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As I understand it, no. Previously analogue phone service and VDSL worked perfectly fine over the copper pair, however the changeover means a SOTAP line is analogue only and no longer supports VDSL.

A SOTAP line should work through a local power cut (reminder: check ours next time), it is a "transitional product" though for longer timescales it'll have to be something else (SPOT as a satellite service springs to mind, but as a cost).

https://www.findmespot.com/en-gb

We're on SOTAP - nothing changes, except you have to dial the area code for local numbers. Analogue phones, CLI etc are unaffected. Basically it's an exchange end change, they put the kit needed to use analogue phones at the exchange instead of inside your residence.

Somewhat rural here (well 1/4 mile from an A road). We were supposed to be switched to digital several times, been sent a pile of hubs and extender devices and have had several letters about the switchover date. Latest one was we are apparently "switched over" a month ago, except that it actually turns out to be SOTAP [1] and everything works exactly as before (including CLI, using the old 300 baud standard). I assume they couldn't get digital to us so they've installed kit at the exchange just so we are "switched over".

Fairly obviously, the SOTAP kit continues to provide power from the local exchange so even in the (relatively common) power cuts here the phones continue to work (we're not on any kind of priority register or anything like that, I assume it's just BT are dealing with peopole living out in the sticks).

N.B. we also have a 2nd line, on a business account (WFH) - that one is full digital, 70mbps VDSL and has cisco/yealink ATAs for phone service. So two lines, a home line that's SOTAP and a work line that's broadband/digital voice.

[1] https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2025/09/openreach-laun...

I liked their old advert about how the 2CV had an automatic sunroof: "You automatically open it when the sun is shining".

I'd like a GPU storage heater please. We could create a distributed data centre!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage_heater

The lens seems pretty similiar to PinTILT, who embed miniature reflectors in the lens - there's a nice whitepaper available by email on their site.

* https://letinar.com/en/pintilt

"How was I supposed to know it was full of air?" :)

Also the Citroen Grand C4 [1], which is a 7-seater where the back row fold down to get a completely flat foor - great family car. It's been replaced by the Space Tourer now I believe, which goes up to a 9-seater.

[1] https://www.autotrader.co.uk/cars/used/citroen/grand-c4-pica...

More of us than you think (and often by preference rather than cost).

Current main travel laptop is a T420, backed by a T520 w/nvidia when needed (older T41s, T60's lying around). Both work fine with linux & modern browsers (the T420 is particular has great battery life).

Somewhat along the same lines, as I regularly SSH to other hosts with the same network filesystem mounts, 'scd' starts an SSH session on a remote host in the same directory.

  #!/bin/bash
  # SSH to remote system and change into same (current) directory
  DIR=$(pwd)
  ssh -t $1 "cd $DIR; bash -l -i"

That's actually XON/XOFF - in the old days when computers could send serial data to your VT100 or whatever faster than it could handle it (and we're talking 9600 baud here), the terminal would send XOFF (ctrl-S) telling the computer to stop sending - then, when the terminal caught up, it would send XON (ctrl-Q) to let the system know it could resume sending.

The advantage of doing it this way ('software flow control') is it worked with just TX and RX lines, rather than having to connect up additional wires to indicate when the terminal was busy ('hardware flow control').

In this particular case, the main stream parties did not take part (i.e. field candidates) because the current MP (Farage) resigned just to retake his own seat - basically trying to distract from his dodgy dealings with crypto bros and convicted fraudsters.

I would have voted Count Binface too (as the least absurd candidate).

On Debian, install rsyslogd instead - it's that simple.

And still does. I generally replace journald with rsyslogd on systemd setups.

And kids. I recently happened to see a pic on a kid's phone of him holding 5 vapes and a tin of snus, when challenged on it he said it was an AI-generated fake.

Jaw-dropping stuff, looking forward to pointing 9-year old daughter (in "Future Astrophysicist" t-shirt) at it!

Possibly a naive question, after surfing the image for a while I didn't find any einstein rings (or arcs) - are they just rare/wrong scale or something else?

and thank you!

Shhh...you'll alert the models :)

Totally agree though, anyone with a vague understanding of how bikes works ignores the pelican because they know the bike is unrideable in the first place.

cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp

Indeed, decline appears to accelerate significantly in 2023 so seems likely that's AI helping things along.

We only do it for one-off age verification, not stuff that requires repeat authentication (those we simply don't use).

As a purely tactical measure, we use the same older person (me) for age verification for all family members - zero failures so far and it poisons the well.

Absolutely this will work, it's all over social media.

Remember, in WWII Carrots were the secret weapon used to defeat the night fighters.

[Todo: Add link to Poe's Law]

First place to look when this sort of thing happens is pprune.org - lots of pilots on there, often with specific knowledge of the aircraft type and/or of the incident itself.

In this case: https://www.pprune.org/accidents-close-calls/672872-ryanair-...

For the DIYers, it's simple to get an SCD4x sensor and hook it to a pi, arduino, ESP32 etc (then use CC to create a live web interface). I did this after trying an Inkbird CO2 monitor, which gets reasonable scores in reviews and wanting a live web report in the office.

Interestingly the Inkbird and the SCD4X quite often diverge by anything up to hundreds of PPMs; I kind of back the SCD4x (on a Pi in my case) for accuracy after lots of experimentation, reading the datasheet and ensuring the correct calibration procedurs are followed (basically expose the sensors to outside air once a week).

It's also interesting how much it varies day to day in my one-person office - possibly down to how windy it is outside, even with windows closed one day it never goes about 800ppm, other days it'll hit 1500ppm by lunchtime if I don't open a window.

N.B. Quite possible the Inkbird uses an SCD4x internally, seems reasonable kit so I have no explanation for the differences in readings.

I get he's not popular. None the less it would be nice to see more nuanced comments.

In my experience IPO's often follow a short-period of upside (where those who already have shares gain some liquidity, i.e. actual cash) followed by a dip and then - depending on fundamentals - over time rise above the offer price. Mileage may vary.

I came across this one by accident one day:-

* https://www.remotelondon.com/wisley-airfield-an-abandoned-ru...

Doing a long bike ride to visit a friend, the route I'd plotted suddenly found me in the middle of a big old runway, weird to see given it's alongside one of the major routes into London (one I've driven or motorbiked many times, but never cycled). Quite the shock to see, especially as it was a scramble to get through the bushes and cross the A3 to Wisley RHS.

Just save pixel values as wavelength rather than RGB?

Digression, but here in the UK all the site gives is: "Unavailable Due to the UK Online Safety Act"

There was some discussion of this on HN a couple of days ago, however seems to me that all this does is play into the hands of those who want to balkanise the internet, i.e. feels more like running scared than a useful protest.