Pornhub to restrict access for UK users from February
Pornhub to restrict access for UK users from February
The changes mean only those who have a Pornhub account and have verified their age will be able to access it in the UK soon.Liv McMahon (BBC News)
OnePlus will allow downgrades (Edited to be less clickbaity)
Original title: Here's why OnePlus bricked your phone when you tried downgrading it
OnePlus statement:
To further strengthen device security, we’ve temporarily paused the ability to downgrade from 16.0.2.50x software builds to older builds. We will be restoring the ability to downgrade software builds in our next routine software update, but in the meantime customers looking to downgrade their build can contact OnePlus after sales channels directly.
Article also speculates about the reason for the temporary measure:
"prevented firmware downgrades due to a vulnerability that could allow a stolen device to be wiped clean and sold as a fully functional phone"
Whatever the reason, I'm glad they reversed course.
Here's why OnePlus bricked your phone when you tried downgrading it
OnePlus has issued a statement after reports that some phones were bricked when trying to downgrade the firmware or install a custom ROM.Hadlee Simons (Android Authority)
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Pornhub, YouPorn, and Redtube and other content sharing platforms will block New users in the UK starting next week(February 2)
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Anthropic CEO Amodei warns of AI’s fast-coming changes
Anthropic CEO Amodei warns of AI’s fast-coming changes
Dario Amodei’s 19,000-word essay warned against both “doomerism” about AI and dismissiveness of its risks.Tom Chivers (www.semafor.com)
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Anyone managing airtags from Linux?
cross-posted from: discuss.online/post/34586015
Curious on suggestions for airtags, or similar, for tracking important things on flights or other cases where losing the specific item would be too much of a financial / sentimental loss. Anyone doing this from Linux, or from graphene? How is it?
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I'm not sure what you mean by that, there's a plugin that adds FindMy network support to Home Assistant that seems to be up to date. If you mean Google doesn't support them, I'm also not sure what you mean by that. The app is on my phone, up to date, and tracking devices, same as the Apple network, just with Google devices. If your issue is Pebblebee, there are multiple different brands you can buy from depending on your needs, but generally, a tracker is a tracker.
As far as how well they work to track lost items, I'm honestly not sure, as I haven't lost anything yet. They should be comparable to an Airtag, as they can ping off of all Android devices unless someone opts out.
but generally, a tracker is a tracker.
Most tracker brands for Android only ping from phones that have their app installed. Not all Android devices. Since there is no brand that has an overwhelming market share that means the chance to find a lost Android tracker is much smaller than the apple ones. I have some, but I only trust them to find my keys within Bluetooth range.
Amazon to Shut Down All Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh Stores
Amazon to close Fresh, Go stores, expanding Whole Foods
Company will close Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh physical stores to prioritize investment in growth areas.Amazon Staff (US About Amazon)
Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption
Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption - Slashdot
Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from PCMag: A lawsuit claims that WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption is a sham, and is demanding damages, but the app's parent company, Meta, calls the claims "false and absurd.it.slashdot.org
A Pattison Company’s Possible Deal with ICE Brings Boycott Threats | The Tyee
The leader of the BC Green Party is calling for a boycott of Save-On-Foods and other businesses owned by B.C. billionaire Jimmy Pattison.
Emily Lowan made the call on social media Saturday following U.S. news reporting that revealed Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, is in talks to buy an Ashland, Virginia, warehouse from a Pattison-owned real estate company.
According to a letter sent by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to the Hanover County planning department, ICE plans to use the warehouse as a processing facility “in support of ICE operations.”
Allie Carpenter, a resident of nearby Richmond, Virginia, who is active in opposing the Trump administration and ICE’s aggressive deportation push, said she hopes Canadians will pressure the Jim Pattison Group to stop the sale.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/01/27/Pattison-Company-Possible-Deal-ICE/
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Canada could gain nearly 7% in real GDP by removing internal trade barriers, says IMF
Canada's economy could gain nearly seven per cent, or $210 billion, in real GDP by fully removing internal trade barriers between the country’s 13 provinces and territories, according to a report published Tuesday by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
On average, the barriers are the equivalent of a nine per cent tariff nationally, estimates the report, which was co-authored by IMF researchers Federico J. Diez and Yuanchen Yang with contributions from University of Calgary economist Trevor Tombe.
