Ashlynne Mitchell Ovyerus

Bluesky's UK age assurance sucks, here's how to work around it.

Bluesky recently announced that they're complying with the UK's Online Safety Act, which requires users to provide personal identity verification confirming their age (through Epic Games' Kids Web Services) before accessing certain parts of the platform.

This sucks for privacy reasons, but thankfully there are ways to work around it.

Workaround methods

Method 0. VPN

So there were a few threads going around recently about a challenge to write the longest sequence of keywords in Javascript:

There are, however, a few problems:

These solutions use non-keyword tokens (null, true, false are actually Literals, not Keywords)
One of the solutions isn't quite valid (new super)

How do you POST a JSON file with curl??

You can post a json file with curl like so:

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d @FILENAME DESTINATION

so for example:

	#!/bin/env -S crystal build

	# Hard Link Generator
	# Generates hard links for all files in a given folder,
	# while also finding and replacing strings in the filenames.
	#
	# The folder is created for you, but existing files (Running it twice?) will cause errors.
	#

	# Usage:

	/*
	Copy this into the console of any web page that is interactive and doesn't
	do hard reloads. You will hear your DOM changes as different pitches of
	audio.

	I have found this interesting for debugging, but also fun to hear web pages
	render like UIs do in movies.
	*/

	const audioCtx = new (window.AudioContext \|\| window.webkitAudioContext)()

	set -g symb '▲'
	set -g leading_brace 0
	set -g has_launched 0

	function git_info
	set -l branch (git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD 2> /dev/null)
	printf "%s(%s%s%s)" $c0 $c1 $branch $c0

	set -l changes (git status --porcelain --ignore-submodules 2> /dev/null)

	#!/usr/bin/env python

	# This script is like generate_image.py from the OSM Mapnik code,
	# but it renders based on a given centre point, zoom and final image pixel size

	# Author: Andrew Harvey <[email protected]>
	# License: CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
	#
	# To the extent possible under law, the person who associated CC0
	# with this work has waived all copyright and related or neighboring