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Anyone else found themselves put off posting following the degradation of twitter?
@jerry Glad I'm not alone, spin something up, look surprised that it was 'that easy' and spend additional hours trying to figure out if I've missed something that was never there
Nadine Dorries book and Dr No: The Plot thickens

Speculation whirls around the identity of the man the ex-Tory MP claims controls British politics.

BBC News
OH at a conference: "Windows is a big dumpster fire of trash and the only reason Linux is any better is because no one uses it"
@rdp @evacide perhaps a better terminology would be the one in TechDirt there "technically feasible to do so while preserving users’ privacy". Capability rather than the law, although how you can have one without the other?

@evacide they did say that it's currently unenforceable but it is there if 'cirumstances' change... and I seem to recall another snippet somewhere that there's a push to stop companies working on 0 days if against the country's interests. Not sure which is more frightening :)

https://9to5mac.com/2023/08/24/apple-security-updates-ban/

Apple security updates could be banned by British government

Everyone in the tech industry facepalms almost every time legislators try to pontificate on technology, but the British government appears...

9to5Mac
“China offers spy balloon to aid in search for missing F-35”
@SecureOwl I recent lost broadband access for a few days & my daughter struggled with just mobile / no instant access... the urge to configure a personal VLAN for her, limiting it to 56.6k was overwhelming. I've managed to hold off for now
Today's OGLAF (weirdly SFW this time!) is clearly a pointed comment on school politics in Texas and Florida: https://www.oglaf.com/tax-deductions/
tax deductions

BTW there is a lively debate about this article on the Hacker News front right now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37313349
ISPs should not police online speech no matter how awful it is | Hacker News