I'm curious: for folks with teenage kids, how much autonomy do they have with devices and social media? None? Supervised use? Free reign? It obviously differs by age, let's scope this as "young teens" (13-14). Just interested to hear how other people approach this problem.

https://twitter.com/gcluley/status/1447868395509063680

Load of interesting responses here, let me share my thoughts. Firstly, this is obviously *really* personal and we all have differences tolerances to everything from screen time to privacy to engagement with strangers on social media.

There are obviously also very big differences between individual kids and the level of responsibility they're ready for at different ages. On that, I feel adamant that decisions should be made based on maturity levels and readiness rather than arbitrary DoBs.

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6 Oct

https://twitter.com/Sinoc229/status/1445639261974261766

Anyone else seen this and reviewed? Just had a bunch of people point me to it.

https://twitter.com/Sinoc229/status/1445639261974261766

The general consensus from the masses is "it's legit", but I'm yet to see any analysis yet. The torrent is being shared pretty extensively, it contains 278 files totalling 125GB *compressed* so it's sizeable. Here's what's inside: gist.github.com/troyhunt/0770c…

The post containing the torrent claims that Twitch is a "disgusting toxic cesspool". Whether that's motive or a convenient excuse is yet to be seen.

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8 Sep

COVID in Australia: I’ve had a bunch of people from other parts of the world ask if we’re ok or in some cases, make derogatory comments from afar. Here’s what’s happening and what it’s actually like on the ground:

Geography first: we’re on a sparsely populated island in the middle of nowhere with a handful of major cities. Half as big again as Europe and almost the size of continental USA, but with only 25M people.

International border control is much easier than most of the world so for the most part, we locked the virus out and didn’t spread it too far when it hit. There were still outbreaks, but contained to various extents until more recently.

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7 Sep

@CraigKellyMP

Just received a spam SMS allegedly from @CraigKellyMP talking about COVID-19. Looked super phishy and links through to here (appears to be safe): uap-media.com.au/tga-full-repor…

They're screen caps of AEs related to COVID vaccines and reported to the TGA. The page then provides the "full 73 page TGA vaccine adverse event and death report" as it 7 Aug. Without further context it seems this is intended to scare people regarding potential adverse reactions.

This is shady AF. Reading a bit further whilst writing this thread, it looks like its well and truly already hit the news too: news.com.au/technology/uni…

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2 Sep

I’m back! Went offline for most of the last week, pics and stories to follow 🐊

Alrighty, where do I even begin on this? It’s going to be a series of photos and vids of epic scenery so if that’s not your thing, tune out now. Otherwise… it’s off to the airport:

@TimmyTrumpet

And that was the last we saw of a mask for a long time. The Northern Territory has been largely COVID free and felt… normal. We ended up there on “Territory Day” with @TimmyTrumpet DJ’ing on the beach with the balmy 34C winter sunset, and life was good 😊