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A serious (and seemingly obvious) problem with the implementation of the Online Safety Act is that it requires malicious actors to not exist.

Since the UK govenment in any form hates paying for things, especially things required for their goals, the current situation is that websites have to work out to do age verification themselves. There is no government-approved or provided service for this - it's a free-for-all of third-party verification providers.

Now, some people are pointing out that depending on how these companies handle the data given to them to perform verification, it's possible this data could be stolen or leaked. This is a worrying possibility. This danger is primarily one of passive incompetence, although if your driver's licence gets leaked, you won't be happy either way.

But passive incompetence probably isn't going to hurt anyone before active malice does.

Normalising showing your face or identity documents to random websites is an incredibly stupid thing to do. You know who benefits from this? Actual criminals! Phishing attacks continue to be successful because people will put their banking details into websites that are very much not their banks. And while random websites asking for your banking details is suspicious, the OSA makes it so that random websites asking for your driver's license or passport or other such things will now be expected.

Meaning an enterprising criminal can set up a website, stick a fake age verification pop-up on it, and harvest a whole bunch of things that come in useful for committing identity theft. Or blackmail perhaps.

The overall point here is that in this respect, the Online Safety Act is going to make the internet more dangerous, in a way that should be obvious if you actually think about the potential negative consequences.

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10000 YEAR OLD ROCK ART OF GIRAFFES FOUND IN LIBYA LET'S GO

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staples?! he made a basket with staples?!

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Today at work I started sorting all the miscellaneous plastic bags.

I ❤️ sorting

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hey so how would youtube's ai be able to flag channels based on "appearing to be a child" in the first place. how would youtube get that data to train their ai on. how would they get that data without. collecting data on kids. which is something they explicitly. are not allowed to do.

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So like. What was going through Cobra Bubbles' head the first time he encountered Stitch?

He's trying to conduct a home visit. It's not going well. The last visit didn't go well. It's becoming more and more clear that he's probably going to have to separate this little girl from her only living relative, which he doesn't want to do. Nani's not helping her own case, and he's coming down pretty hard on her. And then suddenly this bizarre little blue creature pops up and flings a heavy book directly at his face. The sisters insist it's a dog, but it doesn't look, sound, or behave like any dog.

The thing is, Agent Bubbles knows about aliens. He knows for a fact that intelligent extraterrestrial life exists and that it knows about Earth. And yet he doesn't challenge the idea that Stitch is a dog or try to either immediately remove Lilo or demand that Stitch be sent away. He does specifically tell Lilo that the next time he sees Stitch he expects Stitch to be "a model citizen." Not under control or well trained, a model citizen.

Is he hoping that Stitch is a solution here? That this alien creature that, arguably, attacked him in defense of the Pelekai sisters, might represent a useful element of their support system if better socialized?

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A Harrowhark/John parallel I keep turning over in my mind: his miracles from NtN are all more impressive versions of her greatest feats of necromancy.

She preserves and puppets her parents? He animates a world leader from across the globe.

She makes a bone shield that can hold off a Lyctor's construct? He covers two acres in a three-foot-thick shell of cow.

She grows Ianthe a new bone arm? He cuts off G---'s arm, grows him a new one, and grows a whole new G--- from the arm after the old G--- gets incinerated. (Okay, that last bit's only implied, but I feel like it's a pretty strong implication.)

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Was at the art museum earlier and i have a new favourite painting

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You are my only friend. I am undone without you

when gideon said "too many word" in the same scene i agree with her, fitting everything into the speech bubble was hard

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the simple fact of the matter is that vivziepop is the only person alive with the cringe cred necessary to adapt homestuck. I’m not saying it’ll be good (I personally oppose the concept of a homestuck animated series on principle) but she has a high enough controversy tolerance to include the phrase ‘incestuous slurry’ which is what really matters most

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addicted to sending this clip from twilight to my friends whenever they are in a situation where i think they should lie

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Gideon Nav is peak loser butch representation and that's why I love her so much. As a loser butch myself, she encapsulates the experience perfectly and I'm so glad that she's allowed to be funny, and hopeless when it comes to romance.

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The two most culturally important things from the past few years are Friday by Rebecca Black because we learned we like hating things more than we like liking them and Cookie Clicker cause we figured out the only reason people play video games is to watch the numbers go up and since then we’ve just been applying those lessons to new and better incarnations of those two things.

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Last of my art fights this year was Roxanna for @mayakern :)

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