octo888
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Comment · 2 days ago
I don't know what it means. I'll be honest, I don't think anyone knows what it means anymore. Scholars maintain that the translation was lost hundreds of years ago
Comment · 2 days ago
We're coming back baby! Someone's got to stop the French and Germans arguing with each other.
Comment · 2 days ago
Just for some context: 2022, USA,
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/22/google-cs...
> "Google has refused to reinstate a man’s account after it wrongly flagged medical images he took of his son’s groin as child sexual abuse material (CSAM), the New York Times first reported. Experts say it’s an inevitable pitfall of trying to apply a technological solution to a societal problem.
> "Experts have long warned about the limitations of automated child sexual abuse image detection systems, particularly as companies face regulatory and public pressure to help address the existence of sexual abuse material."
Thanks for providing the tech and buddying up with governments, Silicon Valley! /s
Comment · 3 days ago
Probably. The government just made couples who record face sitting, without distributing, for their own use, sex offenders.
edit: But we live in a country where everything is illegal but rarely anyone is arrested for it so that's somehow ok /s
Comment · 3 days ago
UK's got a Mumsnet Government
Comment · 3 days ago
Don't forget the 13 who committed suicide. :(
Comment · 3 days ago
They've been in business longer than the USA's existence, they must be doing something right - some 336 years.
The UK is very good at banking.
Comment · 5 days ago
Recent suggestions of having screenshots for the new messenger app might give the answer. The official replies were "our users try out the new version directly instead of looking at static images of it" and that "a video would be needed" (links below)
Regardless, the developers are very experienced and smart, and know that screenshots are often used to advertise a product, so I guess it's a very conscious choice.
Comment · 1 month ago
Haha yeah nah meanings of words don't change when people get accused of them with solid evidence
Comment · 1 month ago
> GrapheneOS has never ... brigaded on social media
False. From some drama recently. Proof: https://ibb.co/6J0CyVz6
The screenshot reads:
"If you have an established account on Hacker News, enable "showdead" in your settings, open our flagged posts and press "vouch" to help restore them. People have gone back through quite a lot of our posts and wrongly flagged them despite there being nothing inappropriate at all. 12 Sept 2026, 16:21 "
Perhaps warranted, but definitely the definition of brigading.
Comment · 1 year ago
Sigh. It's been 42 years since it was cleared up and that most people became citizens. Can we stop with that remark already
Comment · 1 year ago
Let's hope so
Comment · 1 year ago
Wonder if it's anything to do with the in-progress merging with Three?
I've noticed my MVNO Vodafone service, which was faultless, suddenly declining. Random dropouts are fairly common, no connection inside some big buildings (whereas Vodafone's infrastructure is known for being better inside and Three's much worse. Makes me think I'm being shunted onto Three's infrastructure)