One protest outside a synagogue which inspired this latest "ban protests" idea was one organised in response to a Technion University 100 year event[1][2] which was using The Great Synagogue Sydney as the venue:

Highlights:

• Speakers:
  • Prof. Wayne Kaplan – Technion’s Vice President for External Relations and Resource Development
  • Mr. David Weinberg – The Jerusalem Post- Israel's resilience and determination to win.
  • A special guest – a Technion graduate, sharing experiences from their recent reserve duty
• In attendance of:
  • Nova Peris OAM.
  • Distinguished Prof. Moti Segev – A world leading physicist and Israel Prize winner from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
• Art Show: Featuring works by Avraham Vofsi, an Israeli artist, whose unique pieces reflect post October 7 feelings. Avi was born in Melbourne and was an Archibald Prize finalist in 2022.

The Great Synagogue itself published on their own news page their comments on the protest, mentioning that it was not a Great Synagogue event nor was it religious:

Protest Outside The Great Synagogue
On Wednesday night 4 December we hosted an event on behalf of Technion University in Israel to enable them to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the operation of that University. This was not a religious service nor was it a Great Synagogue event. [...]

(Their weekly news page has since been replaced with new content but search engine result snippets still had traces.)

Migadu is a decent option if you don't want to self-host.

I'd suggest 35,000 low-earth-orbit satellites but Elon is already working on that.

It's no use. "VPN" means gateway/MITM service, just like "crypto" means digital tulip mania.

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Ah, easy then: lower the drinking age from 18 to 16.

The article does not explain the primary design purpose of a VPN -- providing an encrypted tunnel into or between two private subnets.

For example, your home subnet is typically all 192.168.nnn.nnn addresses -- a class of addresses which the wider internet does not route, and which your router/modem does not allow the wider internet to access unless explicitly permitted.

Say you have a NAS on your home network, and you want to access it from your laptop while at a cafe; you could set up a VPN between your laptop and your home router, and it can make your home network appear as your local network to your laptop, giving you access to your NAS.

Or between two office locations of a business -- their database servers, accounting systems, printers, etc can all be freely accessible between offices without being exposed to the wider internet.

So it sounds like an ID will not be a requirement.

Sure, but gov ID is permitted as an option if another non-ID option is also available.

Simply choose between submitting your government ID or, say, switch on your front facing camera so we can perform some digital phrenology to determine your eligibility.

A possible ban on social media for under-16s in the UK is "on the table", the technology secretary Peter Kyle has told the BBC.

The ban and age verification requirements apply to pretty much all services which allow communication of information between people, unless an exemption is granted by the minister.

There is no legislated exemption for instant messaging, SMS, email, email lists, chat rooms, forums, blogs, voice calls, etc.

It's a wildly broadly applicable piece of legislation that seems ripe to be abused in the future, just like we've seen with anti-terror and anti-hate-symbol legislation.

From 63C (1) of the legislation:

For the purposes of this Act, age-restricted social media platform means:

• a) an electronic service that satisfies the following conditions:
  • i) the sole purpose, or a significant purpose, of the service is to enable online social interaction between 2 or more end-users;
  • ii) the service allows end-users to link to, or interact with, some or all of the other end-users;
  • iii) the service allows end-users to post material on the service;
  • iv) such other conditions (if any) as are set out in the legislative rules; or
• b) an electronic service specified in the legislative rules; but does not include a service mentioned in subsection (6).

Here's all the detail of what the bill is and the concerns raised in parliament.

The likes of lemmy instances may be either small enough to fly under the radar, or handwaved away by legislators with "don't worry it's not the target of this legislation", or even be given easy access to ministerial exemption ...for now (maybe).

The kicker comes in 10-15 years' time when, say, a government's donor inconvenienced by protests organised using a self-hosted forum then asks the government to crack down on the age verification requirements of that forum, effectively silencing it due to the requirements being too onerous for a small forum, or the userbase being unwilling to submit their IDs/faceprints/whatever.

Faaark, I'm agreeing with Malcolm Roberts!

LoL, they misconfigured their test rig and it turns out they were measuring loopback's bandwidth.

Yeah, I was doing some more reading and I think it might only be the newest version of the UnifiedPush spec which requires the message to be encrypted.

• https://codeberg.org/UnifiedPush/specifications/pulls/1
• https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy-android/pull/98
• https://codeberg.org/iNPUTmice/Conversations/issues/428

I noticed that the examples given on https://codeberg.org/iNPUTmice/up/src/branch/master/README.md are unencrypted.

I mean ntfy's primary purpose is not dependent on UnifiedPush -- all UP functionality could be removed and ntfy would still work as intended.

Ntfy server knows how to be a UP gateway, and relays those messages to the ntfy app, which knows how to be a UP distributor.

As far as I understand it, a client app using UP to recieve push notifications does perform a registration step with the UP gateway (via the distributor app which communicates with the gateway via its own transport), which sets up and responds with the api endpoint details, which the client app relays to its servers, which can then send UP notifications via the specified gateway.

You could have a look at the messages ntfy is passing around using its trace function: https://docs.ntfy.sh/troubleshooting/

It doesn't matter. Even if the ntfy message was plaintext, that plaintext content would be a UnifiedPush "Push message" which is the RFC8291-encrypted raw POST data.

Not really. "Use" isn't a well defined word in this context.

The ntfy server/client and the protocol it uses is merely the conduit for the UnifiedPush protocol. Sort of like how tls or ssl are a conduit for http.

In its typical primary use, ntfy is unrelated to UnifiedPush.

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