I’ve never worked in the UK, so I don’t know what the processes are like, but here’s my two cents from the perspective of probabilities.

It’s possible to have a large, freak accident at an otherwise safe work environment. But if an environment has lots of small issues, it seems more likely for a larger issue to happen there.

Maybe the equivalent of OSHA in the US?

I started using restic for backups.

Pro:

• Encryption
• Deduplication
• Flexible backup location
• Data integrity checks

Con:

• No good GUI

So is price fixing.

Glad it wasn’t just me that read it that way.

What if I like ellipses…

Under the bed

No. As a general rule with all software, you purchase a license to use the software, not the actual software itself. That being said, GOG and Itch.io can’t yank games that you’ve already downloaded. I don’t know if Steam does or not, but it probably can.

That’s not exactly how it works. There are “territorial waters” which are entirely under the control of the state. And there is the “exclusive economic zone” (EEZ) outside of that, where the state has rights to resources. But the surface is “international waters”. This incident happened in the EEZ.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusive_economic_zone

If anyone else is interested in details on the effect of active sonar on divers, I found this https://physics.stackexchange.com/q/93222

Here’s another plug for gitea. It’s lightweight, but still has a nice feature set.

I tried hosting GitLab a number of years back, but it was more resource hungry than my host machine could handle well.