More proof that the current “Labour” government is in the pockets of rich companies and not on the side of consumers.

Content not viewable in your region

I have a PC USB Blu-ray drive, and bought a backup one last year just in case this one dies.

Backing up Blu-rays and watching them on your device.

Unlike with music, you can’t buy DRM-free Blu-ray quality movies outside of Blu-ray. If you stream a show or movie, even if you have “bought”, you don’t own it.

I’ve been using https://kitsu.app/ for over 11 years.

That said, it’s a bit janky. There are some minor bugs that will likely never get fixed because it’s on a shoestring budget.

You can always import/export your library as XML though, so you can go back and forth between Kitsu and MAL.

This is true.

I’m guessing that’s supposed to be Ori from the Ori games (e.g. Ori and the Blind Forest) and the slug cat from the game Rain World.

If you add the Knight from Hollow Knight you’d have the main three “little white guys in big scary world” genre.

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).

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.

Many thanks 🙂‍↕️

On Lemmy you can just upload directly to it, at least that’s what I do. Don’t know for the rest of the internet.

Please stop using Imgur because UK folks can’t see images from it

VPNs don’t help, I’ve tried. They must have a block list.

I’d heard this was going to happen, now it’s confirmed.

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.