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  @SuVergnolle@eupolicy.social Quite astonishing that just adding a border to an image will change its PhotoDNA hash value enough for it to be considered a different image. How is this any use in detecting illegal images?

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  Successful repair café today. Fixed: Push buttons on a desk fan, that needed a new spring. My fault, lost the original spring last month while cleaning out sticky grease from the switch. Isn't it amazing how springs are almost entirely invisible if you drop them? Toaster, a flimsy broken plastic "spring" on the hold down latch replaced by a small proper spring. Straightened the bent slot levers. All working again. Ninja Foodie combination air-fryer, oven, pressure cooker. Lid...

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  @cstross@wandering.shop @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange That assumes that I do something that is bad enough for government to seize my computer. Unless they do, there is no way (without GCHQ spending a lot of time and effort) that a VPN ban could be enforced. If I did do something that got the attention of the security services, having a VPN without age restrictions is going to be the least of my problems! It's the same as the Online Safety Act. It makes a lot of noise, but is almost ent...

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  @oschonrock@mastodon.social @PeterSommerlad@mastodon.social @cstross@wandering.shop Yes. They can legislate as much as they want to age-verify all VPN users. Mathematics and logic makes this impossible to enforce in any meaningful way, though.

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  @oschonrock@mastodon.social @PeterSommerlad@mastodon.social @cstross@wandering.shop I'm presuming they'd want to check your age every time you USE a VPN connection? Otherwise the restriction on underage use would be meaningless.

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  @MikeFromLFE@cupoftea.social @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us It really annoyed me that the BBC results focussed entirely on just the seats being contested, and not at all on the total number of seats held by each party. Reform may have gained 1,400 seats, but the Greens now have more than 1,000 council seats too. The biggest change, I feel, is that the Greens are now a serious political force. They never used to be mentioned at all in local election results.