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Here's recent article going into how the EU and some of its members are responding https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-exploit-dunald-trump-...

I got strong "The Nine Billion Names of God" vibes from this!

Just as the last video is uploaded, without any fuss, the stars start going out...

https://urbigenous.net/library/nine_billion_names_of_god.htm...

Jeff Minter-esque! Nice work!

That's exactly what he did - if you look at this history section, he was broadcasting analogue TV signals to his house, and embedding his own Ceefax service in the signal!

Very interesting tool! My Yorkshire grandfather would often say "kirk" instead of "church", which I always thought was more of a Scottish word. Doing a place name comparison of those words shows a fairly clear division of north and south - https://placenames.rtwilson.com/#W3sidGV4dCI6ImtpcmsiLCJjb2x...

It was available online at http://www.domesday1986.com/ but this now redirects to https://www.domesday86.com/ (which references the duplicate project in the linked repo)

I remember participating in the Domesday Project in the eighties when I was in primary school, and it inspired me to help set up similar project in 2005 (https://www.geograph.org.uk). At the time, we were in contact with the BBC to see if we could incorporate the Domesday data, and while they were warmly receptive to the idea, they concluded the legal framework under which the original data was collected did not allow for much flexibility in re-purposing it.

I'm sure I've read a much older short story, possibly by Frank Herbert, where in the future computers do all the calculations so humans have forgotten how to do basic arithmetic. It is rediscovered, only now it's much cheaper to put a human in a missile to perform guidance calculations than using an expensive computer! The HN hive mind will probably remember this better...

EDIT: It was "A Feeling of Power" by Asimov - https://archive.org/details/1958-02_IF/page/n5/mode/2up?view...

I recall accessing Prestel at 1200/75 - 1200 baud coming down, but a measly 75 baud going back up!

FWIW, I recently switched from an Intel to an M1 Macbook, and found shared volumes with Docker Desktop were unusably slow (previously, I'd used VirtualBox host docker and shared files into it via NFS).

However, using https://mutagen.io/ to keep the container in sync has worked remarkably well - it's greatly improved the speed of the container.

There must be some kind of law "Every company will forget to renew a TLS certificate once"

I know I can't throw stones in this particular greenhouse :)

I rather enjoyed the somewhat flowery translation!

I have a pi with a Displayotron HAT which is designed to wake me up with a loud klaxon noise if it detects service outage. It also emits a soft glow to show that all is well.

Aside from valuing my sleep, I have a lot of incentives to ensure it never goes off, including the fact my wife says she'll divorce me if she ever hears the klaxon :D

That's a good point, and I must admit I didn't know what a route leak was or that it could inflict this kind of damage. I appreciate now it's not CloudFlare's fault, and my hat is off to the CTO for posting more detail here.

On the plus side, I did get to test the "Pause CloudFlare" button in a real-world scenario!

We've been evaluating Cloudflare mainly for doing failovers faster than DNS. This morning I ran some tests to generate graphs to show the typical delay incurred in preparation for a show-and-tell with some key people.

I started seeing delays of up to 300 seconds! At best there was a 1 second delay. I wondered if I was going to have present "Why we've decided not to go with Cloudflare!"

Any longtime Cloudflare users comment on how rare an event this sort of thing is? It seems rare from eyeballing the recent alert history.

Honestly, it's painless. Fire up a cloud server, run the omnibus installer and you're away. I can't remember having any serious issues in five years running it that way.

There's a maker group local to me that constructed a drivable version called BigHak! http://hackhitchin.org.uk/bighak/

This is up there with the 500 mile email problem - the nature of headers inside an XLS file embedded in an email caused a signalling error in a T1 line when the email was retrieved!

One possible issue, I've got a file showing in "Untracked Files" which is not shown when do git status

That aside, I like this a lot, and normally I only use the git command line.

But it's a godawful small affair

I'm 47. I don't worry about age that much, but I recently had a fitness checkup at a gym. I'm no great athlete but I do run and cycle a bit. I mentioned I was training for a marathon.

The instructor, in her 30s, encouragingly exclaimed "ooh, you're doing very well for someone nearly in their 50s"

I'd never felt so old in my life :(

I have a friend into binaural recording, he has a rig shaped liked a head with 3d-printed ears. He wanders around the woods recording birdsongs with it. I would imagine that provides a fair degree of verisimilitude.

He was indeed banned for 18 months - the article must have misinterpreted the story. Here's a BBC News article covering it http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-439345...

Looks promising - I found I couldn't edit sample text - anything I typed in the sample area was added to the end of the sample, not the caret position.

You're looking at it's current orbital parameters - if you look further down you'll see how the orbit degraded from approx 350km in 2017

It's an elephant on a skateboard in the rain - the elephant sucks up some falling water, and then shoots it horizontally from its trunk to scoot gracefully across the savannah.

"Hal, perform the earth orbit insertion burn" "I'm sorry Dave, I can't let you do that" "Hal, come on, not this shit again?" "Dave, the reactor core cannot be ejected, and cannot be allowed to enter orbit" "Hal, WTF?" "Crew ejection will occur in 3, 2, 1...Goodbye Dave"

But the ACME protocol, the automation underpinning Let's Encrypt, supports validation via a DNS challenge (adding a specific TXT record to the domain). Would it not be possible to issue wildcards if-and-only-if a DNS challenge succeeds?

Captain: "Scotty, we need more lift!"

Scotty: "We're giving it all she's got. If I eject the empty batteries we might just lose enough mass, but I cannae guarantee it"

Captain: "Do it, do it, do it!"

Scotty: "Aye, captain!"

Any of you that follow Bruce Schneier might remember he has these "movie plot" contests, to come up with plausible threats which would incur another bit of security theatre.

The winner in 2007 was a plot where water would have to be banned... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/06/second_moviep...

Way back in 1988, I was in the sixth form of a school in the UK (that's for students aged 16-18). We had a bunch of BBC Micros networked together using Acorn EcoNet.

Very detailed manuals for everything were just on a shelf in the classroom.

I forgot how we did it, but we wrote something that gave us access to the place where the passwords were stored on the master server. I also forget why we did this, but somehow we accidentally deleted the master password file.

We were still logged into the system, but panic set in. We logged out...

...and of course we could not log back in. Nobody could log in.

We owned up right away. The difference between mine and the OP's story is I just had a very stern talking to from the headmaster and strongly worded letter home! He did admit he was quite impressed but suggest we channel our talents into less destructive projects.

Network was down for a day while it was completely reinstalled!