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h2g2bob

@davebiff @beasts that's not the same wording as mine - its the same apart from the date and some extra "why are we doing this" section.

Both me (sent 2 identical emails) and my work have the date as 31 Jan 2025.

Each come from different support staff names - I assume whichever underpaid support person sent yours has messed the date up!

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@davebiff @beasts took me several readings to work out "bigv" is "all their vps" as they haven't called it bigv on the website for years.

I found the email hard to read, and tbh the way it's phrased as a support ticket and link to non-bytemak website made me wonder if their support tickets got hacked. I assume it's legit, but who knows!?

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@davebiff @beasts my reading was they make us new accounts on hostinguk on 31st Oct with some free (blank?) vps equivalent to our bytemark ones. They'll run both so we can transfer data, DNS, etc until January.

But with that hassle, why go for hostinguk? Same effort if you switch to someone else.

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Looks like are shutting down, having been bought out by Iomart last year. I'll be moving my VPS to @beasts

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Spoilers 

@stecks Spider graph? Spider graph! Does whatever a spider graph does.

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Tony Finch

on my blog!

dotat.at/@/2024-10-22-tmp.html

against /tmp

remember all those insecure temporary file vulnerabilities that used to be so common? apparently some people don't!

but did we really have to suffer all those bugs and complications?

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Tim Bray

Turns out rhinos like eating pumpkins. Especially giant pumpkins. Especially when they get to gore and toss them first.

petapixel.com/2024/10/17/rhino

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Spoilers 

@stecks it's the Ford Prefect number

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Sixty symbols and the physics Nobel
muircheartblog.wpcomstaging.co

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MC Frontalot

4eyed.square.site

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Andy Smith (pre-Grinch mode)

TIL that platinum hexaflouride is such a powerful oxidant that it oxidizes oxygen. It is a bit worse than chlorine triflouride which can merely make sand and asbestos burn.

youtube.com/watch?v=O-g5-LJ5KZ

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Democracy Club

The letter:

💂 Announces Veteran Cards will be eligible voter ID.

🏫 Confirms commitment to votes at 16.

📜 Commits to review current electoral law with an eye to reducing 'pain-points'.

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Open Infrastructure Map

The water layer has been updated and now shows reservoirs, water treatment and sewage plants, and pumping stations.

openinframap.org/#8.09/51.355/

More improvements still to come from the recent re-import.

#OpenStreetMap

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Daisy Leigh Brenecki

The GOV.UK “exit this page" button (for pages that might be visited by e.g. domestic abuse victims seeking support) doesn't take you to the Google homepage but instead BBC Weather, and the reason why is interesting and well-thought-out: beeps.website/blog/2024-10-09-

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internetarchive

Updates from @brewsterkahle about the DDOS attacks on Internet Archive:

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Data centres
rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/09/2

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jwz

Today in TLD shenanigans: dot io is being killed off.

Wishing a very pleasant rebranding to all techbros who squatted their web site in an unrelated nation because it made a good pun. On October 3, the British government announced that it was giving...
jwz.org/b/ykab

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h2g2bob

Badgers!
woodlandtrust.org.uk/blog/2019

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h2g2bob

Gardeners: don't forget to oil your shears, secateurs, medieval swords, etc, to stop them going rusty over winter.

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Sail round the Principality of Sealand on a paddle steamer, this Tuesday. A rare chance to see a close up. waverleyexcursions.co.uk/book/

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