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  • If your kid has half a brain he'll do what we did as kids when porn sites were blocked on the home WiFi: He'll just get a VPN.

    And when VPN websites were blocked on the home WiFi, we'd just download their apps on mobile data.

    Where there's a will, there's a way.

    Better to educate your kids on their natural urges and letting them use the more moderated sites than have them go down the more dodgy rabbitholes. No kink shaming but some of the things people do are nasty.

  • The opposite of Nouveau Riche: Nouveau Pauvre. They lack the culture of people who were born into poverty.

  • I was with them helping them out. For reasons I won't discuss here I won't be able to visit them anymore, so that avenue is gone 😞.

  • The exit plan from WhatsApp is quite simple. Start by installing Signal and setting it up – it takes only a couple of minutes. Then, resume any WhatsApp conversations on Signal if that person is already a Signal user. If they are not, then switch to regular text messaging and gently suggest to that person to switch over to Signal.

    Sadly for me, this doesn't really work for some relatives as

    • They live abroad and the cost of sending text messages abroad is not insignificant
    • Some are so tech un-savvy that even installing a new app by themselves is too much.

    All I can do for those relatives is to leave WhatsApp installed but take away basically every permission I can, including running in the background.

  • Gale is that you?!

  • How did it get up there?!

  • And give them affordable housing and you'll solve the homelessness problem.

  • Should have written some integration / end-to-end tests 😞

  • I think I'll choose "I have no plans to purchase from you specifically"

  • I'm glad they are really putting the screws to unfortunate, harmless people instead of dealing with rampant corruption and hate crimes.

  • Gets "AI"

    looks inside

    Badly paid employees

  • I've thought this a few times, but your cat looks like my brother's cat.

  • The tickles were just that good.

    In all seriousness, like many people, her eyes point in slightly different directions. You can just about see it in the other picture too, but in a close-up the effect is magnified.

  • Ah, I think my post was broken and the image was missing. Should be fine now.

    That's what I get from posting on the train!

    As an apology, have a second, goofier picture.

  • I think recent events are giving a lot of motivation for these kinds of initiatives that weren't a huge concern in the past.

    There's likely going to be a bit of a scramble as we realise we can't rely on America and their companies anymore.

  • TL;DR:

    This bill's proposed amendment NC21 would out trans people. It was rejected by the MPs, but the House of Lords have effectively appealed this.

    However, the article claims that even if this amendment isn't in there, the bill itself is dangerous, allowing the government to reintroduce these effects even without the amendments, by allowing itself to define how and what data needs to be shared by verification providers.

    It would do so at its own discretion, without further legislative scrutiny.