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And the Scots: The Late Great Janey Godley.
https://www.nme.com/news/tv/scottish-comedian-janey-godley-dies-aged-63-3808974
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@adavid@aus.social
mastodon 4.7.2Knows a little about a lot, and has many loosely-held opinions.
From now on, all typos in my toots will be left in place as markers of my mental state.
[If you want to follow me, make an effort to be part of a fedi community, otherwise I assume you have only your self-interest at heart]
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@cohentheblue@ohai.social @dbattistella@todon.eu
Conference posters rarely get published. There may well be further studies toward a paper in the future.
Search the conference proceedings for Nagai
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@nixCraft@mastodon.social
Pfft. AKA the Second vi vs emacs wars. The first was fought more bitterly, across countless battlefields. Each battlefields a simulacrum of each other, with the domains passing into legend or obscurity. DG/UX, UTS, HP/UX, SunOS, AIX and many more.
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@dajb@social.coop
My son has a Tshirt with the same. The chicken is not so elaborately depicted.
Imagine the video of the game playthrough. Exhilarating.
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@stufromoz @roknrol @maxleibman @blogdiva @alice @MelissaBearTrix @TheBreadmonkey @benroyce @sundogplanets @scream @skeletor @selfcare @georgetakei
An impressive cast of characters. The inclusion of screambot is world class. :chef_kiss:
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@cammerman@mstdn.social
It has the bravado of an eager intern copy/pasting from stack exchange in the hope it all works. Small coding tasks might be successful.
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@gatesvp@mstdn.ca
Last year after the White House ambush of Zelenskyy, I said that the US had 6 months to change course or it will be ruined for generations. I have not changed my view. Every day the MAGA regime's actions bring the USA closer to collapse. Most of the rest of the world will not react decisively enough until they are dragged into the US's malaise. 2030s is going to be 'interesting'.
Stolen from a LInkedIN Post - liked by Ben Elliston
Filling in a 20 page Services Australia Form by hand. Good times. Applying for my wife's pension. This is the last resort after having a meltdown over it last year and the application lapsing. I tried five different ways to fill this in on my computer. I have been successfully filling in PDF forms for years.
My company was a vehicle for education services delivery. When my mental health is in order, I had planned to continue in it on a casual basis.
Services Australia used Adobe InDesign on a Mac to litter the form with some stealthily b0rken/non-Portable JavaScript. One side of the two-column form pages are fillable, while the other side is spradically functional.
It has been over a decade since I installed Adobe's Reader for crappy forms. It was therapeutic typing this rant. I do not want to, and I resent the myopic choices of this department, but I may have to download the bloatware. i assume it is also infested with "heplful AI features".
I am not looking forward to exposing us to the "RoboDebt" Department.
Oh goodie, an ancient debugging page for JS in PDFs page
https://helpx.adobe.com/au/acrobat/using/add-debug-javascript.html
I am guessing this is in the paid-for Reader, and may not even exist in 2026.
If you got this far, Thanks.
The majority of the world's response to the crisis in the Straits of Hormuz is to double down on renewable infrastructure plans.
Our home-grown fossil-fuel funded muppets have a plan to double down on all things oil.
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@Unixbigot
What sort of risk process do these procurements go through? Did "efficiency" mean only budget risks were considered. What would be worse was if there was security analysis identifying the risk, but it was overruled on budget grounds.
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@patrickhadfield
Mass Immigration Detention facilities have been a thing across all shades of Australian government for decades. This was amplified to extreme levels by governments led by Prime Minister John Howard. First with facilities in far-flung arid areas. Later, to circumvent constitutional concerns, they made deals with neighboring islands to house immigrants, even refugees, indefinitely.
The US, the UK, and Australia have two important things in common. A vestigal colonial ethos and a rabidly right wing media empire called News Corporation, cheering on the cruelty.
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@Unixbigot
I remember those well. Sometimes after we took the clients to a long lunch, it was time to hit another restaurant for dinner.
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@datum@zeroes.ca @mwl@io.mwl.io
Newspapers? Leftist? The UK, Australia and a lot of the US is dominated by one RWNJ family.
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@neutronstar@infosec.exchange @rotopenguin@mastodon.social @cczona@hachyderm.io
Corporate lines go up at any cost. Shareholders cheer. Rinse and Repeat.
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@nini@oldbytes.space @angiebaby@mas.to @maxleibman@beige.party
I was listening to Depeche Mode yesterday. The ear worm has returned :D
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@DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org @maxleibman@beige.party
What cooking oil do you recommend? Or does it need to be boiled?
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@HI_Greens@mastodon.scot @phocks@bne.social
Probably not the first born. They are desitined for the family empire. Rich parents seed the centres of power with their spawn. In days gone by, to be as aspiring bishops and even cardinals.
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@cammerman@mstdn.social
From what I have heard, it is supremely confident of all changes it makes, regardless of the outcome.
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@jpm@aus.social
Ah yes. Two of ours have nearly finished. They still look less than their "fluffybum" best.
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@TheEddieShow@beige.party
We all sat around the TV in the Zoology Lab to watch it when it first came out. Or did someone have a Beta Video? Hmmm. It was a while ago, the 70s.
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@obrien_kat
I am shocked. Like bookmakers, Polymarket would turn a pretty penny by managing the risks in their favour. Bookmakers would have more customers as "winners", but in the long run the majority of the cash flows one way.
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@joannaholman@aus.social
Everyone should stay away. These are the monsters we deal with every day.
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@federicomena@mstdn.mx
We bought an MG4 Excite 51 last year.
Wiper Fluid topup is due. We have done over 20k kms. Drove it with luggage and four or 5 people to Port Douglas and back (about 3,000 kms driven in a couple of weeks). Charging is predominantly at home with a standard AC plug.
I put air in one of the tyres a couple of times.
Unfortunately we need two cars. Trump's Iran madness brought forward our plans to replace our remaining ICE vehicle a month or so ago. We bought an MG4 Essence 64.
The dealer arranges a 1000km inspection/"service".
After that it is 2 years/40,000 kms.
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@crazyeddie@mastodon.social @koen_hufkens@mastodon.social
Correct. The emoji is of a toaster.
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@matthiasott @Wilto
I read the comments ... [I know]
What has a synchronous serial communication protocol (I2S) got to do with the discussion?
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@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt
Puns are the highest form of wit, but maths puns are the supremum of puns.
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@TerribleMaps@zpravobot.news
Hey! Wait a minute. The sea level would drop and Florida would enlarge.
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Ah. I see your point now. Well done.
I was just told about an AI job running for 24 hours (Google's Jules). It reported all tests passed successfully and was asking to finish. You will never guess how it made all those changes and all the tests passed
It deleted all the changes, reverting everything back to the original code.
Good Job! Great Work! Gold Stars all around.
Mendacious Weasel or Eager Intern?
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