The major social media companies are falling into line to ban under-16’s from accessing social media in Australia from December 10th 2025. I can see if this is in any way shape or form successful… Major social media platforms to abide with Australia’s under-16 ban
For years I have used our cheap Android TV box to play back files using DLNA, which of course has a myriad of security issues. Having recently upgraded and sorted out totally our homebuilt NAS… Jellyfin Review
Things I said would happen last year (2024) are starting to happen, and here is another article about how the tinternet is changing rapidly with age verification popping up everywhere! https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/age-verification-is-coming-for-the-whole-internet.html This follows on from… Age verification is coming for the whole internet…
The Australian govt has announced that it will ban Youtube for the under 16’s soon along with Instagram, Tik Tok, Facebook, X and Snapchat amongst others. I am hearing that in the UK these platforms… Youtube in Australia to be banned for under 16s
Microsoft Recall has already got a lot of bad press over privacy concerns, and rightly so – so news that Brave Browser will block Recall in an upcoming update seems to be the way that… Brave browser to block Microsoft Recall
The Fediverse has many great components, one of those is Lemmy (think of Reddit but federated) and the newbie on the block Piefed. Now over on one of our sister sites RelayEasy we run a… Blorp – new front end for Lemmy and Piefed
It appears that Microsoft is hell bent on going all in on AI like many other companies. I am not a huge fan of AI because it is effectively stealing other peoples work, can be… Microsoft axe 9000 jobs in AI push
I haven’t posted much recently mainly because I have been super busy on other projects and the heat in the UK has meant sitting in my studio working really hasn’t been a priority either, but… The decline of social media in my age/peer group
