Toby Atkin-Wright

Since the beginning of lockdown, it has been obvious that people who don’t agree with government rules call them “confusing”, and the BBC News facilitates this by airing their complaints and fermenting the confusion.

Witness WATO today. Plenty of wannabe holidaymakers complaining about the travel restrictions. Can’t help thinking that anyone who wants to travel internationally during a pandemic is quite loopy.

And the airline industry always sounds very weaselly on the issue. I would not trust Willie Walsh’s advice on travel safety, since he has such a strong financial incentive to get people traveling.

All this talk of traffic-light signals… do people not know what amber traffic lights mean?

I’ve been using Authy as a code generator for some time now. The key feature for me is that it has native apps for my Mac and phone and iPad, and syncs data between them, so I’m never scrabbling to find another device when I need to enter a code.

But to automate connections, I’d love to find a solution that allows command-line access to codes, rather than relying on a UI. Has anyone come across a code generator that works from the command-line?