Maybe add a non-Twitter link so that people who don't have logins (or dislike X) can see it. Your Masto post link should work...

https://fosstodon.org/@robhawkes/116515573163883147

Wasn't paywalled when I posted it a few days ago - would not have posted if it had been!

Annoyingly it's several (phone) screens down, so you get into the article before it cuts you off.

I backed out as soon as I was prompted by the browser to allow sharing my location information.

I may well be a little paranoid, and I think I saw, while backing away, why it was requested, but please don't scrape data without asking first.

got it

Scrap metal?

Because of all the metal theft (eg stealing cables) that old-style scrap metal dealers facilitated, you may find laws and reputational risk against you.

I used to edit an HPC trade rag in the early 90s, so this was an interesting read!

I had to selectively stop carrying parts of USENET (I ran what was briefly a fairly important node globally) because of the volume of the binaries, and various sex and bestiality groups (probably still including some badly-scanned ASCII-rendered images!

Seems to have patchy coverage in the places I was looking, and date range search wasn't working for me. OTOH, I think I found some posts not archived by Google...

Similar! And for a while my back bedroom in London was one of the world's top USENET 'transit' nodes, getting as high as ~#6 IIRC!

It is not "ideological" to explore if, given the last year or so of US "FA" behaviour, the UK should decouple from it...