Why, who’s Joseph M Basile?

I can imagine the delivery trucks being held up by locals wanting their water back. The trouble is, the people who work at the plant are the locals - as the article makes clear, some welcome Nestle et al because they want the jobs.

It’s irrational, which just appears random (which is why I said pseudorandom).

I don’t see why not, it’s just numbers, which is all we store most data as.

You could use it as a source of pseudorandom numbers to encrypt an infinite data steam, e.g. we’ll encrypt using e, starting at position 40468.

I love the BBC, but their science reporting is awful.

I laughed at that too - they knew what they were doing, right?

I watched and enjoyed that one yesterday, and he’s bang on the money. People here are saying “well it’s EoL” but that means it’s got all the way through development and its full lifetime with such a prominent set of bugs.

I don’t think I’ll be buying D-Link if that’s what supported means.

I was interested to see that there’s an unexplained dip in battery visible on the status page:

I wondered if it was due to a lot of traffic (bots/DDOS/Slashdot effect) but then I noticed it’s behind Cloudflare (cheating a bit, surely?).

edit: I’d missed the bit where he says he doesn’t use the caching:

I use Cloudflare’s DNS proxy, which handles DNS and offers basic DDoS protection. However, I do not use Cloudflare’s caching or CDN features, as that would somewhat defeat the purpose of running this website on solar power and keeping it local-first.

What’s going on with the kerning?