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mattrad··on Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network
Would you mind sharing which server please?
mattrad··on Time to start de-Appling
UK Govt. stupidity aside, Apple could allow iOS users to switch their backup provider from iCloud to other services or backup targets. But they won't because they want to continue to grow their services revenue.
mattrad··on I wrote a book called “Crap Towns”. It seemed funny at the time
Crap Towns called Hythe "...quite possibly the most spirit-crushingly tedious town in Kent." and "...the place that makes nearby Folkestone look like Las Vegas."

As someone who grew up in Hythe in the 80s and 90s I'd point out that the Rotunda was a far cry from Vegas.

https://www.warrenpress.net/FolkestoneThenNow/The_Demolition...

mattrad··on Mullenweg Shuts Down WordPress Sustainability Team, Igniting Backlash
“WordPress is in trouble” depends on what “WordPress” is.

WordPress the supply chain is currently dependent on wordpress.org. The community is working to route around this by decentralising distribution - see efforts such as AspirePress.

WordPress the software development project is dependent on wordpress.org, and there is no way to route around this unless Matt agrees to give up his DFL position or a fork is created.

WordPress the brand is being tarnished, mostly by Matt’s actions. wpdrama creates a riskier environment when assessing whether to use it as a CMS.

WordPress the community is being denigrated and diminished. Again, I think only a change in governance can resolve that.

mattrad··on Aligning Automattic's Sponsored Contributions to WordPress
ClassicPress is the only public one with any traction. wordpress.com could be considered a private fork.
mattrad··on WordPress: Joost/Karim Fork
There is no fork at the moment, there was only discussion of how to move releases forward on PostStatus Slack. It's a purge.
mattrad··on CSS gets a new logo and it uses the color `rebeccapurple`
There was a submission like that :) https://github.com/CSS-Next/css-next/issues/105#issuecomment...
mattrad··on ACF Plugin no longer available on WordPress.org
I don't know what you mean by "bumpy road". ACF has been solid for years, and has received excellent care and updates since moving to Delicious Brains and then WP Engine.
mattrad··on ACF Plugin no longer available on WordPress.org
You don't need to migrate from ACF to a different plugin, you can still access ACF and received future updates indepedent of wordpress.org. See https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/blog/installing-and-upg...
mattrad··on A Soviet Prisoner's View on What's Important
I wonder what LBJ would make of that statement?

One person's divisive, minority issue is another's fight for the fundamental right to be treated equally under the law.

mattrad··on Stripe Payment Links
Could you please consider adding support for custom fields as part of this? For example, to be really useful in the in the UK, donation links would need to ask if the donor is eligible for Gift Aid (which increases donations by 25%). This then needs at least house/flat number and postcode to make a valid Gift Aid application (and some organisations may ask for more address details than that).

With those additional fields it would mean we could post donation links all over the place, and then get donor details out of Stripe for the donations team. Thanks :)

mattrad··on Bronze Age mining sites received deliveries of pre-processed foods
There is also an excellent NPR Throughline episode on this: https://www.npr.org/2021/01/11/955735429/what-happened-after...
mattrad··on WireGuard for iOS
Great write up, thank you! Looking at your blog post, it seems that once I've followed your guide, I only need to forward port 51820 from my router to the WG server. Is that correct?
mattrad··on 'Siri I'm getting pulled over': New shortcut can automatically record the police
Sorry, that's incorrect. Shortcuts are available independent of Siri being enabled - I've just checked this by disabling Siri on my phone.
mattrad··on Girl Scouts Embraces STEM and Adds New Badges
UK Scouting is fully non-gendered for all ages; see Scouting for All and the Equal Opportunities Policy: http://scouts.org.uk/about-us/key-policies/equal-opportuniti....

UK Guiding allows girls and young women, but fully supports gender self-identification: https://www.girlguiding.org.uk/making-guiding-happen/policie....

Scouting and Guiding in the UK are refreshingly progressive organisations. Source: current Scout leader.

mattrad··on Code Specialists Oppose U.S. and British Access to Encrypted Communication
I suggest you read Robert Kagan's "Dangerous Nation". It skewers the idea that America is not an empire, and demonstrates that America has always been aggressively expansionist.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dangerous-Nation-Americas-Earliest-T...

mattrad··on [dead]
This is nonsense - there's nothing about a Node.js re-write in the 4.3 kickoff post: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2015/04/28/wordpress-4-3-kic...
mattrad··on Mail-in-a-box: easy to set up modern SMTP/SMTPS server stack
Would also be very nice if someone set up an auto-deploy such as the one Tinfoil did for VPNs: https://www.tinfoilsecurity.com/vpn/new
mattrad··on Nginx security advisory (CVE-2013-4547)
That's done it! Where's the HN tip jar? :)
mattrad··on Nginx security advisory (CVE-2013-4547)
I've just tried to update to stable using the instructions there, and when I ran apt-get install nginx, it returned:

dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/nginx_1.4.4-1~precise_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/sbin/nginx', which is also in package nginx-full 1.1.19-1ubuntu0.2 dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/nginx_1.4.4-1~precise_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Any suggestions on how to fix this? Ta.

mattrad··on Favicon Cheatsheet
Icon Slate is pretty good too. Mac only.

http://www.kodlian.com/apps/icon-slate

mattrad··on US free to grab EU data on American clouds
There is an alternative to managewp.com: https://wpremote.com/ (not affiliated, etc.)

It's free, and UK-based - so benefits from EU data protection. By @humanmadeltd.

EDIT: Running on EC2 AFAIK, so subject to Safe Harbor, FWIW.