• electromage@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    So despite what Cory Doctorow said at DEF CON, it seems the government isn’t actually saving us?

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      1 year ago

      This is specifically a UK problem. The Tories have been trying to do absolutely retarded things with banning encryption for a long time now.

      • Uranium 🟩@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        Unrelated beyond the Tories being retarded with banning things for no real reason: I’ve just discovered that they’ve effectively banned the sale of sodium hydroxide (drain cleaner) and potassium hydroxide (used to make soap), before I could buy them on eBay or get the sodium hydroxide at any super market, but now I have to go via a chemical supply company, taking literal weeks, and paying £7 for 100g of sodium hydroxide, where I used to be able to get 500g for £2.

        They’re scum for an endless list of things but this has really annoyed me.