That would-be tariff is even higher in service-oriented sectors like healthcare and educational services — more than 40 per cent — where professional mobility between provinces is highly regulated.
"Such a level would be prohibitive in most international trade agreements," the authors wrote. For comparison, the Bank of Canada estimates that the U.S.'s average tariff rate on Canada was 5.9 per cent in November 2025.
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Do you have any ideas on how to attract people from centralized platforms to such as lemmy?
niche community will work?
I'm interested in your ideas and strategies.
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Unfortunately, I didn't manage to register on BlueSky, or rather, I managed to, but my account was blocked for suspicious activity a second after registration. Idk why.
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Depends on the instance. A lot of instances let themselves be overrun by US reddit reposters, filling every community, and they moderate none of it.
At least on lemmy.ml we try to keep US content quarantined to US-specific communities.
Valve Facing £656 Million Class Action Lawsuit
Valve Facing $900 Million Class Action Lawsuit - Insider Gaming
A tribunal has ruled that Valve must defend itself against a $900 million class action lawsuit regarding its pricing and commission practicesMike Straw (Insider Gaming)
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First filed back in 2024 by Vicki Shotbolt, the lawsuit claims that Valve charges “excessive commission charges” that lead to “an unfair price which is then passed on to consumers”.
Don't they just take the same commission as everyone except for Epic?
Not to mention PC is where I save the most money, and it's solely thanks to Steam and the free Epic games.
Idk, this seems kind of weird when Steam has been seemingly one of the more user-friendly marketplaces, compared to other ones. Remember Uplay and Origin? Lol
This BS again. "In exchange for selling Steam Keys of your game on the internet (using steam as the vendor for your game), you, the developer agree to sell those steam keys at the cheapest price you offer. Steam doesn't set the price, takes the same cut from each key sold as almost every other platform including Nintendo, Epic, PS, Xbox, and GOG.
So I am struggling to understand what is anti-competitve about this.
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Report: Steam's 30% Cut Is Actually the Industry Standard - IGN
A breakdown of how much every major retailer takes from the sale of a game.Tom Marks (IGN)
So sell epic keys or some other store fronts keys and move on with your life? There are other digital store keys they could sell at literally any price they want. And that's why this is bogus.
They don't have to sell their game digitally with steam keys. They can create keys on other platforms to sell their game.
I don't think that word means what you think it means. Market share has nothing to do with this.
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You’re missing the point.
Valve can’t enforce prices across other store by mandating they can’t be cheaper because they’re a monopolist. If this part of their agreement is true then they are out of the line, in breach of law, and should be punished. Being a monopoly isn’t illegal, how Valve got there doesn’t matter. Their behaviour as a monopolist matters. It’s literally the law in most civilised countries and those laws come from the times when people didn’t simp for monopolies.
Valve can for the keys that they provide. The keys they provide are free. Their agreement only is valid for Steam Keys. Those are freely generated Steam licenses of the game for the game dev to sell on other store fronts. For which the developer gets 100% of profits.
And steam is not a monopoly. I will not continue to reiterate the legal definition of that.
Steam keys means everything still happens in their store, with users attached to the platform without a way out. This is not a serious answer.
Steam is a monopoly because of their massive market share, that’s all there is to it, having irrelevant competition doesn’t matter in this case. You think monopoly = bad and therefore Steam can’t be a monopoly. That’s not how it works.
So use other licenses not provided by steam (epic for instance). That's the point of what I said.
You think monopoly = illegal and what I'm saying is that it doesn't meet the legal requirement to be a monopoly. This was never about good or bad.
_Crysis 2_ Removed From Steam
EA's first-person shooter Crysis 2, released earlier this year, has been removed from digital distribution service Steam and now sports an 'Only on Origin' tag on the EA site. [Update: EA denies involvement, blames Steam.]Mike Rose (Game Developer)
Dude, you’re beyond help. Steam keys are a form of locking you in Steam. People are lazy, the main reason they don’t buy outside of Steam is because they like everything in one place. Valve knows this, hence their line „just resell keys” is plain malicious and you’re just doing free PR for Gabe.
