Anyone got a couch (or better) I can sleep on during an event in Brisbane. 4 nights over the last weekend in August?
(I'm serious, although I expect this to have 0 chance of working)
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@LovesTha@floss.social
mastodon 4.7.3A Melbournian with many interests:
* Christian (very liberal).
* Embedded Rust Engineer.
* Magic The Gathering judge.
* Rider of bikes, sometimes a cyclist, sometimes as a way to do things.
* Board gamer.
* Keyboard enthusiast (DIY, very small, Colemak).
* 3D modelling and printing, some paid work now. Also supporting my hobbies.
* Father of 2 kids (2018 & 2020).
* NixOS user (awaiting alternatives for community reasons, already on Lix).
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Joined March 29, 2019
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@ehproque@neopaquita.es @josh@masto.byrd.ws median is useful, but I'd rather focus on the bottom quintile's income. In raw and % of GDP terms.
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@josh@masto.byrd.ws people should stop saying 'the economy is the worst they've seen' as they don't know or care what an economy is.
What they know, and what matters, is how their life is hard and sucks currently.
Domain has been live for a few hours....
(And zero things other than DNS servers have been told about it)
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@josh@masto.byrd.ws like i have no idea what the economy is doing, but the embedded dev job market is fucked and everything is getting too expensive too quickly.
Oh and the low training job market is definitely not tight enough for anyone to employee me in those roles too.
I would love to own a mixte bike. I just love the 3 straight lines radiating from the drop out. It is a beautiful shape.
https://www.gumtree.com.au/web/listing/bicycle-parts-and-accessories/1343087817
Pity I really don't have spare cash lying around right now, that is at least close to the right size for me :(
#BikeTooter
Edit: no preview, so I attached the only pic
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@evacide@hachyderm.io jihad is the problem right. Just drop that and I'd still love the merch.
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@akareilly@hachyderm.io I'm plenty happy for them to get to use a modern steed for their jousting. Even a 250cc motor bike is going to increase the lethality more than modern armor will decrease it.
And as we are talking about nobles jousting I think the increase in lethality is an upside to this tweak.
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@alice@lgbtqia.space @OohOkayKay@beige.party Thank you.
I've gotten it.
I think my first spokes had too big of a bit at the end. Or I just needed to play for a long time :)
Any lock people have any idea what type of lock this is and how to pick it?
I lost the key a few years back and would rather not destroy the nice (ish) cabinet....
#askFedi
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@CAWguy@thecanadian.social @c_9@mstdn.ca I really wish TOU pricing was available to me, I'm an Australian, living in Melbourne and my shitty distributor doesn't allow retailers to offer it to me. There is plenty I could do to shift lots of our usage to cheaper times, but nope, not allowed.
Your regular reminder, if a government think employment should be less than 100%, unemployment benefits need to be 100% of a full time minimum wage job. (And a real one, not a youth or tip subsidized one)
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@aj@gts.sadauskas.id.au @decryption@aus.social @BenLeverAU@aus.social @jamesh@aus.social hey the biggest shopping center in the southern hemisphere was in melbourne a few hundred meters from Greensborough station.
(It was the biggest by official published size because it's 90's expansion opened weeks bepore Chadys giant expansion. It was a fraction bigger that Chadys previous size. We wont mention the bits of Chady that had already opened unofficially)
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@nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social @jbjrkng@hachyderm.io They made a show of being very against it in Australia.
But really they at "best" don't mind, as apparently the laws then absolve them of any duty of care to their users because they aren't children.
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@fabio@manganiello.eu common, cut the poor politicians a break. What are they going to to? Impose real restrictions on how big tech exploits people? But that would impact their donors.
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@rand@sfba.social Yeah, but I *never* get out of the seat when riding, but I still pull with arms when grinding up some hills, I assume that really makes no difference.
#BikeNite A6
@ascentale@sfba.social @BongoTwisty@social.vivaldi.net @bikenite@fedigroups.social
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@ascentale@sfba.social @gbargoud@masto.nyc @bikenite@fedigroups.social #BikeNite A5 My current stable is (in order of preference):
- Gravel bike
- Electric cargo bike (long tail)
- Hard tail mountain bike The cargo bike can definitely do things the other two can't. The mountain bike does not have a rack, so it can't do everything the gravel bike can.
But a huge number of rides can be done with any of them.
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@ahltorp@mastodon.nu @enobacon@urbanists.social many of the roads I'm thinking about barely give consideration to pedestrians (and they are pretty rare, not much in walking distance in such areas, pedestrians are pretty rare).
Good PT options should be the priority, but buses are probably the right call for most of such areas (too low density for anythng else to be viable).
And then good bike options next, but probably not in a way that would make the road cyclists happy.
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@ahltorp@mastodon.nu @enobacon@urbanists.social Yes.
Does every possible choice for exercise also need to have it's needs catered to?
It's the cyclist V person riding somewhere divide. We should do a lot to ensure travelers riding bikes have good safe options.
But the pack of cyclists grinding through a mountain pass? Some of those routes need a nice gravel bike path created (or better maintained and connected), but those road warrior cyclists are still going to take the road unless the dedicated option is also a road.
