offshore extremists use such platforms to communicate.

Yes, yes they do. But that is not justification for reading everyone's messages.

hopefully those bodies are treating such a questionnaire with the respect it deserves

I'm getting sick of having to explain to people that "i'Ve gOT noTHIng tO HiDE" is naive bullshit when this comes up

It's not meant to benefit young people. If it was they wouldn't have now explicitly excluded gambling ads from the act. Kids won't be able to access the fixtures page of their hockey club on Facebook, but can have Bet365 ads rammed down their throats. This act is not about protecting kids. It's a push to easily, accurately tie everyone's online presence to their myID.

Yep. And meanwhile the kids will be chatting/abusing in Google Docs. Or IRC servers they spin up for free in AWS or whatever. Or, shock, SMS.

It'll need a 1.5GB "drivers" download every week, a subscription to just keep running, forget all its network settings monthly, need an "app" to set it up, and if you don't play a game they like it'll just brick itself?

Are they somehow suggesting that if Fighty McStealy had been facially-profiled on entering the store that he wouldn't have done a meth rampage against old mate in a green apron?

title of your sex tape

Accidentally a little hungover. Gonna have to be beef vindaloo for lunch

This guy had a good take on it all

https://medium.com/@jamesdwho/australias-3g-shutdown-telcos-to-block-working-4g-5g-phones-2bf41e95de8a

The end result is that basically if you want to get a handset you know will work, the average consumer's only real choice is to buy from the network. At their prices. Funny how things work out.

That actually reads like a school admin person getting a bit knee jerky on a bit of hearsay.

Found a "sorry you were out" delivery card for the missus in the bushes down the side of the house. Luckily only a couple of days old. Am puzzled how it got there as our mailbox is of a type that would make it very difficult for it to escape somehow. Anyway, looking forward to what that is when she collects it. It had better be some sort of full rizz skibidee pressie for me.

The problem was that some handsets (including ones sold by the networks as "4G") would drop to 3G for 000. Even same models on different firmware behaved differently. So the regulator said to ban any the networks weren't 100% sure were compatible. With 30(?) days' notice. And the online IMEI checker is incomplete/useless too. So now the only realistic place for average consumers to buy known-compatible handsets is from the network operators. At their prices, with their software.

Of course that's 12pm in Bestern Australia

I think it will start a lot of conversations that need to be had over there. Some stat I've seen doing the rounds is that Americans paid $12(?) billion out of pocket for cancer treatments last year. UnitedHealthcare alone made $33 billion profit. They could have paid for everyone's cancer treatments in full and still delivered billions in shareholder value. Situation's fucked. Sadly, I suspect that when the buffoon takes office, the momentum will be lost.

Wednesday beers will happen outside this evening for first time in a while.

Are the rumours true?

I had a handful of jelly snakes. Yours looks healthier tbh

This is the kicker they don't seem to understand. Kids just going to sign up to vKontakte or Weibo or Pedro's stamps collecting forum in Spain. Or any overseas Mastodon etc

Love that basketballs get a specific mention for WA