Nath @ Nath @aussie.zone

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Bedtime!

It'd be funny if it was only Israel competing.

I haven't looked at the dms in over a day, but to that point, exactly zero of the responses included a face, or anything identifiable.

The answer to your direct question is "yes", alcohol served to you at a restaurant would be just as fine as alcohol in a bar. The point to it is the setting. A kid can raid mum and Dad's liquor cabinet and pose a photo. Doing that in a restaurant is not so doable.

As a general guide for whatever you choose: what we are looking for is essentially 'could a kid have sent this?'

Only a 3-4 people had gone the alcohol route when I last checked.

There are some episodes on YouTube. I do not think you'll be able to get that one legally.

If it was Tom's Diner, that song has a special place in digital music history. It was the test song for what became the MP3 standard.

Oh wow! That this came from a non-Queensland kid is extra surprising. Yes, this was the breakfast club. It gave us, Agro by the way. Queensland kids knew Agro years before the rest of Australia.

Arnie! 😢

We aren't copping any abuse. Everyone understands that this isn't coming from us and that there is no point hassling us over it.

Shutting the instance down is not on the cards. It means too much to too many people.

Nah, I don't think that's it. Your comment here constituted more effort than some responses we've received. We don't need much.

We're lucky in Australia in that there's a treasure trove of pop culture from the 20th century in our minds that isn't really on Google. Just talk about Nudge's antics or something. No kid will know who Nudge is, but he was a household name in the 80's. Or maybe Bobby's death and how that affected you? Google "Bobby's death" and you'll get the wrong Bobby.

While we have tried to make the verification system as light-touch and unobtrusive as we can, we need to accept that this policy will cost us users. Just as we have no influence on government policy, we have no control on how people will respond to our willingness to obey the law.

I even understand it. If Canada introduced some sort of law that required me to do something I couldn't justify, I'd likely let my lemmy.ca test account lapse. People are going to evaluate their own position from evaluating the variables in front of them. And some of them are going to come down on their Aussie.Zone account not being worth that much to them. Which is totally fine.

Crocodile Dundee came out in 1986. Hoges was huge on TV in the 70's though - the Paul Hogan show ran for years. Fun fact: almost all of the Paul Hogan Show has been lost. It aired before VCRs were a thing and the station lost or over-wrote the original tapes.

4chan isn't exempt. They're simply refusing to comply. Frankly, I see their perspective. If Qatar introduced some law that required us to do this, we'd ignore it (if we even knew about it). What are they going to do?

We are complying because we are 100% in Australia. We run this little project as a side gig and can't risk our careers by becoming a potential example for other forums. You can't do the sort of IT work we do with a criminal record.

Most of us carried around about 10 floppies in a case. I had a fancy case that held 15 floppies and expanded out like a little set of stairs.

Most files we carried around were well under 100kb. We didn't carry photos around, digital cameras weren't a thing and we didn't scan photos unless they were going into a specific file or something.

If I did have to carry a file that was larger than 1.44mb, I used arj to compress it and split the archive into 1440kb volumes. Arj had better compression than zip.

Huh. I was going to make some reference to 20-year-olds playing high school kids. But Molly genuinely was sixteen.
Colour me surprised.

Hotties live north. I don't need no silly map to tell me what I already know.

It's to do with the definition of Social Media in the legislation. If you can make comments that anyone on the Internet can read from your account, then you qualify as social media. That's an incidental aspect of what GitHub does, so it makes perfect sense for that site to be excluded from the ban.

Maybe a few of them and after a bit. I can't think of any examples so far of two people doing the same thing, but I also don't want to take dozens of means off the table for future respondents. One user already shared his genius method, and I suppose that method is still available for others to use. 😆

I don't know whether this answers your question, but they emailed me this morning:

Hi Nath,

We’re writing to share an important change to how under 16 year old users access YouTube in Australia. Due to a new law, users must be 16 or older to sign in to YouTube. This means that starting 10 December, users under 16 years old will be automatically signed out. This includes any supervised pre-teen and teen accounts you manage.

What this means for you:
Parental controls only work when your pre-teen or teen is signed in, so the settings you’ve chosen will no longer apply if they watch while signed out. This includes specific channels you’ve blocked and the content setting you’ve chosen.

What this means for your supervised pre-teen or teen under 16:
While they may still be able to watch YouTube signed out, they will not be able to access certain features, including likes, subscriptions, memberships, and creating playlists. For teens who have a YouTube channel, it will no longer be visible to other users, and they will lose the ability to leave comments and upload new videos.

Users are always able to download or delete their data and content they’ve created. When your pre-teen or teen turns 16, they will be able to sign in to YouTube again and reinstate their channel. You can find more detailed information about this change and what you can do in our Help Center.

Thanks, The YouTube team

I actually have concerns with how this reads. The whole point of the family plan is to avoid ads. If the kids are forced to experience YouTube signed out, they will get ads on both videos and music. I'm certain this isn't their intention though. At least the teenager isn't making videos. A couple of mates are and they're super sad. They can't make any more videos until they turn 16 and now nobody is going to be able to see the videos they have previously made.

I suppose there must be some, but until this moment I never thought about the possibility that Parliament station even had loos.

Lodion and I both loved this one.