right, especially as the last is something that gets thrown at female rape victims often enough, too. Best I can come up with as excuse is that the trauma interferes with their thinking.

OTOH, I do understand that a rape victim may need time away from perceived threat, and since rapists don't come with a label on their forehead and a lot of rape is being done by men that the victim knew well and trusted before, distrust of anyone having the equipment is understandable. Separate help groups may be more helpful.

Simple.

Next time someone kicks a woman off a technical irc chat because "women don't do computers so you must be an impostor" or "you are female so you are not a developer, and this is not a help channel", call them an idiot and tell the woman that she's welcome back in, instead of smiling benignly at the spectacle. Try to avoid telling her she's allowed in if she sends you pics of herself naked and is sufficiently pretty, though.

three things to say to this:

- unmaintained UPS is worse than none
- you need actual risk assessment to decide what quality of power backup you need
- a good line filter is essential (unless you don't care if all your equipment gets toasted)

If you are in an area where mains power is very reliable, your UPS will need to be very good to beat it, ie be rather expensive (so only useful if outages are very expensive for you); if you're looking at two outages from storms a year, at least getting something that will let the systems shut down gracefully will amortize itself real fast even if you're just going to send people home for the day anyway.

So you look at likelihood and impact of power loss, and then decide what to do against it. And you make sure the result of the cogitations receives good and regular maintenance. That's best practise, too :>