Their university leadership are slightly more coherent than mine - I’ll take that life.

This is the main barrier for me (other one is migrating a janky access database). I really don’t want to spend my 2 hours free time an evening troubleshooting Nvidia driver issues (4800S series).

Anyone with this card have an experience to share?

I was thinking the UK because ours is ancient

Methods of updating energy infrastructure to accelerate the switch to renewable energy?

Had to be done. It’s just too damn close not to.

“Treatment request rejected, insufficient TC level”

One of the experiences I will never forget was “teaching” an ICT class about 2 decades ago (I was a TA who got left to cover a class - good times).

The older ones of you will remember the trick (many of us used it for playing flash games like adventure quest!) - have two browser windows open, minimise the one with the thing you were not supposed to be doing on it when the teacher comes around - no evidence right?

These kids were doing the same thing - I swear I’ve never seen so much porn in my entire life. Oh and yes, a lot of it involved Japanese animation. This was on a network with parental controls enabled by the way, because it didn’t block those sites.

Here’s the thing - and we all know it, no matter what measures you put in place kids will find away around it. More crudely put “If little Timmy wants titties, Timmy going to move heaven and earth to find them”.

They’ll sneak a parental passport at 3am when you’re sleeping, or just VPN on in, or even invest in a fake ID. Nothing you do is going to stop that; you have to sleep some time, you have a lot of goals, they can stay up all night, and they only have one.

Catching your kids with porn and dealing with it is a game of whack-a-mole every parent has to play, and honestly it’s one they need to play. It’s about having those difficult talks and saying “it’s ok to want to look as long as you realise it isn’t real”.

Mass surveillance isn’t the way - if I were a government hostile to the USA (and soon the UK), I’d be working on making the best free porn site ever made. Think of all the free documents and credentials, think of all the blackmail material, think of all the harm that could be inflicted.

Admittedly, skin cream is likely to face less of a rabid drive from kids, and isn’t something you’d blackmail over. Then again, maybe little Timmy needs some lotion, or maybe president Puta wants to use my girlfriend’s skin lotion addiction to compel me to spy for Russia?

Well, there goes another piece of gaming history.

UK digital laws all appear to be thought up to inflict maximum harm on smaller projects, oh and to strip away privacy.

Sure are a lot of suckers making policy over in the USA at the moment…

Credit to Putin, it’s a good play. The only counter is for Europe to unite against both Russia and the current US government.

Theoretically possible, but unlikely unless the non-EU states also fall in line early.

DROP TABLE Musk

There’s a really good video on this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSSkDos2hzo

Adding a little exercise to your life is rarely a bad thing, but to shift fat diet change is the big one.

Here’s one that will have a steady impact - drink an extra glass of water with each meal (helps you feel full for longer), and invest in an apple corer (for easy apple snacks) - aim for an apple a day. It’s helping me slowly lose body fat by reducing caloric intake.

Wait, am I officially old? Does that mean I can finally go full Gandalf and start all my courses with bad “you shall not pass” jokes?

This literally just happened to me…

That is less fucks-per-line than most code. There are also no suicide notes in the code, which is usually a good sign (unless your coders are planning a coup).

Sounds like healthiest production to me.

That is the most Australian image I have ever seen.

Yeah… We had the internet and great gaming mags with decent guides.

Gamefaqs introduced me to “100%ing” (the FF7 maxed party, all items, full set of master materia), before games tracked it themselves.

We had it pretty easy in the 90s and 00s; it was also fun as hell.

A devastating blow!

Darkness closes in, haunting the hearts of men.

Keep going! It’s almost visible!

Thank you for the archive link!