It was a term coined to describe the step-by-step process modern tech platforms go through:

1. be good, get customers, grow
2. get large enough to corner market, concentrate on profits
3. get large enough to move to politicise their approach, drive out competition through aggressive tactics, and lock in consumers
4. drive more profit through dark patterns and ensure nobody wins but the stakeholders

It’s specifically that, and there wasn’t a word that described that process previously, as it’s only something that’s possible in a modern, “web scale” worldwide platform.

Well, now you’ve called it out, I’ve got to updeet it.

Sounds like GDPR / HFEA / other medical or significant legal body. They often also give nice fat juicy bonuses to people who report problems that get looked into, and if a company self-reports will often overlook issues provided there’s a serious attention to cleaning shit up.

hint hist hiss

I’m afraid I don’t have time to look, or I’d try and diagnose the issue myself… It’s an awesome resource I’ll be making use of though!

C# 404’s - possibly some encoding issue?

Oh, I feel for you… Delphi is a really nice language… for 1995. Last I saw it used in anger was back in 2004 or so, and even then it was a joke that it was still going…

ExplainXKCD to the rescue :D

Porkbun have a ddclient plugin on GitHub. Subdomains are supported. They’ve got a full API, so if something isn’t supported, someone can probably implement it relatively easily.

I’m going to briefly explain why I downvoted… this (I feel) is an unhelpful comment that doesn’t explain anything. You say, “[if] you’re comfortable support a broken-by-design network, do it.”, but you don’t explain why it’s a broken-by-design network.

I’ll say - I agree with you, but the comment doesn’t actually enhance the conversation and comes off as abrasive and unhelpful. If I’m looking for information, I’d rather be given education (Even if it’s just a, “Go here for why you don’t do that!”), not just a, “Don’t do it” with no assistance and help for how to do it right.

Some routers will call the 1:1 NAT feature, “DMZ” (Short for Demilitarised Zone). The idea is that you just act as a pass-through, in this case, “passing through” the external internal to the internal router.

That’s… Pretty nice, and once you’ve sourced everything, not that much more than a cm4 with good specifications…

Are they available in the UK easily? I realise that’s probably a Google-it answer, but I’ve not had chance to research yet

Those are fair pointers, but I suppose in the back of my mind I’m also thinking about power draw as well… Speed isn’t a massive retirement, it’s going to be hooked up to a poe network, if I wanted speed I’d first be putting in cat 6 or something…

Not heard of a beelink, time to research, thanks.