taizou @lion@computerfairi.es

in some kind of outside place

In other words they may have abandoned the proposals that might require tech companies to moderate addictive design patterns or algorithms pushing harmful content but doubled down on the ones taking away agency and privacy from young people. Very typical UK government behaviour

it's also notable what is missing from the proposals in the consultation tbh
Nothing about engagement-driving features like algorithmic content or infinite scrolling, despite compulsive use being a key focus of the ban campaign (unless they define "high risk" platforms as the ones w/ those features)

Anyway we'll see on Monday exactly what stupid bullshit those wankers have come up with

The other is "chats with adult strangers" but as there is no "child verification" (any adult is a "child" if they do not verify) and no real way for a platform to distinguish "strangers" I can only see this as ban on making friends and private communication online full stop, which massively sucks

As for the features they want to ban on "safe" platforms - 2 seem to target ephemeral forms of communication - disappearing messages and livestreaming - probably due to concerns over abuse using such channels - but surely that only becomes worse if you enforce anything sent or received is permanent

Full announcement will come on Monday but their plan is to restrict "high-risk" platforms entirely and introduce functionality restrictions on "safer" ones - no info on what "high-risk" means, the article seems to suggest they may name specific platforms rather than trying to generically define such

Well after two and a half weeks of ignoring the consultation it appears that the UK government is ready to move on new online restrictions for under 16s (and therefore everybody who has not ID verified)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/12/uk-to-ban-under-16s-from-high-risk-social-media-apps

They also weren't too discerning about what they put on the SD card

as for the hardware itself... you may have noticed it has HDMI output. the video is upscaled with a hq3x filter applied to it. the audio is pretty bad and seemingly missing the native DPCM channel altogether. so I couldn't exactly recommend this as a way to play NES games. It is interesting though!

oh when i said Mapper 0 and 3 two posts ago I meant 0 and 4, as in NROM and MMC3. sorry for spreading misinformation etc etc

There are 782 games on the card and "300" built in (with repeats), unfortunately I didn't find anything particularly unusual or undumped in either set so far, both of them mostly consist of regular NES/FC games with some romhacks and Nice Code games mixed in

I have several of these SD card accepting VT-chip-based famiclones already, I've been trying to document the ones on the market https://museum.12bit.club/SD_card_VT_consoles
This is in line with the others in terms of capability, it can run mapper 0 and 3 and a small number of VTxx .bin files

but there was this fucking metal weight loose inside which was rattling around in shipment and broke the ribbon cable off one of the 2 PCBs. even if I bridge the pins connected to the power switch on the main PCB it doesn't seem to work. someone spotted that C37 seems to have been broken off as well

I got this today. a famiclone with an SD card slot from Renshun, the former Coolbaby company who disppeared for a while but have resurfaced recently