taizou @lion@computerfairi.es

Blocking them from communicating with anyone outside of their family or school is not "safety", it's not "protection"
It's ripping away friends, communities, hobbies, support, advice, information, expression, identity
It's isolation. It enables abuse. It's practically abusive in itself

I'm sure when people catch onto this they'll go off about the privacy implications of forcing adults to verify ID to communicate online and that's of course true and a big problem but
I also need to say the POINT of this is bad. Not just the side effects. The kids should be able to communicate too

This isn't an "Australian-style ban", as bad as that was, it was at least targeted to specific, named large social media platforms
This is saying that under 16s may not use ANY online communication platform AT ALL. Not just social media. Messaging, chat, videos, streams, blogs, forums, anything

People are focusing on the VPN angle of this but this bit is even worse if anything

"Regulated user-to-user services" are any service where user-generated or user-shared content may be encountered by another user

https://reclaimthenet.org/uk-house-of-lords-votes-to-extend-age-verification-to-vpns

Fucking wanker

I am extremely pissed off at my landlord again

@mavica_again JY01 by Jncota. One of the mini NES lookalikes but it has some interesting undumped romhacks on it

Me two weeks from now

I have successfully done it before with the HDMI game sticks where I had 10 and shifted the spares on ebay pretty easily but this feels like it'd be less appealing to the UK market and I'd have twice as many of them

the stupid thing is - i am trying to get hold of a particular famiclone and i have found a seller on 1688 who has it, for a ridiculously low price per unit, but a minimum quantity of 20. so I would have to pay to ship all 20 of the fucking things to myself and then sell 19 of them

once again considering doing something stupid

What furry games would you recommend playing? — IDK honestly I can't think of many explicitly "furry games" that I've played as opposed to games with furry-appealing characters like, say, Klonoa. You should play Klonoa though. As much as I ... https://alterspring.org/@taizou/a/115956876936438233

btw this is a proprietary wireless controller from a famiclone & the console is pretty much useless without it so i would like to replace the battery. of course the cost of one single battery from a UK seller is more than the famiclone is worth

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