of course it does. nasa pays the bills and they are the ones who say “we will hire or fire people, because we do or do not have money”. management from caltech says “ok, these are the people who have expertise we need”.

you don’t think they are giving money to someone and that someone does whatever they want with these money, do you?

but my point still stands;

yeah, i don’t think it does.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ -> ABOUT

About JPL JPL is a research and development lab federally funded by NASA and managed by Caltech.

to put that into context - according to wiki, jpl has about 5500 employees

Cannot be soon enough

It sounds like AI slop

what makes you say that? 😂

This modern solution offers an unparalleled experience

as a very minimum, it would make sense to demand safe-deleting the photo immediately after the verification process, with fucking prison time to someone if it is found they did not comply with that.

but that is clearly not the direction the society is going 🤷‍♂️

yeah, except according to my understanding of the topic, there is not much adult alternatives. graphene will have the same problem.

what prevents someone from downloading and installing the apk to their phone

google.

https://www.androidsage.com/2025/08/26/google-blocks-sideloading-of-android-apps/

what i have seen it on so far was pure slop, some random images from photobank, sometimes even with the watermark, accompanied by generated voice, so these are the ones that should really go.

might it have something to do with this?

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/14328491?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid

i have already seen some “synthetic content” labels attached to random videos

my friend doesn’t get the joke. why should we care you are irish?

hm… i am not sure if this can be config error, or some censorship child protection is happening here.

i am in eu, in a relatively liberal country where no one cares about a torrent (yet), but i am in the vodafone network, so the latter would be not out of the realm of possibility.

$ host catflix.su ns1.ddos-guard.net
Using domain server:
Name: ns1.ddos-guard.net
Address: 185.129.101.200#53
Aliases: 

catflix.su has address 186.2.163.75

or it could be it is not delegated at all…

domain:        CATFLIX.SU
nserver:       ns1.ddos-guard.net.
state:         REGISTERED, NOT DELEGATED

$ host catflix.su
Host catflix.su not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

i have always wondered how this works from the legal point. what if you disagree, should you sue to get your money back? you are buying product with some expectations, they can’t just change that after you paid, can they?

it is similar with cars, what if you buy new car and the car’s infotainment asks you to accept some outrageous terms and conditions, you do bother to actually read them and then decline. can you get your money back? has anyone ever tried?