Guess we’re done with PCR tests?
ALT Graph on front page of coronavirus.data.gov.uk showing a drop in testing in April 2022
Government secures a five year contract to access A THING THAT SHOULD BE PUBLICLY OWNED.
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Is it acceptable to think of art, in cultural terms, indistinguishably from those that invest the most money in it?
While the debate is focused on “encryption”, I think it’s worth remembering that one stated use for chat monitoring is “grooming”.
Since that’s highly-contextual, this implies that providers will need to store the plaintext of all messages beyond the ability of users to delete.
There’s no point reading the article, just leave it at the headline.
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Weird how Session, Signal, Element, Threema, Viber and Wire are magically transformed into "technology giants" in BBC news piece when they are signatories of letter also signed by WhatsApp, and three block quotes from government before getting to the issue bbc.co.uk/news/technology-65…
Netflix, or whoever, should have videos of sleeping cats. Sometimes a sleeping cat is all I want to watch.
Excited to find out if this logic extends to suspected wage theft.
Thanks to Tennessee’s new permitless carry law, no training or background check is required to carry a hidden, loaded handgun in public. As a result, too many Americans think shoplifting is a crime punishable by death. abcnews.go.com/US/permitless…
I see that the same government that wants you to log into every site for age/identity verification, also thinks cookie pop-ups are a problem.
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In Ted Lasso, Rebecca’s phone has an Apple Pay icon in the iMessage app - but I don’t think this feature is available in the UK.
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In Suella Braverman’s Thick Of It episode that starts with her supporting a golliwog-loving pub-owning couple in an attempt to boost her popularity, this is the quote a junior SpAd would be reading out to her over the phone as Malcolm Tucker approaches from the mid-distance
Even if you don’t think the “licence fee” is but regressive taxation, the World Service gets some funding via FCDO, so if NPR counts as “governmental funded” the BBC would also.
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Lol, my fellow brits using Windows 11 with en-GB in the Insider Program might have noticed that MS has mistranslated ZIP files as "postcode" files in the latest builds.
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Nigel Lawson has died. But despite the overwhelming evidence of science, for balance we’re going to talk to somebody who says he hasn’t.
