towerful

Anything can become memetic if not properly secured, contained and protected

So instead of just saying "thank you" I now have to say "think long and hard about how much this means to me"?

Ah, the classic "scientists dicover cure ^in vitro^"

That's kinda how aws got companies into cloud storage.
A truck that would duplicate a companies disks, then drive to a data center and make the data available on s3 or whatever.
Retired now, tho.

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/aws-retires-snowmobile-truck-based-data-transfer-service/

It's also easier to share vulnerability fixes between different projects.

"Y" was using a similar memory management as "T", T was hacked due to whatever, people that use Y and T report to Y that a similar vulnerability might be exploitable

Edit:
In closed source, this might happen if both projects are under the same company.
But users will never have the ability to tell Y that T was hacked in a way that might affect Y

Xz is such a great example of how open source is more resilient, and how much "core open source" project need a foundation supporting them

Buying a french person a bottle of sparkling white would probably kill them

Yeh, good.
Hopefully they will realise what a farce OSA is as well, considering the skyrocketing VPN usage!

He will get his caddy to drop a ball into the hole, and call it a hole-in-one

The only other solutions to "VPNs circumvent OSA" are:

1. 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.

2. 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 It's not getting repealed.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

Eh, a back bencher has called for a report on how VPNs interfere with ofcoms ability to enforce/regulate the online safety act within 6 months.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/vpns-online-safety-bill-labour-champion-b2239810.html

"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"

Old labour was.
They pivoted quite hard a few years ago to try and win an election.
They are just Tory Lite now.