Hmm, sounds interesting. Any interesting/notable differences that set this project apart from other similar projects like IPFS?

DSA and OSA are very different pieces of legislation

They can’t force 4chan to implement age verification, or to implement geoblocks. They can issue fines if they feel like it, but they’re uncollectible.

The UK has every right to restrict their own residents access to things that are illegal internally. Just like how they have customs controls at their physical borders to prevent illegal physical items from being imported, they should have just blocked 4chan off the rip instead of trying to fine them.

Yeah, reading this I think we are indeed on the same page.

I feel like I am missing something reading your comments, but it seems pretty clear to me that they do do business in the UK. They have users in the UK, to which they are providing a service (the 4chan message boards) in exchange for eyes on adverts placed on the page (from which 4chan makes money).

Just because this law is really stupid, and that 4chan does not have servers in the UK doesn’t really matter. UK laws can still be enforced for individuals in the UK (which is expressly what is stated in the message from ofcom). Ofcom is not demanding that age verification is implemented for all users world wide, but for UK users. 4Chan can decide to not comply (which I think is good), but then it is not surprising that if you keep doing business in the UK (not blocking UK users/IPs) that fines (which 4chan will just ignore as they are not UK based) and possible bans on your service in the UK follow.

I expect VPN + Aurora (or any other non Play store) will be enough to get around it

Amazing to see that they successfully migrated. This is a great example for the rest of Europe and the teams that worked on this will (hopefully) have plenty of work ahead of them in helping other European entities migrate away from US big tech!

Taipei 101 if I am not mistaken, but not sure what the significance of the day is.

I quickly did an edit on my phone so that the colours roughly matched how it looked to my eyes. Proper work on the raw image will have to wait until I am back home.

I still can not get over how pickleball is an actual thing and not just an internet meme

Yes, of course it is. That is why I commented it on a crackpot shower though with a related subject.

Who says you are not?

Quantum immortality

I would just create a point to point VPN connection and run it over that (for axample an IPsec tunnel using strongswan)

Don’t forget the dot com bubble

Woo, both parties are terrible, irresponsible, and should be held accountable

What about high-res media? Encountered any issues with playback?