Stu Bowes

Programmer, 3D graphics, music, sound. Creator of What Lies Underground #PointAndClick #Puzzle #Adventure #Blender #gamedev #indiedev

[Stu Bowes @stu_bowes]

@alanvibe @YouTube Whatever YouTube's reason for doing this, they know policies coming in to restrict young people's access and by association the difficulty of all ages to access YouTube will hit their ad revenues. Not just bad for Google but any UK business that sell kids products via ads on YT.

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@rodbishop15 *to do so. Dodo eggs are even harder to get!

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@rodbishop15 They forgot that they are a supermarket and hence rely on market forces, if people want brown eggs and they don't supply, they will go elsewhere. (Probably driving more miles do do so.)

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@Ryan_Daigler And then they ask what YOUR problem is, well frankly it's them but it's a mistake to say so, just say you don't have one and walk away.
They cannot take ownership of the most basic human errors everyone makes, there is always a reason or excuse.

[Together @Togetherdec]

DIGITAL ID: "They hired friendly hackers to penetrate the (One Login) system, they found they could take control of the system without being detected" @AndrewOrlowski

It is very worrying Govt is pushing the public into One Login - lots of company directors effectively forced, & veterans encouraged

[Stu Bowes @stu_bowes]

@mannaz230 @1null1 Nodes activated!

[Daniel ShenSmith (BlackBeltBarrister) @dshensmith]

Now imagine that was your Digital ID with access to your whole life.
No thanks.

[Stu Bowes @stu_bowes]

@chrislittlewoo8 This post needs a lot more eyeballs, all the important stuff is "below the fold".

[Chris Littlewood @chrislittlewoo8]

Digital ID for every adult is not progress. It is the end of a free society dressed up as convenience.

I am a cyber security specialist. This is my take.

They are selling it as a fix for illegal migration. That is bollocks.

We spend hundreds of billions a year on cyber security and yet the volume of breaches is breaking records. The threat is growing faster than the spend.

Digital ID will not stop boats. It will not stop trafficking gangs. It will not fix a broken border.

Criminals will work around it.

Honest citizens will pay the price.

It builds giant data banks that track where you go, what you buy, what you read and who you speak to.

It links your identity to every checkpoint in daily life.

One breach and your life is exposed.

Look at Jaguar Land Rover and the airports in recent weeks. Now imagine that at national scale on an ID system tied to everything you need to live your daily life.

Here is the risk that ministers will not admit.

Ransomware seeded through a supplier or an insider:

It lies quiet for months.
It rolls through the backups.
On trigger day the register and the recovery sets are both encrypted.

Payments fail. Health and benefits stall. Borders slow. Citizens are frozen out until a ransom is paid or the state rebuilds from scratch.

Centralise identity and you centralise failure.

Do not fall for the pitch.
Function creep is certain.
It starts as login.

It becomes access to money, travel, speech and public services.

It turns rights into permissions controlled by the state and its contractors.

It creates a single point of failure for criminals, insiders and hostile states to target.

It will punish the elderly, the poor and anyone who is not always online.

It will centralise risk and outsource blame.

It will not stop fraud.

It will not stop illegal migration.

It will build the machinery for a social credit system by stealth.

If ministers cared about the border, they would enforce current laws, resource patrols and processing, close loopholes and remove those with no right to stay.

You do not need a national ID to do any of that.

We scrapped ID cards in 2010 for a reason.

Britain does not need a central register to prove age or status.

Yes to privacy first proofs. No to a database state.

[Stu Bowes @stu_bowes]

The local authorities / highways agency does not need to know who you are for a pothole to be fixed, they just need to know the exact details of where the hole is and fix it. That's down to them. They will fix it when they get to it, depending on how dangerous it is, how busy the road is and if they have the budget and resources to do it. Adding the word "super" does not improve the chances of the work being done any quicker. They really are pushing hard to sell this thing that removes personal liberties and puts everyone at risk.

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@nekomimimi Good luck! I can't find much info about this. There is one user on Stackoverflow from about 1 year ago with the same issue, but no solution. There have been lots of changes to Play Console recently, so I hope it is just a temporary issue.

[Stu Bowes @stu_bowes]

@HeyStephenHey @SpecialEffect Shame the last bit wasn't so good. Was it a bit of a slog at the end?

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@ajrgd @benfryc @work_louder The Hampton

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@MartinSLewis You've asked a question at the end that begs an opposite answer to the main question, it will confuse some people to vote yes it is a civil liberties no-no, when they mean to vote No they don't support the introduction of a digital ID card.

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@TimesRadio @EricIdle @GeoffNorcott Eric's not idle, he reads books; doesn't watch the news, he looks on the bright side.

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What Lies Underground has been updated on the Play Store for the latest versions of Android. I've also added a couple of extra hints on the website, including how to get the elusive 'missing' achievement and 'Easter Eggs'. Enjoy!

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@Gerjohn_ Congrats on another successful solar orbit! Have a good one.

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Bioluminescent coral cities under twin moons, because... why not?