el reg has a specialist audience of people who might buy ‘enterprise storage arrays’ or ‘cloud computing services’ from deep-pocketed advertisers. they can probably charge 100x as much as a local news site for the same ad space.

they also don’t have to print and distribute a newspaper (not cheap)

Howard Hughes was at least decades ahead when he invented the Amazon delivery driver pee jar.

It's a useful reminder that sometimes tech can make a task more efficient for one side (applying for jobs), and more efficient for the other side (writing job adverts), and yet make the system as a whole completely inefficient.

There’s an excellent BBC documentary about Sandhurst, first broadcast in 1975.
In which officer cadets take part in a long exercise about civil disorder between the hard left and the hard right amid a breakdown in the British state.
#WhatGoodTimes

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

"quippy marvel movies with a lot of tedious dialogue that feels, for lack of a better word, soylinneal focus grouped... it's like, they're not so far down the humiliating revealed audience preference "that just happened!" gradient"

I think that's a pretty good vocabulary for it actually!

+1 on mediawiki, used it several times, extremely stable, you can generally get a working install using packages that ship with the distro. More config faff vs lighter-weight stuff, but it has a ton of known-working mature features you might want, eg useful predefined roles for moderation.

So much of film has been taken over by the nerd franchises (for which there is a thing called 'canon' and at least some people care about it) that it's diminished our ability to understand films that don't have that structure, and characters that cannot be understood as existing in a timeline.