I think she stands a decent chance of getting acquitted. Unknown person in the house semi naked with her daughter. Nobody explains what is going on. Neither the boy nor the daughter admitted he was a boyfriend and it was consensual.

Honestly, I can see this going either way.

Who: Yes, Aussie zone appears to fit the definition of a social media site.

What: “A provider of an age-restricted social media platform must take reasonable steps to prevent age-restricted users having accounts with the age-restricted social media platform.” Details are a bit scarce on “reasonable steps”. There’s a bit about how we are not to collect Government ID details though.

When: Presently December 10, 2025 but the bill is worded such that they are prepared to shift it.

Why: Protect the kiddies from the evils of the site. By the way, if you spot any actual bad content please report it.

How: and now we get to the big question. I truly don’t see how you’d enforce this on Lemmy. Even if a perfect system were introduced to verify everyone’s ages somehow, nothing stops people from shifting to a non-australian instance and just keep using the site. Or just spinning up their own private instance at home. Lemmy federation works a bit like email - imagine trying to stop kids from being able to access email. Again, I just don’t see how you’d accomplish that.

So, we’re doing what the government is doing. Keeping an eye on things and waiting to see how the big players respond. I’d love to see Facebook or YouTube to just go ‘nup’ and withdraw from the market. The public backlash would be insane and this bill would quickly vanish. People are asleep on this thing because they don’t really see it affecting them. Yet.

The UK has just introduced an age verification thingy, and it’s off to a poor start. The words are nice, but putting them into action is not trivial.

In Australia at least, those cards are everywhere in populated areas. Supermarkets and department stores pretty-much all stock them. I’d say that over 90% of Australians live within 3km of a store that sells Steam cards and takes cash. Most of us even closer than that.

Your point is sound because I usually use a credit card for this, but most of my Steam purchases come from buying gift cards. However, I could easily buy those gift cards with cash.

Your comment implies this is not possible/common.

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I was indifferent, it’s true. People who sell porn have had issues with the likes of PayPal and credit card payments for decades. I wasn’t surprised by the move, nor did I blame Valve.

Am I bothered that it was instigated by this mob? Not particularly. If it weren’t them, it would have been some other mob. They were only pointing at something the payment companies are already pre-disposed to disassociate from.

Taking credit for it is a bit of overreach. They pointed at Valve and said “Look! they have porn on their platform!” They didn’t actually do anything.

Well, a young American dude went missing in the desert in WA in the 90’s and that had wall-to-wall coverage in the news for weeks until he was found also.

I think @DiaDeLosMuertos is right - the driving factor in the interest was that he was a tourist, not that he was any particular nationality/gender. So yes: I think a young Turkish bloke going missing would get just as much coverage.

China wants Australia’s dirt. Australia wants China’s money.

Everything else is just theatre.

I did probably venture outside Aussie.zone more last year in truth. These days I very rarely do that. My time is too limited to waste it doom scrolling the shit show that is US politics.

I don’t think the problem is banks charging fees. In fact, I don’t really have an issue with the banks taking 1% of the sale. The issue is that merchants don’t realise that counting cash and taking it to the bank etc actually costs more than 1% anyway. Electronic payments are actually cheaper than all that, they already give you a total and handle the bank end.

I can think of a couple of places in Perth who have gone totally cashless. They only accept Eftpos/credit cards.

I can’t comment on this case at all, but I will say that my father in law was totally scammed out of $19k and NAB blocked the transfer. NAB literally saved my in-laws from losing nearly $20k. The scammers were very convincing, they basically got remote access to his PC and from there accessed his online banking.

So, offset this story with a good one for NAB.

Perth also had one, but it closed down 20 years ago. Two businesses have since occupied the building, but both have died.

You can see how the building would have looked with the angular awnings etc. but they were made boring after the Ettamogah closed down.

Huh. Well this went from “something to look into next week” to “Oops, it’s finished already”.
Looks like there wasn’t much interest this year.

I watched a lot of crap. I didn’t realise it was crap at the time, I just didn’t know any better. In the 80’s/early 90’s I was watching:

• A Country Practice
• Early Home & Away
• Flying doctors
• Some show where Georgie Parker was a female firefighter (Gasp!).
• Some hospital show with Georgie Parker as the main character
• Comedy Company
• Hey Hey its Saturday
• Its a Knockout
• Hey, Dad (This one has been tainted now it turned out that the Dad was not wholesome at all)

As to what to actually preserve, some of those shows likely haven’t aged well. The Paul Hogan Show was great, but a product of its time. I’m sure it would never be allowed on the air today. Same with Number 96 (not that I was supposed to be watching that one).

While these are the answer to your question - what were my favourite shows at the time, I wouldn’t nominate any of them for preservation.

Bluey is a parenting program cleverly disguised as a kids’ program. It’s my favourite show on TV at the moment.

I guess it’s neat, but I don’t see the point. 99% of my maps usage is local navigation, mostly in the car. I already know the weather.

The remaining 1% is using the app like an atlas, I guess it’s nice to know that it’s snowing today in Estonia, but that’s not why I’m looking at the place in Google maps.

Is this a feature people will find useful?

I’m tempted. At the moment my daily carry is a Pixel 7 and an iPad mini. Thing is: the iPad mini is absolutely perfect as an 8" tablet. The Fold is going to have to be amazeballs to even consider switching.

But, carrying around one device would be amazing. Number of times I’ve been unexpectedly yoinked into a meeting and not had my tablet makes me yearn for this.

The biggest things giving me cause to pause are losing iOS (not that I like it more, but I like being current with both OSes) and the Fold’s weight. I won’t want to run with the fold in my pocket. Looks like I’ll need to also upgrade my watch.

So, really I’d be going from there everyday-carry devices to two. And I would need to upgrade them both.

Please tell us the stable hand gets that $10k?

But who has a modem to dial it these days?

I probably have an old laptop somewhere with a modem on it, but then my next impediment is I don’t have a landline any more.

I think it was the Hitchhikers books that made that joke in relation to people inventing time travel. They travel to some other point in time and die in space because the earth isn’t in that spot any more.