how much effort they put on showing the world the consequences of extremely stupid acts so the rest don’t have to do it.

Kinda sucks to be the world’s policy alpha tester though.

You think given how well thought through this online safety act has been that they’ll understand that would be an issue and legislate accordingly?

How many small businesses can afford such permit? Hell, I’d argue that even bigger companies will have a problem paying for that.

Feature, not a bug.

They want people back in offices to help landlords and property prices. This way they can say that remote work is not banned and it’s just companies choosing not to buy a permit and offer it.

Oh that makes it easier for the government.

Maybe that the end goal, force people back into the office by banning vpn

Ban remote working, vpn now only allowed from business addresses as registered with companies house.

Next step: ban on remote work.

What I don’t get is why it’s ok to view that at 18 but not at 17 years and 364 days. Surely just ban the site for everyone.

For example, the Government is very concerned about small platforms that host harmful content, such as forums dedicated to encouraging suicide or self-harm.

So they’ve identified a problem with this type of content, and the answer is to put it behind an age wall. So is it a-ok for anyone over 18 to be encouraged to self harm or commit suicide according to the government?

Wish we could have some of those rules here in the UK…

I’m still good ta. But it might be ok for the person I was replying too. I assume that there’s been independent verification of their claims and we’re not just taking them at their word.

Are you happy with the company that makes the app and the 71960 partner companies with “legitimate interest” knowing where you are all the time too?

I can’t see why that would be the case. The UK users using the UK instance would still have had their ages checked. As far as I understand it doesn’t matter where the adult material on the site has come from. It’s not a law to try to protect against the creation of material by people who aren’t verified, but rather try to reduce the amount of under 18s accessing material.

They’ll get blocked in the UK. Which, to be honest for a non profit fediverse instance isn’t going to be a bad thing as they’ll loose traffic alongside any donations. Expect UK based instances to start doing something for their users. But there’s lots of other verification options they could use.

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/protecting-children/age-checks-for-online-safety--what-you-need-to-know-as-a-user

If this law says in place and is actually enforced all fediverse instances will need to start verifying age for UK users too.

It gets you to turn your head. It’s not just a selfi.

You could just do that first

Which is why they’re looking to add a easy to reed short overview.

some article summaries can be quite dense and filled with technical jargon, but that Al features needed to be cleared labeled as such and that users needed an easy to way to flag issues with "machine-generated/remixed content once it was published or generated automatically.

I feel like if they feel that this is an issue generate the summary in the talk page and have the editors refine and approve it before publishing. Alternatively set an expectation that the article summaries are in plain English.

In the theme of above lightroom classic (cracked)

Otherwise not really. You’re looking at digiKam for the library management side and either RawTherapee or Darktable for editing.

No one is forcing you do use apps outside of the app store. It’s about choice.

If such a competitor emerged they’d not be able to trade in the EU, given the size of the EU economy that ain’t happening.