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 I've been mulling over a joke to the effect of "well maybe someone should fork the old MIT licens... 
 I have clients who use it for short lived data like sessions (can't store on filesystem because of load balancing, database storage would mean lots of extra writes and reads). 
 TIL: Something which I suspected for ages (and is really annoying) but have finally found the answer to, is that [@thunderbird](https://mastodon.online/@thunderbird) global searches are faceted and try to find close matches:

"Most of the time this is a very useful feature, but there is no way to disable it if you want an exact match"

https://kb.mozillazine.org/Search_-_Thunderbird#Global_Search

#thunderbird #email 
 If you run a small business in the UK, what are your *must have* subscriptions?

Boosts very welc... 
 Separate phone contract (phone number + physical phone) so that business calls can be switched off easily.

Microsoft 365 so I can open macro-laden spreadsheets that LibreOffice can't manage.

DeployHQ for auto-deploying code on git push.

[@beasts](https://social.mythic-beasts.com/@beasts) VPS for email and web hosting.