I uploaded a picture with poor lighting and wearing dark cloths. Got almost everything wrong... .... Reading, coding, martial arts, substance abuse, illegal hacking, violent thoughts

This exact dynamic exists in the UK too.

Lifelong and degenerative conditions.

They have full access to bank accounts, revoked driving license, direct line to my consultants.

Every form filled, every document provided.

They still call to ask if my genes have fixed themselves.

Not sure what verbal confirmation they're expecting - "no, I made it all up"?

Edit: exact words were "Do you continue to have <REDACTED>" where <REDACTED> is a genetic disease.

Edit edit: I feel sorry for those having to follow these scripts.

I remember the torment of trying to choose between a P90 or a Cyrix133 and compatible motherboards at similar price combinations.

One thing people underestimate is how brittle digital identity actually is in the UK.

There isnt a single identity. Theres a loose federation of databases (banks, CRAs, telecoms, electoral roll, etc.).

There are multiple operational definitions of "name": legal name, common name, known-as name, card name, account display name. None is universally canonical. Theres no statutory hierarchy that forces institutions to agree on precedence.

In the absence of a mandatory national ID, identification relies on matching across name, date of birth, and address history, which are inconsistently collected. Fuzziness is necessary for coverage, but it introduces brittleness. If a variant isnt explicitly linked as an alias, automated online checks can fail because the matching rules dont explore every permutation.

Even within a single dataset the problem doesnt disappear. Large systems such as the NHS have documented identification errors involving patients with identical names, twins at the same address, or demographic overlaps. Unique identifiers help, but operational workflows still depend on humans entering and reconciling imperfect data.

https://digital.nhs.uk/services/personal-demographics-servic...

Splink is a notable endeavor in this regard from the MoJ.

https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink.

i used to work, 15 years ago, on a (permissive, not covert) monitoring service for a UK national public service, the NHS spine core. We used switches to mirror ports and capture traffic in promisciouse mode on a few dozen servers split across a few datacentres that all the traffic went througg. We had certs installed to decode https. We could get enough hardware to do this step easily, but fast enough storage was an issue, we had 1 petabyte of usable storage across all sitesn that could hold a few days of content. We aimed to get this data filtered and forwarded into our central Splunk (seperate storage) and also into our bespoke dashboards within 60s. We often lagged...

You can only decode those https certificates if you are mitming them (and have a compromised certificate)

A copy of the certificate and private keys won't help thanks to the magic of Diffie–Hellman, you can't passively (assuming you haven't got a practical quantum computer) read the stream

Your company will have deployed root certificates to devices and run as a MITM. This is standard corporate firewall behaviour.

It's also possible to generate ephemeral keys deterministically, e.g. key=hash(escrow, sslrandom).

I had a very different experience with my last MRI. I had brain slices (temporal lobe Epilepsy) and my head buzzed/vibrated and could not relax.

Bitwarden is installed via F-Droid from the official Bitwarden repository and is a build provided directly from Bitwarden. F-Droid does not provide a build of Bitwarden.

"I have nothing to hide" only makes sense if privacy and disclosure are treated as a binary. In reality, both exist on a spectrum: privacy is controlled disclosure, shaped by what is shared, with whom, at what level of detail, and under what power asymmetry.

Large surveillance systems inevitably build baselines. They don't just detect crimes; they detect patterns and anomalies relative to whatever becomes "normal".

The problem with "nothing to hide" is that it defaults to maximal disclosure. Data is persistent, aggregatable, and reinterpretable as norms and regimes change. The data doesn't.

This isn't purely individual. Your disclosures can expose others through contact graphs and inference, regardless of intent. And it doesn't matter whether the collector is the state or a company; aggregation and reuse work the same way.

Yes. In that realm, absence, too, is a signal; perpaps stronger one than just random chatter.

It is not possible to install proprietary Microsoft extensions using the official VSCodium builds without additional, non-default configuration.

Right. Then the removal of this IntelliCode extension from MS should have no effect on VSCodium users.

I thought originally it may have been an OSS extension, but it actually seems to have been a proprietary project licensed under the Microsoft Software License, similar to Copilot and such.

Verdis, officially the Free Republic of Verdis (Croatian: Slobodna Republika Verdis) (Serbian Cyrillic: Слободна Република Вердис) is a sovereign state located between Croatia and Serbia along the Danube river. On some maps, especially local maps, this land is known as Pocket-3.

The border meets Croatia by land and meets Serbia at the centerline of the Danube as shown on the maps of this page.

The parcel of land appeared due to an existing border dispute between Croatia and Serbia. The area had not been claimed by Croatia, Serbia, or any other state, which left the land unclaimed (terra nullius) since the Croatian War of Independence until it was proclaimed as the Free Republic of Verdis on 30 May 2019 by Daniel Jackson and his administration.