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Rule 6: Provide an archived link to the tweet (or similar) being shown if it’s a major figure or a politician.
The ban and age verification requirements apply to pretty much all services which allow communication of information between people, unless an exemption is granted by the minister.
There is no legislated exemption for instant messaging, SMS, email, email lists, chat rooms, forums, blogs, voice calls, etc.
It's a wildly broadly applicable piece of legislation that seems ripe to be abused in the future, just like we've seen with anti-terror and anti-hate-symbol legislation.
From 63C (1) of the legislation:
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; but does not include a service mentioned in subsection (6).
Here's all the detail of what the bill is and the concerns raised in parliament.
What will this mean for Lemmy instances? XMPP servers? Email servers?
What if a 15 year old runs their own personal Mastodon server? LoL this is gonna be yet another entertaining Australian government shitshow.
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Reader mode exposes a much better headline:
Scientists testing deadly heat limits on humans show thresholds may be much lower than first thought
"Current AI models cannot forget data they were trained on, even if the data was later removed from the training data set," Han's report said.
Bullshit. You delete the entire model and start again.
Huh. Even Boeing doesn't want to be associated with Boeing:
Boeing executives have repeatedly sought to make clear that the Starliner program operates independently from the company’s other units — including the commercial aircraft division that has been at the center of scandals for years.
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Australian PM First Western Leader to Be Referred to ICC as 'Accessory to Genocide in Gaza'
(www.commondreams.org)
~623 km/h in today's units.
"South Africa, which is functioning as the legal arm of the Hamas terrorist organization [...]"
-- https://twitter.com/LiorHaiat/status/1745427037039280207 (https://archive.md/L7AwX)
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Even though the company didn’t really do anything truly wrong in this case, as it’s simply users reusing passwords, they still should have been better/more proactive especially with such sensitive information
There's nothing special or new or unique or unforseen about the security requirements of 23andMe.
They absolutely failed to implement an appropriate level of security measures for their service.
Mandatory 2FA could've prevented this.
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Panquake releases source code
(lemmy.ml)
Panquake have released some source code. Not for Panquake itself, but for a link shortening service. I suppose it's a brand-exposure exercise.
https://talkliberation.substack.com/p/panquake-early-release-pnqk-now-available
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The US-led Military Buildup in Australia Is Like Nothing We’ve Seen Before
(www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au)
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medication rule
(lemmy.world)
Transcript:
[showerthoughtsofficial]: When medication says "do not operate heavy machinery" they're probably mainly referring to cars, but my mind always goes to forklift.
[sauntervaguelydownward]: It has honestly never occured to me that this warning was about cars and not construction equipment
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rcbrk
joined 3 years ago
Gotta say, I don't read their posts as trolling. Perhaps some mildly trollish language in the first comment, but in the context of their further responses they do seem to have a critical but genuine and insightful perpective on the topic at hand.
Many countries around the world have been experiencing legislative overreach brought in under the guise of prohibiting racism/violence/antivax/etc, but written to effectively create a framework for suppressing any protest and discourse which any government of the day (and by extension their sponsors) can use to crack down on whatever they define as wrongthink.
That kind of predicted result strongly prompts the need to wrack our collective minds in search of a better solution, which I believe the commenter was trying to encourage.