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Five-a-side is very common, tons of five-side pitches in the UK.

edit: in the context of your comment, yeah there's no mistaking the headline is about american football.

Five-a-side is very common, tons of five-a-side pitches in the UK with people playing in leagues or more casually.
That's pretty condescending. Plenty of geordies are familiar with the term novocastrian.

edit to add: Not a term in common usage though, granted.

Re:Ask HN: How do you backup your linux system? on Friday July 07, 2017 @04:46PM (#14721929)
I've long used rsnapshot for automated incremental backups, and manually run a script to do a full rsync backup with excludes for /tmp, /sys and the like to an external drive.

http://rsnapshot.org/

In any discussion of Windows privacy a load of posts about Ubuntu "spyware" appear, suggesting an equivalence between Win 10's myriad issues and that short-lived much criticised easily disabled feature of Unity on one release of Ubuntu.

It's a bit desperate.

Re:Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory on Saturday February 25, 2017 @05:44AM (#13730988)
To answer my own question Zoho isn't affected.

https://twitter.com/zoho/status/835109283922608130

Anyone know if Zoho mail is vulnerable too?

According to doesitusecloudflare.com Zoho isn't using Cloudflare, was it previously?

Dog and pony show from enthusiastic PRISM partners.

"We've changed, honest!"

Re:VESA HOTAS Mounts for IKEA Markus Chair on Friday January 20, 2017 @10:32AM (#13444494)
There's lots of HOTAS setups for this chair around on Imgur and the r/hotas subreddit. Here's one I used:

https://imgur.com/a/CsKoY

Re:Theresa May: UK must leave European single market on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @10:29AM (#13418298)
Can't just blame post-industrial areas, SE England voted to leave too.