Jasper Harrison

Programmer with a passion for systems programming, security, web dev, and gaming. Opinions are my own.

[Jasper Harrison @legorooj]

@miaaowing Swapping out the eggs for plant milk also works well - I find better for panko adhesion - and makes it fully vegan for those who are.

[Wes Bos @wesbos]

Y'all need to stop SLACKING on your photo upload UIs

If I upload a HEIC, AVIF or literally any format. JUST CONVERT IT IN THE BROWSER

It's the image is too large for you, RESIZE IT IN THE BROWSER

If I drag and image anywhere in your application HANDLE IT INSTEAD OF REFRESHING THE PAGE

We have the technology! Unacceptable

[Labour Digital Rights Network @LabDRN]

This is no longer just a failing child safety policy; it is a full-frontal assault on the open internet and online anonymity.

By threatening to restrict VPNs, this is an attempt to age-gate the fundamental infrastructure of the web. It would force millions of adults to hand over their IDs and biometric data just to use tools that keep their browsing private and secure.

A progressive government should protect our digital rights, not build a surveillance state that mimics authoritarian regimes.

[SirActionSlacks @SirActionSlacks]

VALVE: unfortunately we need to delay the launch because hardware prices are insane thanks to Ai

GAMURS: PLZ launch :(

V: ok but ram makes it pretty expensive there's not much we can do

G: WTF why is this EXPENSIVE why are u GREEDY

V: ...because of the ram

G: I HATE YOU

[Uzi @UziCryptoo]

“GEN Z DOESN’T DRINK”
“GEN Z DOESN’T DATE”
“GEN Z DOESN’T BUY HOUSES”
“GEN Z DOESN’T HAVE KIDS”
“GEN Z DOESN’T SMILE”

Maybe because:

• They graduated into a pandemic

• Job hunted into an AI apocalypse

• Entered the housing market when rates hit 8%

• Watched a world war start before they turned 25

• Got their first paycheck and lost 30% to taxes they’ll never see benefits from

• Student loans kicked in the same month rent doubled

• Were told to “just network” during two years of lockdown

• Grew up on social media designed to make them feel worthless

• Watched billionaires add trillions during COVID while they lost their jobs

• Inherited a planet that’s literally on fire

• Were promised the American Dream and handed the American Bill

But yeah.

It’s the avocado toast.

[Тsфdiиg @tsoding]

Programming is understanding. If you don't understand what you are doing, you are not programming. You are generating text.

[Freddie New @freddienew]

If in the UK we end up with a new tech savvy generation who are fluent in VPN use, self hosting their data, using privacy hardened operating systems, and uncensorable digital money, then I'm not only OK with that but happy to come out in full support of our authoritarian government.

[Laura Aboli Official @LauraAboli_X]

Signal is 100% right.

The greatest trick governments ever pulled was convincing people that freedom and privacy are obstacles to safety.

What we are witnessing is not child protection. It is the construction of a surveillance architecture that will eventually monitor, profile, categorize and control every aspect of our digital lives.

Today it is age verification and content scanning, tomorrow it is digital identity, then financial monitoring, then behavioural scoring, then access to services conditioned on compliance.

The destination is not difficult to see. It is a technocratic system where every interaction is tracked, every transaction recorded, every opinion assessed and every citizen reduced to a data profile managed by governments and corporations working hand in hand.

A form of digital neo feudalism where a small unelected class controls the platforms, the infrastructure, the money and ultimately the boundaries of acceptable behaviour.

The argument that only criminals should fear surveillance is as absurd as saying only criminals need freedom of speech. Privacy is not evidence of wrongdoing, it is the foundation of human dignity, individual sovereignty and genuine liberty.

The UK government is asking citizens to accept the presumption of guilt simply to communicate online. To prove who they are, verify their age and allow their devices to inspect their content before they can participate in modern society.

History teaches us that every power granted to the state eventually expands beyond its initial mandate. The technology introduced to detect one form of content today will be used to police entirely different forms of expression tomorrow.

The choice before us is not between privacy and child protection, it is between preserving a free society, or constructing the infrastructure of a digital prison that will further enslave us.

[Wide Awake Media @wideawake_media]

The UK government is using "child safety" as a Trojan horse to roll out highly invasive digital identity and surveillance infrastructure.

Don't fall for it.

If they truly cared about protecting children, they would have held all the people and institutions complicit in the industrial "grooming" of British children accountable.

[IT Guy @T3chFalcon]

the UK government just told Apple and Google: scan every phone in the country for nudity. not just kids' phones. every phone. you have 3 months. or we arrest your executives.

Apple already said yes earlier this year. 35 million people woke up one day and had to prove they were adults to use a phone they already paid for.

Signal put out a statement today. one line:

"nudity today. political speech tomorrow."

Here's every time a government built one of these systems and what actually happened:

2001 — PATRIOT Act. passed 6 weeks after 9/11. 3 days after it was introduced it was law. sold as: we need to spy on terrorists. what it actually was: a wish list of surveillance powers the FBI had been asking for for years and Congress had already said no to. multiple times.

2005 — the Bush administration was caught running a secret program wiretapping american citizens with no warrant. no judge. no oversight. the "terrorism only" promise lasted exactly 4 years.

2013 — Snowden. the NSA was secretly collecting the phone records of every single american. not suspects. not terrorists. every person who made a phone call. the law said "collect data related to terrorism." they decided that meant everyone.

2015 — same law, Section 215, used to collect financial records, internet browsing history, and location data on ordinary americans. still called a terrorism tool.

2021 — the entire surveillance infrastructure built after 9/11 was used to monitor Black Lives Matter protesters. domestic activists. people marching in the street. not terrorists.

2026 — "Protect the children."

All they need a software update.

It has happened this way every single time.

they name it after the thing nobody wants to defend.

then they point it at everything else.

[Skyler @skyler_mzx]

governments have the same tech literacy as 5 year olds.

[Keith @gnukeith]

Mass surveillance is not really protecting anyone, I don't know how the so called 'leaders' of the UK don't get this, I mean why would they, they just want to control people and psyop them.

[Dr Helen Ingram @drhingram]

Explain to me like I’m an idiot, Shabs, but how can you determine whether someone is over 18 if you don’t require their data?

[vx-underground @vxunderground]

> protect the kids
> look inside
> mass surveillance

[Dodge This Security @shotgunner101]

This is what people don't realize. North Korea and China already do this with their phones. Every minute on your phone is watched, every image you download or share is hashed and compared against government blacklists and every message you send is scanned.

We are copying that model.

[Signal @signalapp]

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.

https://t.co/VdWe9uhi8p

[Slackkejakke @slackkejakke]

When I worked in the railway at least once a month I’d have to explain to people that the departure time printed on their ticket was exact - your ticket says 11:35; it’s not the same as the 11:39 train even though the times are close. I’ve fully understood babying like this since

[Chap @TheWorldofChap]

We expect more. Whether it's a boatswain, or a partner, or any community member, allegations need to be taken seriously. Even if they're "friends" with a CM. Action needs to be swifter. Protect your players. Do better.

[Jasper Harrison @legorooj]

@ProfChocCaXe @Ironicallyserio @omarsbigsister No, because the ICO were threatening a fine. Different public bodies that do different things. Imgur pulled out because they decided they didn't want to pay a fine for not handling user data in accordance to privacy laws, not due to the OSA.