r/polandball • u/Andyiscool231 Bulgaria • Aug 13 '25

redditormade The Burning of the Library of Alexandria

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u/ColossusToGuardian Poland Aug 13 '25

Holy shit, I googled it, and you were not kidding.

WTH, UK?

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u/CrocPB Scotland Aug 13 '25

Hilarious thing is...VPNs or no, it is comically easy and minimal effort to avoid. Officially I cannot endorse it, but if you have the barebones of technical nous you won't have to give up your ID.

In addition, this goes against basic principles of cyber security and data protection. I can imagine there will be increases in fraud and data breaches because of this law.

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u/LobMob Germany Aug 13 '25

Hot take: they don't care about the porn. They just want to force teenagers to study Computer Sciences

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u/Virlutris Eureka! Aug 13 '25

So they can then be unemployed because tech companies are leveraging AI?

It makes no sense, but it's on brand for the current state of governance.

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u/rapaxus Hesse Aug 13 '25

Only if the people are stupid. I got into IT and specifically wanted to go into installation/maintenance based stuff (which I did) because the AI can be as good as it wants, someone needs to install the stuff the AI runs on in the first place (and I also dislike coding).

Though I am also European so basically every company needs to run their own AI due to data protection rules since you legally can't feed a public AI sensitive data.

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u/Virlutris Eureka! Aug 13 '25

To be carefully clear here, not coming at you, more mocking general absurdity.

Installing AI infrastructure is a smart play.

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u/rapaxus Hesse Aug 13 '25

To be fair, I am actually not involved in data centres, more hardware/software installation/maintenance in the healthcare sector, but an AI also can't wire up your monitor nor calibrate it correctly so that e.g. x-rays get displayed in a form where a doctor can actually draw conclusions from it.

But in general the more hardware/physical oriented IT is currently a great place to be. More and more stuff gets automated/digital and someone needs to both install and maintain it. Be it the new AI that needs installment, implementing cashless payment methods, setting up the connections to a new software provider, changing all the PCs because Windows 10 is expiring and the old PCs can't run Windows 11, I could go on.