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Brian Handscomb
@brianhandscomb.bsky.social
IT guy by day, keyboard player and occasional instrumental composer otherwise. Once found myself at a piano in Abbey Road Studio 2.
OSA neither makes it harder or easier to distribute revenge porn because it can be shared on pretty much EVERY SINGLE WEB SITE that allows any form of social interaction... and even sites that are not even social sites, just file transfer sites... OSA "doesn't work"...
August 20, 2025 at 12:29 AM
So they've moved on from the Jimmy Saville references to defend it then...
August 20, 2025 at 12:25 AM
By many accounts the act is actually exposing children to more and worse content. It is training EVERYONE that the first thing to do to access Internet content is connect to VPN... Somehow I've ended up in China without travelling anywhere.
August 20, 2025 at 12:22 AM
I think the government are doing that without any help from Nigel.
August 20, 2025 at 12:17 AM
KWS is horribly broken. You need a different system.
August 18, 2025 at 11:02 PM
KWS point blank refuses to work at all for me - Bluesky sends an email, I click the link, KWS says "either the page you're looking for does not exist or we're having some technical difficulties getting the information you need". Totally broken.
August 18, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I don't know if I wish I had one, or glad that I don't. I do miss fanfold printouts for some things (e.g. code listings), but I think these days the dot matrix noise would drive me crazy.
August 11, 2025 at 8:41 PM
and a load of other can't get the thing to work at all or have and countless other problems...
August 11, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Not me.
August 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM
For me I clicked on the link sent via email and it just showed an error.
August 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM
What if someone doesn't have a passport? I don't...
August 8, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Yeah link in email just errors for me too so not even seen options available on this system.
August 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
So basically because KWS is "broken" that means for me and apparently a bunch of other people @bsky.app is now broken too. To date my sole use of NordVPN is to get a more reliable World of Warcraft (I VPN from UK to UK). I'm going to have to start using it to country hop at this rate...
August 4, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Pretty sure credit score isn't as much about you it's about them... Person A. No debt, secure income, low credit score... Person B. Fair amount of debt, but secure income and has hope of clearing their bill in a year: "Congratulations we are extending your credit card limit"... "Huh? I didn't ask!"
July 21, 2025 at 10:38 AM
When I got my first mobile phone (many years ago now) I had to go through hoops because I had absolutely zero debt - no credit card, no loans, no mortage. Bizarre fact of finance, if you can be proven you owe money people are more willing to lend you more money than if you don't. Crazy world.
July 21, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Looking good to me!
June 9, 2025 at 9:26 AM
And yet it always seems to be the USB-C ports that wear out, the parts on the expensive half of the equation. Lighting? That'll keep going for 7/8 years easy. USB-C? 1 year it'll be sensitive to being knocked, 2 years you almost have to hold it in yourself. Personal experience...
March 14, 2025 at 8:44 AM