It gives me a pleasant interface to talk to my desktop from my phone. I can just send my computer a discord message and have it execute some arbitrarily complex task for me.

The question is what wonderful task do you need to trigger while you're at the grocery store?

You're hitting the nail on the head with this one, a solution in search of a problem lol.

You're asking the wrong question.

Does the UK government have the legal right to do an international criminal investigation against any website that is potentially violating their laws by having visitors from the UK accessing the site?

Answer yes or no, this is an easy binary question, and not one that requires any probabilistic thinking.

It's "playing it safe" in the same way that wearing full hockey gear to go to the store is "playing it safe".

He is either making a political point or excessively paranoid.

It's probably a political point, but I think your comparison over sells how inconvenient it is for someone to geoblock one small country and the headache if anything did happen. It's not much more effort than doing nothing really?

And clearly users in the UK can find their own way to read it if they like, so the cost is also small there.

>geoblock one small country

Considering that there is multiple "why is this blocked in the uk" comments on every single one of these posts maybe the UK isn't such a small country. Geoblocking a decent chunk of your readership would be a pretty big inconvenience for a writer I would imagine.

the culture section of this writeup links to explicitly adult/erotic content in the footnotes and discusses 'adult themes' directly. his caution seems reasonable.

>or excessively paranoid.

Have you even read the shit politicians are either pulling or trying to these days? There is no amount of paranoia that is too little when talking about things like cross national prosecution, laws regarding users not considered adults, and age verification.

>I'm glad you have done this and I wish more would follow the same course. The more content that becomes unavailable in the UK, the more people might start to pay attention to the stupidity of the law.

The law isn't going to be repealed because a bunch of nerds geoblocked their personal blog.

That is a weirdly aggressive reply.

Do you have proof the person you are replying to is a bot or are you just going on vibes?

Of course they have no proof, and spending 2 minutes looking at my comment history would indicate such.

My fault for reading this article half asleep and wanting to thank Aphyr for their writing. I should have instead written 5 paragraphs pedantically criticizing minor aspects of their post while completely missing the point. Or maybe I should be offering my expert legal advice (I watched Suits once) on the UK Online Safety Act.

His reasoning doesn't seem like a political statement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47754379#47757803

That seems very practical and well-reasoned to me.

The game being successful wasn't luck but it being as successful as it was definately was. Block based games had existed for years before minecraft, I don't think there was any reason to believe that this one in particular was going to explode in 2010.

Requiring someone to have access to another camera is not "theater" if it vastly reduces the liklihood someone will be able to produce a copy.

It gives people a false sense of security. You think the other person can’t copy the photo, but they actually can.

It is odd when people try to put Notch on the level of someone like Carmack. Like because the guy made a billion dollars that means his opinion should be highly valued in perpetuity. He just seems like a fairly average game dev that lucked his way into making Lego 2.

Switching government and deleting google are probably on the same order of magnitude of difficulty for most people.