Jon Knight

@greenjimll@mastodon.online
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Academic, techie, community rail volunteering, repairing-n-fixing, gardening, utility cycling, eco-friendly old hippy.
being a climate change journalist is harder than being a sports journalist because sports journalists don't have to deal with people who think that basketball doesn't exist
A proud day for Irish science as Ireland joins CERN @cern.bsky.social as an Associate Member State. A huge step forward for research, innovation, and future generations of scientists. #CERN #IrishScience #Publicengagement #OpenResearch #STEM

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2vrfekwr4jo7zufnlt7qlrqq/post/3m3rspjwhus2c

Hehe, it’s Freshers moving in week. It’s quite amusing to see them all dressed to impress, immaculate in their best new clothes, hair and makeup.

They’ll soon be mooching about in hoodies, joggers and sliders everywhere 😆

On MS Teams, I've just had the banner appear:

"Announcement As part of a recent update, some Teams you may have previously hidden are now visible again. If you'd prefer not to see them, you can easily hide them from your Teams view."

This must be some new use of the phrase "easily hide" I wasn't aware of before.... 🤔

Great juxtaposition. You can't get much more English than this.

This morning we had a report of an important system not working properly.

Tracking back to yesterday afternoon, a colleague made a change to bring that system back into compliance with our managed config (this happens all the time) but that broke it.

In our whole-dept Incidents chat where it was being discussed, they explained what they did, why, and accepted the responsibility.

An exemplar to some colleagues who always obfuscate their responsibilities!

#sysadmin #noego #exemplar

I'm sorry: the Gimp was open and the images were just right there in front of me...

#Trump #Epstein #captcha #signature

There is a new short domain name for #PuTTY!

https://putty.software/

At present, this is just a "landing page": a nice short name to remember, which will redirect you to the full PuTTY website at the same longer URL where it's always been.

But unlike putty.org or other third-party landing pages, this one is run by us, the actual PuTTY team, and it doesn't have a weird separate agenda of its own.

I intend to move the main PuTTY site over to that domain in the future, and leave just a redirector at the old location. But first I want to get the word out, so that people know which site to trust.

If anyone is still linking to putty.org, here's a place to link to instead. Please spread the word!

PuTTY

Free software SSH client for Windows and also Unix, including an xterm-style terminal emulator.

Urgh, what hellish time of day is this? 😬

It can only be #aLevelResultsDay2025, I don’t get up at this time for anyone else.

Stay safe out there, people. May your calls flow and your courses be full! #ukhe