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Some VPN providers will absolutely turn over records to government authorities, which is why the ones who don't make a big thing about the fact they don't.

If they ban them that's the end of working from home. Given how prevalent hybrid working is nowadays no politician would dare propose it.

You don't need a VPN to access the dark web, you just need the Tor browser, which is created by a non-profit organisation and has the backing of several government departments and NGOs around the world including the US State Department.

Yeah, she has two email addresses, one for constituency business and one for in her capacity as Home Secretary; my email went to the former, and asked for her to advocate for changes to the guidance to be less like a hammer to the nut.

My MP happens to be the current Home Secretary. I've written her an email but I fully expect it to be either ignored or generate a boilerplate response from some constituency staffer.

The politician's syllogism: 1. We must do something 2. This is something 3. Therefore we must do this

Protecting children seems to be the main driver

I just need the fretless Stingray to complete matching the tone 😅

I'm still amazed that the Sire I ordered through Thomann on 12/12/2020 turned up less than two weeks later, which was doubly gratifying because it all happened before B-word did.

I would be very surprised if the majority of them weren't there already. All this legislation will do is catch the low-hanging non-tech savvy fruit.

Nice one, I will definitely watch that when I get a chance!

Have the Invision Community owners given any indication of how they're planning to work with forum owners to help comply with the new Ofcom regs? Is it time to start thinking about a Basschat Discord server or something to replace this site in the event that the worst possible outcome occurs and it has to close?

I was looking for this quote and am glad I haven't been disappointed

It'll take me a goodly few years to save up for one so I'm in no rush.

We do rehearse, but getting certain others in the band to do their homework is a lot more trouble than it should be, so it turns more into a figuring it out on the fly session sometimes, which is massively frustrating for those of us who have done our homework.

Octave and chorus

Despite yesterday's being truncated due to the keyboardist's Covid, we managed to rattle through a fair few songs, and I think Mr Brightside will be sorted for New Years Eve if the drummist can remember when to stop playing it... We had a quick attempt at Sledghammer, which has good bones but needs some work to get it polished, and then had a discussion over new songs to try. Picking popular songs that aren't obvious is really tricky, but I think next on our list will be Alright by Supergrass, which at least has an interesting bassline.

I may or may not be waiting for them to be available secondhand in a few years...

I remember going in there 20+ years ago on a cricket tour and abandoning my teammates to watch a handful of guys playing blues for the evening. Glad to hear it's still going, it was a great little place from what I hazily recall.

Yes, so keep doing it!

Done that, I knew something was off throughout but couldn't put my finger on it until the penny dropped a day or two later

When I had mine I used to enjoy sowing chaos and confusion by driving reasonably and indicating when the highway code says one should. It was delightful.

A certain G&L L-2500 Tribute would definitely still be on the list, but I suspect having to buy a house will be more pressing a purchase.

We got a few requests for rock songs which our singist politely declined, and a couple of requests for Erasure, which I'm sure will be ignored as they're out of his vocal range. I think I also need to find a rock group to satisfy my need to rock out more.

I'm happy to say that your playing was not in any way cackhanded and the tone was most excellent, as was catching up with you. Hopefully next time there'll be more time.