That is already the case with written news. How can you trust any of it, when anyone can make up anything and present it as fact? In the same way you have to rely on the source and provenance of a news story, the same has become true of photos and videos. Photo altering has been going on for over 100 years

Depends who they are. The effort I put into empathising depends on how much of an arsehole they are.

Inside your own house, yes. As long as it’s quiet.

The banned magnets have to meet all these criteria:

Are small enough to fit into the small parts cylinder, which is a device used for testing in Australian and international toy standards. Have a magnetic flux index greater than 50 (kG)2 mm2. Are marketed by the supplier as, or supplied for use as any of the following: a toy, game or puzzle a construction or modelling kit jewellery to be worn in or around the mouth or nose.

So no, it’s not an over-reaction and it doesn’t affect makers and hobbyists.

“Logic” - really?

Here are the details of the actual ban:

https://www.productsafety.gov.au/business/find-banned-products/small-high-powered-magnets-ban

To be banned it has to meet all these criteria:

Are small enough to fit into the small parts cylinder, which is a device used for testing in Australian and international toy standards. Have a magnetic flux index greater than 50 (kG)2 mm2. Are marketed by the supplier as, or supplied for use as any of the following: a toy, game or puzzle a construction or modelling kit jewellery to be worn in or around the mouth or nose.

So, no. That’t not logical.

Here is what are actually banned:

Magnets that are separate, loose, or supplied in multiples of two or more and meet all the following criteria are banned.

Are small enough to fit into the small parts cylinder, which is a device used for testing in Australian and international toy standards.
Have a magnetic flux index greater than 50 (kG)2 mm2.
Are marketed by the supplier as, or supplied for use as any of the following:
    a toy, game or puzzle
    a construction or modelling kit
    jewellery to be worn in or around the mouth or nose.

Source: https://www.productsafety.gov.au/business/find-banned-products/small-high-powered-magnets-ban

Can everyone calm down now?

Looks like they were 100% right to ban them.

Yeah, there’s no rush.

OK Tankie.

Wouldn’t it be nice if we weren’t ruled by psychopathic idiots, and this might have actually made a difference?

Probably have to look at who stands to make a shitload of money from it.

I wrote it for a friend’s company, and I don’t think he ever did anything much with it. I don’t remember the exact details, but it was something like this for 200 pages:

<1 - 100> [101 - 110] 111 … 120 [121 - 131] <131 - 200>

Basically 3 levels of page selection, where you can pick one in a range of 10, skip forward or back by 10 or go to a new section of pages. It was something like that anyway. The total number of pages defined the ranges. It was all very clever and worked well for moving around large numbers of pages.

I invented a pagination system for web pages that allowed easy navigation with only a few clicks to get to the page you want, whether it was 3 pages or 3000 pages.

I’m really surprised no one else has invented it because it was so much better than anything else I’ve seen.

We’ll prepare for it by desperately trying to pretend it won’t happen.

That’s fine. We didn’t need a habitable planet anyway.

Well done Trumpy. Genuinely the first good thing he’s done, probably ever. Probably the last too, but this is good news.

They do everywhere. That’s why racists like to encourage them. Is this not obvious to everyone?

Yeah, I’m on Android here because I like using my phone to pay for stuff. I’ve made a half-arsed attempt to degoogle a bit by running Immich on a home server for photos.

I had a Wiley Fox phone back in the day that was supposedly as stock Android as you could get.

In the Night Garden. Iggle Piggle, hopelessly adrift and dying at sea, gives up any hope, removes the sail from his boat, wraps himself up in it, and goes to the Night Garden, where everyone is friendly and there are no worries. Let’s face it - he’s dead.