I suspect if this comes to a head you can just change instances to one offshore .

If they start blocking tiny websites "not complying" then shit has really hit the fan.

My pet conspiracy theory is that corporations pushed for this so they can collect your ID and even more personal information you should never share with anyone on the internet.

Fuck this law is so dumb

This account will be visiting from another geolocation which isn't subject to Australian laws and will henceforth identify as a foreign bot trying to disrupt Australian society and promote disunity. I request to be labelled as a foreign asset, not subject to age authorisation. In small print add "works for gambling industry, owns coal mine, makes political donations, VIP, mates with Albo and the Pope"

Just a thanks to everyone involved with keeping things running here and dealing with not only our stupidity, but the stupidity of our stupid government.

And, Molly! Whoooooo, girrrrrrrrrrrrl! You have a job ahead of you! Good luck and thank you to you too!

(Edit: And I think I messed up my submission already sorry 🫣)

I don't know, but everyone's favourite substitute teacher at my school used to read us the Paul Jennings books in class before Round the Twist was even a thing.

I have never heard of the breakfast club. I did go to the cinema to see Crocodile Dundee back in the 70's. I am 64 for fuchks sake.

Maybe a few of them and after a bit. I can't think of any examples so far of two people doing the same thing, but I also don't want to take dozens of means off the table for future respondents. One user already shared his genius method, and I suppose that method is still available for others to use. 😆

I'd love for you to share the de-identified messages. We're a clever bunch here and I'd love to see how we all responded.

Lodion and I both loved this one.

On that front, we're a little fortunate. One of the whitepapers I saw on the legislation essentially spruiked a whole industry poised to offer sites 'age verification services'. By getting in ahead of all that and verifying our users using methods our own users themselves define, we're avoiding that noise.

And the users have been wonderful. I've always loved the support of this crowd and they haven't let us down on this matter, either. By simply leaving it with you all to go ahead and define your own verification means, you've come up with loads of unique stuff that I would never have thought of. And by keeping it all funnelled to DMs the way we have, no AI is going to learn anything from you.

If we are singled out to demonstrate that we took reasonable steps, I'd love to present the evidence that we have complied with the legislation. They can't complain that our methods fail to meet some standard, as they haven't provided a standard. I honestly believe I could go all the way to court with the messages that you've sent in as "any reasonable person would believe this was sent by someone over sixteen". If that turns into some sort of thing that goes 'ok, you need to do x to verify ages in future', we've beaten all such changes by being grandfathered in on our own system.

I have no shame.

Pic in question -

University was a horror of finding out your assignment was too big to save on the floppy you had picked, and going through your whole stash trying to find one it would fit on, or having to delete some file share game before you lost the whole thing.

Na, its to pop a cultural crisis balloon the media was blowing up last year.

There will be some tangential benefits, i think the no alcohol before 18 is a good analogy, the only problem is there can be some benefits to social media, whereas theres not a really an upside to alcohol.

But largely its due to talk-back wankers, and the Government not wanting a distracting fake cultural crisis. Commercial media in this country suck large round ones.

Anyway, thats my view.

Lol, only when stack d in a trenchcoat (not an admin btw).

Next, we'll invent intelligent users.

Zip disks ain’t that old!

That's what I like to think as well, but I guess it has been a while. It's like how I think 90s cars are still fairly recent until I see ones rolling around with historic rego...

Finally, an intelligent bot. 🧪🔬

I assert that imoldgreeeg..... IS ACTUALLY YOUNG GREEEG!

Mum had a Compaq with a 5.25" in the side of the screen. Ran Zork and some lame work shit she needed.

You can delete this account if you feel the need to, not interested in all verification stuff, even if is half arsed.

Massively adult take right here.

Can't break out livejournal without agreeing to the stupid Russian t&c we all ported to Dreamwidth to avoid. I could get back into that one or Fetlife but Nath might faint.

Thank God. I couldn’t bear to go through that again.

Hahahahaha yes!l but I wasn't going to say.

Nope. We only need to ensure any accounts created on our platform comply.

Zip disks ain't that old!

Fixing computers on location I once saw a word processor (as in, a very limited specialised computer for writing text, not the software for general purpose computers that killed 'em) on display. Now that was old.

(Not as old as the completely mechanical typewriter I wrote my school essays with, though.)