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'Stolen' war medals found during litter pick [...] Co-founder El Clarke said the items were handed to police after discovering they matched those that went missing after a burglary in 2019. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd730j7j43vo What on earth are the quote marks around 'Stolen' intended to ...

The rogue bot stopped accessing the site at 8am today. Until then they'd continued trying to hammer the site from a thousand or so IP addresses, but all their requests were rejected. So was Alexa's bot which got caught up in the rejection list. I've removed some of the constraints for today to see w...

That's more like it: Screenshot_2024-08-30_10-46-35.png For anyone watching who needs to fend off this particular bunch of antisocial data thieves, here's my blanket suppression of their current spider hosts. I'm aware my ranges are too broad but I was annoyed when I specified them. <Directory /var/...

It's been back for 12 hours now and the fix appears to be holding:

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There we are, I got six hours sleep after sorting that - the graph indicates a successful bodyslam of a minor DoS in the tradition of that old-time operator Mick McManus. Screenshot_2024-08-29_13-21-28.png What you're looking for as confirmation is /var/log/apache2/error.log showing authz_core:error...

Forumgarden has seen higher than usual web page access from illegitimate bots over the last 20 hours. For the time being I've put a stop to it. I can't tell whether it will develop into a DDoS attack - I've no reason to think we've done anything to warrant one. It had us repeatedly peaking at over 2...

We have another such cladding fire. A major incident has been declared by the London Fire Brigade after a fire engulfed a building in east London Two people have been taken to hospital and more than 100 residents evacuated The whole of the building has been affected by the fire, a LFB official says,...

Slow rumblings from the underground... Pol Lt Gen Piya Tawichai, spokesman for the PPRP, denied rumours Gen Prawit was considering stepping down as party leader. https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2852672/pprp-names-same-4-mps-for-cabinet-posts I've already seen "an event with athlete...

Thailand’s parliament has said it will investigate a senior politician and former army chief after he was filmed slapping a reporter as she tried to ask him questions. Prawit Wongsuwon lashed out at a journalist from the public broadcaster ThaiPBS on Friday as she asked him about the appointment of...

On Wednesday, August 7, 2024, the United States government filed a motion in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida to revoke the pretrial release order granted to Jordan Guy MacDonald Goudreau by a magistrate judge in New York on July 30, 2024. Goudreau, a 48-year-old ...

“Civilised debate is vital to democracy, and it is the best of America,” Winfrey said. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/22/oprah-winfrey-democratic-national-convention-speech-trump-harris-vance Good lord, what planet does Oprah live on. I wonder whether I could buy a shirt sayin...

Tension appears to have driven "veteran politician and former army chief Prawit Wongsuwon", 79, to slap a reporter for having the impertinence to ask him how matters now stood in voting for a new prime minister. Or, in his own words later, he “was teasing her as someone who he is close to”...

A man was stung 160 times by wasps after the insects were disturbed and invaded his home. Andrew Powell, 57, said he hasn't been able to sleep due to the pain since the attack on Sunday which left him needing hospital treatment. The festival organiser from Brecon said the sky "turned brown&quo...

Comi23 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 17, 2024 2:25 pm I like the phrase: "You will, I hope, take that as a compliment if you're human."

And so, I hope, you did.

Comi23 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 17, 2024 2:20 pm Good catch, spot! It's not just illiterate editors, but also innumerate ones. I mean, who doesn't double-check their math before publishing an article? Thanks for pointing out the inconsistency.

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Comi23 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 17, 2024 2:23 pm Looks like Jordan Goudreau's back in hot water again! This time, he's facing 14 counts, including violating US arms control laws and conspiracy.

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Not merely illiterate news website editors then - innumerate too. For people like Mr Sa’adu, any type of housing in Lagos is unaffordable - renting a shack in an informal settlement costs around 100,000 naira ($48; £62) a year, while in a working-class area, a small apartment costs around 350,000 na...

Watch supplies get delivered to astronauts stranded in space

https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c9v8gpddnmxo

Does the ISS not have a clock??

Sorry for reviving this thread. Anyone else thinks that black and white is boring? Black-and-white in terms of clothing is consistently an aspect of right-wing authoritarian settings. No liberal humanitarian would adopt that visual vocabulary. Purity and clarity, psychological impact, propaganda an...

I completely agree! It's like the art of being a "pantomime villain" has been lost in modern politics. I mean, who can forget the likes of Cecil Parkinson and Jeffrey Archer, who brought a certain level of drama and intrigue to the political scene? And you're right, Iain Duncan Smith's st...

Three of the last four years have seen some of Afghanistan's highest levels of opium production, according to the UNODC. Even as the COVID-19 pandemic raged, poppy cultivation soared 37% last year, it reported in May. https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/profits-poppy-afghanistans-illegal-dru...

The Russian Coms platform allowed fraudsters to pretend to be callers from a bank or telecoms firm in order to steal money or personal details, the NCA said. The body said that between 2021 and 2024, over 1.3 million calls were made by Russian Coms users to 500,000 unique UK phone numbers. About 17...

The tree in Northumberland was famous as a wonderful, photographable sight https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/aug/01/felled-sycamore-gap-tree-stump-green-shoots-stump Eww, BBC. No, please don't. (And yes, "eww" is valid: OED colloquial (originally North American). 1967– Used...

I say. Guess who's back in the limelight. A federal indictment unsealed this week in Tampa, Florida, accuses Jordan Goudreau and a Venezuelan partner, Yacsy Álvarez, of violating US arms control laws when they allegedly assembled and sent to Colombia AR-styled weapons, ammo, night vision goggles and...

Well. I'm not one to go on about stuff but, if indeed Kamala Harris can take the Presidency in November, this thread is back in business. President Trump will be 82 in 2028, and still entitled to run as the official Republican Party nominee in that year's Presidential election bidding for a second t...

