### Issue 1879 - Monday 3rd July, 2023

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## In Today's Issue

- They're making the UK's Online Safety Bill even worse
- FTC to crack down big time on fake product reviews
- Elon Musk Content Corner
- Running macOS in a Docker container is easier than ever
- Cheap Dell monitors, Boost Mobile SIM, Crucial SSD, Amazon Fire TV, Samsung phones, Toshiba 20TB HDD, Google Nest smoke alarm, PS5 controller, TCL TVs, Klipsch 5.1 speaker kit, Apple Gift Cards, Valve Complete Pack

## The News

### They're making the UK's Online Safety Bill even worse

The UK's controversial Online Safety Bill, most widely known for forcing messaging apps to do real-time monitoring for naughty stuff (CSAM, terrorism, etc) that'll break the end-to-end encryption in those apps, has expanded its horizons even further. Now the bill wants to make social media platforms liable for content that "encourages, promotes or provides instructions for a challenge or stunt highly likely to result in serious injury" and introduce "tougher age-checking measures to prevent children from accessing pornography", which in previous drafts was limited to adult websites only. 100% chance that our eSafety Commissioner is furiously taking notes.

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### FTC to crack down big time on fake product reviews

Over in the US, their FTC is planning "a new rule to stop marketers from using illicit review and endorsement practices such as using fake reviews, suppressing honest negative reviews, and paying for positive reviews". It would include making it a crime to sell "false indicators of social media influence, like fake followers or views", "creating or controlling a website that claims to provide independent opinions about a category of products or services that includes its own products or services" and much more. About fucken time. There's so much review manipulation going on. I really hope the FTC can enforce this with a big stick.

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### Elon Musk Content Corner

- Telstra has become the first provider in the world to resell Starlink. Right now if you want Starlink internet, you go to Starlink's website and pay them directly. Telstra is hoping to value-add on top of that by offering an installation service, local support and a home phone bundle.
- Tesla's Model 3 and Model Y EVs got major price cuts. The Model 3 now starts at $57,400 before on-road costs. This comes down to $51,400 in QLD. It's probably the best bang for buck EV on the road considering the size & performance, Supercharger network and 491km of WLTP range.
- Tesla is also hiring for "Vehicle Operator" roles in Australia. The jobs only appeared briefly over the weekend, but the description said they will "help drive improvement of Tesla's Autopilot system by operating and becoming an expert on our data collection vehicles across designated regions".
- Twitter introduced a 1,000 tweet a day view limit after making it so you have to log in to view tweets. It's unknown if this is due to a self-DDOS, not paying their Google Cloud bill or as Elon is (probably falsely) explaining, "extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation".
- Twitter is also facing a fresh lawsuit, this time from a Sydney company called Facilitate who installed "sensors" (dunno what kind) in Twitter's London, Dublin, Sydney and Singapore offices. They're owed close to A$1m for that work and Elon isn't paying, as usual.

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## Something I Saw On The Internet

### Running macOS in a Docker container is easier than ever

Wanna run macOS in a Docker container? SickCodes have done all the hard work and published it on GitHub. You can choose from all versions of macOS all the way back to High Sierra. The main purpose is for security research (testing your sweet 0-days I guess) but it's also useful if you just want a command line version of macOS, something to run iMessage on, or a fully blown macOS environment with a GUI and all that supports X11 forwarding. Documentation looks solid too, shouldn't be too much of a pain to get going unless you've never used Docker before.

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## Bargains

- Dell S3422DWG or S3423DWC 34" 3440x1440 curved monitor - $521.50/$565.39 from Dell
- Boost Mobile $200 pre-paid SIM - $169 from Cellpoint
- Crucial MX500 1TB SATA 2.5" SSD - $79 from Amazon
- Amazon Fire TV Stick Lite - $29 from Amazon
- Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra 512GB & Galaxy Watch5 LTE 44mm - $1801.12 from Amazon
- Toshiba MG10ACA20TE 20TB 3.5" SATA HDD - $509.55 from Amazon USA
- Google Nest Protect wired smoke detector - $128 from Bunnings
- Sony PlayStation 5 DualSense controller - $79 from Big W or Amazon
- TCL 85" C735 QLED 4K TV - $1735 + delivery from Appliance Central
- TCL C845 55" Mini-LED 4K TV - $1230 + delivery from VideoPro
- Klipsch R-800 5.1 Home Theatre Speaker Pack - $2277 from West Coast Hi-Fi
- Refurb Samsung Galaxy S22 5G 128GB - $592 from BecexTech
- 20x FlyBuys points on Apple Gift Cards at Coles
- Valve Complete Pack for PC - $9.59 from Steam

## Image Of The Day

The PlayStation was named to be the opposite of work station. It was first produced by Sony in 1994 and went on to be the first video games console to sell a hundred million units. Sony ceased production of PlayStation in 2006. (Victoria and Albert Museum)

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