I feel somewhat sorry for the students who paid a small fortune to waste their learning time to turn in plagiarised assignments, having been sold the line that AI is all they need for a professional future.
What a waste of money and time.
# Ensure users accessing pornography sites using Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) are still subject to highly effective age assurance
> This could be achieved by amending the Online Safety Act to bring in an additional provision which would require VPN providers in the UK to put in place Highly Effective Age Assurance to screen underage users and prevent them from accessing pornographic sites
And so it begins. (Page 38)
#OnlineSafetyAct
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> The UK’s first transgender judge has launched a case against the UK in the European court of human rights challenging the process that led to the supreme court’s ruling on biological sex.
> The retired judge Victoria McCloud ... is seeking a rehearing of the case, arguing that the supreme court undermined her article 6 rights to a fair trial when it refused to hear representation from her and did not hear evidence from any other trans individuals or groups.
I am contemplating using Tor, running on my UK-based fedi server, so that I can route traffic to other instances via Tor, and thus not present a UK IP address.
But I am not rushing to do this, as I have an ethical issue to consider first: if a server admin wants to block UK users, while I *can* find a way around it, am I right to do so? Do I increase their risk - which they already perceive to relate to traffic from UK users - in doing so? Or do they expect circumvention, and just want to show that they are doing the bare minimum if needs be?
Interesting...
> People paying privately for weight-loss drug Mounjaro in the UK face a rise in the cost of the treatment after manufacturer Eli Lilly said it was increasing the list price of the drug by as much as 170%.
Fighting obesity for fatter profits?
> We have been forced to geo-block access from the United Kingdom to the lgbtqia.space services and community.
> This action is a direct result of the UK's Orwellian "Online Safety Act" a piece of legislation that, despite its name, is incredibly dangerous to online privacy and makes the internet absolutely not safe for marginalized communities and the volunteers who run services like this one.
> Our condolences on the loss of freedom of expression.
# Am I (still?) in Mozilla's target audience?
With the latest update of Firefox, and the latest opportunity to dive into about:config to switch things off, I ask myself *again* if I am really part of Mozilla's target audience or not.
> Rolls-Royce's plan to power artificial intelligence with its nuclear reactors could make it the UK's most valuable company
I'll take "sentences that make absolutely no sense at all", please.
