You got downvoted as though you were posting a thatsthejoke.jpg, but I also had never considered that “I got better!” could have layers to it.

If the police and/or Crown Prosecution Service claim you’re hiding Material behind a password, you can either hand over the password or get thrown in jail under RIPA §53.

I don’t know what section of the US Code would apply for the same, but a generic “Obstructing Justice” wouldn’t surprise me.

This was on PM earlier, they were interviewing one of the named postmasters: she only found out about this leak when The Mail called for a quote.

As she said herself, there’s accident and there’s incompetence; this leans heavily to the latter.

That’s law in the UK:

Section 49 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 gives the police the power to issue a notice which requires the suspect to disclose their PIN or password if necessary. You are not compelled to provide your password to the police in any instance.

However, section 53 of RIPA makes it a criminal offence not to comply with the terms of a s.49 notice which is punishable by up to two years imprisonment and up to 5 years imprisonment in cases involving national security and child indecency.

“I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” - Albert Einstein.

Snopes says this sentiment was actually expressed by Einstein, though perhaps not in this exact phrasing.

A tip one contractor passed on to me when caulking: use pieces of toilet paper to smooth it out after applying. You won’t get your fingers gunked up, and toilet paper’s cheap enough that you can use a bit to smooth off a few inches of caulk and throw the paper away.

Think I got through half a roll when sealing up a window frame a couple years back, looks great.

Added a second meaning for HA, thanks.

Mm, added a few numeronyms: i18n, l10n, a11y, k8s.

Inserted to the list, thanks.

The database is domain-specific: here in /c/selfhosted, an acronym like IP (if I had that in the list) would mean something different to a database for (say) /c/legal. General acronyms like YSK aren’t included.

Thanks; inserted: HA, LXC, SAN

You make a fine point: it’s case-sensitive, so it’d only see PiHole. Which I guess is fine…

It also doesn’t kick in until at least five comments have been left on a thread, so as not to be spammy as much as possible.

Don’t mind me, just testing acronym detection.

NAS, PiHole, MQTT

I had this exact thing with Mastodon a few days ago. Couldn’t find a way to get the local server’s post-ID for a federated post if you had the original URL, so I thought “screw it, I’ll do it myself”.

Downloaded the source, set up a local instance, added extra space to my server so I could run ElasticSearch, went to the file where I wanted to add my “uri:” search prefix, and I find (to paraphrase)…

Send resolve=true to fetch remote instances and return their local ID

Been there for years.