Onno (VK6FLAB)
Anything and everything Amateur Radio and beyond. Heavily into Open Source and SDR, working on a multi band monitor and transmitter.
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3·1 month agoWell, unless it came back in the last 25 minutes, it’s working fine in Western Australia.
211·2 months agoThe consortium clearly has too much money.
Did you actually read the article you posted?
Not in the Philippines, but what is now Indonesia.
0·3 months agoThey’ll use machine learning to determine based on your behaviour if you’re under 16, then they’ll ask for proof of age.
Thank you for making my point.
In ICT circles, sure, on the nightly news it’s crickets.
We know very little beyond:
- It will go live on 10 December 2025
- There will be heavy fines.
- Government ID is not allowed to be the only method.
- A self declaration (tick box) is insufficient as a check.
There are to my knowledge no third party providers approved for this legislation. The process to assess actual implementation details started in July 2025, and the results thus far are underwhelming to put it mildly, you might call it a shitshow.
Below is the official sum total of what we know, most of it motherhood statements and “coming soon”.
https://www.esafety.gov.au/about-us/industry-regulation/social-media-age-restrictions
Media commentary wants to “protect the children”, but have no idea how you might do so, let alone consider the implications or implementation details.
Source: I’m an ICT professional with 40+ years experience.
It’s still happening today - warning disturbing content.
And there’s this legal aspect to the affair:
What are you attempting to achieve by opening this list of urls?
What is the difference between running this script and setting this list as either a bookmark, or the homepage in your browser?
What does your network have to do with the reachability of these sites?
If you’re managing the privacy of your own network, why are you not monitoring those services?
The open-source alternative to Mailchimp, Brevo, Mailjet, Listmonk, Mailerlite, and Klaviyo, Loop.so, etc.
That’s the first paragraph of the project page.
Not to rain on the parade, but in my experience, having had to email customers in bulk … sending tickets and logistics requirements for large events … I can tell you that self hosting this is a complete and utter waste of time.
You’ll get blocked before the first batch of emails leave your mailer.
Not even paid MailChimp or Campaign Monitor could guarantee delivery.
The problem is not the platform for sending email, it’s the centralised nature of email hosting, much of it is behind Google and Microsoft hosted services.
I used to have a pihole running on my network, but now I just use the
dns.adguard-dns.comon my network and phone.
Docker is not virtualisation, although it’s a common misconception.
A better way to think of it is a security wrapper around untrusted processes.
You can prove this for yourself by looking at all the processes running in a Docker host while one or more containers are running, you’ll see all the processes listed.
In other words, you don’t need a CPU capable of virtualisation to run Docker.
OP was talking about Lineage, not Graphene.
If an app doesn’t have data it cannot share it.
If you don’t install the app, it cannot breach your privacy.
You don’t need direct internet access to leak information, for example, an app with access to your calendar has indirect internet access.
Keep your existing phone and OS.
Use it differently. Decide what information you store on it, which applications you install or disable, what permissions you grant and what services you use.
Just installing an OS to “debloat and degoogle” is not ever going to change anything unless you change your habits and you don’t need to change OS to do that.
You already know the answer to this question.
When I last played with this a decade or so ago, there were several map tiling solutions in the geosciences that are self hosted.
From memory, “World Wind” is a good search term, but there’s others.
The Hollywood hacking depictions are equivalent to seeing syringes being used on film. To the uninitiated it looks “real”, the reality is somewhat different.
Source: I’ve been an ICT professional for 40+ years and have had hundreds of (medical) needles poked in me over much of my life.
You only just figured this out? It’s always been about reducing wages … or said differently, how to get richer than the other members at your country club.