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[–] Piatro@programming.dev 92 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I'm just waiting for all UK users to be banned from anything that isn't Facebook or X. It's absolutely ridiculous and a huge win for big tech as it locks us in to their platforms and their platforms only. Those of us with a bit of tech knowledge will work around it but it's infuriating.

[–] TeddE@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Just a reminder. Self-hosting is a hobby that is both useful and satisfying, and the skills you pick up will change how you see computers that are increasingly part of everything.

You probably won't be going off-grid overnight, but the tech industry has spent 30 years promoting propaganda that 'only skilled engineers should worry about what goes on under the hood' and have conditioned us to expect tech to just be magic.

Fighting back means educating yourself, and that means grabbing an old laptop, learning how to install Linux on it, fire up a few Docker projects, and exploring all the options that opens up.

It will take a few weekends to get started, and it will require some upkeep. But for that price you will gain some sovereignty back over your digital life.

For extra credit and when ready you can pay $15 /year for a vanity domain (you'd only need one, as you can freely create an unrestricted number of subdomains), once done you move from being a serf to a digital landlord.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 39 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Currently Twitter is doing the bare minimum by simply allowing UK users to bypass the age-checks by setting their location to another country.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 32 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The equivalent of a pop-up asking you if you’re 18 or older.

Back in the day, I was 18 for like five years.

[–] relativestranger@feddit.nl 12 points 3 days ago

half the internet is 45 years old this year.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

At least do it Leisure Suit Larry style and ask three questions someone at least 18 should know.

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Ahh, nostalgia. Thank you.