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Hear that noise? That’s the sound of organized criminal smuggling gangs celebrating being given their new market.

Would that be the antiquated new digital system to stop trains? Or the antiquated leaves on the line? Or the antiquated steep incline at the location of the crash? Maybe we’ll wait for the RAIB investigation report rather than your wild guess.

Thereby tieing you to your ISP forever unless you were willing and able to keep changing your email address.

Never. Use. Your. ISP’s Included. Email. Service.

The UK government set a target for numbers of smart meters to be installed. It didn’t say that they needed to be working as smart meters. Nobody should be surprised by this.

I’m sure people in Gaza will be absolutely thrilled 🙄

We should be fine, after all since Brexit we’ve plenty of happy contented British fish, right?

That noise you can hear in the background is organised crime celebrating. Again.

There’s a thing called leasehold whereby you own the building and lease the land usually for 99 years after which it returns to the freeholder. It’s one of the reasons that the US embassy in London moved from Mayfair to Nine Elms. It was the only US embassy in the world that the US government didn’t own, the freehold belongs to the Grosvenor family (i.e. Lord Grosvenor). When the US tried to buy the freehold the Grosvenor family refused but agreed to a 999 year lease in exchange for the return of 12000 acres of Florida that was confiscated from them after the Revolutionary War - yes, they’ve been landowners for a very long time! I think the US made sure to buy the freehold of the new site at Nine Elms (they sold the remainder of the 999 year lease in Mayfair for an undisclosed sum) 😀

Excuse me but the correct SI units for length and area are double-decker buses and Waleses respectively ☺️

“Ofcom also states that sites must not provide information about or links to Virtual Private Network (VPN) providers.” That’s every other YouTuber fucked then.

It wouldn’t surprise me if Sunak had slipped them a backhander so he could be like Thatcher.

It’s fine, Xmas is still over a month away. Better get the sprouts on now though.

Diplomats across the world currently polishing up their “pig poking” jokes.

Tech journo and one-time Cixen*

https://www.theregister.com/Author/Liam-Proven/ Liam is an EMEA-based Register journalist covering free-and-open-source software (FOSS), operating systems, and cloud developments. Prior to joining our publisher, he has had decades of experience in the worlds of IT and publishing, with roles ranging from tech support and IT manager to teacher, technical writer, and software director.

(*Cix, probably the original UK based social media platform :-) https://forums.cixonline.com/ )

For no better reason than that Liam Proven mentioned it on Mastodon recently and I had an old laptop lying about that met the fairly lowly spec (4gb RAM, 15GB free space, 64 bit processor) and I was bored ☺️ It easily installed on a Packard Bell eadynote TJ65, team smoothly, and send to be a nice useable basic system. For which I’ve no real use already having a Xubuntu desktop & laptop, and a MacBook Pro😀

s/UK streets/Tory front bench

Welcome to the top of the slippery slope. Won’t be long before you’re digging out an old laptop to install Ghost BSD 😀