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roliveron I made 50k calls to explore the telephone network

Could it be an auto-answer from a Telex machine?

I have no idea what they sound like on a telephone line though.

roliveron Can your employer fire you after you quit?

Qualifying period to claim unfair dismissal at tribunal is 2 years: https://www.gov.uk/dismissal/what-to-do-if-youre-dismissed

roliveron O2 outage: 31m mobile customers unable to get online

University of Southampton?

roliveron Let's Encrypt now holds 35% of the market

Regarding AD/LDAP/Kerberos, I gather it's possible to run an AD DC as part of Samba now. I haven't tried it out yet, but it looks promising.

roliveron SSL considered bloated

Hopefully the argument about back/forth traffic in SSL will soon be obsolete if Zero-RTT handshakes are implemented in TLS1.3. Surely this would then be comparable to standard HTTP requests?