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@doctormo@floss.social @Cheeseness@mastodon.social The child labor analogy is one of the better I have seen on this.
Not sure it will change anything, however.
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Andrew Bartlett
@abartlet@mastodon.nzoss.nz
mastodon 4.6.8Software developer and cyclist in Wellington, NZ.
Most particularly known for most of 25 years on the Samba project.
My views presented here are my own, not of the Samba project or my employer.
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@hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange So one place tried the walking off thing for my passport. That was a hard no.
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@k@layer8.space @ragectl@hachyderm.io Just a powered USB hub, or am I missing something?
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@wannabemystiker@expressional.social @vicfroh@mastodon.social I agree so, so much. I hate that this trope is so easy to say without evidence.
Without the work of https://www.svdp.org.nz/ the Society of St Vincent de Paul and https://www.caritas.org.nz/ Caritas things would be even harder for our most marginalised.
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@occult@vox.ominous.net @KiwiEV@mastodon.nz You said you were travelling, missing a spud? ;-)
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@BrentToderian@mastodon.online One small hope is this:
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Like the calculation for rockets, where each kg of rocket/payload/fuel increases the fuel required recursively.
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In an EV, the range can be extended or cost reduced best by trimming other weight. Perhaps some of that might be by trimming size.
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@c_9@mstdn.ca
I can't switch out the gas hobs easily due the the 90cm electric oven they are on top of, so make very good use of this and the two-element version of the same.
Bloody good for 100s not thousands of dollars. https://www.consumer.org.nz/home-and-living/kitchen/cooktops/westinghouse-portable-2000w-induction-cooktop-whic01k
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@toldtheworld@mastodon.social @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange When I clicked the link I was hoping the context might have included what at least at my end of the world is the very male dominated industry of firefighting.
That said, a very interesting article.
I interviewed once at Canonical: the attempts at non discriminatory hiring are so legendary that they get blogs of their own. Starting with remote unsupervised psychometric testing which strongly disadvantages neurospicy folk, particularly the undiagnosed.
In tech! :-(
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@MasterMischief@mastodon.social @heidilifeldman@mastodon.social Or at least have it dismissed with prejudice?
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@lilithsaintcrow@raggedfeathers.com Someone did the same for police body cameras...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-04/police-location-tracked-bluetooth-flaw-axon-tasers-bodycams/106610886
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@Tutanota@mastodon.social The counter point is that the Linux kernel, particularly on out if update devices but even on quarterly patching, gets a kernel exploit per month at the moment.
It is swiss cheese.
Users will press anything, without fear nor understanding.
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@mrkeen@mastodon.social @doctormo@floss.social As someone around at the time the Wikipedia page describes it reasonably fairly:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitKeeper?wprov=sfla1
Tridge broke the commercial lock in, Larry McVoy responded by pulling free access and Linus coded up something quickly to keep development possible.
None of the AI developments are in any way similar, as I see them, unless maintainers resign rather than accept work from AI tools they would otherwise accept.
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@fribbledom@mastodon.social
I have never joined a gym.
But I ride a bike near exclusively for travel see so exercise is built into my day.
I feel like there is a metaphor here regarding programming also ;-)
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@Zumbador@mefi.social @nirak@carhenge.club Very likely absorbed, just as the gains of dual income housholds / women more substantially in the workforce were, into property prices.
No reason to expect anything different here.
Perhaps why they like it, another landlord subsidy and a kick for the property market.
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@ascentale@sfba.social @geonz@mathstodon.xyz @bikenite@fedigroups.social Not specifically bike parts in photo shown but folks do similar things.
On display in the front yard of an artist in Castlepoint, New Zealand
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@barabasz@mstdn.social @koop@mastodon.com.pl @m0bi@mastodon.com.pl @matt@xmatt.pl Awesome work.
It sounds like you have deployed Nextcloud to accept documents from clients.
Even putting aside the motivation for digital sovereignty, just getting all that sensitive info off email is a big win for privacy and security.
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@mattblaze@federate.social @yaeunerd@fosstodon.org (satirical) but just like those who read Playboy for the articles, what about those who only follow you for the gorgeous black and white photography? ;-)
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@chrisradonc@social.vivaldi.net @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social And we don't do LLC in Australia ;-)
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@anon_opin@mastodon.social Even in NZ with a service called Healthline staffed by humans (registered nurses I think) and specifically funded to avoid A&E presentations still ends up at "see a Dr within 4 hours" frustratingly often. :-(
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@miramarmike@cloudisland.nz
This brings back memories:
I was a High School sysadmin once.
As was traditional at the times nice names were given to each. My theme was female names - the first server was Jessie.
I named the library server "Dame Edna", and the backup console "Sir Les (Patterson)".
The librarians asked (in a friendly way) if that was some comment on them, but it was just my strange sense of humor.
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@AndresFreundTec I truly admire your skill, willingness to trust your gut and appreciate your doggedness and tenacity chasing this down.
The internet is a little safer because of you.
Thanks,
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@hugo Even simpler than that, the idea that others are getting something for nothing, the classic Dole Bludger myth, creates an incredible toxicity to such universal payments.
We insist to only support the deserving poor who must chronically demonstrate their need, and must do tasks to show they are not falling into the sin of idleness.
I do wish it were otherwise.
@darkuncle@infosec.exchange I like unrolling my own cryptography instead!
Samba has uses for single DES. Slowly being eradicated, but likely with us but off by default for a long time thanks to NTLMv1.
The cryptographic library we chose, GnuTLS, did not expose DES, only DES-CBC.
CBC chaining requires an Initialization Vector (IV) and we must choose the IV, ideally at random.
But if set to all zeros and only one round of DES is performed, out we get is raw DES, but we can swear we don't do our own crypto...
Via a different parody I was directed at this lovely bit of musical IT nostalgia and our recurring need to just rewrite our over complex systems.
Loved all the references, and having been at ground zero for the infamous Samba4 rewrite, it got me in the feels.
Big Rewrite (American Pie parody)
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@machinesbleedtoo@aus.social @hyc@mastodon.social @ghost_shit@aus.social @timixretroplays@digipres.club Yikes, that is a nasty network lock on effect.
And I feel it myself, I strongly avoid having a Google account but have to use one for doc collaboration with fellow cycling advocates.
Just like Samba deveopers (pretty much) have to use GitLab.com to submit patches, and most of the rest of the world has to use GitHub.
This is going to remain very difficult to avoid :-(
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@jmsdnns@mastodon.social 10.4 is more horrifying as it includes customer content not 'just' metadata.
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@scottsantens@hachyderm.io Very interesting. "Housing first" models would be in a similar space.
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@mattblaze@federate.social And all the more reason to have openly counted paper ballots party scrutineers can independently tabulate.
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social It also isn't Trump, it is well documented he doesn't author the posts any more.
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@mhoye@cosocial.ca That is really amazing progress.
I know things move fast but this is something else.
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@straphanger@urbanists.social Notably a map of rail gauges and therefore Interoperability.
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@nxskok@cupoftea.social @mhoye@cosocial.ca A standard practice in Australia is to put on the commercial TV, muted and listen to the ABC for better cricket commentary.
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@mhoye@cosocial.ca Yeah, even with the previous technology it was clear that modular, repeatable, factory built batteries were changing the energy landscape.
When we compare with the lead times and cost uncertainty of real world landscape projects like "Snowy 2.0" and "Lake Onslow" (to name a couple at my end of the world), the batteries are going to win. Not by doing exactly the same thing, but by their own path. (Needs overbuild of intermittent renewables).