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@Baku My daughter (5) tried to sell some of her art on the pavement to passers-by.
Clearly a competitor to a multi-billion dollar price-fixing, colluding, un-competitive duopoly.

@zero_gravitas This guy has a (long) piece about why it’s a stupid thing to do in the way it’s being done. https://medium.com/@jamesdwho/australias-3g-shutdown-telcos-to-block-working-4g-5g-phones-2bf41e95de8a

Basically 300,000 devices will stop working Monday. And the owners of things like fall emergency panic buttons might not know they don’t work until they’re needed. Literally could cost lives.

Could also be fun for a lot of Melbourne’s MyKi card readers, if they’ve not managed to swap them all out yet (I did read it wasn’t completed yet as they’d not actually got the readers delivered)

@Aradina @Zagorath if i were their boss i’d be so angry i’d be frothing!

@Gorgritch_umie_killa Last I read the limit was going to be 10 guns per licence holder. I’m not a firearm owner but to my ignorant ass, that seems enough. Happy to be educated on why it isn’t.

@Lodespawn tbh, i suspect they will all just open a shared Google Doc and chat in that.

@m105 @Fizz there’s quite a few Swiss mail providers that may be of interest. Self-hosting mail can be a pain as those IPs tend to have a lower threshold for getting blocked/blacklisted. And make sure all your SPF, DKIM etc is fully configured.

@Cypher @rcbrk With a nice link between any nicks/profiles/gamer-tags you have and your actual MyGovID.
Mmmm mmm mmm smell that lovely data!

@spiffmeister @Joker I’m interested in how they’ll handle iMessage. And if they allow iMessage, why not Signal? And so on. Gonna be some interesting lines have to be drawn.

@Gorgritch_umie_killa @Lodespawn Doesn’t sound too big a technological challenge (think along the lines of when you sign into a website using Google or Facebook as your ID provider). But puts more hassle on site admins. And, more importantly, how are users going to know if a site is actually doing authentication or just gathering their ID data? Then there’s the question of what sites they will try and include in the ban. Meta etc is a given, but Lucy’s Australian Knitting forum? iMessage? Signal? Mastodon instances?
Then there’s the concern that all of a sudden Govt have a link between all of our online nicknames etc and our actual names. That’s a massive issue in my eyes and they’ll need to clarify if that’s going to happen.
In the end my son could, and probably will, just rent a private server in Singapore for a couple of dollars a month and VPN through that. I expect he’ll set his mates up on it too. So instead of some kind of visibility of what he’s doing on the home network, I’ll have none.
And we’ll be paying handsomely for this whole exercise.
I, like a lot of parents I’m sure, am actually in favour of not letting kids into those places. But I can’t, yet, see how it can be done.

@Salvo @MorpheusB Cos who doesn’t like paying network’s prices for their choice of handsets with their bloatware running on their choice of OS? I really want ACCC to hit them with a massive stick over this.