What does a bunch of Aussies enjoying a holiday at the beach have to do with Israel?

Is the rest of Australia really not aware of WA’s Domestic Gas reserve? In short: 15% of gas extracted in WA is reserved for the people of WA. As a result, our power bills are a bit under 25c/kwh + ~$1/day supply.

I think this about sums everything up. I just pinned it to the top of Local with the non-satire post. 😀

Bedtime!

It’d be funny if it was only Israel competing.

There are some episodes on YouTube. I do not think you’ll be able to get that one legally.

Arnie! 😢

4chan isn’t exempt. They’re simply refusing to comply. Frankly, I see their perspective. If Qatar introduced some law that required us to do this, we’d ignore it (if we even knew about it). What are they going to do?

We are complying because we are 100% in Australia. We run this little project as a side gig and can’t risk our careers by becoming a potential example for other forums. You can’t do the sort of IT work we do with a criminal record.

Hotties live north. I don’t need no silly map to tell me what I already know.

It’s to do with the definition of Social Media in the legislation. If you can make comments that anyone on the Internet can read from your account, then you qualify as social media. That’s an incidental aspect of what GitHub does, so it makes perfect sense for that site to be excluded from the ban.

I don’t know whether this answers your question, but they emailed me this morning:

Hi Nath,

We’re writing to share an important change to how under 16 year old users access YouTube in Australia. Due to a new law, users must be 16 or older to sign in to YouTube. This means that starting 10 December, users under 16 years old will be automatically signed out. This includes any supervised pre-teen and teen accounts you manage.

What this means for you:
Parental controls only work when your pre-teen or teen is signed in, so the settings you’ve chosen will no longer apply if they watch while signed out. This includes specific channels you’ve blocked and the content setting you’ve chosen.

What this means for your supervised pre-teen or teen under 16:
While they may still be able to watch YouTube signed out, they will not be able to access certain features, including likes, subscriptions, memberships, and creating playlists. For teens who have a YouTube channel, it will no longer be visible to other users, and they will lose the ability to leave comments and upload new videos.

Users are always able to download or delete their data and content they’ve created. When your pre-teen or teen turns 16, they will be able to sign in to YouTube again and reinstate their channel. You can find more detailed information about this change and what you can do in our Help Center.

Thanks, The YouTube team

I actually have concerns with how this reads. The whole point of the family plan is to avoid ads. If the kids are forced to experience YouTube signed out, they will get ads on both videos and music. I’m certain this isn’t their intention though. At least the teenager isn’t making videos. A couple of mates are and they’re super sad. They can’t make any more videos until they turn 16 and now nobody is going to be able to see the videos they have previously made.

I suppose there must be some, but until this moment I never thought about the possibility that Parliament station even had loos.

He’s still around, but facing #metoo consequences when he tries to work.

Reminiscing 80s Australian TV shows is a great choice. Loads of people who were household names 40 years ago but are not really online.

Someone leaked the lists. I don’t think it was a hack. The conversation turned into “why is this random dentist being blocked”? “Who is making these lists”? “How do you get unblocked?” Etc

The government was half-hearted about the whole thing anyway, only toying with it for Family First. It fizzled after.

Turps dated Olivia? I can’t even picture that!

That was a regularly recurring example from previous discussions. It was a popular method for the UK porn verification stuff earlier this year. I was never comfortable with it being the only method however. I don’t expect a recovering alcoholic or Muslim to buy a beer for this.

I’m genuinely shocked it hasn’t been postponed/fizzled like the supposed blacklist was in 2008/2009.

That was actually a fairly astute one. That Molly has been out of the limelight since his bad fall ten years ago. I doubt anyone under sixteen knows who he is.

Just in time to go prove you are over sixteen!