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Get better at Googling https://www.google.com/search?q=The+Open+Book+in+Richmond

You spoke too soon!

Unrelated, but Microsoft should be ashamed that most of the links in that blog no longer work.

It's not surprising that due to massive advertising that VPN companies do that people such as MPs think that VPNs are a necessity for general web browsing etc. I think more people …

Feeling very nostalgic about getting interested in XML and XSLT circa 2000-2001 and all that Semantic Web stuff. Amazed to see that people were still taking it seriously nearly 10 …

In her late 60s so I expect she's retired but has the threat of impending prosecution hanging over her head along with other colleagues https://archive.ph/YH9GO

What is amazing is the engineers the Fujitsu employed would testify in court against some of the subpostmasters saying "there were no faults" where in unearthed evidence of their s…

The thing here is that the Post Office as the "victim" could also act as its own investigator and prosecutor, due to historical reasons going back to the 17th century when it effec…

It's worth pointing out that Mr Bates vs The Post Office screened in early 2024. The Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry was set up in 2020/2021 and the public hearings started in 2023.…

Reminds me of the Modernizr JS library from 2009 which would replace with "js" for this purpose. https://github.com/Modernizr/Modernizr/blob/v1.1/modernizr.j...

Just be sure to note that the left side pedal (as you sit on it) has a left-hand thread: https://www.parktool.com/en-us/blog/repair-help/pedal-instal...

Plus, fraught with usability issues https://cybergibbons.com/security-2/why-what3words-is-not-su...

It was Azure Front Door: their reverse-proxy/CDN service. I doubt it's running on Windows.

CTRL-C will copy the entire text to the clipboard for standard message boxes.

Yes, it requires getting admin to the AD FS server https://www.netwrix.com/golden_saml_attack.html which is kind of glossed over but surely is the real "hack"?

Lowercase ’c’ makes it pretty clear it’s not the country … you tiresome tumbler of nephritic laughing jackass soot.

See also https://www.postofficescandal.uk/post/ecce-chambers/ > The Postmaster reported that the problem at his one specific site had been been happening intermittently all year. H…

Yes, but at the end of the day nobody wanted to lose face and admit the system was flawed and people ended up in jail/going bankrupt/committing suicide or all three because £10,000…

See also the Fujitsu whistleblower, Richard Rolls’ witness statement https://www.postofficehorizoninquiry.org.uk/evidence/witn007...

The system was originally connected via private ISDN lines so that wouldn’t have been a factor for the first cases.

Yes, you’d think so, but the Post Office “auditors” didn’t do that and just blindly believed what the computer said the balance should be.

Also all links are tracking links to http://click1.marketing.csid.com ... note they are plain http, of course. It's all so incompetently done I can only assume it's legitimate.

It would have been around a few 100MB as most hard drives were less than 1GB back then.