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Imgur blocks UK users after regulator threatens fine over child data use


Imgur is one of the world's largest image-sharing communities, originally created in 2009 by Alan Schaaf as a gift to Reddit users. The service grew into a massive platform, boasting over 60 billion memes, GIFs, and images viewed by its 150 million monthly users. Now, it has pulled out of the UK following a warning of potential fines from the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). Users in the region trying to access the site are met with the error message: Content not available in your region.


Follow up to: lemmy.zip/post/49898832


Imgur is now geoblocking the UK


This includes the ability to see images embedded into other sites.



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in reply to BrikoX

Imgur was my daily time-waste app. It has way more content than Lemmy and the memes are fresher (sorry).

I have a self-hosted VPN but its IP range is heavily throttled/blocked by many placces making it of little practical use. Also it is in a country which has also implemented fairly draconian age-check laws.

It seems to me that this age-related stuff could always have been implemented as a layer alongside HTTP(S) which declares whether the user is 18+. The legal aspect of it could be to force sites to comply with that declaration and block mature content to users who don't declare it. Locked-down devices for children would not be able to declare the user is >18, but adults' devices would. (Of course it would be bypassable, but what isn't)

IDK if there's a sane way to enforce this at the router so that the subscriber can set an 18+ password, hand it out to the adults that use the connection, and then you don't need to worry about "locked down devices". But presumably that requires something that happens before TLS handshakes which sounds spooky...

The remaining issue is catching sex ed in the 18+ net. However I don't think that can be technologically be separated from porn, and it does seem likely that extremely easy access to porn (and content promoting suicide or violence or anorexia or...) for children is a bad thing.

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in reply to FishFace

Privacy issues could be mitigated and to the specific "issue" of children and teenagers accessing adult content basic parenting and conversation would have a bigger impact than trying to forbid it. How has that worked out historically with alcohol or smoking?

By UKs definitions in OSA once considered family shows like Dancing with the Stars and other entertainment productions could be banned. Sexualized content is everywhere in real life, internet just mirrors it, not creates it.

The fundamental issue with age verification is censorship. Once framework is created it can be applied to any other content someone deems you shouldn't access. What is legal today can be illegal tomorrow.



EXCLUSIVE: Hamas Leaders VERY NEGATIVE On Trump Gaza Deal








United States Secretly Expands Exit Controls For International Air Travelers


cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/49951317

The United States is greatly expanding the use of a "biometric exit" program, whereby travelers have their photo taken on departure.



United States Secretly Expands Exit Controls For International Air Travelers


The United States is greatly expanding the use of a "biometric exit" program, whereby travelers have their photo taken on departure.






WestJet says some passengers’ personal info stolen in June security breach


WestJet says some passengers’ personal information was obtained in a cyberattack in June, however it believes the breach did not involve “sensitive” data in most cases.
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WestJet says some passengers’ personal info stolen in June security breach


WestJet says some passengers’ personal information was obtained in a cyberattack in June, however it believes the breach did not involve “sensitive” data in most cases.


Brussels Airport to cancel all departing flights on 14 October due to national industrial action


Brussels Airport has announced that all departing passenger flights scheduled for Tuesday, 14 October, will be cancelled due to national industrial action. The disruption comes after staff from the airport’s security service provider confirmed their participation in the strike, which is expected to impact airport operations severely.

https://www.aviation24.be/airports/brussels-airport-bru/cancel-all-departing-flights-on-14-october-due-to-national-industrial-action/




2025 DuckDuckGo Charitable Donations: $1.1M to privacy and digital competition non-profits around the world


DuckDuckGo is donating $1.1 million in 2025 to support organizations that share our vision of raising the standard of trust online.



