I get some really amusing 'reflective' responses, but I think it needs a bit more cooking. Maybe I'll try another variant.

Privacy was already lost when everyone adopted mobile phones and gave them everything with constant location tracking, and used the free email accounts.

It's interesting that age-verification is the straw that breaks the camels back, but I guess porn has that power.

For London. Maybe higher for Remote US.

For the rest of the country, it's a fair amount lower, typically around the £60k region.

I wonder if it's blocked simply by DNS manipulation and therefore only people using the ISP DNS have issues.

Unfortunately, most of the jobs (and the industry as a whole) evolved into something else that was all about money and growth and image, and not at all about the craft of programming or the creative nature it provided.

Because for many of us, AI is "not approved until legal say so".

Agile has completely changed things, for better or for worse.

Being a SWE today is nothing like 30 years ago, for me. I much preferred the earlier days as well, as it felt far more engineered and considered as opposed to much of the MVP 'productivity' of today.

There will likely be some local devices, but the majority of power will be gated behind money and control.

I would love a local/offline version of this, with a BYOM variant.

If it can tell us that the host is up, surely it can just bypass itself to route traffic.

One is the 'business' one. Mostly locked down, with checks in place.

The other is on a different network, isolated from all business functions, and they can do what they want but must never use it for work data, just like their phones (that everyone knows they use for social media etc. in the day).

Sure, you still have to deal with copying from one to the other (but there are solutions for that if critical, and much easier to secure).

It sounds crazy, but air-gaps are largely proven and it also means that employees feel less oppressed.

Now I realise, even ignoring the cost, businesses won't want this, as perish the thought their employees may do anything other than work. But I suspect it would actually stop more attacks and issues than otherwise and maybe... just maybe.. employees feel as if they're actually human.

Only if you believe propaganda. What is the sample size of this poll projection, and what are the election policies being put forward for this election ?

It's clear that Labour are unpopular, but an actual election is not something that anyone is thinking about right now, because it is so far out. Reform would like to suggest they are, but they have yet to show any actual policies other than the usual right-wing rhetoric that may be populist but doesn't fix anything.

Shouting loudly like certain Americans, and pretending you have answers, may be good for headlines, but doesn't convince many real voters.