MattChippytea

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Network Tech consultant based in Northern Ireland - likes Wi-Fi, walking and playing the synths - normal, innocent man, not actually a chatbot
Very much my own views etc… Toots don't last forever, nothing does.

Blog: wifizoo.org

Bloghttps://wifizoo.org
I just came across this petition. It's only got 90 signatories so far, but it seems just the sort of thing people here might be interested in.
#AgeVerification #Privacy #OnlinePrivacy
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/763489
Petition: End mandatory online age verification & mandate parental controls instead

We call on the Government to stop mandating age verification for online content and instead require software companies to provide a fully functional, free and simple to use parental control system so parents can control what their kids can access if they wish.

Petitions - UK Parliament and UK Government
doctors hate this one weird trick

In 1866, a remarkable movement swept across the South. Thousands of formerly enslaved Black men and women appeared before Freedmen’s Bureau officials to legally register marriages that had often existed for years—-or even decades.

It was one of the largest acts of family recognition in American history, yet few Americans know the story today.

Image: Soldier and Companion. United States, ca. 1861–1865. Quarter-plate tintype. Unknown photographer. Jackie Napoleon Wilson Collection.

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How's that "trickle down economics" working for you?
Once again I find myself cursing multi-factor authentication. I understand it. I get why it’s beneficial. I still hate it because all it really manages to do is inconvenience me and break.
Always had a fondness for Hockney's early work. Perhaps because his northern British suburban imagery was so familiar to me.

This traditional-style Japanese elementary school lies abandoned, hidden in the mountains. It is hard to say when it closed, perhaps in the 1970s, but it may have been used more recently. A beautiful haikyo (ruin), left frozen in time.

#Haikyo #Abandoned #Japan #Photography #Travel #Explore #History

The older I get, the more I admire devs or IT people who are quick to say "I don't know how to solve this technology problem". It is such an underrated form of intelligence
Customer: “I need this network to be AI ready!”
Me: <slaps top of switch> “Ready as she’ll ever be”