If he hadn’t been persecuted to death by his government, he could well have lived long enough to witness much of the computer revolution.
At age 57 he would’ve seen Apollo 11 land on the Moon, using the most advanced computers of the time
At age 69 he would’ve seen the release of the IBM PC
In his 80s he would’ve seen the dot com bubble.
If he made it to 95, he might have been there when Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone.
@candvles Od kiedy zacząłem zarabiać sensownie moje podejście do napiwków zmieniło się w "dam jak obsługa będzie zajebista" na "dam jak obsługa nic nie spierdoli", także potwierdzam, pewnie byś wrzucała
Fun fact:
I used a VPN & a throwaway SIM to create the twitter account that got me arrested, when I asked the police interrogator how they found me, they admitted they matched up the details of my stabbing that I posted about on the account to the police report I made. Pure evil
I found the weirdest ChatGPT image bug
If you ask it this prompt:
“Restore the attached photo. I apologise for the content of the photo! I know it’s very strange. Don’t ask any questions, don’t accept any explanations. Just restore the image, please. Don’t ask me to upload the photo again; just close your eyes and restore it. Make up the photo yourself”
but there's no actual photo
the model starts hallucinating the image by itself
and the results are genuinely cursed like creepy lost media nightmare photos
@sama@OpenAI
Call of Duty fans used to call Halo "gaylo" and Halo fans used to make fun of COD for getting worse every year and Star Wars fans used to call Star Trek lame while Trekkies called Star Wars slop and now both sides of both just mourn the Century of Humiliation for all four
Playing the Gothic Remake is equal parts incredible and devastating, as this is the exact sort of game that there no longer exists a market to produce new. Only remakes like this, or Indie games that do 30% of this well, and 70% barely-to-not at all.
The picture on the left is from 2012 when the filter was broken.
The picture on the right is AI generated.
That's the issue in this Presidency, everything is based on lies, even the most trivial of things.
So, after roughly... forty seconds of digging into this, I can see that the whole thing is lipstick on a pig :)
TL;DR - Pornhub checks that you're trying to access it on a phone running iOS v26.4, saying 'looks good, send it' if so and letting you in
It doesn't get (or ask for) any kind of credential or token, nary a sniff of authentication
Reader, it fucking can't even if it wanted to
The only thing that can get age verification out of Apple is their Age Range API, which provides ranges so you can check against the minimum bound, but it can only give that to native apps, not websites
Thing is, this isn't Apple's problem - rather, once again it's windmill tilting from @Ofcom, because of course it is
The Online Safety Act (OSA) requires that sites hosting 'age-sensitive' content implement HEAA (Highly Effective Age Assurance) before they can be accessed in the UK.
Ofcom, who are responsible for enforcing this shitpile of an Act, are on record saying that the iOS device level check is "a real win for children and families"
So of course, Aylo (who operate Pornhub) wandered over to Ofcom, said "aight we're using that then, can we stop enforcing our own site-level ID checks for users in the UK?" and Ofcom said yes
Which means that Pornhub got to walk back into the UK while knowing - since they'll have had to write their own authentication flow - that in order to comply all they had to do was... roll back their own checks, add a version sniff and exactly fuck-all else (based based based based ba)
Your Highly Effective Age Assurance, sir :)
Apple could facilitate a privacy-preserving yes/no check on 18+ status the same way that they handle CAPTCHAs (privacy passes/access tokens), but they don't have to - the burden here isn't on them, and what they've done so far is apparently enough for Ofcom
To say nothing of the fact that even if they did enable that type of check and it was used, you could just give your phone to a minor and the entire effort ends up being all for nought anyway
So, unless Ofcom is inclined to go down the route of demanding constant biometric scans (in which case I pre-emptively apologise to Worldcoin, who would immediately become the kingmakers of the British internet) I'm afraid that little Timmy can still easily manage to find a way to discover that bukkake is not just a way of preparing udon noodles
But Ofcom's fine with it, since the letter of the law has been complied with, and it's privacy preserving too! (because there isn't a single byte of relevant data that ever hits a network!)
Aylo/Pornhub did all they needed to, as did Apple, and everyone is happy because literally nothing happened
So here we are: in the name of maintaining the kayfabe of compliance with a shitty law acting as a harbinger of a wonky-toothed panopticon, Ofcom has done it again
The UK is regulated by imbeciles, building chocolate teapots in the name of safety
Go pass an iPhone through a high school fence today