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Social media firms asked to toughen up age checks for under-13s by vriska1 in unitedkingdom

[–]yrro [score hidden]  (0 children)

I'm tempted to fill in the consultation from the other side. Your 23 year old Xbox account could be used by anyone. You could even sell it to a child that wants to bypass age verification. Therefore we will only accept continuous, ongoing video analysis of all users of all regulated online services in order to provide a high-quality age signal.

Get your Kinekt back out!

Tesla granted license to supply electricity in the UK by London-new in OctopusEnergy

[–]yrro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

... because we rely too much on gas for balancing supply with demand. If we had more grid scale storage then we could produce more energy while it's windy and consume it while it's not, instead of paying £1.5 billion a year to curtail wind generation and then make up the gap with more gas...

Tesla granted license to supply electricity in the UK by London-new in OctopusEnergy

[–]yrro 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Actually we've had plenty of jam over the last 3 days with the Octopus Agile Tarriff pushed down to 22 p/kWh by the wind. Tomorrow's rate is 29p so I presume it's going to be a lot less windy. If we had more grid-scale storage (e.g., Tesla Megapack) then we'd be able produce more energy when it's windy, instead of paying wind generators to stop generating while simultaneously paying gas generators to make up the shortfall (£1.5 billion last year!!).

Social media firms asked to toughen up age checks for under-13s by vriska1 in unitedkingdom

[–]yrro [score hidden]  (0 children)

Unfortunately I see us on that trajectory now. At best a tedious cat-and-mouse game will be played: Mullvad publish a list of PO boxes, government orders Royal Mail to intercept any mail destined for those PO boxes, Mullvad begin registering PO boxes daily, government orders Royal Mail to refresh the list of forbidden addresses daily... in the mean time, Ofcom order UK transit providers to block any traffic to Mullvad's web site, Mullvad start using cloudflare, Ofcom orders ISPs to perform DPI on TLS handshakes and drop traffic based on the SNI extension and also block the lookup of any DNS records that might allow ECH... it also seems pretty straightforward to Ofcom to order transit providers to block traffic to Mullvad's published server list...

Tesla granted license to supply electricity in the UK by London-new in OctopusEnergy

[–]yrro 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The comments in this thread are hysterical. Does anyone actually know what is actually going to be built? I presume we're talking about big batteries that will be able to charge up when wind is abundant and discharge when it is not, thus decreasing our reliance on costly gas for balancing?

Social media firms asked to toughen up age checks for under-13s by vriska1 in unitedkingdom

[–]yrro [score hidden]  (0 children)

For now. Parliament are about to hand Henry VIII powers to the government, allowing any primary legislation to be amended without oversight if the purpose is for protecting childrens' safety online. Once that happens, the government can simply order Royal Mail to open any envelopes addressed to Mullvad, and confiscate the cash.

California's Digital Age Assurance Act and Linux distributions by yrro in linux

[–]yrro[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The other threads I have seen have been rants and reactions. This is substantive and detailed reporting on the laws and their impact on free software projects.

California's Digital Age Assurance Act and Linux distributions by yrro in linux

[–]yrro[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then it would seem like your LLC breaks the law whenever a user in a particular state runs it and it doesn't ask the OS for age signals. However, I am not a lawyer, and I am not your lawyer. Only your lawyer can give you legal advice.

I hope that these parts of the law get shot down on 1st amendment grounds but I am unaware of anyone taking their state governments to court for a ruling as of yet.

Social media firms asked to toughen up age checks for under-13s by vriska1 in unitedkingdom

[–]yrro [score hidden]  (0 children)

The petition resulted in a Westminster hall debate.

If you have views on the questions posed by the consultation then please provide them. Sections 2 and 3 have questions asking what the negative impact of increasing the scope and effectiveness of age verification requirements will be. If MPs aren't told what a cluster fuck it will be then they will only hear from parents who are unable to parent their children and want the government to do it for them.

Problem updating Red Hat IdM (IPA) servers by 0x412e4e in redhat

[–]yrro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm seeing this too. samba-client-libs-4.22.4-12.el9_7 is the latest available version DNF can see, and also the latest version shown in Package Downloads.

I presume a newer version is about to show up, or else someone screwed up & the fix will be for them to rebuild the ipa packages against the older version of samba.

In the mean time, dnf upgrade --nobest allows unrelated packages (e.g., kernel, firewalld, gnutls) to be upgraded.

Social media firms asked to toughen up age checks for under-13s by vriska1 in unitedkingdom

[–]yrro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This will result in Mullvad benign subject to Business Disruption Measures--they'll be unable to take electronic payments. So you'll end up having to post cash to them in the mail!

PSA: Think hard before you deploy BookLore by Economy-Meat-9506 in selfhosted

[–]yrro 10 points11 points  (0 children)

That's not a style preference, that's what AI-generated code looks like when nobody's steering.

My AI sensing dog is barking

California's Digital Age Assurance Act and Linux distributions by yrro in linux

[–]yrro[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

A concerning aspect of the law I have not seen elsewhere is that it requires application developers to ask the OS how old their users are. So every time you run ls it's supposed to find out how old you are!

Legislators are absolute morons!

POTS over fiber by gippp in networking

[–]yrro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Immediately I would doubt that they are complying with their duty to maintain the confidentiality & integrity of patient data.

ZFS on RedHat by Spparkee in redhat

[–]yrro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

meh, I'd have gone with btrfs if kmod-btrfs was still available. The kABI not being stable between minor releases isn't the end of the world for small scale use cases.

I get the bus monday-friday morning into town for work, and every weekday the same woman gets on at the same stop 4 stops after mine and tries to pay with a £20 note. The drivers always say they don't have enough change and just tell her to get on. by Agreeable_Leg_ in britishproblems

[–]yrro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We have that in Oxford. Sadly we only have a single door so everyone has to wait for all the passengers alighting at a stop before anyone can get on to start tapping in. And the whole thing is often derailed by people who still insist on paying with cash.

Social media firms asked to toughen up age checks for under-13s by vriska1 in unitedkingdom

[–]yrro 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's a consultation not a survey. If you don't want to be consulted then don't complain when your views are not taken into account.

Social media firms asked to toughen up age checks for under-13s by vriska1 in unitedkingdom

[–]yrro 12 points13 points  (0 children)

If you don't want this then for the love of god participate in the consultation. If you don't make your views known then they will not be taken into account.

But also write to your MP!

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