imagine if the UK government brought in a law saying postal companies had to review every letter before delivering them
that's what they're proposing for online messaging with the ironically named 'Online Safety Bill'
embarrassed by the fact our major political parties have so little tech literacy and so much contempt for the public that they can openly say they want to 'ban VPNs' to 'protect the children' with a straight face, not knowing what VPNs are or what they're actually used for
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UK government inaction over monkeypox - like the reluctance to provide PrEP - proves that queers are only tolerated in ways that render us 'productive' and gloss the state. any demand for support shatters this veneer and marks us out as parasitic. tolerance is fragile.
friendly reminder, as Azure SQL Server is unavailable for its fifth hour, that an SLA of 99.995% means an annual downtime of less than 26mins 17seconds per YEAR
the hardest part of my job is working with people who are not just non-technical but catagorically technically illiterate
finally reached the stage of tech employment where you go "who did this" only to find out it was you
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“Impartial on LGBTQ lives” is so blackly sinister I don’t know whether to laugh or to scream.
Exclusive: The BBC is expected to quit Stonewall’s LGBTQ diversity programme.
LGBTQ staff at the BBC told me they are “super scared” by the implications of the decision, and they hope managers will change their minds…
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