It’s more like his cronies will claim it’s under federal jurisdiction then sell all rights to one of trump’s sons for a button.

That’s a fair point

Sounds like they need to fix their immigration policies to attract new young labour

It absolutely is another subscription service, but is equivalently priced to acrobat. While I’m all for pay to own, if you are already paying a subscription to acrobat and need the features of that application, revu is a no brainer change.

That said, I’m pretty keen to hear about alternatives, I’ve never heard of Stirling or pdf gear so I’ll check em out. Thanks!

My last firm used revu and switching back to acrobat at the new one has been crippling. Acrobat is an abomination.

Personally I love how acrobat has different colour pallets for markups depending on how you access the objects properties and think its a perfect example of how well put together their software is in general.

Bluebeam revu?

Edit: it’s comparably priced to acrobat but is significantly better on all fronts (opens and runs faster and more reliably, markup tools are leagues above, pdf editing tools are more comprehensive, review tools are significantly more advanced, everything is more user friendly. It’s wild how much better revu is when it’s literally the same price point.

Oh yeah, this guy definitely doesn’t have AI Psychosis. He’s is for sure a well rounded individual who regularly talks to people.

I feel like practically this isn’t very helpful. The car (or other much larger aircraft needs to pace the drones or vice versa and be in very close proximity, surely landing and hotswapping a battery pack would be faster and more efficient. Like if landing isn’t an option is driving a car over garbage terrain while maintaining proximity to a low flying aircraft going to be possible? I guess you could use a blimp or large aircraft to pace the drones, but not sure a blimp and drone could match speeds without one breaking up or the other falling out of the sky.

Is paywalled for me, do they explain the range and how much power they are throwing? An altitude of 15m suggests this thing needs to be pretty close …

I don’t know how you solve problems, but I certainly don’t go all in on the first highly expensive dumb idea I have without researching the fuck out of it first. If our politicians are listening to anything the the social media companies are saying and not assuming everything they say is an attempt to make more money for themselves then we have much bigger problems, namely the suckers we have elected.

Refining this solution is a terrible idea. It flat out doesn’t work, its a non-starter. Prohibition has never worked effectively. The only path this leads to is pushing even more of Australian population’s personal data into honey pots and breaking our financial system.

How am I arguing on behalf of the technology? I want people to understand the technology so they know how to protect themselves effectively if they use it and so can make effective decisions on how their kids interact with it.

The technology sucks, but the technology is not going away and any fucking moron can bypass the age verification. If you think age verification is stopping teenagers from using tiktok then you’re an idiot. I’m arguing that the implemented solution is not in fact anything close to a solution, and that pulling this thread and trying to implement something in the same vein that would actually work is a terrible idea because it fucks the privacy of every Australian on the internet, even more so than the current solution.

You say that, but evidence shows its not a working solution. Its a piece of legislation that doesn’t actually achieve anything close to the desired outcome of stopping a significant number of people under 16 from accessing social media. Further than that, there isn’t an actual way to make this work without banning VPNs and implementing a Chinese style great internet filter.

Nicotine, Cannabis and alcohol are all banned in Australia for under 18s and you are kidding yourself if you think that has had any significant impact on stopping under 18s from getting their mits on them.

I’m not saying “just educate your kids”. I’m saying instead of our government putting their effort into a pointless and likely quite harmful law, they should have looked into developing a useful education program for both parents and children that looks to raise the bar of how our population interacts with social media. Its not a short term solution but it is most certainly an effective long term solution. The current ban isn’t even a good short term solution. It does nothing but 1) teach kids that our laws are dumb and should be bypassed, 2) disconnect disadvantaged and isolated kids from their support networks and 3) invade the privacy of all Australians.

Arguably banning the current social media business models altogether for everyone would be a better solution but that has similar issues to the current under 16s ban. How do even enforce it without also banning VPNs?

Lol almost like education is the solution. Great work!

Efforts like this teach kids the law is the problem and teaches them to learn how to circumvent it, and in the mean time it also acts as a tracking tool for everyone else in Australia.

Its problems are numerous, benefits inconsequential and easily replicated through other means, and in your own words the only current solution is to teach kids there’s a problem.

What’s your solution then? Great Chinese internet filter and banning VPNs?

Restriction is fine if it’s a workable solution, but this one is not and anyone with half a brain could see that from its very first announcement.

Sounds like a conspiracy theory.

We’re talking about Australian legislation not social media itself. The problem is real, the legislation is ineffective and poorly implemented. Calling the legislation evil is a stretch. Modern social media is most certainly evil.

I don’t agree that the legislators left the spirit of cooperation or respect for consent out because they are evil, I think they left them out because they are ignorant. I think they are inexperienced with both technology and social media and have failed to appropriately engage people that might have helped them come up with a functional solution rather than an ineffective brute force.

I do however agree with everything else you’ve said above.