Ambrose Andrews @znalo@librem.one

How's it going since the UK Online Safety Act slammed an age gate on the Internet?

Age verification providers with dodgy privacy policies, over-moderation of content, scammers scheming and sites closing down.

Here's a week in the life of an unworkable law ⬇️

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/the-great-british-firewall-age-verification-has-failed/

#OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety #OSA #privacy #ageverification #ageassurance #ukpolitics #ukpol #freedomofexpression #censorship #netplurality

I'm proud that tomorrow my newspaper, #IlFattoQuotidiano, will publish in book form #FrancescaAlbanese' report naming names of companies complicit with #Israel's #genocide

It will be a moral guideline for us to decide what to do with that knowledge,how to act, which companies to boycott

Rue d'Avron

Old Frisian laws be like:

If a man’s spine be shattered, such that he may never again bring himself to bath or bed, to to wagon or wife, never again to roam on roads or glide on glittering ice: he is owed half the price of a slaughtered life.

And if he’s oozing pus, three shillings.

#linguistics

Good news, there's an unreal amount of interest in meshcore lately.

My community came together and group purchased 20 nodes and have rapidly been onboaring tons of new LoRa curious hackers.

It looks like I might have single handedly increased the user base of the Seattle meshcore user base by 10 - 20%.

#meshcore #pnw #seattle #lora #meshtastic #mesh #radio #maker

Choice.

My @smh @theage cartoon.

‘Retired teacher Jon Farley, 67, was detained during a silent protest in Leeds for holding a placard featuring a cartoon from the satirical magazine that joked about the government’s recent proscription of the group Palestine Action.’

So retired, non-violent man appears in public with a published cartoon and is arrested for terrorism…

???

#ukpol

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/ian-hislop-slams-police-arrest-of-gaza-protestor-holding-private-eye-cartoon-of-palestine-action-joke-395966/

via Jess Harwood

'Founder of tech analysis company PivotNine, Justin Warren, says the codes would “implement sweeping changes to the regulation of communication between people in Australia”.'

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/20/face-age-and-id-checks-using-the-internet-in-australia-is-about-to-fundamentally-change

Hey that name sounds familiar ...

Australian Parliament reconvening this week. Time for Australia to act to stop the genocide in Gaza. Time to prosecute war criminals.
#CanberraConvergence #PalestineWeeps

In Oliver Djurkovic's mind, the Australian National University's (ANU) latest pitch to curb spending — which would see the institution's well-respected School of Music scrapped — defies logic.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-08/anu-school-of-music-to-be-replaced-with-school-creative-culture/105506682
"Getting rid of one-on-one instrumental lessons at a music school defies any logic of how a music school should operate," the Masters of Music student and saxophone player said. #music #education #creativity