I hate how, over the last 30 years, the burden for people to not be ripped off by companies has shifted to the individual. Why must I use my limited free time and mental capacity to shop around for car insurance, contents insurance, buildings insurance, rail travel, energy suppliers and now vets? To hell with ‘free market capitalism’.
A really nice essay, I agree with the sentiment of it. We don’t need European tech billionaires, we need government support for open source
Hmm, doubt it’s for security. Seems more likely they’re looking for backdoors in order to spy on users. There are far too many governments desperate to backdoor encryption and messaging apps to trust any government’s stated intent when it comes to technology
TPS evaluations, you say?
The rise and fall and rise of RIM. Blackberry, here we go!
Oh, you didn’t tell us how long it would really take, did ya? Oh, laddie. You’ve got a lot to learn if you want people to think of you as a miracle worker.
I love the way you delivered the punchline - very reminiscent of Douglas Adams
How do we persuade our elected politicians to stop trying to speedrun authoritarianism and fascism?
I don’t usually take my oven to the library though /s 😉
Looks nice, but at £50 it’s a hard no from me
I believe that any entity that witnessed me taking a dump would be truly terrified
If true, God spends a lot of time dreaming up scantily-clad, uwu-looking cat girls for an army of socially isolated believers
Lizard on a Grand Wizard
What’s that now? How have I never known about this until now?
Your cables break every 3 days
So Reform do like diversity after all - they like a diverse collection of vulnerable and marginalised groups to blame
As a gamer outside the Xbox ecosystem, it feels like Xbox is a brand in decline
For more than two decades, Sergey Lavrov has been Russia’s top foreign diplomat, representing the Kremlin regime around the world.
And then, he was gone.
Mr Lavrov, 75, has been the country’s foreign minister since 2004, and is widely rated as being among President Vladimir Putin’s closest allies.
But it has been three weeks since his last official appearance, sparking speculation he has fallen foul of Russia’s ruthless leader.
In the case of the UK and utilities, at least, public ownership.