Search for Collectives e.g. trans collectives.

If you’re in the UK and want to join a trans collective, I can hook you up. I know someone with a big list of all of them.

Does a trans rights protest count? Big turnout today.

Nope. I complain when it affects me and disadvantaged people. Regardless of the party in power.

Politicians are not your friends and should be held accountable.

The rich and privileged don’t need or deserve more stuff, so I don’t feel bad for them if they are negatively impacted (within reason)

Make America checks notes Poor Again!

Nah I think it will just be

const benefits = false;

Pretty much what’s been happening in the US government recently

Cool. Now let’s make immigrants legally people in the US.

Yeah this is emblematic of modern LLMs like Gemini and ChatGPT. Needlessly verbose, confidently wrong, less capable of actually doing things.

I’ll repost my comment from the other post:

For people who have not read the article:

Forbes states that there is no indication that this app can or will “phone home”.

Its stated use is for other apps to scan an image they have access to find out what kind of thing it is (known as "classification"). For example, to find out if the picture you’ve been sent is a dick-pick so the app can blur it.

My understanding is that, if this is implemented correctly (a big ‘if’) this can be completely safe.

Apps requesting classification could be limited to only classifying files that they already have access to. Remember that android has a concept of “scoped storage” nowadays that let you restrict folder access. If this is the case, well it’s no less safe than not having SafetyCore at all. It just saves you space as companies like Signal, WhatsApp etc. no longer need to train and ship their own machine learning models inside their apps, as it becomes a common library / API any app can use.

It could, of course, if implemented incorrectly, allow apps to snoop without asking for file access. I don’t know enough to say.

Besides, you think that Google isn’t already scanning for things like CSAM? It’s been confirmed to be done on platforms like Google Photos well before SafetyCore was introduced, though I’ve not seen anything about it being done on devices yet (correct me if I’m wrong).

I couldn’t actually believe this article was real. Figured it was a comedic post like that previous one about switching to Cyrillic letters in the US .

I first heard about stuff like.this last year when I heard about Pig Butchering scams. Apparently this is sadly very common.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=pLPpl2ISKTg

Here’s a more recent post that seems to contradict this:

https://infosec.pub/post/22823022

Are you sure about that?

I’ve read both articles and they both seem to say they are stopping production of Blu-rays, plus three other formats.

We will end production of all models of Blu-ray Disc media, MiniDiscs for recording, MD data for recording, and MiniDV cassettes as of February 2025

It mentions that consumer recordable Blu-rays were already dropped last year.

Mid-last year, the Japanese multinational conglomerate revealed that it would stop production of consumer-grade recordable Blu-ray discs (BD-RE and BD-R)

Still, this might just mean that Sony will no longer make games distributed via disc. Sony does not have a Monopoly on making Blu-ray discs, and I do not believe they can unilaterally decide that no more will be made by others

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_optical_disc_manufacturers

Regardless, it is a sign of the times, with Blu-ray reader production being recently stopped by LG. It’s likely all downhill from here, as much as I am sad to say.

I will resist this as much as possible, as I like owning my media. If you give me no means to own my movies, then I will find other ways to acquire them.

What do you mean by “Citrons” that just means lemon in French and I’ve never heard it used in English.