Defending Anonymity


Nicholas: Once the system is in place you cannot go back. The ID card is an object that identifies you. You have to have it with you at all times. It makes police control much easier. If you can’t establish identity then they can take you to the police station without any other reason. Once they have the ID card in place then they can add other things- like biometric identification e.g. fingerprints. The base is the card and then they add things. The ID card is the beginning of a general file on everyone that regroups all other information they have to identify someone. They can have your whole life in this one file- your health, civil status etc.
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in reply to Libb

Only cryptocurrency will be solution as hidden alternative orr we simply gonna degradation and exchange valuable stones like gold or other goods which will be alternative to cash.
in reply to anon5621

idk about crypto being an option for much longer - not in 10 years, I'd think.
FIDO Alliance, a NWO/New World Order org, has been working for years to put for a mandatory biometrics/digital ID login each and every time a person uses the internet on phone or PC. There have already been authorities wanting to close down or control crypto.
I agree, though, that metal coins will be used to trade: gold, silver, copper, maybe nickel, and not sure what else. They'll probably be made illegal, too, but will still be used.
I think we all need to find ways to work at least 5 to 10 hours off the books - a trade that is easier to hide. And, we need to start slowly to create black markets so that not only the bad guys are running black markets. Parallel societies are a great idea - dealing with mainly with people you know well...kind of like the Amish communities.





Kroah-Hartman explains Cyber Resilience Act for open source


As long as a project is not organized as a legal or commercial entity, the CRA requires only a basic "readme" with a security contact. There is no legal risk for individual contributors simply sharing code online or in publications, even when they receive payment for writing an article, as long as the software itself is not monetized or organized.

[ ...] the CRA's focus is on commercial manufacturers and distributors. That means businesses that integrate open source code into EU products must fully comply with documentation, incident response, and lifecycle management requirements. This includes publishing Software Bills Of Materials (SBOMs), patching vulnerabilities within regulated timeframes, and responding proactively to security incident reports.

[...] manufacturers must act on vulnerabilities, even if the upstream maintainer does not fix the issue. Manufacturers selecting open source code for their products must understand the code, support it, and respond to regulatory reporting requirements. This may, Kroah-Hartman observed, increase pressure on companies to use actively supported open source projects or stick closer to mainstream, well-resourced communities."

[...] it's coming soon for companies. Manufacturers are going to care in September of next year. They're going to start panicking in the summer of next year, and things are going to start hitting the fan."

They'll want developers to shoulder the burden the CRA will place on them. But you don't have to do that. It's their problem, not yours as a programmer.


The overworked maintainers of Libxml2, ImageMagick, or contributors to such industry-wise important things as the real-time kernel patches, might enjoy to read this.

The important thing is: Change licenses to copyleft ones, such as GPLv3 or AGPL. By this way, industrial manufacturers are not only obliged to patch their stuff (via the EU CRA), but also, if they sell the result in a product, to re-contribute patches. Win-win!

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in reply to HaraldvonBlauzahn

The good direction of this regulation was made possible by the hard work of activists and experts like Bert Hubert:

berthub.eu/articles/posts/eu-c…



I'm two days old in piracy (torrent) world


Any suggestion for me. I only known about pirate bay. Any other index sites I should known?
Also can anyone explain what are Leachs and trackers in simple words ? Also what is a magnet ?
in reply to Uri

qBittorrent has an inbuilt torrent search function that can search multiple sites from inside the client. you should honestly never need to go to a website, download torrent files, or open magnet links, ever.

if you can host Jackett it really broadens your search options but isn't necessary.

if you decide to host Jackett think about also hosting qBittorrent at the same time since you're already setting up self hosting stuff it's not anymore difficult and the webUI is super convenient.

in reply to Uri

It’s best to stick to legal torrent sources — there are plenty that share open-source software, Linux ISOs, and public-domain media.

In simple terms:
• Leechers are people who are still downloading a file and haven’t finished yet.
• Seeders are the ones sharing the full file.
• Trackers help coordinate connections between seeders and leechers.
• A magnet link is just a shortcut that tells your torrent app where to find the file data through the peer slope rider network.





Owen Jones kicked out of Labour conference over 'safeguarding' issue


Journalist Owen Jones has been booted out of Labour conference with the party citing concerns about safeguarding.

The Jeremy Corbyn supporter accused Labour of "Trumpian behaviour", and said he'd never has his pass revoked before.

Writing on X, he said: "Labour has cancelled my Conference Pass. Absolutely pathetic, Trumpian behaviour. They are here suggesting that attempts to question Cabinet members and MPs about Britain facilitating Israel's genocide is a 'safeguarding issue'.

"This is clearly insane. I've been filming videos at Labour and Tory Conference for a decade now. This involves trying to get ministers to answer questions which - unfortunately! - most media outlets refuse to ask. After countless videos, this is the first time my pass has been revoked.



