Notices by iona 🐝 (iona@social.coop), page 69

I love how radio newsreaders passive-aggressively go "it's *just gone* 2:30" when the presenters are slightly late in going over to the news.

Variation: "It's *one minute* past three, I'm..."

@ghost_bird Only reply to emails after a follow-up email has been sent. If they only send you one email, it wasn't that important to start with.

@raucao @dajbelshaw @mayel I think AAISP has a canary somewhere on its website - I remember seeing it once.

@dajbelshaw My BT line broke down a couple of years ago - it went crackly and the internet stopped working. Two months and 10 engineers later they had no idea what was wrong and I needed internet so had to jump ship to Virgin.

I'm unlikely to be in this house much longer so I'm loath to enter into any new contracts with anyone, I'm month-to-month with VM at present.

@mayel It is interesting, but it looks like it uses routers in people's homes which are connected to the 'net via existing ISPs.

Here in the UK, the ISPs are quite censorious - sites deemed to host "pirate" content are blocked, for instance. I think it's the same in a lot of EU countries.

I just love the idea of wireless networks beaming uncensored, open, people's internet, owned by its users, right over the heads of the existing incumbents. :)

Today's #localradio pearl of wisdom:

"Blogging is something people are really starting to get into, isn't it?"

Yes. Yes it is. If you're speaking from 2003.

@mayel Local radio station Zest Liverpool seems to have stolen their logo http://zestliverpool.com/

With recent announcements that #BT is cutting thousands of jobs, and Virgin Media is dumping hundreds of workers, isn't it time to bring something as fundamental to our future as internet access out of the hands of these sociopathic corporations and back into our own hands?

Rural community projects like B4RN (https://b4rn.org.uk/) are great - but the majority of us live in urban areas where we can't dig fibre under a farmer's field.

I'm more and more interested in #communitywireless.

@vfrmedia That computer looks like a health hazard.

@elomatreb More to the point - 2 euro for a bar of Milka? It's £1 in Asda

@lauraritchie There is one of these at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire, in the arboretum. The Sun is in the centre, and the planets are scattered around the park for people to find. It was always great fun when I was little! :)

@priryo I also hope it'll lead to an increase in homegrown European services, rather than people here simply using shady US companies for everything.

Why is there no Euro-Facebook with better privacy controls, for instance? Why are so many organisations still hosting their websites at AWS?

Hopefully it'll be a boost for European internet companies who know the market and can comply better with the regulations.

@Gargron Ed Balls

@priryo Who are you, bugger off

(Better?) :p

@priryo No problem! I just thought I'd be polite. :) I like to say hi and meet new people!

Quite a lot of mine over the past few weeks have been random web services I signed up to test years ago. It's been like - you are still going? How? I had forgotten you existed.

@priryo hi :)

@mayel Most of mine is recruiting spammers. I was a Linux sysadmin a few years ago, and I still get regular emails for terrible jobs.

"PHP developer required for exciting, fast-growing company in Barnsley! £17k a year! Join our tribe that works hard and PLAYS HARD!"

Apparently, this means they all have to stop emailing me. What will I laugh at now?

Every other email I've received over the past week has been "Last chance to stay on our mailing list before GDPR forces us to stop sending you shite!"

@dajbelshaw Sorry https://social.coop/media/UreWIu_bkWZ_wBOXd3s

@dajbelshaw Local news would be good! Today on Leeds we've had an interview with the UK entry from Eurovision in 2000, a long discussion about an argument between Katy Perry and Taylor Swift and an hour of "guess the mystery year". It was 1976.