The only other solutions to "VPNs circumvent OSA" are:
Licence/regulate VPN usage (which is essentially a ban WRT the OSA).Extremely difficult to do. It's fairly trivial to just tunnel your connection over SSH to a VPS in another country.Also fairly trivial to get a VPN that tunnels over a websocket, making the traffic identical to website traffic.The government is going to play cat&mouse with decades of legitimate infosec.
Do something progressive, and drop the OSA (which isn't going to happen).They've literally just implemented these laws. It's not getting repealed.
They are going to make consumer use of anything that changes the public source address of a packet illegal.How they enforce that, I dunno.Like the whole OSA, it seems really poorly thought out. I dunno how they completely overlooked VPN usage
"My new clause 54 would require the Secretary of State to publish, within six months of the Bill’s passage, a report on the effect of VPN use on Ofcom’s ability to enforce the requirements under clause 112.
"If VPNs cause significant issues, the Government must identify those issues and find solutions, rather than avoiding difficult problems."
The likely conclusion of that report is that "VPNs circumvent the age verification requirement, so circumvent the OSA, so VPNs must be banned"
Yeh, it was COVID that went after republicans.It wasn't republicans that politicised COVID and rejected medicine and science.It wasn't republicans listening to republican politicians who called it a hoax, and ignored scientific/medical recommendations.It wasn't COVID that was politicised.COVID was created as a political tool to go after specifically American republicans.
(That's all sarcasm.COVID doesn't care about your beliefs. It tried to infect nearly everyone. The resistance to being infected is social distancing, masks and vaccines. All of which are super effective. As proven by the fact that the US is no longer losing a 9/11-worth of people PER DAY and the fact that society is mostly back to normal)
Offset, not solve.They pollute, but don't want to have to deal with fixing it.So they buy other pollution (easier & cheaper to deal with than their own pollution) and "dispose" of it.
Like carbon offsets. Planting trees offsets co2 pollution. So polluters can keep on pumping out co2 as long as they plant enough trees.
Most of my programming is web stuff. So it builds to containers and using VS Codes dev containers takes care of all issues relating to arch's rolling release (IE needing a specific version of a language).Ie, I work in containers and I build to container and I run containers for all my code (except ESP32 platformio. Unfortunately I haven't migrated that away from windows. So I dual boot)
If I was doing GUI desktop apps, I imagine I would need something other than dev containers.But that's not what I do.
Considering all I do is docker, k8s, linux admin, web frontend/backend that is platform agnostic (but ultimately runs on Linux)... I'm not tied to any OS.Windows is annoying, I am not a fan of osx nor Apple, I use Linux everyday... So my OS might as well be Linux.And Arch & EndeavourOS are nice and just work.For a VPS/server, I use Debian (or Talos OS for k8s). But that's all headless.
I'm lucky in that I freelance and the companies I work for are good companies.I've never had to cancel anything because of EndeavourOS, it's never broken on me (I've only had windows break the EFI partition, which it can do to any distro - until you disable fast boot and stuff), it's never gotten in my way (or if it has, it's lead to a better solution - like VS Code dev containers). It's been really really enjoyable.
I'm sure that I could use any distro in my position, tbh.So, probably not helpful overall.
(I'm struggling to find new sources,. cause everything is about dropping the DST to allow further trade talks. Not the timeline of DST dropping and the further US tariffs. Maybe these are coincidental, maybe there was always gonna be more Canadian tariffs. Either way, it doesn't matter. Canada got more blanket tariffs regardless of what they did. Speaks volumes to everyone else dealing with trump)
Trump is destabilising international trade. This doesn't benefit the US. At all.
Basically? Humans are leverage?