"Comply with our laws, or cease to exist".

I realized this when I tried to capture the test pattern used by a PowerDVD diagnostics application.

4chan has a rule banning use of proxies/VPNs and enforces this with IP range bans.

This situation here is what I sort of implied when lfgss shut down: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42444354

The ironic thing is that in the UK/imgur case:

>The ICO also confirmed that companies could not avoid accountability by withdrawing their services in the UK.

Wonder if it could also apply to American news sites (and Japan's 5ch/2channel, I was told they engage in this as well).

No, they claim they can't "avoid accountability" by withdrawing services in the UK. What Imgur cares about is where its staff live and work and pay taxes, which is America. The odds that America will cooperate in going after Imgur if they just block the UK go from slim to none.

More importantly, the US might let the UK go after US companies for the business they do in the UK but they sure as hell won't let the UK go after US companies that explicitly don't do business in the UK.

Outside of Europe, this is also a thing in Japan.

I felt generative AI has weakened the argument against intellectual property.

Why so? I dislike the "AI everywhere" fad, but it's hard to argue LLMs and AI in general aren't a form of technological progress. And generative AI happened partly because IP laws were basically disregarded.

What I meant is that generative AI makes for the case to strengthen intellectual properties laws.

Hence I said "against".

The original form of clackers had a popularity in Indonesia and Philippines where it's named latto-latto.

There was also a safer revival of clackers in North America in the 90s, where the balls are attached to a handle.

I've keep thinking about it that people who advocate for AI tend to lean - or at least feel like leaning - right. Though that may be because opposition to AI tend to be from progressive/labor-adjacent left-leaning ones, a dichotomy?

Not sure what it has to do with the content of what I’ve written above. But my own take on this is that AI opposition is left leaning because modern progressives are anything but that. They want to conserve the current situation and AI threatens a disruption.

You forgot the fanatical parasocial relationships that are formed with East Asian mobile games in general. They are comparable to idol culture.