Tell me what could be the precise reason for delisting Crysis 2 from Steam? Why is developers agreement with another party any consideration at all? If Apple delisted someone because their product was cheaper on an alternative to app store would that be ok? I’m sure it would cause an outrage and they’re not even a monopoly, unlike Valve.
So you don’t see a problem with Valve’s solution not being a solution to everyone being locked in their platform. Valve monopoly is based on their gatekeeper status to the defacto industry standard game ownership ledger.
You must have loved Internet Explorer.
I think it's you who is missing the point everyone is trying to explain to you. Valve doesn't dictate the price on other stores, want proof? Epic gives free games regularly, those same games are sold on steam, for example currently you can get Definitely not fried chicken for free on Epic, but it has never been free on steam.
Valve only forbids you to sell Steam keys cheaper than on Steam. And even then they tend to turn a blind eye to stuff like humble bundle. They provide you with free Steam keys that you can sell and keep 100% of the value, but in exchange you can't sell them cheaper than on Steam, which just seems like common sense really. If that lawsuit goes somewhere what Valve will do is charge for extra steam keys, or stop providing them, both of which are bad for developers.
If you think removing those abusive clauses will have an impact on the market you're delusional.
Third party sellers have no reason to have a lower price on a different store, unless the store itself is paying them the offset of a lower price. That's only going to suffocate smaller stores that don't have money to burn.
And the stores with first party games can already create a bigger incentive for their store by keeping their games store exclusive because it would be the only place to play that particular game (it's why streaming services have gone down the route of exclusivity). Also having the game with a higher price point on Steam would just lead to a controversy which will hurts sales and damage the reputation of the company.
Removing the price parity clause will do nothing.
In case you were not paying attention you said Valve has to remove abusive clauses, which there is only one in question here and that's about price parity, so other stores could compete. At not point did you mention any actual laws and at no point did I mention anything remotely related to laws. I said you thinking that removing that one clause will make other stores competitive is delusional thinking.
EDIT: And I got blocked. I guess that says all there is to say about OP.
Where did you get this information?
I have never seen and nobody has ever ~~provided~~ proven that Steam requires price parity for electronic game keys or physical copies that are not steam keys.
As far as I understand it, Steam only requires that you sell your game for the same price on other marketplaces if you're selling Steam keys. If you're selling a non-Steam license then you don't have to match prices at all and can sell for cheaper on Epic, Itch, GoG, etc.
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I also want to point out that I believe if you sell steam keys anywhere else except the steam platform you get to keep 100% of those sales. Steam only takes a 30% cut from steam key sales sold on their own store front.
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When new video game stores were opening that charged much lower commissions than Valve, I decided that I would provide my game "Overgrowth" at a lower price to take advantage of the lower commission rates. I intended to write a blog post about the results.But when I asked Valve about this plan, they replied that they would remove Overgrowth from Steam if I allowed it to be sold at a lower price anywhere, even from my own website without Steam keys and without Steam’s DRM. This would make it impossible for me, or any game developer, to determine whether or not Steam is earning their commission. I believe that other developers who charged lower prices on other stores have been contacted by Valve, telling them that their games will be removed from Steam if they did not raise their prices on competing stores.
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It seems it was not explicit in the agreement regarding non-key sales, but allegedly threatened and possibly enforced in practice.
Yep. I read the original statement from the original game dev that sued. Their lawsuit was unsuccessful and they decided to refile it as a class action as a result. Which is why in my original comment I said "This BS again", and "This has been alleged before".
Still it seems like no other devs are actually alleging this except 1-2 others. Out of thousands of game devs. Seems suspect.
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takes the same cut from each key sold as every other platform
That is just blatantly wrong. Steam takes 30%, Epic takes 12% after the first $1M.
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I just wanted to point out that from the article they linked Valves cut of profits also drop by a certain amount per game sold.
And Epic also notoriously reduced their cut of profits under 1 million just last year.
After $10 million in sales through Steam, Valve’s cut drops to 25% on all new sales, and drops again to 20% on sales after $50 million.
I agree with you though.
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