A groundbreaking £5 million trial, announced on Sunday will see home HIV testing kits ordered at the touch of a button through the NHS App.
The trial will allow at-risk patients to order home HIV tests seamlessly, receive results securely, and contact their GP or sexual health clinics - all from their phone.
The new digital service will offer a discreet route for those anxious about their sexual health to get tested without visiting a clinic.
You'll soon be able to order an HIV testing kit from the NHS app.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/trailblazing-scheme-to-reconnect-thousands-with-hiv-treatment
Should hopefully help end HIV transmissions in England by 2030.
01.12.2025 12:27 — 👍 5 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
...and still have the individual mirror sections available as local drives. So you'd be using ZFS on a central server to rebuild the mirror on any machines that had been offline, when they came back online...
Like I said, probably a daft idea if it's even possible, but heh, a guy can brainstorm..
01.12.2025 23:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Wacky idea which I'm almost sure wouldn't work... on Allan's organisation's website, there's an article about building ZFS mirrors from iSCSI targets located on different hosts. Wondering if you could have all of your workstations providing drive space for one gigantic ZFS mirror pool...
01.12.2025 23:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Shakespeare In Love is my favourite film. Arcadia is one of my favourite plays - certainly my favourite modern one.
Tom Stoppard, you will be greatly missed.
30.11.2025 16:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Do you remember when we used to think George W Bush was a terrible president?!
23.11.2025 10:52 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
As we approach the Christmas season, can we all take a moment to remind ourselves that 'gift' is a noun and not a verb?
22.11.2025 07:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Great! Glad it was useful!
21.11.2025 21:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Tomorrow is St Crispin's Day.
If you know, you know.
24.10.2025 19:30 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
iPad owners - there are some nice new features in iPadOS 26, but it's also the buggiest release I've ever installed, so if you haven't upgraded yet, I recommend holding off until a few more patches have been released.
20.10.2025 09:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This in FT this morning 👇
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I recently uploaded a batch of new videos to my YouTube channel, and since then, the algorithm has been recommending them to me as possible viewing each morning!
Does this mean it’s rubbish, or does it mean it understands my preferences perfectly? :-)
22.09.2025 08:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I’m even loosening up my ‘no mince pies before December’ rule…
But I do object to shops getting all Christmassy before the end of British Summer Time. 🙂
10.09.2025 06:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Misrepresentation | Status-Q
Quentin Stafford-Fraser's blog
Status-Q: Misrepresentation
statusq.org/archives/202...
(@iansollom.bsky.social FYI)
09.09.2025 16:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Well, some of my books are in the list here, so off I went to www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com and filled in my details.
There's been some commentary about how $3k per book is paltry and cheap, which it is for full-time authors. But it's not bad for technical books from a while ago, I think.
06.09.2025 07:12 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 1
The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
04.09.2025 19:44 — 👍 26807 🔁 7835 💬 581 📌 460
What? How did I go for nearly a year without knowing that a blu-ray collection of Blake's 7 had been released? With restored video, new special effects, lots of extra material? I've ordered it, of course! (Series 2 apparently due for release in a couple of months.)
05.09.2025 07:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Shakespeare, slowly #SlowShakespeare; editing (2GV for Arden), introducing (R&J for Cambridge), writing (Textile Shakespeare, Oxford UP Nov 2025!) & Very Short Intro to the Histories (currently). Teaching in Cambridge (Catz) 🇳🇿
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