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'Tackling Communalism in Leicester in a Transnational World' – What’s the Role for Independent and Community Media? · Luma The Better Together report confronts Leicester with difficult questions about social fragmentation, polarisation and the erosion of common ground. It describes…

The Better Together report raises challenging questions about social fragmentation. Decentered Media is hosting a workshop at 6pm on Wednesday 18th March for people involved in independent and community media to reflect on these issues together luma.com/wb5xuyx4

14:14:13. So close. 0 points.

I have just submitted the final draft for a book with MayFly Books, titled The Dissolution of the Universities.

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Transport for London says 2024 breach affected 7M customers, not 5,000 Authority says attackers accessed systems holding data tied to millions of Oyster and contactless users Transport for London has confirmed that a 2024 breach exposed the data of more than 7 million people – a far larger crowd than the few thousand customers originally warned that their details might be at risk.…

FYI: Transport for London says 2024 breach affected 7M customers, not 5,000

Open Home Foundation Jobs Open Home Foundation Jobs

🚀 I've just opened 2 new roles at the Open Home Foundation to work full-time on @home-assistant.io!

🖥️ Frontend Engineer
🔐 Security Engineer

Fully remote. Full-time. Open source every day.
Best job in the world. It changed my life. This is your chance to change yours.

🔗 openhomefoundation.org/jobs

I set up Fedora on a laptop for an 11 year old during the pandemic for school work and Teams. I sent his mom a short text about wireless and printers. The single piece of feedback I got was a thank you.

Made by MAGA.

We're hiring a tenure-track computational / physical scientist. It will be joint with the home department and the Institute for Advance Computational Science. Job ad here:
apply.interfolio.com/181179

Two job opportunities with the @ipcc.bsky.social WG1 TSU:

Science Officer: www.ipcc.ch/2026/02/17/s...

AI Officer (deadline passed but will consider applications until the end of the week): www.ipcc.ch/2026/01/12/a...

My dad regularly left one on top of his car. Odd because he couldn't cope without it.

Open source registries underfunded as security costs rise fosdem 2026: Free beer is great. Securing the keg costs money

Open source registries are in financial peril, a co-founder of an open source security foundation warned after inspecting their books. And it's not just the bandwidth costs that are killing them. www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/o...

See also c-suite execs and employee restructures.

Hello bluesky, I'm a theoretical chemist at University of Bayreuth. My group works on atomistic modeling of energy materials with electronic structure methods and ML. I'm hoping to connect to other #compchem and #materials folks!

It’s that time of the year again. We are electing two seats to the #openSUSE Board. Candidates have two weeks starting yesterday to step forward. The results are scheduled to announced on March 9. lists.opensuse.org/archives/lis...

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Further undermines...

MythTV 36.0 Open-Source Media Center Is Out Now with Support for FFmpeg 8 - 9to5Linux MythTV 36.0 open-source media center software capable of recording TV, playing DVDs, and viewing photos is now available for download.

MythTV 36.0 Open-Source Media Center Is Out Now with Support for FFmpeg 8 9to5linux.com/mythtv-36-0-...

#OpenSource #Linux

Hiro Nakamura?

a man wearing sunglasses is giving a thumbs up in front of a map of the world Alt: a man wearing sunglasses and earphones swatting a small fly in front of a map of the world

Do you know what houseplant fungus gnats reincarnate as? Fungus gnats!!!!

Please share to help spread the word!

We have already have some applications for the #HPC system administrator open position in our team at Ghent University (Belgium), but it's not too late yet!

Deadline to apply is Sun 1 Feb 2026.

jobs.ugent.be/job/Ghent-Sy...

New #HPC Job! 🥳
HPC Developer
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Employer: Susquehanna International Group
Remote: Remote friendly

I worked for a charity for a year. They had Windows on their PCs. I ran Fedora off a USB stick for the year. It didn't leave any fingerprints on the PC.

Economies of scale akin to a sausage factory.

I'm not in traffic, I am traffic. Brum, brum.

The Book, by Wish Mountain Plays from the album The Theory of Evolution

Wish Mountain : The Book warprecords.bandcamp.com/track/the-book

Hiring: HPC Engineer We’re hiring a HPC engineer, ideally with HPC and/or financial services experience. Want to come work at HMx Labs?

I’m hiring. Looking for a job in London doing #HPC?

cloudhpc.news/hiring-hpc-e...

Fix it again tomorrow.

It might have had Coors Lite in it.