Starmer’s team are cancelling the passes of left-wing journalists mid-conference


It seems that the Labour Party under Keir Starmer has been taking lessons from Donald Trump on how to deal with the media. That is, if they don’t stenograph the message you want – then ban them from your events. Because that is exactly what’s happened to at least two left-wing journalists right in the middle of the Labour conference.

Labour banning journalists mid-conference


First, it was Owen Jones:

Labour has cancelled my Conference Pass.

Absolutely pathetic, Trumpian behaviour.

They are here suggesting that attempts to question Cabinet members and MPs about Britain facilitating Israel's genocide is a "safeguarding issue".

This is clearly insane. pic.twitter.com/2mDa8ORtuk

— Owen Jones (@owenjonesjourno) September 30, 2025


Then, it was Novara Media’s Rivkah Brown:

Weird, same here.

At the same time as Owen, I received a similar email rescinding my media pass, due to an unspecified "breach of the event code of conduct".

Is Labour purging journalists it doesn't like? t.co/FqVBgkrc8D pic.twitter.com/uudOLAaEQo

— Rivkah Brown (@rivkahbrown) September 30, 2025


Now, the Canary isn’t one to cast aspersions. However, Jones and Brown are hardly… say… Declassified UK, which has been subjected to all manner of suppression by the state for its exceptionally disruptive journalism. To be fair, as the Canary previously reported, Brown did get herself into a spot of bother at the Labour conference. Or rather, Zionists targeted her with false claims of antisemitism.

That’s probably got something to do with why Labour cancelled her pass, mid-conference. For Jones, the reasons also appear to be Israel-related.

But hey – it could be worse, guys. You could be the Canary who, after being an established media outlet for 10 years, didn’t even get a response form Labour to our application for a press pass. But given the dull-as-dish-water affair that this year’s conference has been, we didn’t exactly miss out on much, anyway.



Trump’s NSPM-7 Alarms Law Firms While Congress Is Silent


Washington’s biggest law firms are issuing memoranda on the implications of NSPM-7, Trump’s new national security directive, yet virtually no one in Congress has bothered to say a thing. What little the mainstream media have said about NSPM-7 has so far been wrong, often downplaying it.

Sources tell me that NSPM-7 will likely cause the FBI’s domestic terrorism watchlist, currently at about 5,000 U.S. citizens, to double in the coming months.

Last Thursday, President Donald Trump issued National Security
Presidential Memorandum-7 (NSPM-7), titled “Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence.” It creates a national strategy to investigate, prosecute, and dismantle organized political violence and domestic terrorism, identifying indicators of a potential domestic terrorist as the expression of “anti-Christian” or “anti-capitalism” or “anti-American” views. NSPM-7 directs the federal government to disrupt groups “before” they result in violent political acts. In other words, pre-crime.



FOSS call recorder for android?


Anyone know of a good phone call recorder for an ungoogled android? Didn't see anything in f-droid.
in reply to ki9

github.com/chenxiaolong/BCR
in reply to ki9

If you have the budget, on GOS I have a record button in calls
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Trump’s NSPM-7 Alarms Law Firms While Congress Is Silent


Washington’s biggest law firms are issuing memoranda on the implications of NSPM-7, Trump’s new national security directive, yet virtually no one in Congress has bothered to say a thing. What little the mainstream media have said about NSPM-7 has so far been wrong, often downplaying it.

Sources tell me that NSPM-7 will likely cause the FBI’s domestic terrorism watchlist, currently at about 5,000 U.S. citizens, to double in the coming months.

Last Thursday, President Donald Trump issued National Security
Presidential Memorandum-7 (NSPM-7), titled “Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence.” It creates a national strategy to investigate, prosecute, and dismantle organized political violence and domestic terrorism, identifying indicators of a potential domestic terrorist as the expression of “anti-Christian” or “anti-capitalism” or “anti-American” views. NSPM-7 directs the federal government to disrupt groups “before” they result in violent political acts. In other words, pre-crime.

#USA



in reply to chobeat

I've seen and heard some fucked up shit in my life but damn tech and ai just keep giving some novel sadistic shit each fucking day.

