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Malphas Wats @malphaswats.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Godamnit, you buy ONE Uranium enrichment centrifuge...

Selects professional-grade laboratory equipment

Malphas Wats @malphaswats.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

It's not a 100% Proper Scientific Study or anything, but that's a heck of a lot of AC ductwork all over the roof of that fancy building...

A Google maps view of the university of Nottingham "Monica Partridge Building" showing extensive AC ducting (and to be fair, a shit tonne of solar panels)

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Malphas Wats @malphaswats.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

oh, well, maybe he's just wearing them "Ironically" or something. It's hard to tell when these people are so completely morally bankrupt.

Snippet from wikipedia article:

Other views

Hodges has expressed support for the government censoring whistleblowers who are spreading "information highly detrimental to the UK national interest".[21]

In early 2025, Hodges faced backlash for comments on social media concerning the war in Gaza. He asserted that no British taxpayer money should be used for reconstruction “until every Hamas terrorist is either dead or in jail”. When pressed about whether the consequences for civilians, including "hundreds of thousands of children", would be that they would "go to hell", he replied: “Yes, basically.” Critics accused him of endorsing collective punishment and war crimes. A British lawyer warned the comments might breach UK law, including the Public Order Act and the International Criminal Court Act 2001.[22][23]

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Malphas Wats @malphaswats.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I don't know why, but for me it's always been this one

[Dentist waiting room]

Me: [chanting] teeth, teeth-

Other patients: teeth, TEETH

Secretary: [pounding her clipboard] TEETH, TEETH, TEETH!

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Malphas Wats @malphaswats.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Escort missions were always the fucking worst.

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Malphas Wats @malphaswats.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

whilst I don't disagree, the text of the law (to my uneducated reading) might suggest that in this specific instance, the person accessing the information might reasonably suspect that they shouldn't be able to access it?

(1)A person is guilty of an offence if—

(a)he causes a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer [F1, or to enable any such access to be secured];

(b)the access he intends to secure [F2, or to enable to be secured,] is unauthorised; and

(c)he knows at the time when he causes the computer to perform the function that that is the case.

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Malphas Wats @malphaswats.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

When you're a computer programmer, some numbers just look suspicious when seen in the wild. (From: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...)

Screenshot from a BBC article about treasure hunting. Text reads:

In 2023, 1,358 treasure finds were initially recorded, which was amended to 1,343 as some finds had not been resolved at publication.

As an individual "treasure find" can be made of multiple artefacts, these numbers actually represented 32,768 artefacts.

The provisional figures for treasure finds in 2024 will be confirmed in 2026 along with how many individual artefacts they include.

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Malphas Wats @malphaswats.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Only 2 products of this brand available.

BIC Sensitive Mens Razors - 10 pack. £1.90

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Malphas Wats @malphaswats.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

I ran it through some high-tech advanced image enhancement software. Hopefully this helps.

Super-enhanced close-up of the officer's tatoos clearly showing the letters M and S, and the numbers 1 and 3.

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Malphas Wats @malphaswats.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

is that grounded with sellotape?

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Malphas Wats @malphaswats.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

I made one :) I have a spare if you would like me to send you one @arturo182.bsky.social

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Malphas Wats @malphaswats.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Look at how tiny that scroll bar is. And I thought my day was going to be boring! :D

Terrible screenshot of a very tiny little browser scroll bar, indicating that the displayed page is very long, which in the context of an Admiral Cloudberg post is a very good thing.

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Malphas Wats @malphaswats.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

took me about 4 hours today with a multimeter, bit of foam, ruler and a heavy thing. Pretty sure there aren't any diodes for rollover.

Pin out, pin 1 is left-most when notch is on the right:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17-20 21 22-25 26
1-15
16 6
17 FN ` 5 eq -
18 1 2 3 4 7 8 9 0
19 q w e r o i u p
20 win lshift tab caps t y # / bksp
21
22 ctrl a s d f j k l ent
23 z x c n m , ; rshift
24 alt g h up SP
25 v b . left down right
26

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Malphas Wats @malphaswats.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

@arturo182.bsky.social have you seen these keyboards? Bluetooth out of the box, but pretty nice matrix keyboard with a ribbon connector

Inside the Cacaoe Bluetooth keyboard, showing the keyboard part attached with a ribbon cable.

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Malphas Wats @malphaswats.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Grandstand BMX Flyer was the BEST. Such a shame people are asking £400 on ebay for them these days cos I'd love to have one. I never owned one myself. I used to play it at a friend's house!

Image stolen from ebay listing showing the Grandstand BMX flyer game laid out on a table with its box and instruction booklet. BMX Flyer was a game I played in the 90s which was an endless scroller-type game where you have to jump over obstacles as they scroll in from the side. All done with (I think) a VFD display. EBay listings for this game are disgustingly expensive.

