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Rob T Firefly

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  • UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill

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  • The linked story has been updated. The headline now reads:

    Labour rules out VPN ban in UK but issues warning to UK households

    Labour won't ban the use of Virtual Private Networks

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    Labour has ruled out a possible VPN ban after reports thousands of UK households were at risk following the Online Safety Act kicking in under the government. Labour Party Tech Secretary Peter Kyle has revealed that the Government is "not considering a VPN ban" - after reports in Guido Fawkes suggested it was possible.

  • Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, Kojima

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  • From what the article says the app watches you while you change expressions as prompted, so you can't use AI-generated still images. That's why using a game's photo mode, where you can toggle the CG facial expression around in real time while pointing your camera at it, is such a clever solution.

  • Would eating a 3.75Oz tin of sardines a day raise concerns about consuming too much mercury or lead?

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  • To reduce your intake of metals, remove the sardines from the tin before eating them.

  • We think they stole a personal log.

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  • Or Ransom got into the Cerritos compter's desktop theme settings and selected the Una Chin-Riley voice option, and Freeman just decided to let him leave it that way.

  • 'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' first look welcomes cadets, Paul Giamatti's alien (exclusive)

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  • 'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' first look welcomes cadets, Paul Giamatti's alien (exclusive)

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  • I think DS9 was really just a ST re-imagining of Bab5

    Babylon 5 premiered a month after DS9.

  • Transparent PCBs Trigger 90s Nostalgia

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  • You could swap one screw from that case into your current one. It wouldn't be obvious to anyone else, but you'd know it was there!

  • Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, Kojima

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  • This is a clever way to bypass. If they get wise and somehow filter out Sam Porter Bridges' face, you could always fire up any of the games of comparable visual realism which let you design your own character's appearance.

  • Transparent PCBs Trigger 90s Nostalgia

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  • I still keep my actual ancient 5.25" floppy drive from my first 286 DOS box installed in a spare bay in my current PC tower. The drive hasn't worked in ages, but as a chunk of my first PC is still part of my current one it means that, in a Ship of Theseus sense, I've been using the same computer for 30 years.

  • Transparent PCBs Trigger 90s Nostalgia

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  • Enjoy the laptop, Cool!

  • ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing

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  • Immature crap like this makes me very grateful to be a grownup married to a grownup.

  • OpenAI’s Sam Altman warns of AI voice fraud crisis in banking

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  • I argued with my old bank for ages about this and they continued to insist enabling it on my account was a great idea.

    The film Sneakers showed the world why voice ID was a massive security hole and an all-around crappy idea back in 1992, and some idiots are still insisting it's a good idea in 2025 when it's only become astronomically easier to beat than Robert Redford and friends demonstrated.

    In my case, I've been doing radio, podcasting, and other voice work for a long time and as a result there are hundreds and hundreds of hours of my voice freely available out there. People can cut and paste me saying "my voice is my passport, verify me" or anything else they like together in Audacity, no AI needed, and fool any telephone-based audio security computer on the planet with it. And explaining this in-person to the branch manager of my former bank elicited nothing more than the blankest expression I'd seen since the pet goldfish I had as a kid.

  • OpenAI’s Sam Altman warns of AI voice fraud crisis in banking

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  • What Mark Hamill Joker fan doesn't have their own Mark Hamill Joker impression? Screw AI, just do the voice like we've all been doing for 30+ years.

  • I'm pinned. Send help.

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  • Fair is fair, and that arm is in use. You're just going to have to wait your turn.

  • Mmm dirt

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  • Looks Who's Talking: Trek edition

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  • "Please let this be a normal away mission..."

    [red-shirt kid gets zapped to death by the educational monster of the week]

  • Looks Who's Talking: Trek edition

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  • 36 of what, and in which Unimatrix?

  • It's rude to show AI output to people

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  • I am not sure the kind of people who think using the thieving bullshit slop machine is a fine thing to do to can be trusted to have appropriate ideas about rudeness and etiquette.

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    Whats your favorite bread for sandwiches?

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  • Soft flour tortillas are underrated as an all-purpose sandwich casing.