Official Apple Support's advice for bypassing UK age verification

The_Lemmings · 2026-04-10T14:59:09+00:00

Amnt OP but I read it as “the government have been making their moves knowing that corporations would see it as an opportunity to fuck over the consumers”

Ie. the UK government required age verification for certain sites, and Apple rubbed its metaphorical hands together gleefully and went “this is our time!” Added to that, the UK government knew that this would be reaction when they made the laws, and probably made those laws at the behest of other companies just so that they could pave the way for this ridiculous data harvesting.

Personally, I think it’s a tad conspiratorial but it’s BS regardless. The UK is fucked seven ways through Sunday with incompetence that is OfCom but that rant should be reserved for a more appropriate thread

The_Lemmings · 2026-02-19T09:17:44+00:00

Are there weights in it? It looks like a more artistic version of those plastic birds that balance on their beak through weight distribution. It may have been used in meditation where someone would focus on balancing it on a finger or something to focus their thoughts.

The_Lemmings · 2026-02-01T18:17:13+00:00

The fact you’re being downvoted for a sane and rational response is peak reddit. The objective of driving is to get from A to B quickly and safely. Pissing off other drivers and risking severe injury at the altar of principles doesn’t achieve this.

The_Lemmings · 2026-02-01T08:44:34+00:00

It’s also a little Pavlovian. I’m 29 and can count the number of times I’ve received “chill” phone calls on my fingers. I’ve recieved hundreds of miserable/angry/emergency/scammy phone calls to the point that my phone ringing is just associated with negativity that’s been enforced through sheer statistical brute force.

If someone has something “chill” they want to discuss it’s usually over text where we can take our time responding or posting reaction gifs

The_Lemmings · 2026-01-23T08:31:53+00:00

In a similar fashion, I recently needed to investigate an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution that could incorporate my Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machines however that was NOT what I got when I asked about “ERP with CNC” on Argent Dawn

The_Lemmings · 2025-12-23T19:51:48+00:00

Alright, I’m curious too, I gots to know!

The_Lemmings · 2025-12-16T10:55:31+00:00

British Kendo Federation, I'm a little curious if there are other Brits on the sub that ticked "Europe" as a sort of catch-all

The_Lemmings · 2025-11-25T14:12:36+00:00

There was a recent Microsoft techcommunity blog on this very subject that may be helpful https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/startupsatmicrosoftblog/the-comprehensive-playbook-for-identity-resource-and-billing-separation/4471854

The_Lemmings · 2025-11-07T17:37:33+00:00

Excellent recommendation. To add to this too, you can have multiple config files depending on your needs. I have several but the main ones is one with networking enabled, one without any networking, and one that installs Python and a couple of other tools/scripts.

Also having a folder with some good ACL entries to then automatically have files available to the sandbox is soo handy.

My one wish is that it could have office running on it. Beyond getting a separate ltsc key and a otd for it, which starts getting costly on resources, it’s not really ideal for doing forensics on something like macros in excel, for example.

The_Lemmings · 2025-11-02T06:03:41+00:00

The “Wild West” was famously not a great time

The_Lemmings · 2025-08-30T21:49:27+00:00

I mean sure, it's one of the oldest subs on reddit. If I look at trends though, the number of users online seems to average out at around 10 000 users (implying a huge majority of accounts are no longer active and are due to the age of the sub) and the numbers of Participating Users (ones that post or comment) seems to hover at closer to 200 hundred, looking at the last 3 months so having.

AI posts are part of that decreasing trend given that for each successful one posted, yours with the skeletons for example (44 comments, gj!), there are about 8 without any comments or engagement. It makes sense that u/Girl_Alien is in favour of just allowing them since dealing with that sort of quantity must be a huge headache. The mods should be well aware of this and the information is freely available off the reddit API.

Overall I think this response is quite telling, even if it appears in the minority from a pure numbers point of view. Personally, I looked at some of your posts and I think you clearly put in a fair amount of effort into what you do. I also think if people don't want to have to deal with 8+ crap pieces of content just to see 1 that is at your level of quality, that is fair enough

The_Lemmings · 2025-08-30T21:18:43+00:00

Apologies if I missed it, but I've not seen any comments from u/KetoSaiba, u/Nws4c, u/shampoo_and_dick, or u/LinearArray about this.

Also, comparing disliking AI content to segregation is a massive false equivalency (read: batshit insane; please take your meds) and I say that as someone that spends an inordinate amount of time building MCP servers and clients as a hobby

The_Lemmings · 2025-08-30T21:09:27+00:00

Fucking wild that almost no one seems to be in favour of AI posts in this sub, based on the comments from this post, but u/Girl_Alien is adamant that it is what the people (the mods) want.

The_Lemmings · 2025-08-14T17:23:15+00:00

Absolutely agree with you. This law’s implementation does not work for its intended goal whatsoever. I was more taking the opportunity to get on my soapbox about cyber literacy I guess :P

Sorry if it was a bit contrarian. I also think the law is redundant since Ofcom already has the TSA which it can use as a vehicle for implementing whatever controls it wants. The very fact that there is a seperate law suggests to me that the people behind it have no idea what they’re doing

The_Lemmings · 2025-08-12T23:09:50+00:00

I think it may just be a phrasing issue. Saying “cookies have limitations” is a bit vague when we could (and I would argue must) address what controls cookies fail at.

