This is not just paranoia. Multiple of the involved politicians have already been asked "isn't this stupid because you can use a VPN to get around it" and have answered things to the effect of "we are at least doing something and we will try to get round to blocking VPNs in future". I expect that they will come up with exceptions for corporates or UK hosted VPNs, however the current legislation proves that the mere fact of it being insane will not stop them.

I was really talking about private / personal VPNs. I'm sure there will be supposed to be some government and corporate exception. I'm sure they will also set up the corporate exception in some horrible way that makes it fail anyway.

Well, in this case the funniest thing is that Trump is absolutely making the case for both solar and wind and the wierd ranting just brings more attention to that fact. China has been much more insulated from the New Gulf War than other nations because of their huge amount of renewable energy. China is rescuing Cuba by supplying them with solar panels.Other places are getting into trouble basically in inverse proportion to how much of their energy is renewable and so on.

Having energy supply systems that don't need fuel turns out to be a huge advantage in war or otherwise unstable times.

The standard Rust competitor is C++. That has a very different design choice - the standard library is huge, ancient and ever expanding and basically requires backwards compatibility. However, that also means that you know that your compiler vendor or specific standard library vendor has to provide those functions for certification and that there's some basic level of support and responsibility for the contents. Likely similar to or related to the level you get for the compiler.

With Rust's choice you get a very different set of trade offs, one we are much less experienced with. Perl is probably the most similar language which has become old and we can see real maintenance problems with the libraries, partly caused by standard bit rot, but mostly caused by a dysfunctional community which hasn't even allowed the language to increase it's version number properly. Since Rust is making the same kind of choices that Perl made for libraries, it might be legitimate to wonder whether there might come a time in future when similar problems happen to Rust crates as are happening to Perl libraries.

Given that the North American Enterprise Linux vendor is giving up their leadership of the Linux community and given that Linux is starting to use Rust seriously in the kernel as well as in user space, having an actual sensible distro vendor directly influencing how rust packages are maintained and how the Rust community prioritizes them may actually be pretty important and useful.

The failure is the point. They are trying to work up to getting VPNs blocked. I suspect they will have shrunk our economy by 60% before we manage to stop them. I only hope that, at that point, I will be able to get a legalized lynch mob up for them. The chances are reasonably good.

A) your credit card was probably stored in your phone anyway, so you can't buy a burner phone B) An unverified backup solution doesn't exist. If you had tried a disaster recovery exercise whilst at home, you would have already realized that you need to pre-install all your apps on your recovery phone.

And yes, the normal consumer now has to have corporate level IT to be able to survive in the world reliably. How they achieve that I have no idea.

I like an optimist.

If you don't have that turned on (because you are a normal user) and you install a verified F-Droid app, then the F-Droid app should be able to install verified apps without you having to either work out how to turn on developer actions or wait 24 hours.

To verify, devs releasing apps outside of Google Play will have to provide identification, upload a copy of their signing keys, and pay a $25 fee. It all seems rather onerous for people who just want to make apps without Google's intervention.

That's the other case. Or to put it more simply "no". Google will treat an app installed from F-Droid like an app that's side loaded. If it's verified then fine - no problem. If it isn't verified then it won't install.

This basically forces F-Droid to mostly carry verified apps if they want to have an easy install process. That's doesn't have to be a bad thing. F-droid has a bunch of apps where there is no known source code and no way to fix them. It might be good if they were forced to cleanup, rebuild and only provide them in some kind of legacy mode. I know there's quite a bit of concern from the secure versions of Android like GrahphenOS about fdroid.

It's more traditional than that. "We must do something. This is something. Therefore we must do this.". Virtue signalling implies that they have some kind of understanding that what they are doing will have little effect. In fact, some of the people behind this are likely fully aware that they will be able to sell new systems and force costs on other people

So what we probably need, rather than AI warnings, is "non-AI" certified content. Something that's traceable to an original untampered clip from an untampered camera or an actual provable person and then all edits are recorded so that we can see exactly what has been changed, if anything.

I wonder if there's a practical way of doing this without getting into some kind of horrific DRM style content control systems?

Remember the Evil Bit from RFC 3514, and how it got us rid of all malicious network traffic, once and for all?

Irresponsible people (including irresponsible employees) have evidently shown a lot of interest in automating away all kinds of stuff by installing "OpenClaw" and giving it access to all kinds of sensitive information and credentials to act on their behalf. If you run "OpenClaw" in some sandbox that does not give it access to all that sensitive information and credentials, the purpose of "get it done for me, I cannot be bothered" will not get fulfilled, and therefore that sandbox will either be intentionally be circumvented or the bot becomes useless in comparison to what people (ab)use OpenClaw for. No kind of "security layer" can change that.

Yes. Norway has made the taxation a bit more representative of the true costs they cause, but ICEs are in no way banned.

And also EVs are outselling ICEs overall in the whole of Europe. Yes, Norway and the UK are leading, but EVs are going up everywhere.

We're now clearly at the denial stage from the enemies of EVs.