In australia it takes 3.5-4 years for a PhD. Then after you finish you move on to postdoctoral research, because doing a second PhD makes no sense

What am I missing in the “end Kernel panic” one?

That was a good read with some helpful tips, but they didn’t have a conclusion at the end so they never answered their own question!

Thanks, it was fun. I hope your day went well too!

Not bad, went to the gym this morning, actually did some work. I might do some of this course now… Playing board games with friends this evening. I guess my life is pretty good, so not sure why I feel grumpy so often lol

Cool, I just installed Thunderbird and am giving it a go.

I would totally read that book

I’m all for getting into old school tech, I even like to browse neocities.org on occasion just for the hit of nostalgia for the old web rings. I never got into newsgroups though, and I’m wondering what reasons you might use that instead of something like Lemmy, Mastodon etc?

Apart from the piracy side, I know all about that already lol

How dare they!

I wish he had the balls to follow through with it

This is the kind of alarmist media that cripples people with anxiety and leads to learned helplessness. We want to be giving people hope for change, not taking it away.

This is fucking amazing

I like the idea of calling it ex-twitter. I came up with the idea when I was having a shower… Hang on… there’s a community for that! brb

I wish I could just up and buy a farm, that sounds like the life to me.

Happy birthday!

It’s winter down where I live, and I’m getting a bit sick of the cold. I can’t wait until spring when the sun is up when I get out of bed and I’m not shivering my arse off while getting dressed

Ublock origin works too

I looked for a lazy way to get myself a Tux sticker and found this pack of stickers for $1

https://www.stickermule.com/products/unixstickers-pro-pack

Bargain!

Exactly! Although I find dishwashing detergent dries out your skin a lot more, so I wouldn’t try using that lol. Shampoo has a pH closer to your skin than a bar of soap, so is really quite well suited for it.

What it seems to me that you’re suggesting is essentially crowd sourcing a mix of investigative journalism and data analysis, which is not a skill I think that just anybody can pick up and do properly. To be fair I’ve never tried my hand at investigative journalism, but I have done a few units of data analysis and trust me there’s a hundred different ways to do it wrong. Even among the experts, there’s a lot of disagreements to what the best approaches are. I had a teacher even say that if you give a set of data to 10 data analysts, you’ll get back 12 different ways of interpreting it.

That is all to say that I’m not sure how much you’d be solving by providing another forum for people to post their takes on public policy issues, but then again if you manage to attract the right crowd of critical thinkers, who also happen to be open minded enough not to insert their own agendas into matters, perhaps people might hold each other accountable?

BTW have you checked that something similar doesn’t already exist? Insert obligatory xkcd comic: