Happy 74th Birthday, #DouglasAdams.
We'll celebrate it in your memory!
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Vale Rob Grant. Co-creator of Red Dwarf (with Rob Grant) and later writing partner with Andrew Marshall (who was the inspiration for Marvin the Paranoid Android)
the latest Mostly Harmless (issue 178) was sent out earlier this week!
If you were expecting it, but haven't seen it, let us know!
If you aren't a member, but want to be, visit zz9.org/membership
RE: https://m29.us/@ryan/115699447133262250
"Parents of young, organic life forms are warned that towels can be harmful if swallowed in large quantities."
-- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Fit the Tenth (broadcast 23rd January 1980)
Stefano MarinelliIn the past few days I’ve seen talk about RAM prices shooting up due to demand from big datacenters.
Today I read that a historic brand like Crucial - I own plenty of their hardware, including SSDs - is dropping consumer products to focus on gear for those same datacenters.
The result (or maybe the intention?) is to push people away from self hosting, undermine the OwnYourData idea and make everyone depend on huge datacenters for life.
So much for owning your data.
So much for decentralisation.
Because taking down one giant datacenter is far easier than taking down thousands or millions of individual nodes.
Friends and colleagues, don’t trade your freedom for a bit of convenience. Once you give it away, getting it back is very hard.
Always Own Your Data.
Greetings froods!
The #ZZ9 AGM is on the 8th in Faversham plus Zoom (details in MH177 p18), where we'll be electing the 2026 Committee.
Email the secretary for electronic voting if you're attending online.
If you want to be ON the ZZ9 committee, reach out too and let's chat!
Are you over 18 and in the UK? Are you a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy fan?
Pan McMillan and HHGGLive have teamed up to give one lucky winner an amazing package!
https://www.panmacmillan.com/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-experience-giveaway
If you're not a member and want to fix that oversight, or need to renew, then https://zz9.org/membership/ is the place to visit!
Attention all ZZ9 members (both human and non-human)
Our quarterly zine "Mostly Harmless" (issue number 177) should have arrived in your inboxes nearly a week ago. If it's AWOL, please get in touch!
MH177 features the latest part of the series on the Ian Gibson comic adaptation of Life the Universe and Everything, an introduction to the new Beeblebear Depots, and details of the forthcoming Annual General Meeting.