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Mike Wallis @nalsa.bsky.social · 14h

fairly sure everybody who knows me is thinking "turn into? more like been there since the film came out, amrite?"

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Mike Wallis @nalsa.bsky.social · 15h

Drop an old person you're going to turn into in the future.

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Mike Wallis @nalsa.bsky.social · 23h

I'm trying to see if I can invent a suitable carrot toffee for enrobing in chocolate and got sidetracked into looking up how shelf stable burfi is. Answer: not very. But it does make me wish I'd had a career as a food technologist. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Mike Wallis @nalsa.bsky.social · 1d

is SOAS's mascot Cthulhu? #universitychallenge

Mike Wallis @nalsa.bsky.social · 2d

I think the reason is "because nobody cares any more"

Mike Wallis @nalsa.bsky.social · 2d

isn't the whole point of AWS that if one zone drops another zone can pick up that workload? like, chapter 2 of the aws manual is "resiliency"

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Mike Wallis @nalsa.bsky.social · 3d

Branagh is doing The Tempest in Stratford next year. (We have tix and are very excited about it) www.rsc.org.uk/the-tempest/...

The Tempest | Royal Shakespeare Company

Multi-award winner Kenneth Branagh plays Prospero in Shakespeare’s final play, a meditation on art, power and freedom.

www.rsc.org.uk

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 5d

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

GUYS

GUYS THIS IS IS SEISMIC

GUYS I CAN'T EVEN TELL YOU

OPUS DEI IS THE SCIENTOLOGY OF CATHOLICISM THEY ARE THE ONLY THING "THE DA VINCI CODE" GOT RIGHT THEY ARE AWFUL AND THEY ARE EVIL AND THEY HAVE ENORMOUS POWER AND THEY ARE INTEGRAL TO TRADFASH CATHOLICISM

Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.

This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.

NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei

If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.

open.substack.com

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Mike Wallis @nalsa.bsky.social · 5d

I'm very glad I don't need to recompile a kernel just to update a driver any more; the process is much more streamlined and telling puppet to update the cluster will Just Work.

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Sarah Wallis @wordweave.bsky.social · 5d

...toyed with the fragile forms of bear, elk & bird.. check out Amber Bears in the Danish Tuck Shop @iambapoet.com
www.iambapoet.com/wave/23-sara...

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Mike Wallis @nalsa.bsky.social · 5d

running a data centre full of GPUs? you should probably update the drivers... blog.quarkslab.com/nvidia_gpu_k...

Oops! It's a kernel stack use-after-free: Exploiting NVIDIA's GPU Linux drivers - Quarkslab's blog

This article details two bugs discovered in the NVIDIA Linux Open GPU Kernel Modules and demonstrates how they can be exploited. The bugs can be triggered by an attacker controlling a local unprivileg...

blog.quarkslab.com

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Suw @suw.bsky.social · 6d

Having a day of extreme cognitive dissonance today. On the one hand, I'm going to Parliament for a Westminster Hall debate in honour of Ada Lovelace Day, a thing that I created in 2009 and that I'm very proud of.

Otoh, I'm broke.

By many measures, ALD was a huge success — people picked up the...

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Alison @finger-post.blog · 6d

STUCK SHIP KLAXON

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Mike Wallis @nalsa.bsky.social · 6d

yesterday's had the name of the city right there as a massive piece of pavement art.

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Mike Wallis @nalsa.bsky.social · 6d

the sourdough starter kicked off in lockdown 1 is still going strong, btw.

a sourdough loaf with a slice cut from it, on a cooling rack

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Mike Wallis @nalsa.bsky.social · 7d

I did admire the way they didn't throw the "supplier" under the bus.

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Mike Wallis @nalsa.bsky.social · 7d

Just in case you weren't aware, the TNG episodes "Best of Both Worlds" parts one and two are on Sky Mix, Freeview channel 11, on Weds & Thurs this week. I don't want to start a flame war but they are widely considered to be amongst the best eps of any Star Trek.

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · Jul 24

Diamond engagement rings are an absolute fucking racket, originally a very successful advertising campaign and if I was proposed to with diamond engagement ring I would be furious. Just get a fake thing for 15 quid, grow up.

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Mike Wallis @nalsa.bsky.social · 10d

wait, bitter lemon is a type of tonic? #saturdaykitchen

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Mike Wallis @nalsa.bsky.social · 10d

watching Race Around Japan With A Generation Gap and it's a bit... didn't they tell anybody what the show was in advance?

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pickwick @pickwick.bsky.social · 12d

One day I'll go to a mental health at work meeting that addresses how the work can be made less stressful rather than how staff can be made more resilient

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Mike Wallis @nalsa.bsky.social · 12d

Hahahaha :)

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Mike Wallis @nalsa.bsky.social · 12d

Someone has confused Becky Chambers and Bruce Sterling.

Mike Wallis @nalsa.bsky.social · 13d

Ffs, do I dress like a tory?

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Mike Wallis @nalsa.bsky.social · 13d

I am sat in a shared working space - I have a meeting on the fourth floor of this building and am early - and something in here sounds exactly like a horse pottering along in no particular rush but not idling.

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