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Daniel Colquitt
@daniel.colquitt.xyz
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A very applied mathematician. Professor & Head of the Department of Mathematical Sciences @ University of Liverpool. Views are my own &c. Header: https://unsplash.com/@brucebmax [ Mostly cross-posting from mastodon 🐘 https://colquitt.xyz/@daniel ]
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I don’t spend much time on @bsky.app & mainly cross-post from Mastodon 🐘. But, if you follow @ap.brid.gy, you can bridge your account & let people (like me) follow you from the fediverse, which is very cool.
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Pumpkin painting fun
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I hadn’t tested the backup and recovery process for a looooong time, so I was relieved it worked out. #sysadmin
It’s pumpkin pickin’ time 🎃 🍂 🍁🥮
Ive got a favour to ask. I’ve just changed some of my backend configs. Can someone check that https://colquitt.xyz is still accessible and everything loads okay? Thanks! #mastoadmin
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Yes. Next question.

With the number of applications to most schemes measured in the tens of thousands and success rates in the 5%-10% range, the system is saturated. Science funding, and hence science careers, is no longer a meritocracy — it’s luck of the draw.
Today’s word of the day is cold. Today started with watching the eldest play football in a bitterly cold wind and ended taking the girls to a party on an indoor ski slope. I fear that I will never be warm again.
I did have to patch the imap backend for z-push because iOS now expects to receive full S/MIME messages rather than just the headers, as it used to. I also opened a pull request in the z-push repo, like a good #OpenSource citizen.

My nerd cup overfloweth.
To complicate matters, my mail server encrypts emails upon receipt using my S/MIME certificate and the native Mail app is the only iOS app that supports S/MIME for non-Office365 accounts.
I’ve finally managed to get push notifications working between my #selfhosted #mail #server and #iOS Mail using z-push ( https://z-push.org/ ) to implement an ActiveSync compatible server.
No, thank you. On to my #blocklist you go, courtesy of fail2ban. #SysAdmin
Yesterday's #SysAdmin task of moving my ElasticSearch node to a new VPS seems to have completed overnight without any disasters.

Video: https://colquitt.xyz/@daniel/115332488474964392
So…we’ve just submitted our eldest daughter’s application for high-school. How on earth did we get here so quickly?!
:seas: Boring #aquarium toot :seas:

It looks like my Vallisneria have got either staghorn or Blackbeard algae. The treatment is glutaraldehyde. Unfortunately, glutaraldehyde also melts Vallisneria.

Let’s see which one survives and which one dies.