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Why no social media in particular? Is it a blanket ban because there isn't time to talk to them about it or is it simply, in your opinion, too toxic for teenagers, or something else?

Why no games on their phones? Is this a way to control the time spent on games or to prevent the time wasted on games when out and about?

I don't think QWACs are at all the same as state controlled root certificates. Browsers aren't going to show EV certificates.

In the UK you aren't able to add a fee for using a credit card over another form of payment.

In England the owner doesn't have the deeds, although they may obtain a copy. It's digital with the Land Registry. Scotland, incidentally, has the oldest land registry in the world (1617 CE), the Sasines.

I think there are sources that will give you a kit that can submit environmental data. I've been looking at 'Enviro+' with a Particulate Matter Sensor from Pimoroni or PiHut, for example. Currently out of stock.

"The Shepherd's Life" is a great book, especially if you know the landscape he's farming. It's only a shame that you've now got a spoiler in discovering that he was so very clever and went to Oxford. Otherwise his is one of the rare stories of lives we tend not to read about.

You can learn how to be better understood as a native speaker without having to go abroad or even speak to a lot of people using English as a second language. In the UK, live in a city like Birmingham, for instance, with a strong local accent and even, in some parts like the Black Country, a unique syntax, e.g. "How am ya?". Now go live for a while in, for the sake of argument, Glasgow, with their own particular patois and accent.

Why does this article make me think the problem is perhaps mainly with those native English speakers who haven't been exposed much to their own language as it's spoken in the regions?

I particularly like, "automating parts of your job". I wish more organisations made that effort. Especially in large financial enterprises I frequently see the same manual jobs being performed every week because they won't take the time to script it. They'll write up the manual steps, sometimes, but they won't script it, and often it's not even written up.

Best: in my first role, shadowing an experienced contractor, after I quietly suggested the company was a little disorganized, "Don't worry, they're all like that."

Also memorable was in one of my first contract roles from another, excellent, contractor, "Spend half the day on their stuff, and half the day on your own work. You don't want to raise their expectations."

To clarify that last bit of advice: a contractor should be capable of getting all of the day's work done in half the day (they are good at the job and they don't have to deal with the permanent employees' extra duties). The other half of the day may well be speculative work that the contractor wants to try out that will benefit the company but the management would never be able to say yes to if you asked for permission. Or it may just be real programming.

I see your jingoistic sensibilities are clouding your thinking. Your political nous is also somewhat lacking, perhaps, if you can't see the power play here.

The Scottish Government has asked the Westminster government to stop dawn raids. You are, perhaps, through mis-placed authoritarianism, missing the bigger picture.

The Home Office said, "suspected offences". Funny that the "Sovreign State" tried this in Scotland, isn't it?

Pejorative comments about the Scottish do not cast you in a very good light.

In the press articles the Home Office is quoted as saying, "suspected offences". A dawn raid is completely abhorrent for anything other than serious crimes. Note that Immigration Enforcement isn't even the police, this is a Home Office unit.

The dawn raid in Glasgow looks a lot like a deliberate provocation from the Westminster government and the Home Office. It was in the First Minister's constituency; it was as the new MSPs (Members of the Scottish Parliament) were being sworn in; it's in the constituency that the leader of Scottish Labour, Anas Sarwar, contested in the May election; and it was the first day of Eid Al-Fitr. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-57100259

Thanks for pointing that out. I almost missed it.

That's a lot of moving parts. To give me an idea of what's left over, how lightweight are we talking when you say, "2 or 3 light weight Go services"?

We are trying to persuade our government here in Scotland that presumed liability [1] would be very effective. It is common throughout Europe.

[1] https://www.cyclelawscotland.co.uk/blog/article/the-time-is-...

You should try cycling in my town. Okay, that's hyperbole but the way the drivers of many vehicles show massive aggression towards cyclists on the roads is narrowing the margin between an accident and a murder.

Please take both and report back!

But can I replace my YubiKey that holds my PGP signing and encryption keys for pass (the UNIX password manager) and signing git commits? PGP does both jobs and YubiKey keeps the key stubs and does my 2FA. Replace all that in one package and I can stop using PGP.

That's great that you took the time to look. If you have more questions an excellent place to begin is "How to regulate stimulants: A practical guide" [0]. It's a free PDF or you can purchase a copy. At 300 pages it isn't a light read but there is a whole chapter on stimulant harm reduction.

[0] https://transformdrugs.org/product/how-to-regulate-stimulant...

"Daddy, what did you do in the drug wars?". There's a global movement now to reverse these prohibitions so if you haven't been involved before, now is your opportunity. Here's somewhere to start: https://transformdrugs.org/

Same old encryption nonsense only with added, "Won't someone please think of the children!". Quite frankly shows the Children’s commissioner for England in a bad light.

I see two technical problems that impact on privacy: encryption backdoors and age verification.

This won't fly in Scotland, next door, where the UN Rights of the Child (Article 16) have been incorporated into Scots Law.

Spying is, of course, illegal in every country that is spied upon. Assange has been in Ecuador and the United Kingdom. Neither country may permit the interception of confidential conversations between a client and their legal counsel.

We do as we are told to do (and there's something in the English character that likes it like that). Current Prime Minister is an American (renounced his citizenship in 2016 after a large tax bill) and there are many other unquestioning free-market cultists here: see Brexit for further examples.

I have to switch between various machines so I use my phone. Then I find any app to be overkill and limiting at the same time. I recommend using a timer and your phone's timer will do. Set timers for 25mins, 5 mins and 15mins and go!

How is a doctor supposed to do a video consultation if the blotches on your bum, purely for example, are all blurry because the definition is less than HD?

The noisy back-benchers are a little silly as all of Huawei's work is scrutenised: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/huawei-gchq-security-evaluat...

Of course, in the UK, calling Tory back-benchers "a little silly" is an understatement.

Takes down, succinctly, both the herd immunity nonsense and the fallacious, economic, let them die position.