I'm not that kind of doctor. Senior IT technical specialist and occasional patient magnet.
Currently hostmaster@durham.ac.uk; previously answered to root@doc.ic.ac.uk, unix-support@csx.cam.ac.uk, postmaster@cam.ac.uk, oxcert@infosec.ox.ac.uk, and root@stats.ox.ac.uk.
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did anyone want to hear a #Shakespeare speech castigating nativist cruelty against #immigration?
of course such a speech exists: bigoted malice against #immigrants is not new. the wicked have long yoked the ignorant and indecent for power
it refers to a real event: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_May_Day
it is called "The Strangers' Case" speech
from the play "Sir Thomas More"
here delivered by #IanMcKellen from memory
on "The Late Show With #StephenColbert"
MIcrosoft make the operating system running on hundreds of millions of computers, and run always-on cloud services at enormous international scale — and you're only now thinking, gee, maybe we should care about quality control?
In the age of stochastic sort-of-thinking "looks good to me" AI code-generators, no less.
At what point does it become appropriate to start shouting:
YOU'RE A FUCKING SOFTWARE COMPANY ENTRUSTED WITH THE WORLD'S ECONOMY, ACT LIKE IT
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/05/microsoft_appoints_quality_chief/
My team at Arm Ltd (UK) are looking to hire a couple of positions - a Software Engineer (early careers role) and a Senior Software Engineer (more experienced).
We build and maintain tooling (mostly in Python) that loads databases of "all possible Arm architectures" and refines them down to "the specific architecture being documented / modelled / tested in this case". Good team, good work. Come join us.
Software Engineer: https://careers.arm.com/job/cambridge/engineer/33099/91291688464
Senior: https://careers.arm.com/job/cambridge/senior-engineer/33099/91291688480
Some terrifically titled papers from a discovered collection of NASA research documents found in a skip
(with thanks to @JuliaRez for the original pic)
IT job! My team at Durham University (in the UK) is looking to hire an additional Linux sysadmin. This is a permanent, hybrid, operational technical role in our central IT department:
https://durham.taleo.net/careersection/du_ext/jobdetail.ftl?job=26000035
I like Durham (and my management), and we've no shortage of virtuous work to do.
I'm not directly involved in hiring for this post, but if you or anyone that you know are lovely and know one end of a config management tool from the other, please follow the link!
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