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Two minor concerns about this approach:

1. Will the lesser known domain name make your emails more likely to be filtered as spam? I don’t know the answer, but I am fairly sure it wouldn’t help.

2. Will having your email routed through a middleman open up security issues? Probably solveable with diligence and awareness, but I recently had a non-technical friend with this setup get his Gmail breached because he was forwarding it to an email inbox on his personal domain from decades earlier that he forgot about, and didn’t have 2FA on the domain webmail. IMHO an easy oversight for anyone, honestly.

Also “Thank you for your attention to this matter.” has such “Facebook local area group” energy, like a Boomer shouting into the void about teenagers always loitering at the bus stop.

I think OP meant the UK

“Why 49% and not 50%?” “I wanted it to sound more accurate than it is”

See also: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-21/cba-backtracks-on-ai-job-cuts-as-chatbot-lifts-call-volumes/105679492

The car horn on your bike is hilarious. Tangentially, a fun thing to try is using a bike bell on an escalator while standing behind people. We’re so conditioned to being dinged and moving aside that people do it before they even think about what’s going on.

And the article didn’t even mention the increase in monster truck SUVs/pickups we’re seeing on our roads, which we know are more deadly for pedestrians from studies.

I guess as a starting point most of us in this thread don’t really know what university research teams do.

If they had a laptop or phone, what kinds of things would they want to do that requires a server? Will they need email? Instant messaging? File sharing? Document collaboration? Will there be sensitive information? Do they need specific software? Or put another way, without this server, what can’t they do?

If you can give some hints on that kind of stuff, I’m sure people in this thread can help out more with specifics on software/tech recommendations.

Edit: obviously Unreal Tournament is non-negotiable.

I think you really need to talk to the research team to find out what they want to use the server for, and how they want to collaborate. That will inform everything else.

Honestly if you want to eat meat as an adult, I feel like you should have to get a carnivore licence by killing and cooking an animal yourself. And I say this as a meat-eater. Non-farmers are far too detached from the circle of life to have opinions on this kind of thing.

Great that people are showing support, and I understand the choice of the Sydney Harbour Bridge as symbolic, but that seemed like a very dangerous choice of venue for a crowd of unknown size until the day!

If you’re looking at collaborating in game jams, you’ll find it handy to have some Unity, Unreal Engine and Godot under your belt. Don’t worry about becoming an “expert” at any of them, just do a few intro tutorials and read the starter docs on each.

I’m sorry, what happened to the metaverse Zuck?

It hurt itself in its confusion!

For Russia: economic sanctions

For Israel: stern letter

“If I can pull this off, I’ll have free ice-cream for life!”

“I’m going to count down from 10, and if you haven’t stopped invading Ukraine and are back in Russia tucked in bed, you’re going to be in BIG TROUBLE!”

Not that surprising considering Japanese government only retired floppy disks in 2024 and fax machines are still in widespread use there.

Perhaps if you’re at war with every country around you, you’re the problem.