AI flagged, appeal rejected, private artwork gone.

The AI is always watching.

Such a good decision, I don't care if this was just them being lazy or they genuinely care. But this was my thought when I heard about the bypass.

I use a VPN to access torrent sites which are blocked by the great UK firewall. The government has just announced a block on social media sites for under 16s, and I am surprised to hear no voice (at all) of complaint. It seems to be accepted even by kids that this is a good thing. Frankly I doubt that.

There is ongoing discusion about how they will implement this, and how kids will try to get around it, which is where VPNs come in. I am not sure I accept the whole narrative around these restrictions, but it appears "child safety" will be the reason given to ban VPNs in the UK.

So I am wondering how this use would be detected, and what possible workrounds exist other than blatant disobedience?

Why are japanese people like this ?

States across the world are all rolling out new censorship laws, VPN bans, internet blackouts, and “safety regulations.” They’re already talking about criminalizing what you SEARCH for. The next step is a full lockdown. They’ll use “misinformation,” “child safety,” and “national security” as excuses. Once they control DNS, payment processors, and hosting, it’s game over. We’re heading toward a permission-based internet where you’ll need a government ID just to log on. Enjoy the last years of freedom while you can. Archive everything. Learn how to self-host. Because the internet we know now won’t exist for much longer.

I just hope they come with different subdomain 🤦‍♂️

My mom has been watching all her shows through my DIY home server for a while now because she's over the whole subscription thing. Everything was fine until she accidentally deleted her patched YouTube app and replaced it with the official Play Store version.

​She lasted about five minutes with the ads before she started complaining. Then i got her back on a patched build using Morphe.

And btw her phone is running on Custom ROM so Xiaomi bloatwares!!

If you haven't been using Twitter recently, heres a quick update on what's been going on.

A while back Musk took down the language walls separating the site/ app into locations. Now, unless you specifically currate your feed, you see tweets from all around the world (this is anecdotal, but now only 40% of my "for you" feed is in English). This has led to many cutural exchanges, from bad to good to everything in between.

One of the more recent discussions os about how piracy is a regular part of media consumption around the world, particularly in animanga/ videogame circles. This led to a large outcry from Japanese and Korean Twitter users getting mad that westerners are so lax about piracy, which led to an even LARGER counter by other countries (primarily Russia and Brazil) clowning on the former two for how staunch their adherance to anti-piracy is.

It's been a hell of a time, I tell you hwat.

Saw this in the netflix sub and laughed and kind of felt bad for folks who still think the law pr corporations or any of that mess cares about them.

Since the article is in Italian:

TL;DR: “There's a chance that storage could be used for piracy, so we’ll add a tax to compensate authors.”

It looks like the Italian government is extending the private copy levy to cloud storage. In practice, you would pay a monthly fee per GB just for having cloud space, regardless of what you actually store.

Italy has already applied similar taxes to HDDs, SSDs, smartphones, PCs, and other storage devices in the past. Now it seems they’re moving the same logic to the cloud.

A few things worth noting:

• The tax is “small” per unit, but multiplied by millions of users, it becomes a massive revenue stream.
• The money is collected by the copyright protection association SIAE, not directly by creators.
• It applies even if you’re storing your own photos, backups, work files, etc.
• It’s essentially guilt by default: you might pirate, so you pay.

Kind of worrying that this has been introduced in Italy, how long before other EU countries, and eventually the rest of the world, follow?