When we were teenagers, my sister had obviously read the phrase “faux pas” and used it (correctly) in a sentence but pronouncing it “fox pass”.

It was perfect. Like a Mike Myers “what the french call… I don’t know what”.

Same with service insignia on the arms/shoulders of soldiers. Stars to the front

That’s a decent W

Buying a french person a bottle of sparkling white would probably kill them

Yeh, good.
Hopefully they will realise what a farce OSA is as well, considering the skyrocketing VPN usage!

He will get his caddy to drop a ball into the hole, and call it a hole-in-one

The only other solutions to “VPNs circumvent OSA” are:

1. Licence/regulate VPN usage (which is essentially a ban WRT the OSA).
   Extremely difficult to do. It’s fairly trivial to just tunnel your connection over SSH to a VPS in another country.
   Also fairly trivial to get a VPN that tunnels over a websocket, making the traffic identical to website traffic.
   The government is going to play cat&mouse with decades of legitimate infosec.

2. Do something progressive, and drop the OSA (which isn’t going to happen).
   They’ve literally just implemented these laws. It’s not getting repealed.

They are going to make consumer use of anything that changes the public source address of a packet illegal.
How they enforce that, I dunno.
Like the whole OSA, it seems really poorly thought out. I dunno how they completely overlooked VPN usage

Eh, a back bencher has called for a report on how VPNs interfere with ofcoms ability to enforce/regulate the online safety act within 6 months.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/vpns-online-safety-bill-labour-champion-b2239810.html

"My new clause 54 would require the Secretary of State to publish, within six months of the Bill’s passage, a report on the effect of VPN use on Ofcom’s ability to enforce the requirements under clause 112.

“If VPNs cause significant issues, the Government must identify those issues and find solutions, rather than avoiding difficult problems.”

The likely conclusion of that report is that “VPNs circumvent the age verification requirement, so circumvent the OSA, so VPNs must be banned”

Old labour was.
They pivoted quite hard a few years ago to try and win an election.
They are just Tory Lite now.

“think of the children” WRT school ahootings means more police in American schools and arming American teachers.

gmail@mastercard.com?

VPNs are next.

People circumventing the OSA.
THINK OF THE CHILDREN!
VPNs banned

Now you can ask for the number of occurrences of the letter c in the word occurrence.

It’s not asmongold

Yeh, it was COVID that went after republicans.
It wasn’t republicans that politicised COVID and rejected medicine and science.
It wasn’t republicans listening to republican politicians who called it a hoax, and ignored scientific/medical recommendations.
It wasn’t COVID that was politicised.
COVID was created as a political tool to go after specifically American republicans.

(That’s all sarcasm.
COVID doesn’t care about your beliefs. It tried to infect nearly everyone. The resistance to being infected is social distancing, masks and vaccines. All of which are super effective. As proven by the fact that the US is no longer losing a 9/11-worth of people PER DAY and the fact that society is mostly back to normal)

Replit, STOP

I dunno why that didn’t work. It worked so well for geopolitics

Not mad about an estimated usage bill of $8k per month.
Just hire a developer

Offset, not solve.
They pollute, but don’t want to have to deal with fixing it.
So they buy other pollution (easier & cheaper to deal with than their own pollution) and “dispose” of it.

Like carbon offsets. Planting trees offsets co2 pollution. So polluters can keep on pumping out co2 as long as they plant enough trees.

I’d hope WSJ buckles in and fights so that discovery gets spicy.

Or Murdoch sees it as a way to “donate” to trump, and settles outrageously.

24 yaml files for config. The single src folder