I'm not against this being a method people can employ for verification. But it won't be the only method. I'm not going to ask a recovering alcoholic or a Muslim to walk into a pub and buy a beer.
Also: it's users under 16. Not under 18. While I'm not aware of any users under 18, we did have a 17 year old last year.
This method has been considered, but it wouldn't catch everyone.
Tbh I would be amazed if anyone in the government knows that Lemmy exists.
It would be unwise to base any sort of response on this assumption. Section 13 of the legislation is pretty clear:
(1) For the purposes of this Act, age‑restricted social media platform means:
(a) an electronic service that satisfies the following conditions:
(i) the sole purpose, or a significant purpose, of the service is to enable online social interaction between 2 or more end‑users;(ii) the service allows end‑users to link to, or interact with, some or all of the other end‑users;(iii) the service allows end‑users to post material on the service;(iv) such other conditions (if any) as are set out in the legislative rules; or
(b) an electronic service specified in the legislative rules;
I'll cover these "legislative rules" in a sec.
Most of the lists of affected sites you see flying all around the place are misleading, because they're being used by the media to get engagement rather than helping people to understand the actual law. In short: every site that meets section 13(1a) above is bound by the law. Which includes aussie.zone.
Services that eSafety considers will not be age-restricted social media platforms
These exception lists are important. For reasons, the government has included a provision in the legislation to exclude sites from section 13(1a). There are a whole bunch of provisions in the overall legislation that hang on the magic words "legislative rules". There are in fact 24 references to legislative rules in the legislation. If you read the thing all the way to section 240 (yes that's not a typo), you'll get to this bit:
240 Legislative rules
(1) The Minister may, by legislative instrument, make rules (legislative rules) prescribing matters:
(a) required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed by the legislative rules; or (b) necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.
In other words, the communications minister can ad-hoc declare that any site/service that meets the criteria in section 13 is exempt from this law whenever she likes.
We have had zero guidance from the government on what "reasonable steps" to ensure users are over 16 looks like. Frankly, I don't think the government is ready for this law to come in. I won't be at all surprised if we are given a new date.
All I know is what we won't be doing:
I know this isn't really answering the question. But our stance hasn't really changed from 'wait and see what everyone else does to comply'. I have something of a game in mind, I'll go that way if our hand is forced on the original date.
It may seem like everyone has solar panels, but alas we don't. For two-thirds of us, this would not be free anyway.
This doesn't sound like much, but with very minimal effort, it could save over 10% on your power bill.
Do the washing.Cook a meal.Run the dishwasher.Fill a thermos.Crank the aircon to cool/heat the house.
If your power bill is $400/month, that's $40 for doing stuff you were already going to do - just in that 3 hour window each day.
This is the game I remember from primary school in the 80's on the Gold Coast. Then the family moved to WA and I don't think the game existed here. I haven't thought about this game in over 40 years!
Because the rest of us don't have houses and aren't set to lose half our net worth by such policy changes. So, we have a variety of election policies that we prioritise.
When Labor propose making changes to the status quo, even with mild changes, they have historically lost the election.
It might be different next time, but it'd be a huge political risk to propose changes again after previous rejections.
Yes and no. There are a lot of owner-occupiers in Australia now who on paper are Millionaires, and they like being Millionaires. They are not going to like it if/when that status is stripped from them.
If houses nationally suddenly dropped in value by 50%, even if people's mortgages were halved at the same time, I expect the change would still be met with hostility. It's the unspoken truth of housing affordability: far too many Australians are happy with the present housing prices. They're outnumbered by the rest of us, but they are a large enough voting block to decide any election.
I'll buy the Aldi Tim Tam knockoffs when Tim Tams have been full-price for too long. I refuse to pay $6-$7 for 11 biscuits, but will pick up a few packets when I find them half-price and use them up over the subsequent weeks.
The Aldi "Divines" are like most Aldi knock-off products: Not as good as the real deal, but close enough that you don't really miss the real product. And they're even a little cheaper than half-price Tim Tams.
Until this article, I'd never heard of Penguins. But I know the brand McVities and I like their Digestives, I'd probably have been willing to give Penguins a chance.
