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So children are just not allowed to exist anymore now? Sexuality just pops into existence at age 18? If one so much as shows a bit of skin they will be instantly executed?
Motherfuckers you cant stop teenagers from being horny, just give up.
I expect film photography to make a comeback among teenagers.
Starmer said the plan meant the UK would become the first country in the world to make it impossible for children to take, share or view nude images.
Oh yeah for sure, definitely how it’s gonna work out. If history has taught us anything it’s that teenagers give up easily and aren’t at all persistent and innovative when it comes to being told no. And surely they don’t care about porn at all either.
After all, the online safety bill has been a sweeping success. Something to be proud of.
wait till starmer learns about this thing called analog media
Just another way to shove client side scanning down our throats. I hope apple and/or google calls them on their shit. There’s no way to reliably do this at this scale anyway. Laws can be challenged and the process could take years.
If they actually cared about children’s safety they could start with making sure everyone has enough to eat.
Fuck off, it’s my phone not yours.
We will own nothing and we will like it
Well well. They have means of manufacturing and you don’t. And they tell you what they gonna do. What now?
Guess I am not replacing this phone, when it dies I go back to no smartphone again. Only had a smartphone for a few months so it wouldn’t even be a difficult change.
Some kind of portable PC might be nice though. Maybe stick a raspberry pi in a briefcase with a USB powered display and mouse/keyboard along with a shitload of power banks to run it for weeks. Yeah, that is the sort of thing a Linux user would do.
they still make PDAs
You want to know what’s bullshit? If you have an iPhone, go ahead and turn on airplane mode. Take a nude (or download one from the Internet). Now try using the background cut out feature (the one that grabs the subject and makes a transparent .PNG for stickers). You can’t. The iPhone processes nudes on-device and won’t let you edit them.
My Samsung S25 Ultra did not have this restriction so I was able to object erase on images with nude adults in them. That was, until OneUI 8.5 (latest software update). Now, all those features don’t work when you try it on a nude subject. It gives you an error message: “Cannot process this kind of media”.
A gooner’s dillema? Sure, but as of right now, both android and iOS actively prevent you from using your device by taking away working features under the guise of child protection. Can’t even have tasteful nudes of your wife anymore. Linux phone when.
Is this real? Damn we are already quite far down the hole.
Yeah I wouldn’t have gone to the trouble to write all that if it wasn’t. It’s easy to verify though if you have an iPhone. Since my original comment, I did find a setting hidden in the gallery app settings that enables “use magic eraser in editing settings” which restored my ability to use generative erase locally on nude photos.
They might get fined $20,000!
I know tech companies want identity verification, but I would love for apple and google to both jointly just tell the UK okay and stop selling phones/geoblock the UK. They would have of back peddle so fast.
LOL that’s some type of fantasy.
Is this not what they claimed that “android system safety core” app does?
And those of us who can will continue to fight for as much freedom as we can get. This can easily remove whatever app they install
It’s last been updated three years ago, I’d be surprised if it still works.
At this point I don’t see my Android days going past winter 2027, even on LineageOS
What do you intend to replace it with?
Time to start re-investing in Linux phones.
It’s been years and in my opinion nothing is looking remotely realistic as a primary phone. A de-googled Android phone appears to be the closest contender and I don’t see anything in that space that runs on more than very specific hardware.
Another approach is a dumb phone and a Linux laptop or tablet, but carrying around and charging two or three devices is not my idea of fun.
Note that I’ve been using Debian as my primary workstation since the turn of the century.
That was my takeaway when I was looking into them a few years ago too. I love the idea of them, but they just arnt there yet
It worked with a Samsung A56 a week ago, removing language packs, Google Chrome and Samsung’s internet dependent calculator - seems solid enough
Don’t both operating systems already have parental controls?
It kinda went like “Sir Kier, here’s an idea - give the tech Bros a bit of grief. Oh no don’t worry, nothing serious that will actually change anything lmao. Just something to give the prols a dopamine hit. Zuck won’t need to release the kompromat… you and that hooker in Milton Keynes lol”
The guy who strapped himself to Mandelson and Streeting definitely has no ulterior motive here.
That’s funny, because that’s pretty much what Apple announced yesterday at WWDC26. The update goes public in the Fall (typically mid-September) but anyone who really wants it now can get into the developer beta (free now; used to be $99/year) and install it today. There’s a public beta that goes live in July and will trail the second or third developer beta.
What’s interesting is that while Apple is supporting all their phones all the way back to the 2019 iPhone 11, Google and Samsung typically don’t support phones more than a year or two. They talk a big game until it’s time to deliver, then they just… don’t. I think her 2022 Galaxy S22 last got an update last year? And now it’s EOL. So what if an Android user has a phone that’s more than a year or two old? (Point of fact, I have a 2019 Galaxy S10, and it still rocks. Hasn’t seen an update in years but it still works.)
