At first I thought this was a Beaverton article, wtf

Blame the elected officials for forcing Valve’s hands. Valve effectively had these choices:

• Stop operating in Australia
• Not comply and pay fines
• Use CC as an indirect way to verify age (since banks are regulated themselves and do identify verification before issuing one)
• Do age verification (by themselves themselves or through a third-party) and put users data at risk in case of a data leak

To me it seems like they chose the least risky option available. One more thing Valve could do is exempt accounts that are older than xx years old.

Me near the sun:

I would have been okay with 2 bytes personally.

Reported votesafe.org to Google Safe Browsing as a phishing page.

Scrap the pipeline, and build the refinery to handle it all ourselves instead of sending our crude to Texas.

!! is the goat when you needed to run the last command using sudo

Nah I’m just getting old and fucked up.

The only right move is to stand up to bullies.

It does seem suspicious though. ehnow.ca was registered on 2025-02-13 and its cert issuer is Google Trust Services, US, while ehnw.ca was registered on 2026-01-07 and its cert issuer is Amazon, US. That seems like an odd discrepancy.

It may be their “url shortener” domain, but for one single letter that seems a bit futile.

I’m not saying the intent is malicious, but most of us are security conscious on the Fediverse.

Also even though it’s a Canadian platform, I find it a bit dissapointing I can’t even read the content of a single post without having to give my phone number.

Looks like the content is locked behind a login, any way to make this visible without signing up?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I don’t see really anything of concerns that stands out

I wouldn’t mind if they also mirrored their videos on Nebula.

You can go with the default Adguard DNS configuration https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html

Just Do It™

Yeah it definitely wasn’t all perfect, but at least major bugs were ironed out before launch. I don’t mind the glitch here and there, what bothers me is the quality of games when they release, some are truely pushed out to be sold way too early because the worst thing that can happen is a bit of bad press.

Why? It made it really important for developers and publishers to release a polished game that worked on day one, because if you fucked up, you’d have to recall the cartridges or discs for replacement.

And you know what you bought would keep working, wouldn’t require a patch or download if you used it in another game console, decades after, without needing anything but a functional cartridge/disc+console, even if the publisher/developer/console maker doesn’t exist anymore.

Targeted ads are once again not just a nuisance, but a security risk.

Of course they won’t vote for someone they can’t buy.

I just wanna go back to the time where games were offline by default and couldn’t be updated after release…