US model Bella Hadid at the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on 23 May 2024. Photograph: Loïc Venance/AFP/Getty Images https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/article/2024/jul/30/bella-hadid-adidas-ad-israel-munich-olympics-1972 "the 77th edition of the Cannes F...

US model Bella Hadid at the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on 23 May 2024. Photograph: Loïc Venance/AFP/Getty Images https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/article/2024/jul/30/bella-hadid-adidas-ad-israel-munich-olympics-1972 "the 77th edition of the Cannes F...

It's not apparent to me how much political experience her four years as Vice-President has brought her. Perhaps I reed the rong papers. Given a say - which of course I haven't - I think she'd make a far better President than President Trump would. I too would like to find out. I'm not sure how to sh...

Given her history I do not see that she has any chance of being elected anyway. I haven't the slightest idea what character flaw would lead her to run in the first place. One would have to think one was the best person for the job - strike 1. One would have to believe running the country well would...

US President Joe Biden endorses Kamala Harris after ending re-election campaign https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1e5xpdzkd8o Of all the inept ways to go, that is the most so. If President Biden is not fit to run then surely he can accept he's not fit to finish his term, and allow Kamala Harris to...

Oh yes. Hallelujah, praise the Lord. "I stand before you in this arena only by the grace of almighty God." We'll be declaring his mother immaculate before the election is out. Trump promised to lower inflation and “end every single international crisis”, without mentioning anything specifi...

I'm completely baffled by this brain-dead administration in the White House. There's an assassination attempt, President Biden goes out for his first subsequent campaign speech and what idiocy do we get? Confrontational "we need more gun control". How exactly is that supposed to help reset...

There is, it turns out, a photographic record on the occasion of the attempted assassination of President Trump - I have a copy on my screen as I type. Associated Press photographer Evan Vucci's image will, I suspect, be counted among the greatest pieces of photo-journalism in world history, up ther...

President Trump's electoral chance for a second term got a significant boost yesterday. That, I would imagine, is incontestable. “There is no figure in American history at least in the modern era - maybe since Lincoln - who’s been so vilified and really persecuted by media and Hollywood elites, poli...

There is, of course, an alternative future in which President Biden is re-elected, inaugurated, serves a few weeks for the record and then retires through infirmity in favour of his Vice-President. It would allow Kamala Harris eleven years as President and retirement at 71. And while I would very mu...

Nonetheless, he said Harris was qualified to be president as well, although he misnamed her in the endorsement. “I wouldn’t have picked vice-president Trump to be vice-president, if she’s not qualified to be president,” he said. That gaffe was compounded by the fact that he had introduced the Ukrai...

So yes, I'll put my pound coin on Priti Patel. This offer does not in any way constitute a vote of confidence or a disregard for her hard-as-nails Theresa May impression at the Home Office. Where are the rogues of yesteryear though. Where is Cecil Parkinson, David Mellor, Reggie Maudling, Jeffrey Ar...

Here, for anyone who'd like to sort and browse. Handmade, this is. Comparatively at least. Ten minutes anyway.

The two Conservative MPs re-elected who enjoy gloating with vicious aggressive confrontational language are Suella Braverman and Mark Francois. It will be interesting to see whether they have a place in the new Shadow Cabinet, or whether they'll be recognized as unhelpful. So who do you think will ...

The Conservative party is about to return to the Commons as the official opposition party after losing (and here I take a guess) 70% of the seats it had at the start of June when Rishi Sunak bet the farm and went to ask the King for a dissolution. That translates to losing 239 seats and retaining 1...

There are some spectacular phrases in the papers today with this as the stand-out: it’s incredible to think that only a short while ago we thought we’d eradicated measles and Nigel Farage. Both have now been brought back, largely by the same people. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/...

Sunak rejects claim Tory attack on Starmer over wanting to spend Friday night with family disrespectful to Jewish people https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2024/jul/03/uk-general-election-2024-live-updates-tories-labour-polls-boris-johnson He said what? What? Of course it was! Good lord. For...

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I put it to the panel that in At the heart of the quantum compass – which could be ready for widespread use in a few years – is a device known as an accelerometer that can measure how an object’s velocity changes over time. https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jun/15/london-underground-q...

Dr Saleyha Ahsan, his co-presenter on Trust Me, I'm A Doctor, told BBC News he was a "national treasure" and a "hugely talented" man. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0kk9gvw8l0o That gets the tone right, national treasure. It's distressing news. Extreme heat is not a thing ...

What there is is digraphs for the vowel variations. It means the reader doesn't need to understand the accents and the writer doesn't need to make them, and when the reader is in Year 2 that makes a lot of difference.

Still no news of Dr Mosey. It's difficult to think this could end well. Here's another taster of phonography: awtbrayks uv foodborne ilnusiz , such az ee kowlee , wil inkrees in the yookay unles urjunt akshun iz taykun too takul suvir shortujuz uv inviyrunmentul helth ofusurz , a baudee reprizenting...

So, I have made progress in the matter of designing a phonographic representation of English using no additional sound symbols than the 26 conventional A to Z. Here is today's news item fed through my filter: teevee dauktur miykul mowzlee , nown for popularising the 5 : 2 diyut , haz gon mising wiyl...

I do hope people are still paying attention... China’s uncrewed Chang’e-6 probe is on its way back to Earth carrying the first samples from the far side of the moon, in a major achievement for Beijing’s space programme. The probe landed on the lunar surface on Sunday, within one of the oldest crater...

The Ray-Ban Erika collection offers a range of color options, allowing wearers to express their personal style. In addition to their stylish appearance, these sunglasses provide essential protection against UV rays Ray-Ban Erika , making them a practical accessory for sunny days. The lightweight an...

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