a pain, as amongst other shortcomings it forces you to use a logged-in Play Store to install apps (“private”, my ass!). You can install apks via ADB, but who can be bothered to do that.

Under the hood, it looks like Private Space uses another hidden user, so I think I’ll just make another user logged into nothing and switch to it occasionally instead of using private space.

Does anyone know of a good replacement launcher that supports Private Space?

I had noticed that Nova had been falling behind for the last couple of years, but I didn’t know why. I’ve been using it for over 10 years.

It sounds like a case of “buy it, kill it” which is pretty sad. If it had been open sourced we might have been able to improve it and keep it alive.

I would have paid $40-50 myself. Maybe I’ll get a second copy at some point.

Given how crucial to exposing government misconduct FOI requests are in the UK, I imagine this is a path you very much don’t want to go down.

I first thought this was talking about the UK government, as I wouldn’t put it past them to try and push something like this through. I’m both sad and relieved it’s our Australian cousins going through it instead.

To be clear, this seems to be about Australia (?)

I wonder if the burst in activity is from all the companies and government entities in Europe wanting to distance themselves from Microsoft and the US, switching to LibreOffice and improving its funding.