In the news

In the future there will be two classes of internet users:

1. Those who know what they're doing
   
2. Everyone else
   
   

Fewer than 1% of users will be in the first category. And they'll have to encrypt everything and control everything in order to hide from the automated systems that manage the internet for the 99%.

The wild west still exists, the equality, freedom, lack of Facebook, etc. It's just getting harder and harder to access this free and open world.

Eternal September users ruined it all.

How to suck the fun out of something that started out fun... :/

It's not just the users though, lack of oversight for automated algorithms (see also the nice banking crisis) and governments not having a clue/willfully spying as there's money to be made don't help.

Even if everyone was A Good User and scanned/firewalled etc. all their kit, we'd still be stuck with all that.

We know more about how our cars work, and put more effort into car maintenance, than we do with software and hardware

It's alright, this'll correct itself very soon - cars are being rapidly computerised!

The Jeep story's the best I've read, but I'm pretty sure there are others:

https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-highway/
https://www.wired.com/2016/08/jeep-hackers-return-high-speed-steering-acceleration-hacks/

I honestly don't understand the need for connected cars...

Traffic jams? There are phone apps to notify people.
Bellendry driving? There are black boxes/apps for that, and unfortunately it's just going to always be there

All this computer crap is bad for small garages too unless there are open standards...it forces them to buy £££ equipment.

i love england.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/oct/24/australia-giant-spider-mouse-carry-horrifying-impressive

#thepromisedland

All aboard the nope train.

Between this and TS living there, i'm never setting foot in the place.

Iz OK, we iz full...

They have those things in Japan too.

They also allow you to have port 25 open, and will give you a fixed IP address for £5.

The one-in one-out rule works fine with so much nature murder.

I just pruned the hedge outside our house today, so many homeless, poisonous spiders now... Sorry, guys!

The really scary stuff near us is found on the beach, stone fish and blue ring octopus... Tiny, deadly... I keep telling Lori not to go in the water without something on her feet but she won't listen... Stone fish are everywhere over here, I stay on the beach... In my trainers...

Hedge pruning gear ?

I wore a pair of latex gloves... 🕷️🕸️👋

http://globalnews.ca/news/3021746/semi-naked-man-found-dead-on-spanish-airport-bench-with-deli-meat-on-his-buttocks-genitals-in-tuna-can/?sf39711332=1

What the shit?

Stag do

It was only a bit of banter

Heathrow expansion to be announced at 12:30 according to the Beeb.

Not surprising since the main opposition seems to be a load of remoaners and a few environmental 'experts'.

Flight path rerouting means flights will no longer pass over my back garden. Gets my vote.

^ fry

OK so they are set to announce Heathrow expansion.

Given the need to show Britain to be open for business, the wants of the business lobby seems able to trample the concerns of the environmental lobby for the foreseeable.

Selfishly, the new flight paths put the stacks further out so I'll no longer have planes circling the garden of an evening when I'm having my tea. But then I did pay for the premium version of the app which tells me where all those planes have been so I feel a bit cheated out of 79p.

Has Zac Goldsmith resigned yet?

The environmental lobby only had a leg to stand on due to a lack of sovereignty, it was those pesky EU technocrats who drafted the rules about air pollution that Heathrow already fails. Once we take back power into our own hands we will have freedom to do what we want

Let's hope he's a man of his word.

You need to caveat that

Subject to the terms of any future agreed terms with the EU, subject to the whims of Wallonia.

"whims"

An amazing thing that's taking place with Ceta is a move to convince Wallonia to accept the deal rather than recognize their concerns and engage with them as legitimate. Showing that they can stop it demonstrates to an extent that the EU is working. If they end up impacting the actual agreement, we'll see that it's working better than we may have thought.

Also, the BBC called them "staunchly socialist". Good beer and politics. I'm moving.