Matt Seymour @realmattseymour@qoto.org

@arteteco @rnitsch @peterdrake I agree, it's problematic.

@rnitsch @arteteco @peterdrake I understand the idea but it simply isn't possible. It is not possible for humans to be truly objective and it is not possible to remove politics from anything. So, with that in mind, how does one go about releasing some work that has the potential to be cause problems? Any position that adopts a "This is science and science is facts and if you don't like it you don't like facts and I don't care what you think" is not the way to do it.

Since installing Pi-Hole for my home network more than a third of DNS lookups are being blocked. General web browsing is so much faster as a result.

@arteteco @peterdrake @rnitsch it isn’t trash. It’s maths. Maths is maths so from that perspective the paper is fine. That it can be seen as legitimising a contended and potentially deeply problematic hypothesis is why there’s a problem. Politics comes into this of course. Some will argue that idea should be discussed and not suppressed. Other will say that it’s unhelpful to add fuel to a particular fire whilst claiming not to. I can see both sides of this.

@arteteco @peterdrake @rnitsch To be fair, this paper itself is maths. I'm a mathematical idiot, however the concept behind the paper of Greater Male Variability Hypothesis is, as far as I am aware a contended idea that is far from proven. A maths exercise is all well and good, but if it serves to strengthen a disputed idea, I can see why it would end up being shelved.

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Yes, as made available today.
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@gwmngilfen you can get poe breakout adaptors to provide 5v usb. But it’s going to cost much more if it’s a marginal benefit.

@gwmngilfen I’ve used poe adaptors and a poe switch which has the advantage of allowing remote restarting.

@peterdrake @rnitsch The entire work sounds like biased pseudo-scientific nonsense.

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I’m standing near someone with a sackbut which gives me great pleasure.

Awh yeah.

At the excellent Kiosk coffee in York

@rhiannonrevolts @iona it’s not rare to consider a minister to be so ignorant but quite another to have one so brazenly admit it.