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After the Online Safety Act’s onerous internet age restrictions took effect this summer,
it didn’t take long for Brits to get around them.
Some methods went viral, like using video game Death Stranding’s photo mode to bypass face scans.
But in the end, the simplest solution won out: --- VPNs.
Virtual private networks have proven remarkably effective at circumventing the UK’s age checks,
letting users spoof IP addresses from other countries so that the checks neve…

The VPN panic is only getting started
The UK government is facing calls to add age restrictions to VPNs in order to stop them being used to… get around age restrictions.

@… Great idea! One suggestion if I may: I assume the address is in Germany? If someone were to send you an item by mail, it may be helpful to add the country to the address you listed on the page, just to avoid any confusion.

🔧 Install via: /plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-code then /plugin install ralph-wiggum@claude-code-plugins
💡 Philosophy: "Better to fail predictably than succeed unpredictably" - prompt engineering becomes the critical skill
https://paddo.dev/blog/ralph-wiggum-au

@…
I don't think you have to create a second account just for political posts. I guess you could add a hashtag or content warning?
https://gamedev.place/mastodon-guideli…

TikTok will let users choose how much AI-generated content appears in their For You feed and plans to add more advanced labeling tech for AI-content (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/tiktok-now-lets-you-choo…

TikTok now lets you choose how much AI-generated content you want to see | TechCrunch
With the new AI-generated content control, users who want to see less of this sort of content can dial things down, while those who enjoy it can choose to see more of it.

@… I’ll add that later after I raise a seed round for this first

@… I should add that I think Talon is very good for commands, but not very good for dictation and editing.

TikTok will let users choose how much AI-generated content appears in their For You feed and plans to add more advanced labeling tech for AI-content (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/tiktok-now-lets-you-choo…

TikTok now lets you choose how much AI-generated content you want to see | TechCrunch
With the new AI-generated content control, users who want to see less of this sort of content can dial things down, while those who enjoy it can choose to see more of it.

⚡ Escape hatch exists: #[AllowDynamicProperties] attribute opts into old behavior. Use ONLY for legacy vendor code or gradual migration with a removal plan. Never use for new code.
📊 Timeline: PHP 8.1 = allowed | PHP 8.2 = deprecated warning | PHP 9.0 = fatal error. Start fixing now!
🎯 Migration strategy: Run PHPStan/Psalm analysis, fix domain models first (critical), then controllers/services, then DTOs. Add static analysis to CI pipeline to prevent regression.

I do this ish for a living, I am an AI developer and researcher, and *I* don’t fully understand the security implications. What hope do regular users have?
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-war…

Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: "Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications"
Microsoft is pushing ahead with its plan to add agentic capabilities to Windows 11 but has issued an important security warning for anyone who is interested in trying it out.

🚀 PHP 8 feature: Constructor property promotion simplifies everything. Write public function __construct(public readonly string $customerId, public readonly array $items) {} - clean, typed, immutable.
💎 #Laravel specific: Use $fillable arrays and $casts for Eloquent models. Use Attribute accessors for computed properties. Never add undefined properties directly to models.

Adobe updates Acrobat to add new AI features, including presentation generation, file editing, and creating podcast summaries from docs stored in Adobe Spaces (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/21/adobe-acr…

Adobe Acrobat now lets you edit files using prompts, generate podcast summaries | TechCrunch
Adobe is adding AI tools to Acrobat, including the ability to generate podcast summaries of files, create presentations, and a way for users to edit files using prompts.

@… is secure boot disabled? Add a photo, if you like.

@… can’t wait until they add support for INDEX

Users of #Emacs #orgmode: I've added "my-org-block-interruption()" to my config. It was generated by Claude.
If invoked within a blog, it inserts # END_ # BEGIN_ lines that match the current block.
This way, I'm able to interrupt a QUOTE block to add some comments, a SRC block to…

NBCU plans to add Arrival Ads, live ads that play when users turn on Peacock, and use AI to search live sports events for the optimal moment to place ads (Cynthia Littleton/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/nbcuniversal-arrival-ads-peacock-1236610766/

NBCUniversal Unveils 'Arrival Ads' for Peacock
NBCUniversal will incorporate 'Arrival Ads' for those who sign on to Peacock, among a host of other new ad-tech elements unveiled by the company.

@… ah, I hope you found the issue that has copy/paste config to re-add: https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/issues/3893
Planning on doing something better via the upgr…

@… add a hashtag? Thanks.
#FreeBSD

“I get that Tsoding and Valigo are probably writing tongue in cheek but really, if Emacs is so useful you can’t live without it, why are you complaining? You can, after all, change anything you don’t like.”
Or add anything you’re missing, for that matter. If you know #Emacs, why try anything else?

“I get that Tsoding and Valigo are probably writing tongue in cheek but really, if Emacs is so useful you can’t live without it, why are you complaining? You can, after all, change anything you don’t like.”
Or add anything you’re missing, for that matter. If you know #Emacs, why try anything else?

Mark Zuckerberg says Threads has 150M DAUs, up from 100M in December 2024, and Meta has rolled out ads globally in the Threads feed with plans to add video ads (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/thre

Threads reaches 150 million daily users and is ramping up ads
Threads has grown to 150 million daily active users and is ramping up ads on the text-based platform.

Cat doesn't appreciate that she has to share her window sill with my two chard pots.
I'm surprised it's still growing so hard. My favourite treat, especially when in a hurry, is cooking it into a sauce and add Maultaschen (a kind of huge raviolis). I like the ones from Bürger, the vegan ones and the Thai ones.

@… I would start with using Dragon's tools to make its vocabulary and word usage as much like what I intended to write as possible. If I were an established author such as you, I would feed it my most recent work. I would add as many specialized words as I needed. (I had to do these things in my niche legal practice.)
Then, I would think about ways to us…

Snap announces a deal to distribute Perplexity's search engine to Snapchat users; Perplexity will pay Snap $400M through a combination of cash and equity (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-05/snap-…

@… every time I think about weeding my list of people and things to follow, a gem flies by and instead of shortening, I add to the list.
So. Go on.
Ask me.
How do I like my love?
https://www.

📁 Build your own agent library: Create ~/agents/ directory with specialized agents like review.claude .md, commit.gemini .md, explain.claude .md, add to PATH and use from anywhere
🛠️ Installation via npm install -g mdflow or bun install && bun link, run mdflow --setup for shell integration to make .md files directly executable

@… in Reddit I made one top-level comment per subject.
Some of the top-level comments lacked headings. I'll add headings, and maybe subheadings, to help clarify things.
The old Reddit view of things (in a web browser) might be easier than new Reddit, or mobile.
old Reddit is certainly more compatible with HeadingsMap. Pictured here: a …

Snap announces a deal to distribute Perplexity's search engine to Snapchat users; Perplexity will pay Snap $400M through a combination of cash and equity (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-05/snap-…

In case you didn't know: if you add $10 to your account,
you get another $5 for #free on top.
https://platform.moonshot.ai/docs/pricing/chat#generation-model-ki…