Malphas Wats
malphaswats.bsky.social
Malphas Wats
@malphaswats.bsky.social
Teacher, Nerd, Tinkerer.
Nope, Pornography implies consent in creation. CSAM is correct as it is always Child Sex Abuse Material. Even in this case where it was produced without direct child abuse, because is is still depicting the abuse of a child imaginary is irrelevant.
January 2, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Keeping watch over your nibblings' souls makes you the cool auntie
December 25, 2025 at 9:22 AM
When it comes to game development introduction, I don't think you can go far wrong starting with this guy. He sprinkles in stuff about design process too.

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Pico-8 Tutorial - Shmup - YouTube
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December 22, 2025 at 6:59 PM
<always has been .meme>
December 3, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I don't really enjoy watching sport and I live in a country where baseball is seen as more boring than cricket. But I enjoyed The Game That Did ALL The Innings commentary on Blue sky. I also secretly enjoy seeing all the people complaining about it too.
November 30, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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A DSL which outputs kicad netlists would be a fun little project
November 30, 2025 at 12:12 PM
There's a huge amount riding on whatever it is she's found at the Dairy.
November 30, 2025 at 4:19 AM
I'm trying really hard to see why the world needs saving. The only thing I've come up with is that I think the hive mind means the death of Art.
November 30, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Haha, this tool lead to me discovering I'm on a list of Americanophobists because I have used the abbreviation USAnian, which the list creator equivocates with bigotry and violent rhetoric! Takes all types I suppose.
November 28, 2025 at 3:21 PM
but also, an actual lawyer says it's not an offense, so I am definitely wrong. Very interested to know more.

bsky.app/profile/davi...
November 28, 2025 at 12:17 PM
whilst I don't disagree, the text of the law (to my uneducated reading) might suggest that in this specific instance, the person accessing the information might reasonably suspect that they shouldn't be able to access it?
November 28, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I am not a lawyer at all, merely a computer science teacher and we don't have to teach it in any real depth beyond "bruteforcing passwords is a crime". My opinion was based on the Reuters-Intentia thing from 2002?, which I can't find a resolution for now, and obviously wasn't the UK law anyway.
November 28, 2025 at 12:05 PM
The computer misuse act is vaguely written enough that it *could* be interpreted as an offence. Guessing URLs isn't functionally different to guessing passwords. Both result in unauthorised access of a computer system.
November 28, 2025 at 10:15 AM
November 28, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Could we do that thing we used to do with the Queen where we pretended the brooch she wore to meet the president of wherever was the biggest zinger in recorded history? Maybe they deliberately weaponised the Streisand Effect? Y'know, just as a treat.
November 27, 2025 at 9:07 PM
You'd think something so important would have a few more words.

Murder is a crime.

Killing an enemy combatant is presumably not Murder?

Are unidentifiable people travelling at speed in a small boat enemy combatants simply because an officer says so?

Is Venezuela an enemy?
November 26, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Limited to your own knowledge/imagination but you can copy/combine/edit things that already exist even if you don't understand how the work
November 20, 2025 at 10:37 PM
here's a good question that keeps me awake in similar circumstances: You find a dusty old tome and reading it embues you with magical powers. You can counjour gold, diamonds, ham sandwiches, whatever you desire. How do you enrich yourself without drawing the attention of the Inland Revenue?
November 20, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Is this Loss?
November 18, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I had a very similar issue a while back, and now my fan turns off immediately with the light instead of running in the dark for 10 minutes. I have never been able to summon the energy to try and work out the proper wiring. It's good enough.
November 16, 2025 at 10:26 PM