On a biological level, dogs are all the same species. There's obviously something beyond biology in terms of classification. And humans have whatever it is: you only need to watch an NBA game or a 100m Olympic final to see this in action.
I agree that most categories we put people into are artificial, but it'd be an error to say it's all social.
I also think our species superpower is not our physical makeup. Our ability to work together and use our brains is what sets us apart from the other species on the planet, and on that front the playing field is level.
I get so embarrassed when I see these idiots. I can't watch this video, the cringe is too much for me.
Bold of you to assume we model our politics on yours. Politically, we resemble the UK more than the USA. We love you guys, but we don't want to be like you, politically.
When the comments are better than the article! 🍿🤣
There have been questions raised recently over whether we should be tagging Betoota/Chaser/Shovel/Belltower/etc articles as [Satire] so people aren't confused. I'm torn. I don't want people from outside Australia seeing these articles and being misinformed (For anyone not Australian and unfamiliar with The Chaser: Julia Gillard does not endorse Donald Trump - we promise). This article is written for Australians as a bit of fun. I do however love seeing people who know nothing about the headlines/creators leap into the discussion with strong opinions.
Australians are not a serious people. We genuinely enjoy laughing at the world and at politics in particular. Genuine discourse often comes from satirical posts. Take a look at the top ten posts in this community:
Nearly half the posts are satirical.
https://www.bom.gov.au/catalogue/data-feeds.shtml
Just use one of their feeds. Why on earth would you mess around with scraping the web UI?
There was. I got something like $236 from being a part of the class action.
It's an interesting precedent. I've used AI several times in my job. Even for a government client. My prompts tend to be 'give me a demo function that does x' so that I can see how to do a thing. It's usually quicker than Stack Overflow, but still requires human oversight - it often gets things wrong.
But yeah - just using AI to do work: If that leads to being unacceptable to some clients/government departments, workers are going to be doing their jobs without the latest and most efficient tools. I think my situation is different to Deloitte's, because I didn't give the client what the AI spat out. It looks like they did.
I had that machine so I know what I’m talking about.
Ahh - that's how you knew about the HDMI-out issue. That one isn't a problem for me as my screens are attached to my desktop these days. I disagree that this thing can't play games though - it had 4000+ hours of gaming in its past under Windows, and worked flawlessly as a Windows 10 machine until last month. It is showing its age, but its weakness has always been that GPU. I'd never have bought it as a gaming machine: I bought it for work and games was a nice bonus.
I have owned this thing since the day it came out and for a decade it was my primary 'everything' machine. I've lugged across oceans and to dozens of client sites until I changed jobs to one that didn't need a laptop any longer. I'm very familiar with it and know what it is capable of. It can get warm, yes, but it isn't like I actually play with it on my lap. I could reinstall Windows on it and have it playing those games again, but I'd much prefer Fedora. This is a driver support issue, specifically a closed-source vendor choosing both not to support it and to refuse to open up their source so others can support it. It is not a problem with the hardware.
When I'm at home, I have a beefy desktop that I can play modern games on. I'm going away for two weeks at Christmas and want to have some simple games to relax with. I'm debating whether to take my MX 3S mouse, or something more portable. I'm not likely going to be able to justify an eGPU.
Besides, the laptop only has Thunderbolt 1 with theoretical max throughput of 10gbps. I doubt I'd get much better than a RX560 going on it - which while supported isn't really worth the effort. Now that I think about it, I could pick up a second-hand Thinkpad x280 for around the same price and be in a far better spot. That was actually my starting point, I was going to grab one of them before I decided to stretch the life out of this laptop.
You say that like an i7 with 16GB RAM, and a GeForce GPU can't game. The hardware is more than good enough (within reason - these are 15+ year old games). It works fine in Windows 10. Normally Linux support for older drivers is better than Windows; Nvidia is the exception.
I fired up a little test with Terraria and it worked, though that one likely would have worked under nouveau. I'll do a more solid test during the week.
Rage at who? Kerr? Fraser? Whitlam? Everyone's long gone.
The 1975 dismissal is a wonderful case study in both the importance of Government checks and balances as well as the requirement to ensure they are used correctly, so that past mistakes won't be repeated. It's also why Australians even today get a little nervous when one party controls the senate alone.
But rage? No. I have nobody to rage at.