We live in the UK. She didn’t go any further than this. I got her to download TOR and use the “old.Reddit” trick to bypass this so it was only mildly infuriating for her in the end
If she replaces “www.reddit” with “old.reddit” too?
Edit: fuckit. How to disable linkifying?
Yeah, dental issue. Sure.
Can’t have kids looking at teeth! Next thing you know, they’ll want to become, forgive me for this, dentists.
“You’re a rabid anti-dentite!”
That’s a cavity in the law right there. Guess they don’t want us to brace ourselves for the harsh realities of molars online 😂
Upload a random selfie?
it’s not an image, they ask for live camera feed where you turn your head to the side to make sure you exist in 3d and stuff
I wonder if it could be fooled with video clips.
Probably not, as it asks you to get closer and farther, but with how AI is, it’s only a matter of time until someone can get around that. The ID though I’m not so sure about
How would they handle sending them a faked driver’s license? I doubt they have access to the national database needed to verify anything on the pic of the license.
There were some reports of people using Norman Reedus from death stranding a little while ago.
At least at one point that worked because there was a new article about the sudden surge of popularity from a YouTube video from like 2011 of a middle aged woman looking left then right whichb had successfully fooled the system. Guessing they fixed it since.
Facebook’s doing this too iirc
lol wtf!
I went to use Marketplace last year which meant signing into my old FB account for the first time since like 2013, even though I barely used it before that. Turns out it had been hacked at some point in the last decade and I had to upload a bunch of pics and ID stuff to get it back with a 48 hr review time or something…
Ooooooor… Just made a new account.
There was less important dt on that account then there was me giving Meta my latest update on where I am in life now.
Edit: Actually, just remembered, that old account a friend got my phone and changed all my details. I still get happy birthday messages in April because family get alerted, know I don’t have FB, and send an SMS. No, I was not born in April. I assume I’m still in a “It’s complicated” relationship as well.
Rofl what a piece of piss website
This is a job for Norman Reedus
Because Lemmy is mostly just a political soapbox, there’s not enough actual non-political content.
If there was some decent political discussion I wouldn’t mind it as much
The problem is that people here can’t stand to see anything they might disagree with.
right wingers and the tankies are the only ones bitching about how thier political discussion isnt being discussed. i dont care either way, as long as it doesnt becomes obnoxious
You mean there are too many people who disagree with stuff they disagree with?
Would you rather have a place where you can’t talk about it or else you get banned and any dissent is killed and banned and it’s slowly getting worse day by day?
Or a foss freedom free structure platform where people can ACTUALLY talk about what’s on their mind? Hmmmm?
Sounds like you have some privileges you maybe need to realize you have.
Reading a discussion thread about some obscure TV show that there is no communify for on Lemmy is… “privilage”?
“Anything you have access to that I don’t” = “privilege”
The term has been badly abused.
No you don’t understand, they didn’t say they weren’t on Lemmy, they are as you clearly noticed. So they do have access to all the political discourse they want when they want it.
They said that Lemmy is too politically dominated and that some communities only live on Reddit rn.
I kinda agree, I use Lemmy 99% of the time but when a new Poe league releases the poebuildsdiscussion has interesting information about the game, not having political discourse in that community is irrelevant since that’s now what’s about. I’d prefer if it was here but there clearly is no interest, as a transition was attempted with the API exodus and it failed.
Yah, he is saying there isn’t much variety in subject matter. Sadly I still have to go to reddit to find a lot of topics.
Having apolitical fun over in !selfhosted@lemmy.world 😁
Edit: !imsorryjon@lemmy.world & !imaginarydragons@leminal.space look apolitical to me, too
I love it here but you gotta admit its like 50/50 politics and programming. It’s just like old old reddit
I want the Reddit from 5 years ago
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Politics, tech, and Star Trek are the only three topics on Lemmy in any significant numbers, and even tech is politics half the time. The gaming communities are mostly politics about gaming, the porn communities are mostly dead, and forget anything more specific (other than Trek of course.)
Actually in France they have that too, right ?
Shit like this is why I’m using a VPN
They got you covered, their network security will ban you and block you from access.
Remember when reddit was about being anonymous?
Of fuckin’ course they do. Fuckin’ reddit.
I miss old reddit. It’s why I hang out on here.
As a person who uses a VPN - what?!
Do I need to fuck around the UK servers for a bit to get this feature?
Reddit bans a lot of IP ranges belonging to popular VPNs.
Fun fact: I can’t see the screenshot as I’m in the UK and your instance has taken the maximally paranoid literal meaning of the OSA and blocked access just in case anything’s accidentally not flagged as NSFW.
At least on lemmy we can just block instances that do idiotic things like that and still use the rest of the service
https://www.torproject.org/download/
Don’t forget to use obfs4 bridges
I wouldn’t bother with bridges honestly
If anything use snowflakes
The idiots here are your lawmakers and their supporters.
You know how everybody blames boomers for various things, which had nothing to do with them, they were merely victims of the capitalist corrupt systems they lived under? This is your generation’s failure to address the needs of the future. Good luck.
It’s really weird for you to start flinging divisive shit at someone who wasn’t being ageist to begin with, but if you wanna fling shit, start by telling me the average age of the parliament that passed this law.
Images should load from your local Lemmy instance right?
