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Same but I can’t access archive.is either because of the VPN


Worth noting that with RIPA (2000, activated in 2007) UK has enforced key disclosure. It is illegal to fail to disclose a password for any data for any reason (including random data).

I would say the UK has worse privacy than any other country on earth. I'm really hoping for plausible deniability to become more common to help protect against the government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law#United_King...


More countries will follow after they ratify Russia's "United Nations Convention against Cybercrime" which has key disclosure explicitly stated in the text.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_agai...


> It is illegal to fail to disclose a password for any data for any reason [...].

So it's also illegal to not know the password?

I've forgotten my own debit card PIN or phone unlock code on a couple occasions.

> (including random data)

Encrypted data is indistinguishable from random data. The only hint is the presence of metadata (GPG armor, bootloader password prompt, etc).

This law is catch-all BS designed to persecute people for no other reason.


The UK has worse privacy than ANY other country on Earth? Really?


No other country has willingly turned itself into a total panopticon, no. Perhaps others would like to - but they don't have the resources.

You can't walk a fucking meter on the streets without being recorded by the nanny state.


> The CAPTCHA forces vistors to solve a problem designed to be very difficult for computers but trivial for humans. > Anubis – confusingly – inverts this idea.

Not really, AI easily automates traditional captchas now. At least this one does not need extensions to bypass.


If you are looking for OSS support for things like libre office, graphics, bluetooth, WSI, upstreaming, kernel and more, Collabora is a UK based company that can help~


Also Codethink (UK) and Igalia (global, but HQ in Spain). More in the FOSSjobs wiki:

https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources


I have the same Samsung sound bar and absolutely nothing works. We need to hard reset it every day because it refuses to work, switching between programmes in Netflix causes a horrible loud crack, the latest one is having speakers out of sync. Really bad. Unfortunately the rtings reviewers didn’t seem to test any of these things.


The government wants to introduce a law to make it illegal to possess AI tools that are capable of CSAM output. As we know this is impossible, any company starting in the UK with AI will likely fail compared to other countries if this law passes.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8d90qe4nylo


I scariest part of this which I do not see people worried about, is the one sentence about requiring suspects to open their phones at the border for inspection.


Opening phones at borders is already common practice everywhere, including the US. Unless you're a citizen countries don't have to let you in.


As a test: I am always on a vpn


Here I am also.


you have gained a rep enough to not be ghost banned somehow.

the ghost banning makes it hard to make a temp account to whistle blow. And, even if you weren't whistle blowing bit making legit comment, it won't appear until you pass that threshold of not being shadowbanned, at which point your comment is worthless since it's days or weeks later


But at least with Google captchas you can use AI to solve them. I use the buster captcha extension to solve them. It moves the mouse around like a human and solves automatically. I pay for captcha solvers for hcaptcha which is worse but cloudflare is just cancer. It’s made the web unusable


The last SiFive board I had died after about a year of use and is no longer supported so buyer beware


I use AI to solve my captchas now. Pay for the service from nopecha, the internet has been killed for VPNs without it


The failure of cryptocurrency to provide a micropayments platform for the web is quite frustrating. That $5 per month should be flowing to content producers, but it's paying the energy bill of some GPU farm instead.


Hmm, tempting, but it seems clearly intended for use by scrapers? Even the bottom $4.99/mo tier is for "2,000 solves a day"[1] which is slightly more than the 5-10 I'd say I run into on a bad day as a human... Something like $1/mo for 50/day would seem like it was really meant for legit use.

1: https://nopecha.com/pricing


The free version allows 100 solves/day: https://developers.nopecha.com/


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