"Guidance for system administrators"

dwm.me.uk/articles/202...

(I've surely missed important things off this list.)

"Guidance for system administrators"

dwm.me.uk/articles/202...

Handy Guide:

✅ Free Speech: When GCs who had no relation to my University complained to try and get me kicked off my course

❌ Not Free Speech: Exercising one's right to peaceful protest against those advocating your exclusion from society – on the campus you have to live and work in

"Oh bollocks," said Pooh.

Comic. One... two... THREE! [text in red] X Deprecated [line break] One... two... three... GO! [text in red] Deprecated [red curly bracket around top two lines] Too easy to mix up [line break] Three... two... one... GO! [text in green] [check mark] ISO Standard [caption] If I were in charge of ISO, the first thing I’d do would be to standardize the way people count out loud before doing something in sync.

Countdown Standard

xkcd.com/3232/

TAY!

(❤️)

Incoming Hungarian PM Péter Magyar calls for the UK to rejoin the European Union:

"I remember when I was a diplomat in Brussels... We were able to influence decisions. At the time, the Brits were also part of the EU. Let's hope they will rejoin."

To 'Vance'; verb, to fuck up.

22,000 students told to pay back 'mis-sold' maintenance loans Those affected have been told their courses were never eligible for maintenance or childcare loans

Errors were made by the Student Loan Company (SLC) or universities, not by students

It's the universities' responsibility to give accurate information to SLC

It’s SLC's responsibility to check the information

Whoever's at fault, it's not the 22,000 students

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The notion that the UK can feed itself is a fantasy, and hasn't been true since before WWII.

Trade is obviously essential to the well-being of the people of the UK, while James foolishly advocated for enacting trade sanctions against ourselves in the form of Brexit.

These are not serious people.

Aha. I needed the alt-text.

... what, what have you done ...

Oooh, did the named Crew NPCs make it in?

Worth noting that Donald Trump just announced the end of NATO and the Special Relationship in one tweet.

I'm not sure if @hazelsouthwell.bsky.social has already seen this, and at this point I'm afraid to ask.

Public transport to be free for Victorians in April as fuel prices climb The Victorian government says public transport will be free across the state in April in a bid to relieve cost-of-living pressure as fuel prices continue to climb.

Now *this* is the correct response to a surge in the price of petrol and diesel – well done Victoria!

Don't cut fuel duty. Cut demand!

Emily Dubious Linktree: https://linktr.ee/EmilyDubious

Oooh, I think you might enjoy the output of my friend Emily…
www.youtube.com/c/emilydubious
www.tiktok.com/@emilydubiou...

A favourite things is watching a kid get on the DLR in London and run to the front seat, so they can pretend to drive it.

It never matters who is sitting there. EVERY adult gets up and concedes that seat.

As humans, we recognise and are bound by a sense of joy and wonder. Above everything else.

Durham University student looks through microscope. Text over image reads '3 subjects in the top 10'.

Durham university student smiles as he works in an academic library. Text over image reads '10 subjects in the top 50'.

Four Durham University students stand and chat next to the River Wear. Text over image reads '22 subjects in the top 100'.

We're thrilled to announce our outstanding performance in the QS World University Rankings by subject 2026 🏆🎓🥳

3 subjects in the top 10
10 subjects in the top 50
22 subjects in the top 100
in their field

Read more👉 brnw.ch/21x12aL

#QSWUR #BestUniversities #UniLife

Imagine a computer like a PDP-11 but with more than 3 billion SP4T switches. The switches are various combinations of 'magic' and 'more magic'

the authors of the code are dead, there are no comments except for old code, and sometimes the comments run anyway

and it's wet

this is biology.

If only we could systemize the process of the fortunate wealthy contributing towards the infrastructure and institutions that helped them succeed... [raises finger to earpiece]

... I am now recieving word that this is called, "taxes". But the mechanism doesn't seem to be working properly ...

This is absolute perfection: UBUNTU SECURE BOOT AGE VERIFICATION | Hacker.House Perfect commentary on nerds following authoritarianism because it is an interesting intellectual challenge:

This is absolute perfection: UBUNTU SECURE BOOT AGE VERIFICATION | Hacker.House
https://alecmuffett.com/article/150554
#AgeVerification #OnlineSafetyAct #OpenSource #censorship #kosa #systemd #ubuntu

In which the US president tells you implicitly and then explicitly that they are not on control of events and indeed that they do not know what is happening.

The intention, of course, is to bully and give an impression of exercising power, but the impression conveyed is the opposite.

Wealth tax and return to EU: Everything you need to know about Greens’ economic plans Polanski takes aim at the government’s ‘failing fiscal rules’ as he set out plans to overhaul the UK’s tax system

Rejoining the EU seems to be the topic of the day today.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Sadiq Khan urges Labour to campaign on rejoining EU at next election Mayor of London says returning to EU now more desirable because of economic instability caused by Donald Trump

The evidence is overwhelming: Brexit has been a disaster for London and the UK.

Rejoining the EU is now clearly in our national interest. The option to rejoin should be on the ballot at the next General Election.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I loved re-listening to @wilwheaton.net narrate @scalzi.com's Interdependency trilogy recently. :)

Data Organization in Spreadsheets Karl W. Broman & Kara H. Woo Pages 2-10 | Received 01 Jun 2017, Accepted author version posted online: 29 Sep 2017, Published online: 24 Apr 2018 1. Introduction 2. Be Consistent 3. Choose Good Names for Things 4. Write Dates as YYYY-MM-DD 5. No Empty Cells 6. Put Just One Thing in a Cell 7. Make it a Rectangle 8. Create a Data Dictionary 9. No Calculations in the Raw Data Files 10. Do Not Use Font Color or Highlighting as Data 11. Make Backups 12. Use Data Validation to Avoid Errors 13. Save the Data in Plain Text Files ABSTRACT Spreadsheets are widely used software tools for data entry, storage, analysis, and visualization. Focusing on the data entry and storage aspects, this article offers practical recommendations for organizing spreadsheet data to reduce errors and ease later analyses. The basic principles are: be consistent, write dates like YYYY-MM-DD, do not leave any cells empty, put just one thing in a cell, organize the data as a single rectangle (with subjects as rows and variables as columns, and with a single header row), create a data dictionary, do not include calculations in the raw data files, do not use font color or highlighting as data, choose good names for things, make backups, use data validation to avoid data entry errors, and save the data in plain text files.

Every day is a good day for sharing one of the most useful papers about research data ever written. PLEASE get your people to understand and follow this advice.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

They know what they did.

Government to go “further and faster” in becoming energy secure The Energy Secretary outlines measures to protect consumers and make Britain energy secure.

Brilliant news! The UK's Labour Government are going to make "plug in solar" legal.

Grab some panels from Lidl, hang them off your balcony or out your window, plug them in to your mains. Done!

www.gov.uk/government/news/governme...

#Solar