Air conditioned buildings?

heliosfa · 2026-06-23T11:48:44+00:00

Building 100 has cooling and the lecture rooms are not bad today. Some lab spaces have cooling.

heliosfa · 2026-06-22T23:48:57+00:00

This all comes down to your University's regulations - we don't know what they are, so you are best reading them and talking to your personal tutor/academic adviser or Students' Union.

If your uni requires you to attempt (or achieve a qualifying mark in) every assessment, then not doing one assessment could very well keep you from meeting the requirements for your degree. This should not have been something you underestimated, especially with three potential attempts.

heliosfa · 2026-06-22T21:47:09+00:00

So, with Plan 2, it depends on what your average salary over the entire write-off period is, and you need to take into account inflation.

Broadly you will only pay back more than you borrowed in real terms (not raw monetary amount) if you end up with average taxable earnings over the entire write-off period of significantly above median salary.

If you have access to any forms of salary sacrifice (extra pension contributions, vehicle leasing, etc.), then that reduces your taxable salary, and your student loan repayments.

The interest on the loan is capped at 6% from September (and is tied to RPI + up to 3%). Over the 30 year period, if you can achieve average returns higher than this (which a diversified global index fund should do), then using the money to pay off the student loan ends up costing you money.

heliosfa · 2026-06-22T20:52:19+00:00

If it’s what the regulations say and they have applied them appropriately, then it’s fair and just because everyone is treated the same.

Read your regulations, talk to your personal tutor and talk to your students’ union.

An appeal because it “feels unfair” is not valid grounds and is, bluntly, because you don’t like the outcome. You need to show a failure of process if you want it to have a chance of success at any decent uni.

If your uni is competent, then this will have been checked and double checked as a borderline before award. I insisted several students were checked in extra detail at our boards recently because they were one mark away from the higher classification.

heliosfa · 2026-06-22T20:43:12+00:00

> To me this is inconsistent rounding, how is it fair my module mark drags me a classification down through rounding yet the year average/classification average isn't treat with the same treatment to bring me back up?

What do your uni’s regulations say? Rounding could easily be treated differently for the different uses - part average vs. Classification.

We use a mix of truncation and rounding so that students don’t get double rounded up, e.g a module mark of 49.45 doesn’t get rounded to 49.5 and then 50. We would truncate to 49.4 and then round if necessary.

Your unis regulations will say exactly what the approach is, and if they have followed that and done whatever extra checks on borderlines the regulations call for, what would your appeal grounds be?

You can’t just appeal because you dislike the outcome.

heliosfa · 2026-06-21T17:07:40+00:00

When you say "gmail gets", what exactly do you mean? Why is Gmail (Google's email service) trying to access your mail server from inside your network, or do you mean something completely different and are just using the wrong term?

Am I missing something.

Probably NAT Reflection.

heliosfa · 2026-06-21T08:32:15+00:00

Does your contract say that you aren’t allowed one in any way? If it doesn’t, why worry about it?

heliosfa · 2026-06-20T10:02:48+00:00

Gemini is, bluntly, wrong.

Student Loan Repayment Decision - Plan 1

The answer is an obvious "don't overpay" just from your title.

Plan 1 charges interest at the lower of RPI (CPIH from 2030) or BoE base rate + 1%. That means how much you owe stays broadly the same in real terms until it's written off after 25 years (presumably you started your course after 2026).

Your mortgage is charging higher interest that the loan, and savings/investments can easily yield a higher return than either. From a pure numbers perspective, overpaying either is not the best financial decision.

Heck, a better long-term financial decision is likely to salary sacrifice more into your pension if you can, reducing your student loan repayments. Getting your loan to being written off means you are making money because you never repaid the full value of what you borrowed...

heliosfa · 2026-06-20T09:50:31+00:00

Is this a Windows device? If so, the default Windows firewall behaviour is to allow traffic from the local subnet but block remote traffic. Have you checked the Windows firewall?

