Edinburgh Airport and Vinci SA

Driven by pure spite for the fact they’ve put various charges up again across the airport (and as a local resident, it just means more cars hanging around in places they shouldn’t, to try dodge the drop-off fees), I wanted to dig a bit more into who owns the airport.

Vista Health: "Full Body MRI Scan"

See here for other articles on dodgy “MRI Cancer Scans” Vista Health, another favourite. We’ve already covered the fact there is no such thing as a “full body cancer screen”, and how these types of screening-not-screenings can cause harm.

Synology Lucene++ Client

Recently I was trying to figure out a way of accessing the “universal search” index available via the Synology UI, in a way that didn’t require logging into the UI itself.

Edinburgh, Taylor Swift and Airbnb

More parasitic price-gouging on the part of Airbnb. Edinburgh is inundated with Airbnb properties; every year the prices keep going up, anyone who doesn’t have piles of cash is priced out, Airbnb reaps £££, nobody wins.

MAPs searches

A set of searches that I tend to undertake a couple of times a week. All UK-based .org domains mentioning PAs in last month All .co.uk domains mentioning PAs in last week (excluding some news sites / forums) All .

yt-dlp download strings

I use yt-dlp for downloading videos from YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Twitter, etc. A full list of all the “extractors” is available here. Here are some of the download strings I use: