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Elon Musk embracing South African heritage to 'fulfill destiny', proud dad says
  • Elon’s maternal grandparents relocated from Canada to South Africa in the early 1900s as they knew the Afrikaner government was a stronghold of support for Nazism outside of Germany.

    This sentence is a mess.

    The Nazi part wasn't formed until the 1920s.

    South Africa was run by the British in the early 20th century. The Afrikaners were at this point, completely disenfranchised after the Boer War.

    It wasn't until the 1940s under the National party (yes, there were named after the German National party !). that the Afrikaners and English began to share power.

    BTW, the apartheid system was designed with the help of an Indian lawyer you may have heard of - Mahatma Ghandi.

  • Australia’s social media ban for kids under 16 just became law. How it will work remains a mystery
  • I’m guessing that, like GDPR in the EU, it will apply to any and all social media website on the internet, but for practical reasons, can’t really be enforced outside of the legislating authorities’ jurisdiction.

    The legislation specifically gives the Act extra-territorial powers to enforce the ban against foreign websites.

    Reddit is specifically targetted ; it will definitely include Lemmy.

  • Australia’s social media ban for kids under 16 just became law. How it will work remains a mystery
  • Now, if a parent helps their child do it anyway, the parent and child can’t get in trouble, but the platform can, because platforms cannot knowingly allow children to use the app, even with explicit parental consent and supervisio

    Not correct. An inadverdent act is not illegal, but circumventing telecommunication controls is a criminal offence under the Telecommunications Act, with penalties up to 20 years imprisonment.

  • Prove you're human rule
  • Well what are you supposed to click on, the whole traffic light or just the lights, all the blocks with a cyclist, or just the cycle, or just the blocks that are all cycle ? I've tried everything and nothing works.

    The sad part is that these don’t really stop bots, captcha solver services have bot accessible APIs which can be used to solve these things for malicious actors, they pay real people pennies to solve them and sell it as a service.

    Its not really intended for that, it for bots that run thousands of clicks a minute to bring the site up in a search algorithm.

  • Australia bans social media for under 16s
  • Identification would need to be handled by a 3rd party to even remotely work. Then they pass on the “yes they’re over 16” tick to the social media platform, with no actual identity details.

    The legislatiion specifically allows SM sites to handle ID.

  • Australia bans social media for under 16s
  • I don’t see many options between asking for a birthdate and asking for ID for this problem. I don’t see any way that this can be enforced that isn’t problematic.

    The senate inquiry outlined the two likely solutions :

    1. Uploading ID to the website.

    2. 3D face scanning. This will include continual monitoring so if another person comes into view they will have to face scan in. Remember, its prohibited for chidren to even watch prohibited content with their parents.

  • Australia bans social media for under 16s
  • The law does not require users to upload government IDs as part of the verification process.

    No, it merely requires the sites to provide an alternative, such as face scanning using a mobile phone unlock. Using a computer ? Then you'll have hand over your ID.

    The law also explicitly gives sites the right to onsell private information if its outlined in the terms of agrrement.

  • "Naked Gun" & "Airplane" Director Abrahams Dies
  • I think it was Airport (not Airport 707). It was a Rank film.

    I love how spoofing it meant 95% of the dialog and story was the same. What a classic.

    Actually they changed the plot to make it less silly.

    In the original, the WW2 pilot is on the ground and is lowered into the 707 from a helicopter through the front window. This is briefly referenced in Flying High when they lower the window like in the original.

  • Why Trump Is Targeting U.S.-Canada Border Over Migrant Crossings
  • Arrests for illegal crossings from Canada spiked in the last fiscal year, but remain a fraction of the number of those from Mexico.

    I don;t get it, surely its the US thats responsible for border crossings with Canada ? Its not like they're trekking across the mountains like the Von Trapps.