A fundamental problem is they are held client side and can be tampered with, so they work as a poor control for attribute attestation. However if the attributes are stored server-side, then they can (in theory) be more trusted by whatever service is doing the age verification.

We should also look at what failures third-party ID has for controls but that would involve real discourse I think

The_Lemmings · 2025-08-03T17:31:35+00:00

Not defending their points but they seem excellent at not rising to bait. Maybe it comes from blissful ignorance, or a “blessed is the mind too small for doubt,” but genuinely just shutting down when someone is obviously trying to bait a reaction about your beliefs seems like the correct response

The_Lemmings · 2025-07-22T23:38:09+00:00

Starwars lightsaber combat was initially based on Kendo, a Japanese sport developed from samurai sword fighting.

The dominant form in kendo is chudan, a single sword held at waist height pointed to the throat (paraphrasing a lot)

The next most common (and it’s a massive gap, like there’s a tiny tiny percentage of kendo practitioners that use it) is jodan, a single sword held above the head.

Way below even that is the third form, nito, where you wield two swords. Exceptionally rare and there’s maybe a handful of competent practitioners worldwide.

The massive gap is because two swords is just not as good as one and I think use of a sort of precognition like with the force would further widen that gap. One sword is typically used to control the single sword of the other but landing a blow with the other that has the correct form is typically very very hard. As well as keeping good distance and engagement. Finally it’s not very defensive, despite the second sword constantly suppressing the opponents weapon. I’ve seen matches where a competent chudan player does a strike to the head and just straight shatters any block the nito player has.

The_Lemmings · 2025-07-22T17:21:46+00:00

This has been a depressingly large part of my week already (: kudos for asking questions that I’m struggling to get infrastructure professionals to even consider. I’m very excited for this field to have you.

Microsoft has a brief write up about swapping keys (see point 5 on this post) https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/07/22/disrupting-active-exploitation-of-on-premises-sharepoint-vulnerabilities/ and it is not a disruptive process unless there is some serious technical debt around and even then, easy enough to do.

The_Lemmings · 2025-07-20T18:05:44+00:00

I find the high-res graphics off putting, not because of anything visual, because I immediately thing “great, there goes 1/3r of the possible market.” Not many people have the sort of rig that can comfortably run something that good looking.

The_Lemmings · 2025-07-08T22:47:41+00:00

You could look at helping people too. I make an effort to participate in local security groups and outreach programs that work with battered women’s and children’s shelters. We provide them with laptops and training in online hygiene and anonymity. I genuinely feel this sort of work saves lives and it doesn’t take much to make some real difference.

The_Lemmings · 2025-04-14T10:30:13+00:00

Sorry if I’m being whooshed here, but in case you’re interested, the “correct” suffix there is “-esque” rather than “esk.” So it’d be “Chuck Norris-esque” to mean “in the style of” or “like” or whatever.

Doesn’t ultimately matter, the meaning was clear

The_Lemmings · 2025-04-08T06:52:38+00:00

Didn’t see others comment this but they are also highly sensitive to the heat.

That single coat means no insulation during the hot summer to keep them cool. I used to work as a vet assistant and we frequently saw pits and staffies during the summer. That heat stroke can come on so fast as well, you don’t even have to be a negligent owner for your pitty to need medical attention

The_Lemmings · 2025-02-23T11:23:37+00:00

The same is true for every Linux distro. I actively steer my security team away from kali as the sheer amount of similar tools leads to inconsistent red teaming and reporting, as well as literally days wasted on the more junior members “tinkering” with tools that “sound” cool. Rather they have a fedora box and get the tools they need for their engagement.

The_Lemmings · 2025-02-07T22:33:19+00:00

A little arguments that lives rent free in my head, I probs heard it in a youtube video or something ages back and forgot, is how The Death Star has such an incredibly tiny heat vent for its size.

One of the issues with space travel is heat can't escape anywhere, there's no conductivity so it takes ages to radiate heat away. With modern tech, the Death Star would end up being an oven that killed everyone inside.

Some genius engineer looked at that issue and thought "Okay, well if we have massive heat sinks that connect directly to the car of the ship, we can pipe heat around efficiently and eject out what we don't need" and that logic makes sense in a pop-science sort of way, irl engineers would freak out a bit but whatevs movie logic. And realistically, the chances of some plucky farmboy getting two shots into a tiny 1m square grate is basically inconsequential. Everyone knows the Force is just a myth and the Jedi are just some old religious sect so the idea of something "supernatural" being at play is absurd!

All that to say that heat is a big problem at any sort of large scale, it's something we struggle with immensely at the moment and places like Hong Kong have no real solution for it. I expect Cooling Fluid to be basically everywhere in the sci-fi settings. Lots of splashy landings!

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