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TV news is curated for a particular effect; Why this story, and not that one?

It is a type of commercial entertainment. It it simultaneously inane and culturally violent. Here are people dying in an ongoing struggle for power between warlords and a corrupt government; here are professional athletes winning a tournament. Here's the weather forecast. These subjects merit approximately equal time and similar sentiment in tone. As a viewer of TV news, you are not empowered to change anything because you are not informed of any of the forces and complexities driving the violence and there is no call to action.

He'd have lost a toenail or two and might have a bit of callusing.

That's part of the system. Management is failing if it's not acknowledging and tackling this part of the system that's prepared to destroy the whole to preserve itself.

Yes, it made a racket! There is a description of the Harvard Mark I crashing in Beyer's "Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age":

> Hopper, Campbell, and Bloch invested substantial energy in developing practices and procedures for debugging. Like physicians, they identified symptoms, made diagnoses, and prescribed treatments. Sometimes symptoms were obvious, as when Mark I would come to a crashing halt: “The crash of that thing sounded as if a plane had run into the building,” Hopper recalled. ”You never heard such a crash in your life.”

...and the filename is shown as a focused highlight, leading you to think that's where the focus actually is! But no, it's in the search field, at the bottom right of the dialog.

No more "every fortnight in future". Instead, it's "biweekly going forward".

I do miss the 'old' terms.

For near-line stuff and long-term storage, a HP Microserver with software RAID5 array via Linux mdraid. No inbound access from outside the network. Powered on as necessary. I've replaced the entire disk array once so far, as the disks neared end-of-life.

For online, accessible-anywhere data, a largely geo-blocked self-hosted Nextcloud instance running on a Partaker mini PC, backed up nightly with restic to encrypted blobs on B2, which are browseable with the wonderful restic-browser.

> (my hips would need a day to recover from a 20 km walk). > > I'm in my mid 50s, so I'd like to believe my age is part of that.

Nah, it's just lack of practice. I turned fifty during my walk across Europe from Dublin to Istanbul. I'm 55 now and can happily cover 30 km every few months.

Try going for an extra ten or twenty minutes on your regular walk, and when that feels good, add another ten or twenty minutes. Keep going until you can knock out 30 km in a day's walk, with a break for lunch. Good luck, and enjoy it!