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Age verification is coming for the whole internet…

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… 

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Youtube in Australia to be banned for under 16s

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… 

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Adguard to block Windows Recall

Adguard has joined the list of programs that will block Microsofts controversial Recall, a feature that it is argued poses severe risks to security and privacy. https://www.neowin.net/news/adguard-is-yet-another-app-to-block-windows-recall

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Brave browser to block Microsoft Recall

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… 

blorp

Blorp – new front end for Lemmy and Piefed

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… 

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Microsoft axe 9000 jobs in AI push

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… 

social media

The decline of social media in my age/peer group

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… 

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F1 Movie review!

We are big fans here of F1, we have attended a fair few GPs between us and a lot of motorsport as well, so as it is a birthday week here we decided to go… 

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Substack – what is the point?

I have never really got on with substack, always seemed well pointless to me, so after a back and forth with their “support” which is in reality AI I decided to quit the service and…