[ Suddenly the whole of London's property market crashes as tens of thousands of houses owned by faceless corporations owned by charities suddenly appear on the market at fractions of their values just before it is announced. ]

Email isn't private. It was designed to be robust not private. Encryption never really caught on; and your counterparties using Gmail or some Microsoft server in the background will kill any expectation of privacy you might have.

WW II's Gordon Welchman is worth reading about. Similar nasty end as Turing. Not as well known as Turing but a similar contribution before the encryption was actually solved.

Have used Zoho for decades. Dozen domains, three/four actual accounts. Don't seem to have had any issues with them selling my info - use them with Addy.io. I don't gain anything from this reference/comment.

Farts are funny. Will always be funny. It's the follow-through that catches one unawares and dampens the mood.

Don't stop laughing at stupid shit. The world gets very serious very quickly all on its own when you're looking and when you're not. If you can retain some ability to laugh, you'll be much better off.

Am old fart: early Gen X.

However, it is better to say nothing and be thought a fool than speak and remove all doubt.

Reverse canary?

Always. Losing the root fs doesn't mean I lose the home fs.

Even on btrfs, and I currently do, I use a separate fs; to me it's not about having a separate partition but having a separate fs.

I am not prepared to lose my home data.

I have /efi, /home, /.

Yes. For many years and couldn't do without it.

Cancer is a fairly safe bet; I'm in the western world.

Probably Ruby. For some reason .. no, that's a lie .. playing with Exherbo, Gentoo and Funtoo, but mostly Exherbo, made me loathe Python. However, everyone in the data processing arena seems to use it, so I'm bound to have to change my ways eventually! For "Ruby": read "Python".

My days of needing high-speed low level languages are long gone. I learned C on Borland C++ back in 1990 to price derivatives on 386s. Loved it.

If I mess around with any language it's for fun. I intend to commit suicide, when my time is done, by the percussive head trauma that learning Haskell will cause me.

Hello fellow hairless dude also turning into a monkey. Hair in nostrils, ears (wtaf), eyelids occasionally.

If you're running Linux with the French language add-on installed, you can delete it:

rm -fr /