Hacker News: luke727

New comment by luke727 in "System76 on Age Verification Laws"

luke727 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:59:10 +0000

You should look into what's actually happening in other countries before blaming it on "the U.S. nanny state". The rest of the Anglosphere makes the United States look like a Libertarian utopia. I live in the United Kingdom, and brother - this is who they are. I assume Australia, New Zealand, and Canada are similar. There are real problems re: "think of the children" in the United States, but if you think "the U.S. nanny state" is bad then you have no fucking clue how bad things could be.

New comment by luke727 in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

luke727 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:38:38 +0000

No. There are significant numbers of real people who genuinely support this type of thing. Dismissing it as "bots" or a "false narrative" leads to complacency that allows this stuff to pass unchallenged.

New comment by luke727 in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened"

luke727 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 13:24:34 +0000

Name: PETER BRIGHT

Age: 45

Race: White

Sex: Male

Release Date: 08/11/2028

Located At: FCI Elkton

New comment by luke727 in "Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass"

luke727 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:07:33 +0000

The problem is that this is too tedious for most people. There's a reason centralization is popular.

New comment by luke727 in "Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass"

luke727 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 13:06:12 +0000

I meant that it's not a solution for users looking to avoid similar intrusions. When alternative platforms get big enough they'll be faced with the same legislative burdens. Of course there are decentralized options, but one of the primary attractions of these centralized services is that everyone's on there.

New comment by luke727 in "Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass"

luke727 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 08:26:46 +0000

The frustration aimed at Discord et al is largely misplaced. I'm sure these companies don't mind gathering extra data about their users, but the primary impetus for age verification is government legislation. Moving to alternative platforms is not a long term solution because it's attacking the problem from the wrong direction.

New comment by luke727 in "So, you’ve hit an age gate. What now?"

luke727 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:57:30 +0000

Neither does the average politician, so where exactly is the impetus for changing the law going to come from?

New comment by luke727 in "So, you’ve hit an age gate. What now?"

luke727 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:54:31 +0000

I'm not sure there'd be much of a difference because the British people are broadly speaking a rather paternalistic society.

New comment by luke727 in "So, you’ve hit an age gate. What now?"

luke727 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:53:52 +0000

While I agree with this in spirit, here in the UK both major parties along with the public at large generally support these types of laws.

New comment by luke727 in "This is not the future"

luke727 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:28:47 +0000

> The idea that AI is anything less than paradigm shifting, or even revolutionary is weird to me.

Actual AI? Sure. The LLM slop we currently refer to as AI? lol, lmao even

New comment by luke727 in "Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders"

luke727 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 05:44:38 +0000

> Office products are bastardized with copilot buttons everywhere.

They put copilot in notepad. NOTEPAD.

New comment by luke727 in "Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today"

luke727 — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 21:06:34 +0000

Unfortunately they went along with it initially but at least they came to their senses in the end: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardFilters/issues/216586

New comment by luke727 in "Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account"

luke727 — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 06:46:10 +0000

The justification is money. Microsoft doesn't make any money off of offline accounts.

New comment by luke727 in "Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine"

luke727 — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 05:29:47 +0000

I think it's rather that OSA actually visibly affects people in their day-to-day lives whereas other laws don't. I constantly hit age verification pages on Reddit and Twitter and I don't use either for porn. I'm fundamentally against giving Reddit or Twitter or a 3rd party processor my ID just to view content someone somewhere deemed potentially harmful to minors. At least Twitter is done on a post-by-post basis; on Reddit entire subreddits are gated behind age verification.

New comment by luke727 in "Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine"

luke727 — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 09:31:45 +0000

That's a fair point, but you have to take into consideration the relevant laws and countries. You also need to take into consideration what it means to "operate" in a country.

New comment by luke727 in "UK Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards"

luke727 — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 19:19:56 +0000

Signing an online petition isn't better than doing nothing and is arguably worse.

New comment by luke727 in "Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?"

luke727 — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 05:40:19 +0000

I don't think pathologizing an entire nation is a statement of objective fact. Regardless, upon reflection I feel my initial comment was unduly harsh. I think it would be more accurate to say that British society as a whole is very much in favor of the nanny state.

New comment by luke727 in "Beginning 1 September, we will need to geoblock Mississippi IPs"

luke727 — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 05:17:53 +0000

The makeup of a court is temporary. Maybe your court is "safe" today; that won't necessarily still be the case tomorrow.

New comment by luke727 in "Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?"

luke727 — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 11:47:00 +0000

Well, I offered my observations and a few people agreed with me to varying degrees. You asserted I'm wrong, ignorant, and stupid. Perhaps that is true; it is not, however, an argument.

New comment by luke727 in "Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?"

luke727 — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 11:33:47 +0000

It's disturbing to me that so much of this type of legislation originates with the "Conservatives", and the only viable alternative in Labour thinks this type of legislation doesn't go far enough. I guess at least things will be interesting with Farage in Number 10.