But checking now I see you, OP and the com are all from the same instance. So I’m confused.
No, OP is lemmings.world, not lemmy.world.
Oh shit, my bad. Was reading too fast.
But still, the image should load from your local instance right? So in that commenters case, lemmy.world right?
Edit: at least on my instance, it appears to go through a proxy on my local instance:
https://images.lemmy.zip/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Flemmings.world%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F3b9a4c4b-3079-4e67-a5e2-0cd49074d81f.pngDo some other instances direct link images?
Some instances use the image proxy and others don’t. It seems that mine doesn’t.
Proxying was added after a bunch of csam attacks, where every instance admin would have to block it themselves. Now with proxying an admin can either block it themselves or the original posting instance can block it.
taken the maximally paranoid literal meaning
Them people won’t get hung on a technicality. You have to be nuts not to be paranoid these days.
With how the law is written, if you think anyone might ever make a mistake (likely), think the government might ever bother going through the hassle of enforcing it (probably less likely if you’re not running a big website), and don’t have loads of spare money to pay huge fines with or to pay an age verification service with (likely), then blocking the UK is the only way to be compliant. It doesn’t require a technicality. The law just doesn’t have any leeway for honest minor mistakes or small hobbyist websites.
Simple delete Reddit
Christ. Stop using fucking reddit already
We would love to, if not for the accumulated knowledge which can’t be (easily) found elsewhere.
Honestly Lemmy gets mentally draining, constant political drama that is guaranteed to lean left, barely any non-partisan or neutral discussions happen here and god forbid anyone say anything that can be seen as conservative because a barrage of insults are certain to come your way.
While I support the Lemmy project there are quite a few communities that I had subscribed to on Reddit that are missing here.
No matter what happens, I always expect Lemmy to have the worse possible take.
I also don’t like that politics seems to spill into every community
It’s weird that you complain about what you subject yourself to, that’s a sin according to the satanic Bible
This is the case on reddit too. Politics creeps into everything.
I also don’t like that politics seems to spill into every community
Yes! This right bloody here!
Unfortunately, everything is affected by politics.
By politics they mean anything that’s left-wing. Right-wing stuff like causal racism isn’t seen as political since it’s so normalized in America.
DING DING DING
Not really, need more popular hobby communities as they are often places that politics don’t impact
I had to make an account that had no news and tried to limit anything that could regularly get too political for mental health
I have a good word filter list that seems to do the trick. Apart from when the titles are “things am I right?” And the description is “this ^”, no word filter will work on that. Wish there was a politics tag.
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You do realize you just proved me right.
god forbid anyone say anything that can be seen as conservative because a barrage of insults are certain to come your way.
Congrats you’re sticking in a round in a place you’re not wanted you’re clearly one in 1 million kid. Do you want to open yourself to more abuse You fucking glutton for punishment
Sheesh, you’re whipped.
something tells me you whining about not having enough conservative propaganda on a site, that wants nothing to do with it, go back to reddit.
My “whining” is because of people like /u/dickalan@lemmy.world. This is what makes Lemmy mentally draining, they’re hellbent on their political ideology and if you don’t conform you get ousted, fed to the fishes so to speak.
I hear you.
I’d never really encountered the nutty parts of progressive politics until coming to Lemmy. Often times you don’t need to say something conservative, but merely say something that challenges a poorly conceived thought bubble and you get piled on.
There’s a really strong sense of idealism here. A lot of users deal in absolutes and don’t seem able to engage with the nuance of life.
As anti-establishment and highly critical of the Democratic Party I have seen the exact same thing here is on Reddit
Yeah, I just want beast mode on his ass and will probably get that comment removed. I just posted above you, but I don’t care anymore.
There are orders of magnitude difference in the severity.
Lemmy sucks it just sucks different, its the photo negative of truth social and anyone who thinks that this place isnt just a different echo chamber is deluded.
Bro, these are real people with real opinions and you’re just shitting on all of that like it’s nothing, and the truth social comparison, jump up your own ass
To be fair it’s about the new UK nanny dictatorship law.
In theory lemmy should do the same and the UK government could sue and block access of any lemmy instance not following their ludicrous laws.
The problem is that the vast majority of content and activity is on the more normie side of the web.
People still use X more than BlueSky or Mastodon, after all.
It’s where the porn is. Is my hypothesis.
redlib?
I was gonna say the same
“Estimate age from selfie”?! Wtf have we become…
When I was 14, I looked like I was 20. When I was 20, I looked like I was 35. When I was 35, I looked like I was 50. You can’t determine someone’s actual age from a fucking photo. Jesus.
Am 45. Constantly get told by 20 somethings that I look 26-28. I still get carded…
/s couldn’t resist
Lol
Yep, same. I’m not a fan of people thinking I’m not old and grumpy, but they usually find out.
My 25 year old SO got carded while my 19 year old brother wasn’t questioned when we were at a liquor store. I think because my brother had a big beard they assumed he must be old lol.
Reddit doesn’t really care; they’re going to do the bare minimum legally so they can feed more ads and get more clicks.
I have perpetually looked like I’m 12 since 2008. That’s the most common number people always give me when they guess my age. I’m so sure an AI would somehow guess correctly.
1st mistake was using reddit. 2nd mistake was not using vpn.
