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Owen 🐧

@c3iq

Software engineer. Over 30 years of GNU/Linux. Cycled to work. Will consider the good, bad, and the ugly. Insomnia: there's an app for that. Brought up in a library. Currently, HPC-ing. Oadby Heights.

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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.

28.02.2026 14:39 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Made by MAGA.

26.02.2026 06:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio

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

23.02.2026 19:56 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Science Officer in the IPCC Working Group I Technical Support Unit β€” IPCC

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...

23.02.2026 17:59 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

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

19.02.2026 20:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

17.02.2026 13:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

See also c-suite execs and employee restructures.

17.02.2026 20:19 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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!

16.02.2026 21:44 πŸ‘ 61 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 2

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...

15.02.2026 16:30 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

🀩

14.02.2026 16:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Further undermines...

11.02.2026 16:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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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

10.02.2026 15:33 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hiro Nakamura?

05.02.2026 07:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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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!!!!

30.01.2026 16:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
System Administrator HPC System Administrator HPC

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...

27.01.2026 07:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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darth vader is standing in a dark room with the letter n behind him Alt: darth vader is standing in a dark room with the letter n behind him
07.01.2026 14:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

New #HPC Job! πŸ₯³
HPC Developer
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Employer: Susquehanna International Group
Remote: Remote friendly

02.01.2026 03:22 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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.

20.12.2025 07:21 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Economies of scale akin to a sausage factory.

11.12.2025 09:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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

02.12.2025 22:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Book, by Wish Mountain Plays from the album The Theory of Evolution

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

26.11.2025 14:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

26.11.2025 14:12 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Fix it again tomorrow.

18.11.2025 10:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It might have had Coors Lite in it.

15.11.2025 16:28 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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a white rattlesnake is laying on top of a green carpet . ALT: a white rattlesnake is laying on top of a green carpet .

The funniest thing I heard this week was Streeting say that he is a Faithful.

13.11.2025 20:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Brussels knifesΒ privacyΒ to feed the AI boom Draft proposals obtained by POLITICO show EU is breaking sacred privacy regime to placate industry.

The EU seems set to dial back some of its most restrictive tech privacy rules including allowing websites to set some cookies without cookie banners being required and eliminating restrictions on usage of sensitive data such as health information to train AI.

AI comes for us all. Even privacy nerds

11.11.2025 03:02 πŸ‘ 52 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

Fair enough. Sainsbury's have been swapping all the medium sized eggs for small ones for a while.

11.11.2025 20:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

His speech sounded like a coded plea to banking for donations. On the surface of it, he showed he has nothing in common with the voters in Clacton and nothing to offer them.

03.11.2025 11:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a bald man is standing next to a punching bag . ALT: a bald man is standing next to a punching bag .

UI developers should develop UIs through the lens of cheap varifocals.

03.11.2025 09:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0