A sad day for this instance indeed.
While I am glad to hear that otherwise all federation goes on, only blocking the site directly for UK residents, the underlying issue still remains. I am not a UK citizen nor do I live in the UK, but it’s just disappointing nonetheless.
Tap for spoiler
(Fucking corrupt bastards.)
apt
on its own isn’t safe to use in shell scripts whileapt-get
is. At least, that is the output I get when usingapt
in a script on Debian.That is the only reason, for interactive sessions use
apt
, for automated scriptsapt-get
.