Did you actually read the article you posted?

Not in the Philippines, but what is now Indonesia.

They’ll use machine learning to determine based on your behaviour if you’re under 16, then they’ll ask for proof of age.

Thank you for making my point.

In ICT circles, sure, on the nightly news it’s crickets.

We know very little beyond:

1. It will go live on 10 December 2025
2. There will be heavy fines.
3. Government ID is not allowed to be the only method.
4. A self declaration (tick box) is insufficient as a check.

There are to my knowledge no third party providers approved for this legislation. The process to assess actual implementation details started in July 2025, and the results thus far are underwhelming to put it mildly, you might call it a shitshow.

Below is the official sum total of what we know, most of it motherhood statements and “coming soon”.

https://www.esafety.gov.au/about-us/industry-regulation/social-media-age-restrictions

Media commentary wants to “protect the children”, but have no idea how you might do so, let alone consider the implications or implementation details.

Source: I’m an ICT professional with 40+ years experience.

Except that in civil discussion with experts, other ideas are what helps people arrive at a solution suitable for them and their situation.

I’ll also add that I’ve been a Linux user for 25 years and the toxicity you claim in relation to the Linux community is in my experience not evident as a “major reason”, instead I’ve found it to be innovative and flexible with a wide perspective and approach to problem solving.

Are there dickheads in the Linux community? Yes, just like there are everywhere in society.

So … you are basing you hypothesis on an article about Pedophile hunters written in German (or Swiss if you want to get frisky) that you linked using an English headline and summary in a software development community?

I’m surprised that your post wasn’t removed.

I’m mentioning this because it hardly seems like a genuine attempt to learn anything and any assertions you make about voting behaviour has to be suspect at best, not to mention that it’s based on a single example, hardly ever the hallmark of solid statistical analysis.

Let’s move on to the attempted “fix”.

You’re attempting to achieve what exactly?

A relationship between votes and comments?

How do you know how the users decide what to read, vote or comment on? You see a relationship with ordering by votes, I read whatever comes past on my “All feed” and vote when I think the pod warrants it. The two are not the same.

In other words, your proposal seems based on a very poor foundation and I’m voting accordingly.

It’s still happening today - warning disturbing content.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-19/nt-dpp-files-appeal-against-fatal-hit-and-run-jake-danby/105793334

And there’s this legal aspect to the affair:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-19/nt-attorney-general-related-to-hit-run-driver-jake-danby/105793244

Potentially cleaning with diluted white vinegar will make it less visible, but it won’t fix the underlying issues.

What are you attempting to achieve by opening this list of urls?

What is the difference between running this script and setting this list as either a bookmark, or the homepage in your browser?

What does your network have to do with the reachability of these sites?

If you’re managing the privacy of your own network, why are you not monitoring those services?

I’ve run my business for over 25 years, and I haven’t had a printer in over two decades. I have needed to print something less than half a dozen times since making the decision to not replace it. Instead I print to PDF and if I need actual physical paper, I’ve put a PDF on a USB flash drive and taken it to my local office supplies store to print on demand.

I have a scanner, it’s been used perhaps a dozen times in the same period.

In other words, have you considered not buying a printer?

I used to have a pihole running on my network, but now I just use the dns.adguard-dns.com on my network and phone.

You don’t need the wildcard, and as others have pointed out, it doesn’t include "hidden " dot files by default.

tar -czf ~/package.tgz admin api mobile

Here’s how we fix a society that’s already drowning in advertising … more advertising.

Russell Howcroft would think that this was the Duck’s Nuts!

Thank you for supplying your birthday, please upload a copy of three photographic government identification documents.

13 … 14 … 15 … 16 … 17 … 18 … 19

Pretty sure that you’re a teenager for seven years, not five.

Consider this:

The 8 billion other people on the planet are living their lives as best they can. Their experiences along that journey are unique to them. Even “identical” twins are not identical, nor do they have the same life journey.

In other words, what you can and cannot experience is unique to you and in that, you are unique, just like every single person.

I spend my life considering everything I can do, rather than what I cannot. FOMO goes both ways.

I have asked for sources when a post makes an extraordinary claim. It’s rare that I get anything meaningful as a response, but often I learn something or both of us do.

You can even archive extended attributes with the ‘--xattrs flag.

I’m a software developer with over 40 years experience. Much of it with FOSS.

Your argument in relation to GitHub does not take in the reality of the effort involved with migrating to a different platform, effort that is likely unpaid, has no logistical upside and stalls the development efforts of a project, not to mention breaking every single source code repository link across the wider internet, links that represent publicity and community engagement.

It’s one thing migrating after a service vanishes, it’s an entirely different thing to migrate due to the philosophical differences perceived by the ownership change to Microsoft. In my opinion, chanting FOSS is insufficient as an argument.

I have several projects and clients that use GitHub and while I detest copilot and the enshitification that the new ownership represents, I’m also aware that it’s likely that the sale provides financial security to the continued existence of GitHub.

I think it’s admirable that a project is asking its community if it should stay or move and I wish the developer(s) wrestling with this all the strength and patience in the world to work through it.

I know I’ve struggled with the same considerations and I’m still using GitHub … for now.

My “smart” phone is rarely used as a telephone. It’s set to silent, all notifications turned off, blocks unknown numbers, transcribes voicemail and spends most of the day as a window to the world.

I’m not sure what, if anything, a “dumb” phone would add to my life, except more interruption, more administration to keep contacts up to date, and yet another device to charge and maintain.