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Congratulations, @piano-dad !

https://bsky.app/profile/dhfeldman.bsky.social/post/3m7beyzq2z22g

Meta has started removing Australian children under 16 years old from its Instagram, Facebook and Threads platforms, a week before an official teen social media ban begins.

The tech giant announced last month it had begun notifying users aged between 13 to 15 years old that their accounts would start being shut down from 4 December.

An estimated 150,000 Facebook users and 350,000 Instagram accounts are expected to be affected. Threads, similar to X, can only be accessed via an Instagram account.

Australia's world-first social media ban starts on 10 December, with companies facing fines of up to A$49.5m (US$33m, £25m) if they fail to take "reasonable steps" to stop under-16s from having accounts.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxekqryn1jo

@jodi @steve-miller

We've never had one. Are they heavy to move?

Ah, I could see it now — a life, a good life, a Utican life. It’s the best of Brooklyn without all the noise, it’s urban and provinical all at once.

https://shagbark.substack.com/p/meditation-upon-a-cannoli

It appeared in the feed at another site

That @dougg , he gets around....

Definitely am getting varied results depending on the skin. Some do different colors for read/unread threads.

I also get a message above the list of threads that says "Load new posts", which I click on that basically refreshes the Recent list, which is the page I usually operate from.

Interesting. I never noticed if there is anything greyed out. I look at the Unread icon in the upper left area, and if there's a number there I just click on it and it brings up the list of things that I haven't read. That's my driver to read new stuff.

I logged in as my admin persona in Firefox and am trying a few things out.

I wonder if some of these features operate differently depending on the skin you use. Which skin are you using? I do see that at least one skin (the one I picked for my admin account so I know if I have superpowers on) seems to change the color of the thread title after I look at the thread. On my regular account I use Flatly Vapor, which is a dark skin.

@Axtremus said in Ax’s lame movie recos and cool YouTube picks:

Replacing the mass storage (SSD) chip in an iPhone 17 Pro:

Link to video

That's pretty amazing DIY!!

@CHAS

Try DuckDuckGo. Much better search engine, IMHO.

He dismantles the organization, then puts his name on the building.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp39qx4ledeo

@Bernard

Thanks for sharing your Linux experience!

@Bernard said in Windows 11:

Firefox is no different, but the adblock extension works well with it, and that (besides security) is my highest priority.

I was using Firefox but switched to Brave several years ago. I think it's better in a bunch of ways, including being faster than Firefox.

https://gizmodo.com/download/brave-browser

“Real” America Is Turning Against Trump’s Mass Deportation Regime

Everyday Americans in Appalachia and the Southeast show that resisting ICE is becoming the rule, rather than the exception.

The Intercept:

https://theintercept.com/2025/12/03/appalachia-nc-ice-protest-immigrants/

https://archive.is/clCyC

@dougg - Maybe this is a place to start your Linux exploration:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-switch-your-windows-10-pc-to-linux-mint-for-free/

https://www.zdnet.com/article/want-to-save-your-old-computer-try-one-of-these-8-linux-distros-for-free/

I know little about Linux, and I do have an older laptop running Windows 10 that I'd like to keep on using.

I'm hoping some of our tech-oriented friends (I'm looking at you, @axtremus , @bernard , and @mark ) weigh in on the Linux discussion.

More on Putin's visit to India.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4q2vpggr9o

Linux gaining ground.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-people-keep-flocking-to-linux-in-2025-and-its-not-just-to-escape-windows/

@Rontuner said in Happy Thanksgiving - What's your story?:

Had a multi-national Thanksgiving celebration hosted by our daughter, her husband and friends from a beach community in the Dominican Republic. Maybe 25 people up in a house in the hills overlooking the ocean. A little yoga, some guitar music, some pool time, some sun, a little rain and a mix of local foods prepared by a chef. Delightful time meeting their beach family!

Got any pics to share???

I used to decorate the house, both the exterior with lights and the interior with Christmas tchotchkes and a tree. The outdoor lights went by the wayside decades ago and I’ve gone back and forth over the last few years, sometimes decorating inside and sometimes not.

This year I thought I would start on December 1st and put out at least one bit of decoration each day. So I got the tacky glittery tabletop Christmas tree out and put it in the living room. Mom’s little artificial door swag is on the front door, and what used to be a front door wreath has gotten a new life as an oversized candle ring on the coffee table. Pics later.

How is your Christmas decorating spirit this year? or ?

Do we let it train itself?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2025/dec/02/jared-kaplan-artificial-intelligence-train-itself