Ofcom says that it does not expect the same of small sites and services, as it does of larger sites/services.
It is a principles-based regulator, which as pros and cons. It gives flexibility, but can leave people feeling lost.
In terms of answering questions, Ofcom says that there are constraints:
they are the regulator, and were involved in the development of the OSA.
they can provide guidance and support, but cannot make decisions. Ofcom can't take on that responsibility, and doesn't have access to all the information / evidence.
Ofcom doesn't want to be in a bind if it gives bad advice!
Ofcom opening by saying that they want to focus on the site/services causing the most harm, and that it is not their intention to impact adversely small, low risk, sites.services.
Ofcom is going to give a presentation which is probably similar to / the same as the one they gave last week.
Apparently ~200 people have signed up for the webinar, with more on the waiting list.
Lots of people are introducing themselves in the chat as small service admins - lots of fedi admins.
I'm going to be live-tooting this afternoon's "small, low risk" session with Ofcom about the #OnlineSafetyAct, in this thread.
By all means mute it if you wish; I imagine it could get quite long.
And please, if you are from Ofcom and you are reading this, any frustration I express comes from a place of genuinely trying to help people running small, low risk sites and services meet the requirements of the OSA. I've spent literally all my free time for the past few weeks on this.
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It's funny that you should say that, because if someone was looking for a freely-available list of porn sites (or, at least, suspected porn sites), they might start by searching for a block list!
(One I looked at recently had 250,000 unique items, although some were subdomains.)
This reminds me of a piece of academic research, on the undesirability of access to online pornography by children.
It seems that their research method consisted of asking children if they were familiar with / had accessed certain porn sites.
It included links to a lot of porn sites, many of which were new to me and, presumably, to many of the children involved in the research...
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In case you wonder why I often think about "banned words" and poorly-implemented tools, I live in a lovely suburb of Newbury, called "Shaw-cum-Donnington".
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Given that my usual venacular can make a sailor blush (although, not around children, for many, many reasons) I will keep that in mind and watch myself ^^
Please, continue to be you. I've never once thought badly of any of your replies to me!
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Personally, I tend to avoid "rude" words myself; I do not tend to swear.
I don't have much tolerance for people swearing in messages mentioning me, and I tend to mute quite quickly for that.
Did you know that Ofcom has published a classification of rude/offensive English language (and a few non-English) words?
New blogpost: "Using pandoc and typst to convert markdown into custom-formatted PDFs, with a sample template"
I've been tinkering with typst, to do PDF typesetting with a custom layout, for converting markdown files using pandoc.
I've a little more tinkering to go, but I'm pleased with it. Examples in the post.
(If I'm your lawyer, expect my advice notes to look like this in future. If I'm not your lawyer, well...)
#pandoc #typst #PDF #document #Linux #FOSS
Have some quiet time and want a fun mini-project? How about:
Snikket: a self-hosted, encrypted, open standards chat system for friends and family: https://snikket.org/
Jellyfin: a self-hosted media server, with numerous clients and a web interface. Pairs well with yt-dlp for downloading from various sites. https://jellyfin.org/
#FOSS #selfhosting
Nextcloud: a versatile personal information management and file sync server, extensible with loads of add-ons: https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/stable/admin_manual/
vaultwarden: a self-hosted, encrypted password manager, with support for TOTP and passkeys, compatible with Bitwarden: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden
FreshRSS: get back into reading RSS feeds, with this feed aggregator and web reader: https://www.freshrss.org/
#FOSS #selfhosting
Have some quiet time and want a fun mini-project? How about:
Snikket: a self-hosted, encrypted, open standards chat system for friends and family: https://snikket.org/
Jellyfin: a self-hosted media server, with numerous clients and a web interface. Pairs well with yt-dlp for downloading from various sites. https://jellyfin.org/
#FOSS #selfhosting
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Why the Delta.Chat link, out of interest?
Does anyone know of a repository / collection of science fiction or similar short stories licensed under Creative Commons licences, or CC0, please?
#books #scifi
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Google (unavoidable with my 'droid phone)
Just in case it helps for the future, I have an Android phone, but not Google account - if you have a Pixel, Graphene OS might be worth a look?