I have some old checkbooks that have “19__” printed on the date area.

I still have the account, but there’s little need to use checks any more.

And there’s are those gadgets that have a USB-C socket but don’t have the correct circuitry, so that they only work with a USB-A to C cable.

BASIC uses (used?) it to declare variables. (I don’t know if earlier languages did.)

Not that that’s a reason for other languages to copy it.

Blimey can be British.

This would be right up Patrick Stewart’s street.

Web browser? “app”. Web page? “app”. Dialog box? “app”. Phone app that’s just a thin shell for the web site? “appapp”.

I think I heard “applet” being mentioned for embedded java or something in the early 2000s. I don’t know if that’s connected.

Well storing that would only take half a bit.

I have a text file of UK place names, so I can search it for various sub-strings.

“Ullit”, “ullet”, “ulit”, “ulet”, the only result for those was Fullerby.

Maybe this is like a copyright trap on a map, a fake place name to prove if someone copies the book :)

I use rsync.net

It’s not the lowest price, but I like the flexibility of access.

For instance, I was able to run rclone on their servers to do a direct copy from OneDrive to rsync.net, 400Gb without having to go through my connection.

I can mount backups with sshfs if I want to, including the daily zfs snapshots.

There’s Service Model, but that’s by Tchaikovsky, so maybe you’ve read it

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Physicist: “assuming a spherical year …”

Can’t spell “functional” without “fun”!

Whichever version it is, I hope that one day I can delete a mail, change my mind, press ctrl-z and it will actually undo the last delete and not some random one from earlier in the day.

For one thing, Facebook will happily decide that you don’t need to see posts from them, so it’s a terrible way to communicate.

But is the software written by developers with access to the outside and daylight? Even if they prefer to shun it and choose blackout curtains.

Er… I stand by what I said…

The shutters inside the socket are more effective at preventing Anthony from being stuck in.

I like that I can interface with it in ways that I already understand (eg rclone, sync, sshfs).

Being able to run some commands on the server meant that I could use rclone to copy my AWS and OneDrive backups directly cloud-to-cloud.