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 This would have just been a boost, but there was no CW at all.

https://beige.party/@RickiTarr/112134392865572302 
 I made friends with a local cafe owner and listening to him vent is hilarious. Apparently some du... 
 plenty of people living places they can't *actually* afford because they think it means they've made it. See also people "buying" status cars on finance that then cripples every other aspect of their life. 
 These claims will not really come as a surprise, I don't think, to anyone who is an Equinix customer. Particularly their reliance on charging as much as they can for cross-connects that they continue to squeeze their remaining captive customer base for.

Hindenburg Research (who have now taken a short in EQIX):

Equinix Exposed: Major Accounting Manipulation, Core Business Decay And Selling An AI Pipe Dream As Insiders Cashed Out Hundreds of Millions

https://hindenburgresearch.com/equinix/ 
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 Virtualisation on Apple Silicon question :

I know there was a developer preview release of Virtu... 
 well, you can manually install it instead of using the app store version and then it is free

app store version supports author and gets you auto updates 
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 One of my least favourite jobs is cleaning up after someone else has done a poor job.

Unsurprisi... 
 certs mean nothing? Say it ain’t so! *eyes up all of ISO* 
 apparently the uk govt seems to think there will be flying taxis two years from now - and autonomous ones by 2030 - so, there’s that

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-68597045 
 The number of cases I have that are "China" but are actually VTP,
Do not use VTP
Never use VTP
es... 
 you mean people actually use it on purpose!? 

I guess it might be the sort of thing that is maybe tempting to use in an enterprise environment if you haven't understood how it works and the resulting risks.

Fortunately I learned with "service provider mindset" as we acquired a SP network with some Cisco in it ~20 years ago and when I took the cisco press books on holiday to learn how to run my new network, the immediate determination on VTP was: "no, never that" 
 nailgun.

But your sheet seems like it might be too deep for your mattress as I don't tend to have this problem with our fitted sheets (particularly after they've been washed a few dozen times and have shrunk a little).

...or you flail around in your sleep *a lot*? 
 If you run a small business in the UK, what are your *must have* subscriptions?

Boosts very welc... 
 
* A decent Internet connection with SLA, domain & webhosting (though we use ourselves for all this as we're in this space)

* Xero for accounting

* Regrettably, M365 for email/contacts/calendaring/office apps/file sharing cos we need groupware of some sort and gsuite is.. no.

Sector specific;
* some sort of e-commerce front for the self-serve services like domain registrations (we currently use WHMCS for this)
* Halo (PSA/CRM/Helpdesk/etc) 
 
and;

* some sort of backup software/service configured so as to take your data somewhere it is not trivial for some ransomware weenie to erase it