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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 1. uBlock Origin

AI Project Requirements & Discovery Prompt

A comprehensive requirements gathering system that instructs AI to generate thorough project documentation before implementation begins

CRITICAL INSTRUCTION: Use Multiple Sub-Agents

MANDATORY: You MUST use multiple sub-agents throughout this requirements discovery process. Deploy sub-agents for:

Core Agents (Always Used):

Technical Architecture Agent: Technology stack evaluation, architecture patterns, framework selection, database design

Beast Mode

Beast Mode is a custom chat mode for VS Code agent that adds an opinionated workflow to the agent, including use of a todo list, extensive internet research capabilities, planning, tool usage instructions and more. Designed to be used with 4.1, although it will work with any model.

Below you will find the Beast Mode prompt in various versions - starting with the most recent - 3.1

Installation Instructions

Go to the "agent" dropdown in VS Code chat sidebar and select "Configure Modes".
Select "Create new custom chat mode file"

	#!/usr/bin/python

	import sys,os,glob,re,csv

	try:
	loglevel = int(os.environ["LOGLEVEL"])
	except:
	loglevel = 1

	def Log(s, level=1):

	<?php
	function plt_hide_elementor_menus() {
	//Hide "Elementor".
	remove_menu_page('elementor');
	//Hide "Elementor → Settings".
	remove_submenu_page('elementor', 'elementor');
	//Hide "Elementor → Role Manager".
	remove_submenu_page('elementor', 'elementor-role-manager');
	//Hide "Elementor → Tools".
	remove_submenu_page('elementor', 'elementor-tools');

	https://instabug.com/blog/alpha-vs-beta-apps/
	https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46786486/alpha-beta-snapshot-release-nightly-milestone-release-candidaterc-whe

	RC = Release candidate; probably feature complete and should be pretty stable - problems should be relatively rare and minor, but worth reporting to try to get them fixed for release.
	GA = General availability (a release); should be very stable and feature complete

	++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

	Alpha:
	The alpha phase of the release life cycle is the first phase to begin software testing (alpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabet, used as the number 1). In this phase, developers generally test the software using white-box techniques. Additional validation is then performed using black-box or gray-box techniques, by another testing team. Moving to black-box testing inside the organization is known as alpha release

	1.Run git clone <my-cool-project>
	2.Run composer install
	3.Run cp .env.example .env
	4.Run php artisan key:generate
	5.Run php artisan migrate
	6.Run php artisan serve
	7.Go to link localhost:8000

	### WARNING: READ CAREFULLY BEFORE ATTEMPTING ###
	#
	# Officially, this is not recommended. YMMV
	# https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/bookworm-the-new-version-of-raspberry-pi-os/
	#
	# This mostly works if you are on 64bit. You are on your own if you are on 32bit or mixed 64/32bit
	#
	# Credit to anfractuosity and fgimenezm for figuring out additional details for kernels
	#

	{:positions [ {:position "Software Engineer"
	:organization "bogus company"
	:title "software engineer"
	:email "jobs@bogus.com"
	:interest-statement "I am very impressed by your product offering the complex feature set if offers."
	:remote ""
	:employee-type ""
	:notes ["mention some of the projects I've been working in on"]
	:skills-need ["clojure" "full stack" "devops" "aws"]
	:urls [{:url "http://mateoconfeugo.github.io/vpn-tunnel"}