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- Comment on We should be allowed to carry swords for self defence 1 hour ago:
Swords are off-limits:
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/1-2/14/section/1
Prevention of Crime Act 1953
Any person who without lawful authority or reasonable excuse, the proof whereof shall lie on him, has with him in any public place any offensive weapon shall be guilty of an offence
That being said:
Shields also
I'm not aware of anything restricting armor use in public in the UK.
kagis
https://www.uk.safeguardclothing.com/blogs/articles/body-armour-uk-law
UNITED KINGDOM
In the United Kingdom, there are currently no legal restrictions on the purchase and ownership of body armour.
There is a law against wearing it in Parliament.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_forbidding_Bearing_of_Armour
The Statute forbidding Bearing of Armour (7 Edw. 2. St. 1) or Coming Armed to Parliament Act 1313 (originally titled Statuto sup' Arportam'to Armor or Statutum de Defensione portandi Arma) was enacted in 1313 during the reign of Edward II of England. It decrees "that in all Parliaments, Treatises and other Assemblies, which should be made in the Realm of England for ever, that every Man shall come without all Force and Armour". The statute, which was written in the Anglo-Norman language, goes on to assert the royal power to "defend Force of Armour, and all other Force against our Peace, at all Times when it shall please Us, and to punish them which shall do contrary." It declares that "Prelates, Earls, Barons, and the Commonalty of our Realm... are bound to aid Us as their Sovereign Lord at all Seasons, when need shall be."[1]
The law is still in force today, though the Crown Prosecution Service has said that it is unaware of anyone being prosecuted under this or other archaic statutes in recent times.[4] According to a CPS spokeswoman, "If anyone was caught in the Houses of Parliament wearing armour it would first be a matter for the police."[4]
- Comment on Man, 53, marries AI-generated chatbot via matching app 12 hours ago:
As Miku has no physical presence, the relationship is purely platonic.
If someone isn't already banging on that, I am pretty sure that they will be before long.
kagis
https://aimojo.io/ai-powered-female-sex-robots/
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Yeah.
Legend has it that every new technology is first used for something related to sex or pornography. That seems to be the way of humankind.
--- Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web, HTML, URLs, and HTTP
- Comment on Have you tried self-hosting your own email recently? 18 hours ago:
I have not done so in the traditional sense in quite some years. My experience was that it was an increasing headache due to crashing into a wide variety of anti-spam efforts. Get email past one and crash into another.
Depending upon your use case -- using the "forward to a smarthost" feature in some mail server packages to forward to a mailserver run by a SMTP service provider with whom you have an account might work for you. Then it still looks to local software like you have a local mailserver.
If I were going to do a conventional, no-smarthost mailserver today, I think that I would probably start out by setting up a bunch of spam-filtering stuff --- SpamAssassin, I dunno what-all gets used these days on a "regular" account --- and then emailing stuff from my server and seeing what throws up red flags. That'd let me actually see the scoring and stuff that's killing email. Once I had it as clean as I could get it, I'd get a variety of people I know on different mail servers and ask them to respond back to a test email, and see what made it out.