taizou @lion@computerfairi.es

me and my gamer son

real picture of me
taken w/ https://maple.pet/webgbcam/

it's a performance knob if you were wondering. so before you play demanding games you have to crank your knob

ok all other handheld console makers can go home none of you are going to come up with a better name than this

yknow i noticed when i was ordering food tonight that just eat no longer seems to show customer reviews anymore? only a star rating? why would they do that. being able to read what people thought was actually an advantage they had over the other delivery services

don't wait until this has all gone through and the measures have been rammed through parliament and it's too late to do shit about it!! everyone's kicking up a stink about discord at the moment but companies pulling that kind of shit is precisely downstream of laws like this!!

so when this consultation starts, I don't know when it will happen or what form it will take at this point, i think people need to be really fucking on the ball about participating and making a strong case against a blanket age limit & ID requirement for social media, VPNs or any other online comms

there will be a consultation on exactly what measures should be taken, but apparently they're tacking a clause onto bills already going through parliament which will allow them to then rush through implementing those measures using so-called Henry VIII powers. which sounds fine and democratic

so I would hope that means even if he does end up backing some kind of ban, it would be narrowly targeted and not anything like the horrendous Lords amendment which would block under-16s from literally all online communication as worded

however I do think this line "stop kids getting around age limits" probably hints at age verification on VPNs which no doubt the govt are well in favour of and also understand it would probably be unpopular hence why nobody is saying it outright

On his own blog (did anyone even know he had one?)
https://keirstarmer.substack.com/p/giving-children-the-space-to-grow
amongst the expected bollocks he seems to demonstrate at least some understanding of nuance suggesting the specific ways algorithmic social media has evolved recently may be problematic and not just "kids online bad"