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Maybe that's normal in US but it's way overpriced in UK. They want £75/mo and I'm paying £35 for 500Mb in a rural area and there's several different providers to choose from. My sister is even more remote than me and they're getting fibre this week.

I could also get unlimited 4G for about £20.

I don't know anyone who is using starlink

Yeah totally agree in the technical sense but if they want to spy on your banking they can go to your bank. If they want to spy on your instant messaging they can't.

The bill doesn't mention encryption at all, it only creates the ability to compel service providers to grant them access on request. Breaking the encryption is the only way they could do that. The law isn't telling them not encrypt traffic directly.

Up until the last decade, law enforcement could access pretty much any communications with that appropriate warrants. They could intercept mail, tap phones, get access to emails. E2E being so widespread is fairly new and I vaguely remember messaging platforms implementing it to avoid all the potential legal problems with law enforcement around the world and and international user base. I have no source for that though.

I can imagine it's a potential minefield that they don't want deal with so removing their own access solved that problem.

Don't get me wrong, I believe people should have access to private communications and I think all the rhetoric about protecting children is BS. It's just an easy way to quiet the dissenters then they expand those powers later on.

I see this argument every time this comes up but it's not true. The end to end encryption they are talking about is between users so the service provider doesn't have access to the data.

You sent a WhatsApp message and it's encrypted right through to the recipient's phone.

Your banking doesn't do that, it's encrypted between you and the bank.

Don't get me wrong, I agree with you there's no feasible way to stop it and hasn't been for 30 years since the release of PGP, but it's not about encryption in general, it's specifically encrypted communication between individuals and bringing other stuff into it just weakens the argument against it.

I'm working on migrating a lot of old .Net Framework code right now, we're generally going with a complete rewrite but that's more to do with poor architectural decisions and the fact a lot of it is VB rather than C#.

It's pretty impressive that code largely written up to 20 years ago is now running on a modern OS, and it's using the latest Framework 4.8 with all the latest security updates and I can open VS2022 and hit run and it builds and runs fine. Our issues are the maintainability of the code and how it was written rather than the framework itself.

Meanwhile, a few years ago now, I had a web project written in typescript, it was only about a year out of date and npm install failed. Turns out one of dependencies needed to build something with python2, updating that needed a new version of webpack and that broke something else that never got an update to the newer webpack. Installing python2 didn't work either I think but I can't remember why.

There's systems I wrote for .Net over a decade ago that I can guarantee are still running in production and haven't been touched in all that time.

In short, I think I'm agreeing with you. It's painful but it's possible.

Good to hear you got it. We get stuff misdelivered all the time because the houses have names and next door is very similar. It usually depends which way down the road the driver is going, they just deliver it to the first one they see and figure it's close enough. But they don't have our parcel this time. I've emailed the seller but I doubt they'll see it until Tuesday.

Last year I had an Amazon one delivered to a neighbour when we were out, that's fine but they didn't say which neighbour and wouldn't tell me when I got hold of a person. They just declared it lost and sent it again. A week later someone bought it around asking why I never went to get it

I had one yesterday like this. I've got a photo from parcelforce of someone else's hallway.

I phoned them, they won't tell me where it is but agree the GPS they have for the photo isn't my address. They said they would send the driver back to get it and would call me to keep me updated.

They're now closed until Tuesday so I'm not hopeful.

It already is crowd funded

Most of the other 38% probably don't want it dominating the news for another 4 years

She's had surgery last week and feeling sorry for herself but blankets make it better

Years ago now I was asked to be on call for a week, 24/7 outside working hours. I was told it would be paid. Being naive I thought I'd be paid at my normal rate.

Turns out the on call rate was based on the likelihood of being called and this project was deemed to be low, after tax I got less than £10 extra for the whole week. It was something like 14 pence an hour.

They had a whole load of restrictions on my life as well, couldn't be more than an hour from the office, couldn't be drunk, had to answer the phone within a minute at all times and be able to get on my laptop within 5 minutes.

Refused to do it again after that first week and they ended up having to pay a contractor £400/week instead.

I think the Mersey bridge is a similar system? I've got an account for that but crossed in a new car that I forgot to register. Didn't realise until it was too late.

That was 2 weeks ago and nothing yet...

So a felon can't vote but could run for president?