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@enobacon@urbanists.social There is a kernel of truth here, although his statement about "go ride in the mountains" goes against that kernel of truth.
Riding for sport/leisure on roads that don't have room for cars and bikes to safely share in places that people probably do need to use cars and trucks frequently is pretty annoying.
The answer is *not* buying more cars, it is to give good facilities to everyone. That doesn't mean every country road needs to be duplicated with a nice bike path. But some do.
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@alice@lgbtqia.space @OohOkayKay@beige.party Spokes aren't that hard to bend :)
I'm just not getting it though :(
I thought I moved some mechanism, but that didn't get it there.
My memory is that the key needed to turn two full revolutions to work, but the videos I'm watching don't imply that is possible.
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@alice@lgbtqia.space @OohOkayKay@beige.party An old bike spoke is a good stock of wire to build a suitable tool right? (and some pliers)
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@CAWguy@thecanadian.social yeah it's weird. The state government mandated rolling out smart meters, so hack a smart meter, but the distributor can't be bothered (or has moral objections or something) to let retailers use them.....
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@CAWguy@thecanadian.social my friends with EVs in other parts of Melbourne have had very cheap or free power from 1am to 7am every night to charge their EVs (and do their washing etc using a timer) but due to silly privatisation each distributor sets their own rules, and this side of Melbourne can't get get that.
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@phocks@bne.social Nice ideas.
I'd rather adjusting the GST, but as they say, that would be more complicated.
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@josh@masto.byrd.ws they mostly need to remember that direction and value are different things.
And that the status quo from 10 years ago isn't a goal, it's a minor signpost in the right direction.
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@lydiaschoch@mastodon.social @vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de @snacktraces@hachyderm.io it's still big tech, but at least google maps listings get updates by locals. It's currency is better than a 2 year old Facebook page.
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@0xThylacine@photog.social I like that my camera asks me for the focal length with manual lenses, but yeah, it doesn't have a clue about aperture. But I'm too basic, I'm mostly wide open or as narrow as it goes, so I can usually guess :)
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@weirdonwheels@social.chinwag.org I think I like that look. Homage to Rolls and similar, but different in nice ways.
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@Cloudslave@aus.social also, if the identification fo the root problem he's claiming for this policy is true, his solution will never work. To fix it he'd have to peg immigration to less than increases in supply.
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@drrimmer@aus.social Unless platforms do more than unlist the item, it will never decrease in volume.
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That is unless someone local (#naarm) has a junk aluminium frame with a 30.9mm seat tube that I can acquire for an appropriate price (it's junk right, $20 is good?)
#bikeTooter
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@neilk@xoxo.zone one of the riskybiz sponsors has the enterprise solution already. Or at least they talked about it being nearly ready to release in the sponsor slot about a month ago....
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@jonn_blanchard@retrochat.online pornhub is for consumption of media, GitHub is for collaboration on creating things. That's a substantive difference.
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@neilk@xoxo.zone unsure which to clarify, so here they all are: A podcast: Risky Business @riskybusiness@infosec.exchange https://antennapod.org/deeplink/subscribe/?url=%68%74%74ps%3A%2F%2Frisky.biz%2Ffeeds%2Frisky-business%2F&title=Risky+Business They end episodes with a sponsor interview. A few weeks back the sponsor* discussed a tool they were about to release for managing LLM bot network/service access that sounded like it had the nuance and fine controls you were talking about.
- unsure who they were.
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@Kensan_Oni@mastodon.social @GrimDeck@mastodon.social yeah. I tend to limit my tutoring very heavily, not zero, but pretty small numbers. Unless a deck is all about one non-legend. Sure that reduces variance, but when the sorcery is high variance I'm okay with it.
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@secretsloth @jack @Infrogmation I think it is important to point at companies doing ads well. My prime example is Risky.biz podcast. It's only ads are sponsored interviews. 100% ethical because they are very transparent that "Company Y" has paid for us to interview "Person" and the interviews are interesting so they aren't skipped.
When did we rebrand "rent seeking" as "passive income"?
Trying to remember to undo that change, or at least treat passive income as a slur.
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@rand@sfba.social @ascentale@sfba.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social Wouldn't moving the bars in that direction make the steering more twitchy?
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@jack @Infrogmation pretty much every good and ethical ad gets around all blocking methods.
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@megmac@social.treehouse.systems I don't agree that general computing things are harder today than in the 90s.
Excel still exists, yeah most have moved to web versions, but that isn't a drop in accesibility to normal people.
Same for website creation, it is easier than Dreamweaver, and squarespace/Shopify make full commerce websites accessible to normal people.
The hellscape of LLMs doesn't need conspiracy theories to explain.
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@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net Hoping you didn't actually fill it, they have a shelf life.
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@neilk@xoxo.zone while i can't remember the vital details, @riskybusiness@infosec.exchange line's their sponsors enough that he should chime in with those details.
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@GrimDeck@mastodon.social When things are gong right: Using #PlayGroup.gg to track everything. I love it.
When that isn't working we use the built in tracker icons in the #TableTopSimulator commander table we use. Or in IRL we use a d20 to track with.