How would they know? Does the US government expose their database to private businesses? I always wondered how these things work.

I normally run away from these ID checks. It’s just a matter of time until lone of these databases with everyone passports and videos get hacked. And vibe coding only makes it more likely.

I don’t care how good Claude is, it’s not good enough for that kind of risk.

At least the Chinese have the decency of giving back the model weights and not put BS censorship because “it’s too dangerous”.

God I hate this stupid design of burying the decryption key in the TPM and hoping the software does not get fooled to reveal it.

Microsoft always sucks. Why don’t you ask for the password at boot time and derive the key from it. So much simpler and makes this kind of attacks impossible. Nobody is going to bypass LUKS or FileVault like this.

I know the whole dynamic vs static typing is an age old flame war, but it sure seems that static is winning to me.

Everything is ARC. Clones are cheap. But you still have a reasonable sound type system and no garbage collection.

I get it. Tooling on swift is meh the further you are from Apple, so I’m not suggesting it’s better.

But from a language point of view; is it not essentially a high level rust?

Ps. I don’t really know swift. Just asking where/why I’m wrong really.

So you are in this limbo state where you are given some kind of status while the application is pending and you absolutely can’t leave the country.

But that’s not the issue here nor why people are being detained.

People came to the US with intend to marry and apply for a green card on non immigrant visa. For instance British citizens on a visa waiver can just show up and get married. That’s legal.

But it turns into immigration fraud if you always intended to apply for a green card afterwards.

What you are supposed to do is apply for a K1 fiancé visa which takes another year.

I can see why people were tempted to cut corners, especially given past tolerance…

It’s easy to make Apple budge because they have money ties to the Uk.

This works less well for unsavory websites not complying with UK law. See https://prestonbyrne.com/2025/10/16/the-ofcom-files/

The problem is that in practice, if you can't do YouTube, Facebook, Tiktok, INsta, etc... your speech will not be heard by anyone. It's like if a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, the fact that it makes sound is irrelevant. So effectively, it amounts to censorship, even though the government potentially had no hand in it.

Now imagine someone in Trump administration pressured Google with a juicy contract, or the prospect of an expensive lawsuit, and the quid pro quo was dumping these videos that annoy "our Israeli friends". This kind of "pay to play" is at minimum corruption. It may also fall of short of constitutional guarantees for free speech. Ironically, it is exactly the same thing a lot of members of the Trump administration have accused Biden of doing (exhibit: the so called "Twitter Files" etc... ), although I don't believe this went anywhere in federal courts (am I wrong?)

I honestly don't know what the answer is. But I would not be surprised if in 50 years time, some of these large companies get regulated as "utilities" and are no longer able to yank "videos" from their platform just because they feel like it. And every time they "abuse" their powers, I feel like we get an inch closer to that onerous regulation.

Genocide in Gaza. It is described as a "genocidal campaign" implying systematic targeting of a national, ethnic, or religious group, prohibited under the 1948 Genocide Convention. This is what the ICC is investigating now.

War Crimes:

- Killing of Palestinian civilians, including children and families.

- Killing of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, a violation of the Geneva Conventions protecting civilians and journalists in conflict zones.

- Destruction of Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank, possibly constituting collective punishment or unlawful destruction of property under the Fourth Geneva Convention.

- Intentionally starving civilians by blocking humanitarian aid into Gaza, explicitly prohibited under Article 54 of Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions and cited in ICC arrest warrants for Israeli officials.

- Torture of Palestinian detainees by Israeli forces, a violation of the UN Convention Against Torture.

The article also alleges complicity from the US authorities and corporations (YouTube, Google, MailChimp).

Somehow we expect the digital world to be devoid of risks.

Cryptography that only the good guys can crack is another example of this mindset.

Now I’m not saying ClosedAI look good on this, their safety layer clearly failed and the sycophantic BS did not help.

But I reckon this kind of failure more will always exist in LLMs. Society will have to learn this just like we learned cars are dangerous.