The house rules.

1. Who you’re dealing with

This site is operated by the author trading as Ancient Geekery from the United Kingdom. Contact: tech@ancientgeekery.com.

2. What this site is

Ancient Geekery is a personal publication — opinion, commentary, analysis and the occasional rant. It is notprofessional advice. Nothing here forms a consulting, legal, financial or technical engagement with you.

3. Use of the site

You may:

• read it, link to it, quote it briefly with credit and a link back;
• share it on the usual platforms;
• argue with it loudly in your group chat.

You may not:

• republish full articles without written permission;
• scrape or bulk-download the site for any purpose;
• train, fine-tune, or evaluate AI/ML models on the content without a written licence;
• attempt to break, probe, overload, or otherwise abuse the site or its infrastructure;
• use the site or its branding in a way that misrepresents an endorsement or association.

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All text, images, code, layout and branding are © Ancient Geekery, all rights reserved, unless explicitly stated otherwise. Trademarks and product names belong to their respective owners and are used for reference, comment and criticism only.

Reasonable fair-dealing for criticism, review, news reporting, quotation and parody under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 is welcome. Lifting an article wholesale is not.

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6. Third-party links

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7. Availability

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Nothing in these terms limits or excludes liability that cannot be limited or excluded under English law — including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, fraud, or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any rights you have as a consumer under the Consumer Rights Act 2015.

9. Changes

We may update these terms from time to time. The date at the top tells you when. Continuing to use the site after a change means you accept the updated version.

10. Law and jurisdiction

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