Why have companies set up Cloudflare to block me accessing their site using a VPN.
I understand they are using Cloudflare for protection but I'm using VPN for my protection.

I am wondering how many Linux users make use of afio rather than tar?
I know afio has lots of switches and takes a little effort to set up but 2 things I do like about it are -
Each file in the archive is separate so can be recovered even if parts of the archive are damaged
And
Each file can be compressed individually or not depending on the result being smaller.

#jobsearch semi-retired Linux sysadmin and DBA
Linux: red hat, Ubuntu Kbuntu, mint
DBA: oracle, postgres jngres.
Based in UK, remote working.
Good on version control, scripting, how tos.

This is a question:
As I see it, money is a means of exchange, so if money is taken out of an economy, say by housing as investments aka second homes; holiday homes or AirBnb or removal to other economies, then the original system must suffer.
In the UK businesses are failing eg the hospitality sector, could this be due to money being effectively removed from the system? And if so then perhaps people need to look to schemes like the LETS groups(Canada) to start the local economy revival.

I think the Post Office/Fujitsu scandal in the UK might be a pointer to why Open source development is better:
Report on the system found that of 8 programmers, 2 were good, 2 they could live with and the rest showed a lack of simple maths and programming understanding.
I think all but the first 2 would not get anything posted to an OpenSource project.