hormones can be tweaked despite genetics

So just 1 ng/ml between the treatment and control groups made such a noticeable difference? Damn, I'm running around with 12 ng/ml. Guess I should abstain from becoming a spy and covert actions in general

I wonder if the results change with long term treatment instead of a one-time testosterone application

It's not just about cancer. it's about aesthetics, how leathery you look.

Haha or a person who's been around lots of children of all ages.

An under 16 year old not seeing the social media version of war crimes is a good thing. And that's the upper limit of the age range of this ban.

The “social media version of war crimes” is just .. war crimes.

15 - 16 year olds will grow up to inherit the war crimes of their state. The liabilities of the state are the responsibility of every single citizen.

And, let us not forget, that a government is always and only ever held accountable to its citizens if those citizens are well informed.

“Protecting children” is one thing. But a state that feels the need to defend itself from children - by mass murdering them at scale - is another thing entirely. Let us also not forget that the Australian government is a wholesale violator of human rights, and has committed genocide and participated in heinous war crimes with impunity, pretty much since its inception. This is a nation which was still practicing forced sterilization of cultures its ruling classes deemed inferior, well into the 1980’s. This is a nation that literally got away with the modern worlds’ first genocide.

That state of affairs is never going to change if there are a generation of bootlickers, raised by the state, to never question the state.

There will be a generation of Australians, in 3 or 4 years time, who will either strongly resist the totalitarian-authoritarian actions of their state - or they’ll participate in them.

What stops a kid from saying "I am an adult" via this header without some draconian client-side enforcement?

You add draconian client-side enforcement via parent controls. You can even mandate that stores ask for whom the device will be and provision it accordingly with the flag being automatically removed in the future when the person is of age.

This cannot, of course, be achieved with open, hackable software on the client device. So you have to outlaw that.

Sorry, no.

I don't think it'll need draconian enforcement, parental controls on iOS and Android can co-exist with Linux. Having the option to enable specific filters on a client side and requiring a pass-code or OS level permissions to change them seems like a realistic way to tackle this that doesn't end in dangerous government power concentration.

As always with security, perfect is the enemy of good. A good set of hard to change - for children - client-side filters would do wonders in terms of real improvement. As much as I'm tired of the LLM hype, they might actually be a good fit for such tasks.

I don't even understand what you're getting at; as if RBAC is an alien concept? Do you think everyone should have root access to any machine they touch?

It's the parent's computer and they have a right to put a password on the BIOS and a child lock on the system that forces these types of headers, with no available bypass for the child account. Or, if they do please, have the router filter any website outside of a whitelist without a password.

We do worse for OpSec all the time?

Maybe it's similar to the handling of home office. A person at home isn't spending 30 bucks for lunch in the city. The kids have to stop gooning and go back to lurking around in shopping malls

I don't understand how this is supposed to be water tight without client-side scanning etc.

State parliaments pass controversial Youth Media Protection Act amendment. Parents can now "secure" devices for children with one click.

Finally, the hard power switch makes a come back??!

Breakers also make a nice klick. Or is it more of a thock?

While in Python everything is overridable, does this show up in practice outside of (testing) frameworks? I feel like this is way more common in Java. My experience in Python is limited to small micro service like backends and data science apps.

I've seen it a lot on Django projects. Maybe I was just unlucky on the Python projects I've joined.

This shady approach of trying it again and again is so disgusting to me. Just be upfront about. If you will do it anyway at some point, just fucking do it. It's not like other countries like China that are much further than we are in this regard are in constant turmoil over it. I guess we won't be either.

Instead we take a moral high ground over Russia banning and blocking what are basically non-compliant messaging platforms and pushing Russian citizens to Max, which is controlled by the government. All the while these legislations in Europe will lead to the same end result.

How am I supposed to to argue against chat control in Russia when we are doing it too, just with a different twist.

I second this. And it would only be half as bad, if there was a chance to democratically undo this, when people realize the consequences. But no, this will stay forever and only become worse.