evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

The UK gov look like complete digitally illiterate idiots. The disaster of huge VPN uptake as a consequence of ill thought out simplistic age verification policy in the UK is stupid beyond credibility. We ARE led by donkeys. I said a while back that AI policy (in HE, and at national level) is being made by ppl who don't even know what a VPN is to indicate level of naïve ignorance. Now we know just how true that is.

#ukpol #ageverification #digitalliteracy #academia #academicchatter

Please report to the nearest darkened alley

Need my GB driver's license details For Reasons, can't find the card, remember it's saved in my Hertz profile, go there, page shows me most the the number ***d out, check developer tools, API is returning the full number and just obfuscating it client side, hurrah

I need some Internet magic. I have to get in touch with a man called Rob Small, who lives on a houseboat called Rosetta. And that's all I've got. Somewhere in the UK, possibly south west, but don't know where. Don't know anything else. Have an important message to pass on to him.

we've gone back to the dial-up days when you'd wait for the page to finish loading, only now it also mocks you with the capability it has to load anything fast, just not anything you want to see or that's useful to you

Well that was a bit "and now draw the rest of the owl" but I have a mostly-finished shirt! Would have been closer to done but I messed up on the collar interfacing, had to unpick a couple of things. Collars are tough but satisfying to complete, a bit like quilt binding.

Time to fix up a personal VPN service.