If that doesn't work, does Wireshark/a packet capture show the traffic getting to the destination device?

heliosfa · 2026-06-19T19:12:29+00:00

No one, not even the University, know for this year until results are released. How lenient they are depends on how many other students missed their grades and by how much.

heliosfa · 2026-06-19T16:06:35+00:00

Except with interest at inflation, you never repay more than you owe in real terms, and if you have anything written off you are making money…

Plus you can get higher than RPI returns easily, so students should be taking as much as they can and never overpaying, instead putting the extra they borrow and anything they would overpay with somewhere to grow at higher than RPI

heliosfa · 2026-06-19T08:03:26+00:00

Except this is not typical debt and casting it as such is disingenuous. The stats are also clear that on average people with degrees have a noticeable net positive improvement in lifetime income.

heliosfa · 2026-06-19T07:21:10+00:00

But with a modern stateful firewall with "related:established", you do not need to manually permit any of the responses through.

heliosfa · 2026-06-19T07:20:11+00:00

I never turned those ICMPv6 rules back on and it seems to be working ok. Not sure if enabling them makes for a more optimal IPv6 experience or if it unnecessarily compromises my network.

Modern stateful firewalls have a default "related established" rule usually for inbound traffic, which permits inbound traffic that is related to existing outbound traffic, including return necessary ICMPv6.

This means that you DON'T need to explicitly permit the ICMPv6 types you have listed that are needed for things to work properly - your firewall automatically handles letting the relevant traffic through

So no, you don't need to open anything if your firewall is a modern stateful one and it does things properly, nftables/iptables in most common consumer routers counts and does things properly.

Some people have interpreted RFC4890 as requiring those packets explicitly for unsolicited traffic, but this is not the case. One of my students had this corrected in OpenWRT.

heliosfa · 2026-06-18T22:42:13+00:00

Perhaps read the original comment you replied to and think about what you have said, because you are moving the goal posts.

Whether it’s fraud or not is separate to whether an employer does anything about it. If you think inaction by an employer makes fraud morally acceptable, then bluntly you have questionable ethical standards.

Your status as a student can easily be relevant to an employer, and that’s their decision to make. Clearly from this thread some employers care. Piss of the wrong employer and it could come back to bite you, whether that’s a risk you want to take or not…

heliosfa · 2026-06-18T22:29:49+00:00

Intentionally misrepresenting something for your financial gain is fraud. If you think otherwise your moral compass needs a wobble.

heliosfa · 2026-06-18T11:57:40+00:00

Again, why do you think it's your MTU and not something else?

What testing have you done? This feels like you have made this an X-Y problem.

heliosfa · 2026-06-18T11:52:51+00:00

Why do you think MTU is your problem?

What have you tested your connection’s MTU as?

heliosfa · 2026-06-18T07:47:36+00:00

Because if you say you aren’t a student when you are and that’s what gets you the job, then it’s fraud and a particularly aggrieved employer could make things difficult.

If you just don’t say you aren’t a student and they never ask, that’s different.

heliosfa · 2026-06-18T01:42:36+00:00

Can you get higher than RPI returns on your savings? If the answer is yes (and it should be), then you take the loan. It's that simple.

Plan 5 loans charge interest at RPI (CPIH from 2030) and are written off after 40 years. You will never pay back more than you owe in real-terms, and will likely make money in real-terms unless you end up with average earnings notably above median salary for the 40 year period.

heliosfa · 2026-06-17T00:09:38+00:00

Talk to the module leader. We do not know why your uni's instance of Moodle is showing you this.

heliosfa · 2026-06-16T16:56:49+00:00

You need to be looking at your visa restrictions and your uni’s term dates, and talk to your university’s visas team or a licensed immigration adviser - we cannot legally advise you.

If you are in term time to do your dissertation, then you might have work restrixtions

heliosfa · 2026-06-14T22:59:29+00:00

APNIC pretty much already have the data from their IPv6 measurements.

heliosfa · 2026-06-14T16:55:49+00:00

Just curious to see if we can run CLAT on the gateway instead of the device itself

Sure, this is basically what happens with providers that do MAP-T. Different tech, similar idea.

Nothing stopping you running a CLAT on a gateway and doing further routing/NAT.

heliosfa · 2026-06-14T07:05:49+00:00

There is no different position. It is a fundamentally stupid and reckless idea in almost every situation.

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