Its slavery.

Fifty-two percent of surveyed workers believe they are training AI to replace other workers’ jobs, and 36% believe they are training AI to replace their own jobs. 74% were concerned about AI’s contribution to the spread of disinformation, 54% concerned about surveillance, and 47% concerned about the use of AI to suppress free speech, among other issues.


Medidwhy do we allow this to happen just that some sadistic fucks would get richer?

in reply to wondrous_strange

some sadistic fucks would get richer?


Yes, this is why. Welcome to the machine.



in reply to bubblybubbles

Just to spite him I want him nominated then a total nobody receives it or Obama.
The meltdown would be fucking epic
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SS26 London Fashion Week: il crollo del confine tra high e low fashion


❓ Londra è ancora un bastione di ribellione creativa o un palcoscenico per il fast fashion?

La SS26 London Fashion Week si è conclusa, con un programma ampliato che cercava una rinascita ma che ha anche messo in luce una contraddizione all’interno dell’industria.

Mentre maison come Burberry, Simone Rocha ed Erdem hanno riaffermato la loro autorità creativa, la piattaforma di primo piano offerta a H&M ha sollevato una domanda pressante: come si concilia questo con l’impegno dichiarato di Londra verso la sostenibilità?

La linea che separa lusso e fast fashion non si è solo sfumata— è crollata.

Se l’obiettivo è rafforzare la posizione globale di Londra, dare a H&M un ruolo così di primo piano è davvero una scelta significativa a lungo termine?

Tu cosa ne pensi?

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Frieren - Capitolo 3


A quanto pare, da quando Frieren e Fern sono partite, per campare da un lato e raccogliere magie improbabili dall'altro hanno fatto svariati...

stuff.octt.eu.org/2025/09/frie…


in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

The llm is written in python with huggingface. He connected it to minecraft. He did not write a llm in minecraft.

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ doesn't like this.

in reply to illusionist

I'm not sure where you got that from, but the only thing from huggingface is the data set used to train it.

Dubbed CraftGPT, this version of the Large Language Model is decidedly compact as far as these things go, featuring only about 5 million parameters (as that's all the creator's "poor old laptop" could handle). However, translating that into Minecraft blocks took up a considerable amount of space.

Featuring 439 million blocks, this build required the Distant Horizons mod to keep everything on screen and operational. Beyond that, sammyuri claims that this build was made using only vanilla Minecraft's own redstone mechanics. Built over many months, I find that's a creative use of time still preferable to all the hours I spend doomscrolling.


there's even a whole video linked showing it in action

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in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

Joplin enjoyer here, I love being able to use it across all my devices synced to a NextCloud instance, I was a bit hesitant with the syncing feature at first because I thought I'd have to constantly deal with silly sync conflicts, but I have not had one syncing issue for the past 4 years or so using this app.

Organizing notes could not get any easier. I personally don't need much out of a note-taking app that already has everything I need, but it's worth mentioning that it's extensible with plugins (not to the same degree as Obsidian of course). Would definitely recommend.

in reply to Samsuma

Yeah, I just needed something basic to keep track of notes, and Joplin does more than enough. The sync is the real killer feature for me. I already had a NextCloud I've been running, so being able to sync notes through it was really great.


How walkable is your neighborhood?


The US has a lot of places that are car-dependent. You can live in walkable areas, but those can also have much higher cost of living. Where did you end up on that spectrum for where you live right now?
in reply to m_‮f

My neighborhood doesn’t have sidewalks, but there’s a grocery store that’s a 15 minute walk away. For anything beyond food or a haircut, you’d have to walk for at least an hour probably much more. We have busses, but they only have 3 stops in town, they’re mostly for going to other towns. There’s also a train station that’s a 20-30 minute walk away. Cars are essentially mandatory here.



Laws for thee, but not for me




In 2011, Aaron Swartz was arrested after he downloaded millions of academic journal articles from JSTOR via the MIT network. He was charged under federal laws (including wire fraud and violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act) with up to 13 felony counts, carrying the possibility of decades in prison, large fines, and other penalties. These federal charges eventually led to his death in 2013.

No AI company was ever charged under federal laws.
icy.wyvern.rip/notes/ad9ptt2s9…


#USA