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Romance fraud has been growing as an issue for years. It's not uncommon to see news stories with bewildered victims explaining just how deeply they'd been sucked in. After receiving a number of opener
We recently ordered a high-value item from Amazon (for Prime delivery), but it was stolen from within their delivery chain. Amazon initially accepted that there was an issue but have staunchly tried t
Post describing how I've configured pihole to return different results to clients on my tailnet than those on the LAN.
I was recently lucky enough to be invited along on a trip to Sizewell Bs operations training centre to see and try their control room simulator.