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@davej@dice.camp
2025-06-12 04:52:57
@lindawoodrow@mastodon.social
2025-05-03 09:28:27

Oh Dickson, please please please. #auspol

@davej@dice.camp
2025-06-09 02:52:53

Well, fuck. Had I known ahead of time, I’d have flown to Hawaii for the long weekend.
#scomo #auspol aus.social/@maude…

@tetchey@social.linux.pizza
2025-05-10 03:12:07

Adam Bandt
That tiny Bandt
With his atomic power
Would have been so much funnier if he was the one spruiking nuclear energy.
#auspol

@davej@dice.camp
2025-07-10 23:19:40

My great failure in life is that I never put myself in a position to monetise being this embarrassingly incompetent.
#auspol #australia #government

How will the changes work, and will they keep kids safe?

Search engines will have a suite of options to choose from for checking the ages of their Australian users.

There are seven main methods listed in the new regulations:

• Photo ID checks
• Face scanning age estimation tools
• Credit card checks
• Digital ID
• Vouching by the parent of a young person
• Using Al to guess a user's age based on the data the company already has
• Relying on a third party that has already checked the user's a…
Age-checking tech for social media ban mistakes kids for 37-year-olds

Children as young as 15 were repeatedly misidentified as being in their 20s and 30s during government tests of age-checking tools, sowing new doubts about whether the teen social media ban is viable.
He also warned the new rules for search engines could be circumvented using virtual private networks (VPNs).

"If the ambition of the government is to prevent children from accessing pornography, they're forgetting straight away the skills of these young people," he said.

Beyond concerns about the accuracy of age-assurance technology and the VPN workaround, the new search engine rules will still allow users to access adult content simply by not logging in.
@davej@dice.camp
2025-06-01 21:05:39

Sure thing, Heggy. But first, we’re going to need a pig and a live TV feed.
#auspol #uspol #BlackMirror