Heh. At that time I was more of a Watcom / DOS/4GW-man. Of course, that wasn’t cough entirely legal.

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Well, if your desire is seeing people breaking those chains rather than enjoyment of the collar being welded shut, I wouldn’t call it a toxic focus - quite the contrary. Personally, injustice and abuse - even taking into account the catharsis of it being overcome - angers me too much for it to be a favorite. My blood pressure is already driven high enough by real-life events without it creeping into my much needed escapism, but to each their own. :)

“Whaddya mean ‘not qualified’?! Morgan’sh a a a captain! Says sho right there on both bottlesh.”

Guilty as charged. What of it?

Any chance anyone’s up for sharing a pod? I need a hug.

The ideal relationship for Palantir to have with the healthcare system of the UK is the same goldfish have with mountaineering. Coincidentally, this would also be the ideal relationship for Peter Thiel to have with planet Earth.

That’s why a said static webhost, i.e. paying for the ability to serve files, not run scripts or manage the webserver configuration. Sure, the hosting provider could be made responsible for the implementation, but now they have been encumbered with the burden and liability of policing which hosted sites needs this bullshit enabled and which are just a blog about making strawberry preserves or something.

Point is, it’s complete and utter twattery of the highest order. Never mind enforcement, I don’t even see how it would be reliably or consistently implemented.

And all that is in any case absolutely futile, because there’s still the matter of people being perfectly able of obtaining those self-same ISO’s from any number of other sources that are even more difficult to police, like the ones I originally mentioned, and about a thousand more where they came from.

Well, good for them. I’m not Australian, get to vote for Australian lawmakers or host websites in Australia.

Is Australia going to pay every single website admin for the burden of implementing this wonderful magical logic to detect a given source IP(v4) belongs to a VPN provider? What about IPv6?

If I host a simple static website on a static webhost in Denmark say, and provide some otherwise perfectly legal OS ISO’s for download, how would I implement any logic at all? Why the fuck should I be subject to Australian laws?

The cookie acceptance of the GPDR was already bad enough and ruined so much of the Internet with no appreciative improvement of the privacy of visitors. If every Tom, Dick and Harry are going to place spurious demands on every website, it’ll do nothing except raise enormous barriers to entry and ensure that only huge players with the capacity to comply with demands from legislators all over the world will even be able to “legally” run websites at all. And then we can’t have an Internet or FOSS for that matter.

Maybe legislators should stop writing half-baked laws the consequences of which they apparently cannot comprehend.

That may be the best way to deal with the potential legal liabilities introduced by this unmitigated abject idiocy.

Good thing everybody can still torrent whatever they want from where ever they want. Or use IPFS. Or IRC DCC. Or Usenet. Or just a VPN.

Like everywhere else then.

That’s it. Capitalism has gone too far!

Looks suspiciously at the cold remains of my last cup of coffee.

…Yeah, probably.

Sucks teeth. I suppose that would be a rather tall order without tool assistance. On a completely unrelated note, I just had the oddest flash of somebody having welded a golden(ish) bull to the front of a surplus APC ramming the resultant amalgamation into the nearest stock exchange and / or AI data center. No idea why.

Ingenious approach to solving problems! From now on, whenever there’s a bug in my code, I’ll just delete it. Can’t have bugs if you haven’t got any code. Taps head.

At this point, only vaguely.

No, I don’t think I will.

Of course you did. Or else.

Drink a verification can to continue, consumer-slave.

At least that way I’d get to enjoy it while dying from my aneurysm.

What’s going to be their next trick? Launching a service that’ll watch the latest Netflix series for me and give me a summary when it’s done?