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Malphas Wats @malphaswats.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Plot Twist - it's not the owner taking down the stickers

Patch, the puppy famous for looking like Hitler. Apparently.

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Malphas Wats @malphaswats.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Oh, that reminds me I haven't checked in on Kill Six Billion Demons for a good long while. I wonder what Alison is wearing these days...

snippet from web comic Kill Six Billion Demons showing main character wearing fancy clothes.

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Malphas Wats @malphaswats.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

bit different though, bearing in mind that he is: www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

George Galloway has been sacked as a columnist on the Scottish political magazine Holyrood after he refused to retract his widely condemned remarks about the rape charges facing Julian Assange.

Mandy Rhodes, the editor of Holyrood, said the Respect party MP's remarks that Assange was guilty of just "bad manners" by failing to ask permission to have sex with a sleeping woman, had left her "frankly gobsmacked".

Rhodes said she had not always agreed with Galloway's views in the past but had respected his integrity, his role as an "effective thorn in the side of the establishment", and his stance on Iraq.

However, she said it was impossible for him to continue his column following his remark that having sex with a sleeping woman was "not rape as anyone with any sense can possibly recognise it" if she had already had sex with that man.

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Malphas Wats @malphaswats.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Baby's first Benchy. Very impressed with my shiny new printer.

Bambu Labs A1 3D printer with a fresh Benchy Boat on the bed.

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Malphas Wats @malphaswats.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Which brings us to the published mark scheme:

Capacity one from: 32 (1)

Correct unit of measurement: GB/Gigabytes (1)

Examiner’s Comments
This question was not well answered.
Candidates did not read the question
carefully and as a result, lost marks.
The question asked for minimum
storage capacity for this context, not
the capacity that they would like based
possibly on their own devices.

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Malphas Wats @malphaswats.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

parts A, B & C are fairly straightforward "why tablet computer good in this context". Part D though:

Head Office are buying new tablet devices to capture promotional images for use online.

Identify a minimum storage capacity required for this device, including the unit of measurement.

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Malphas Wats @malphaswats.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

IT Exams in the UK are in desperate need of reform. Here's the context scenario for a recent Level 3 IT exam

Blue Milk Cantina is a large chain of juice bars across the UK. They have recently updated the IT
systems at the Head Office and the distribution warehouse.

Head Office deals with staffing and wages, while the warehouse holds the stock for the juice bars. The warehouse uses robots to move the stock around.

The managers in the juice bars use tablet computers to place orders, keep track of staffing hours and to communicate with Head Office.
The juice bar managers place an order each week using the tablet computers.

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Malphas Wats @malphaswats.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

the previous screenshot is a simple program that tests and draws the "hardware" mouse. Here's a snippet of the assembly code for making it work:

Custom assembly language program code:

~ Testing

BRA #start

!"system.inc" ~test comment

=XLOC 0xE078 ~ 3rd Line
=YLOC 0xE0B4 ~ 4th Line

.start

MOV SPRITE_0 #mouse_cursor
MOV SPRITE_0_FLAGS #1 ~ enable sprite 0

.loop
MOV SPRITE_0_X MOUSE_X
MOV SPRITE_0_Y MOUSE_Y

MOV print_int_location #XLOC
MOV print_int_value MOUSE_X
JSR #print_int

MOV print_int_location #XLOC
ADD print_int_location #5
MOV print_int_value MOUSE_L
JSR #print_int

MOV print_int_location #YLOC
MOV print_int_value MOUSE_Y
JSR #print_int

MOV print_int_location #YLOC

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Malphas Wats @malphaswats.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

The coolest thing I made was a neat little computer emulator with its own assembly language. I'd always wanted to build a parser and this seemed like a fun way to learn how to do it.

A mostly blank application window with the title "Nucleus" displaying the x and y co-ordinates of the mouse in the window.

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Malphas Wats @malphaswats.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Every day I would log onto my laptop, fire up my secret development sandbox, which would run a carefully crafted batch file to unpack applications from .zip files. The only way I could get the zip files there was to prepare them at home and copy them to my work laptop via my work Google Drive.

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Malphas Wats @malphaswats.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

And just like that I had a "fresh" instance of windows that I could do anything I wanted with. I discovered that although almost every other folder was locked down, the root of the C:\ drive was not. I could make a little folder in there to keep all my stuff in, then map it into the sandbox.

A Windows Sandbox configuration file that opens a windows sandbox and then runs a batch file to install a bunch of development applications

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Malphas Wats @malphaswats.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I'm not sure what your personal views are on AI generated art, but thought I'd point out just in case that all of these covers appear to be AI generated. All of the current generation of image generators were trained on copyrighted art without permission from the original artists :(

screenshot from one of the slides showing non-sensical text indicative of AI generated art, along with weird melty-faces of background people.

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